Virgin by Luise Fong

Being

Creative visual thinking is fundamental to us all as human beings as we strive to understand our sense of self and the world. Chartwell seeks to deepen understanding about the importance of art and creative thinking for our future and our wellbeing.

Making

Chartwell supports artists as they make and think. Making is an active and connected process, involving the interaction of intention, intuition and intellect with the mediums of the world. Chartwell is making too - making a difference through philanthropy and enabling access to creative activities and research.

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Virgin

Virgin

Artist

Luise Fong
Production Date

1994
Medium

acrylic, ink, gouache, and enamel on board
Size

2040 x 2565 mm
Credit

Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, Chartwell Gift Collection, 2014
Accession Number

2014/8/1
Accession Date

16 Apr 2014
Department

New Zealand Art
Classification

Painting
Collection

AAG
Subjects

abstraction, circles (plane figures), bodies
Description

For Luise Fong painting can be seen as metaphor for the body. Its drips and stains are like the body's own fluids, and its surfaces like the skin that contains them. The body is presented in Fong's works as site of both seduction and violence, eroticism and mysticism.
-William McAloon, from 'home and away' exhibition, 1999

Exhibition history

Home and Away

Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki

04/06/1999 — 22/08/1999

Billabong I

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