July - August 2010
July 2010 / Te Pūtahitanga ō Rehua at Tauranga Art Gallery
See Reuben Paterson's first digital animation Te Pūtahitanga ō Rehua at Tauranga Art Gallery Toi Tauranga (14 July - 26 September). The animation "follows on from the site specific installation he made on the ground at Riccarton House for the 2003 SCAPE Art and Industry Biennial in Christchurch, which honours the intrepid journey taken by Ngai Tahu to collect the precious resource of pounamu in the area of Lake Wakatipu. For the Tauranga Art Gallery Paterson will present this work on a large scale, projected onto a wall that animates the space in a fluctuation of optical forms that reflect on how perception is a continual process of reconfiguring and re ordering what we see and what can be seen". (source: Tauranga Art Gallery website)
Te Pūtahitanga ō Rehua can be seen alongside Paterson's Whakapapa Get Down Upon Your Knees. (12 June - 31 October 2010). Contact us to purchase your own copy of Te Pūtahitanga ō Rehua.
July 2010 / French President Nicolas Sarkozy unveils major work by gallery artist Bernar Venet 
President Nicolas Sarkozy unveiled a major new work by Bernar Venet last month. Over 30 meters tall the sculpture is the tallest public artwork in France and is now permanently installed in Jardin Sulzer on the Promenade des Anglais. The nine vertical beams represent the nine valleys of the county of Nice.
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July 2010 / Reuben Paterson in Putiputi: The Flower in Contemporary New Zealand Art 
Reuben Paterson's recent painting The Nether Regions is now on show at Hastings City Art Gallery as part of Putiputi: The Flower in Contemporary New Zealand Art . 10 July 2010 - 26 September 2010
July 2010 / Simon Ingram Random Walk Machine
See videos of Simon Ingram's recent projects including the travelling exhibition Your Eyes Only in Brussels here on You Tube.
June 2010 / HAUAGA: THE ART OF JOHN PULE book launch
Published to coincide with the first major survey exhibition of John Pule's work, curated by the City Gallery Wellington, Hauaga provides an indispensable guide to the work of one of the most powerful and original artists of the new Oceania. John Pule is one of the most significant artists living and working in New Zealand today. From the mid-1990s his powerful, enigmatic and personal paintings attracted great interest, and his work came to be widely shown. Famously inspired by hiapo, the innovative barkcloths of nineteenth-century Niue, Pule has been fascinated by the Polynesian past and present, but his work ranges far more widely, responding both to ancestral culture, and to the global terror and violence of our time.
This is the first book to deal with John Pule's art. It ranges over his drawing, print-making and writing he is the author of two novels and several volumes of poetry as well as his painting. Essays by Gregory OBrien, Peter Brunt, and Nicholas Thomas provide several routes into Pule's engaging and compelling works, considering his formation as a writer and artist, his meditations on life and loss, and the extraordinary architecture of his visual art. John Pule speaks himself, through an extended interview, and in a series of extracts from his poetry and prose. (source: Otago University Press)
Hauaga : The Art of John Pule
Edited by Nicholas Thomas
Published by Otago University Press, 2010
Hardback, 290 x 275 mm, 184 pp, colour illustrations
ISBN 978 1 877372 80 3, RRP $120.00
June 2010 / Reuben Paterson at Tauranga Art Gallery
A reconfiguration of Reuben Paterson's Asia Pacific Triennial work 'Whakapapa: get down upon your knees' opened at Tauranga Art Gallery during the weekend.
The exhibit runs from June 12 - October 24, 2010.
image: Installation of Reuben Paterson's 'Whakapapa get down upon your knees' at Tauranga Art Gallery
June 2010 / 8th June: preivew of Patrick Reynolds' Say Yes, Gravity Festival Tuesday and Art PM
The preview of Patrick Reynolds' Say Yes is part of Gravity Festival Tuesday, a signature event of the Auckland Photography Festival and the Auckland Art Precinct Art PM.
On the 8th June you can enjoy ten photography exhibitions at nine galleries on the Gravity Festival Circuit, in Auckland City. Between 6 and 9 pm you can enjoy being transported between the participating galleries in the luxury of a brand new car - for free! Check out their website for details.
The Auckland Art Precinct is also celebrating the Auckland Festival of Photography with Art PM, during which all galleries in the Art Precinct will be open late on Tuesday and serving boutique wine from &Co wines. The Art Precinct galleries also have a limited number of parking vouchers which can be redeemed at the Victoria Street Carpark. With a voucher parking for Art PM will only cost you $4 per vehicle.
May 2010 / Reuben Paterson at 17th Biennale of Sydney 
See works by Reuben Paterson at the 17th Biennale of Sydney . Paterson is exhibiting nine commissioned works which respond to the heritage site of a Military Officer's guardhouse and residence on Cockatoo Island in Sydney Harbour. See here for more information on the exhibition which runs until 1 August 2010.
May 2010 / John Pule exhibition at City Gallery
City Gallery Wellington has announced that a solo show of gallery artist John Pule will open this month. John Pule: Hauaga (Arrivals) is Pule's first major solo exhibition in a public gallery and promises to be a landmark survey of his work.
