Water Lilies
Water Lilies
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Artist
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Production Date
2018
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Medium
solvent pigment print on canvas
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Size
2550 x 6000 mm
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Credit
Chartwell Collection, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, purchased 2022
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Accession Number
C2022/1/25
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Accession Date
15 Mar 2023
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Department
International Art
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Classification
Painting
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Collection
Chartwell
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Chartwell Notes
In the gallery, Armanious’s installations unfold as intricate mises en scène in which sculptural objects, images and surfaces conspire to transform the space into a field of perceptual play. [...] The gallery becomes both stage and subject, destabilising our sense of what is real and what is illusory while prompting a more attentive mode of looking. The effect is at once disorienting and playful, a gentle unmooring that opens new perceptual experience and possibility.
An additional, more meditative register emerges through works such as Water Lilies (2018), a monumental pigment print on linen spanning six metres, that depicts a studio wall repeatedly painted over to form a palimpsest of erasure and accumulation. Washed in soft lilacs, purples and pinks, it radiates a haze that shimmers like light across water – a panoramic fetishisation of the ordinary, doubling the familiar textures of the spaces we inhabit yet rarely notice.
- Max Delany, "Master of material transformation Hany Armanious", published in The Saturday Paper on the event of Hany Armanious: Stone Soup at Buxton Contemporary.
