Snake Oil: Chartwell Acquisitions 2002-5

Hany Armanious, Untitled, Snake Oil, 2003, Hot Melt, oil paint, drinking glasses.

Snake Oil: Chartwell Acquisitions 2002-5

Where

Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki
When

11 June 2005 - 11 September 2005

Curated by Robert Leonard, at Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, this exhibition continued the series of recent acquisition exhibitions that reflected the changing nature of Australasian art in the Chartwell Collection. “The Collection was always intended for public use,” Leonard wrote, “and its long term loan to the Auckland Art Gallery ensures that a wide audience can access it through regular exhibitions, publications and through the temporary loan of works to other public galleries.”

This exhibition included work by Hany Armanious, Guy Benfield, Stephen Birch, Mladen Bizumic, Stella Brennan, Steve Carr, Michael Harrison, Sara Hughes, Simon Ingram, Giovanni Intra, Peter Madden, Liz Maw, Seung Yul Oh, Martin Thompson, Yvonne Todd, Ronnie van Hout and Rohan Wealleans.

In the foreground is a large square cardboard plinth with multiple tiny glass mushroom sculptures in various colours arranged upon it. In the background, two-dimensional framed artworks are hung on white gallery walls with a column in the middle of the room.

Hany Armanious, Untitled Snake Oil, 2003. Chartwell Collection.

The image shows a white gallery space with a polished wooden floor. On the left is a painting made up of dark red and bright yellow squares. Next to it are two smaller blue artworks, not clearly visible from the photograph's distance. In the middle of the room is a tall white column, and to the right of this is an analogue television on a plinth playing a video. On the far right a blue painting hangs on the wall.

Left to right: Simon Ingram, Frictionless Painting (social colour), 2003. Miladen Bizumic, Hauturu Doc (with soundtrack 'Adagio Under My Thumb' by the Rolling Stones), 2003. Stella Brennan, Tuesday, 3 July 2001, 10:38am, 2001-2002. All Chartwell Collection.