Gallery Director Paula Savage is delighted that City Gallery is launching this milestone exhibition. "City Gallery Wellington is thrilled to give John Pule this well-deserved major survey show, which spans 20 years of his work. This exhibition demonstrates how his work stretches across art forms and cultures, drawing from an endlessly rich range of historical and present-days sources from the Pacific, as well as Aotearoa New Zealand and beyond. (source: City Gallery media release, May 2010)
The exhibition runs 29 May - 12 September 2010 and entry is free. For more information and visiting hours, see City Gallery's website.
May 2010 / Darryn George Monograph
Darryn George's first monograph has been launched this month. Darryn George illustrates works from over two decades and includes texts by Lara Strongman and Deirdre Brown. Available from Parson's Bookshop (RRP $59.95).
May 2010 / Staff changes
The gallery farewells Winsome Wild this month who leaves us to take up an internship in the publications department of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York. Winsome has been with the gallery for over three years and will be missed. We wish her the best of luck in the Big Apple.
May 2010 / Reuben Paterson at 17th Biennale of Sydney opens next week
The 17th Biennale of Sydney opens next week including works by Reuben Paterson. Paterson is exhibiting nine commissioned works which respond to the heritage site of a Military Officer's guardhouse and residence on Cockatoo Island in Sydney Harbour. See here for more information on the exhibition and opening week events.
May 2010 / Judy Millar in Berlin
Judy Millar's exhibition A Better Life is now showing at Hamish Morrison Galerie in Berlin.
Following on from her recent installations Giraffe-Bottle-Gun at La Maddelena in Venice and New Works at Gow Langsford, Millar continues to examine the enigmatic relationship between painting and the world that it seeks to both represent and form a part of.
"Millar's installation, then, is not just an object that we are asked to quietly inspect. Demanding, playful, and sometimes outright confrontational, it pushes and pulls us towards new experiential discoveries. In doing so, it holds the promise of a better life; an optimism about our experience of the world around us, and the vital, human role that art plays within it." (source: Hamish Morrison Gallery website 06.05.2010)
A Better Life runs through June 5.
May 2010 / Gregor Kregar sculpture in Abu Dhabi International Sculpture Symposium 2010
Gregor Kregar has recently returned from Abu Dhabi where he was installing Twisting the Void 2, a major work as part of the Abu Dhabi International Sculpture Symposium 2010 (ADISS). ASISS is a cultural event showcasing public art and sculpture in the capital of the United Arab Emirates. More information on the event and works included can be seen on their website.
May 2010 / Sara Hughes review in The Age
Sara Hughes' exhibition World Wide Optimism is reviewed in The Age in Melbourne. Reviewer Dan Rule writes The sheer statistical depth [of the work] is dumbfounding, but what grants these works their real vigour is their semiotic complexity and sense of aesthetic paradox. Indeed, while Hughes's arrangements and compositions espouse a syntax of graphs, diagrams and other visual techniques for mapping economic data, her colour palette effectively hijacks and eschews our analysis at every turn. Read the full article online here. Sara will be exhibiting at Gow Langsford Gallery in November.
May 2010 / Gravity Festival Tuesday : Tuesday 8th June
Our upcoming exhibition 3 x 1 is a project series of week-long exhibitions by photographers Bruce Jarvis, Simon Devitt and Patrick Reynolds, presented to coincide with the Auckland Festival of Photography (4 - 27 June). The preview of Patrick Reynolds' Muse Variations is part of Gravity Festival Tuesday, a signature event of the Festival. On the 8th June you can view ten photography exhibitions at nine galleries on the Gravity Festival Circuit, in Auckland City. Between 6 and 9 pm you can enjoy being transported between the participating galleries in the luxury of a brand new car - for free! Check out their website for details.
(images left to right: Bruce Jarvis, Simon Devitt, Patrick Reynolds)
April 2010 / Paul Dibble Commission installed
Paul Dibble's latest commission was installed yesterday in Upper Hutt. Commissioned by the Upper Hutt City Council as part of a redevelopment for the centre of town, the two works are now located at the intersection of Pine and Main Streets and King and Main Streets.
April 2010 / Katharina Grosse: Current and Upcoming exhibitions
Katharina Grosse will be exhibiting in Rudolf Steiner und die Kunst der Gegenwart at the Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg next month. The exhibition brings together contemporary artworks which reflect, in some way, the influence of Rudolf Steiner (1861-1925) and a retrospective view of Steiners work. The exhibition runs 13 May - 3 October, 2010 and will travel to Kunstmuseum Stuttgart February 5th - May 22, 2011.
Hello Little Butterfly I Love You Whats Your Name is now on at the Arken Museum of Modern Art. December 12, 2009 - November 7, 2010.
(Image: Hello Little Butterfly I Love You Whats Your Name, 2009, Arken Museum for Modern Art, Denmark. Photo: Anders Sune Berg)
March 2010 I Art Sunday Success
The Art Precinct Art Sunday was a big hit with a huge number of visitors throughout the day. The Barry Flanagan and Paul Dibble sculptures outside the gallery were particularly appreciated. Keep up to date with whats happening in the area by following the Art Precinct Blog. Congratulations to Coralie Russell who won the collection of art books.
March 2010 I Katharina Grosse - Art Goes Underground 
Four internationally renowned artists including Katharina Grosse have been chosen to create artistic concepts for the stations of the new North-South Municipal Railway in Cologne. In conjunction with the new archaeological zone and the distinct architectural design of the new stations by different renowned architects, this art project completes the final realisation and scope of the project. Tue Greenfort, Werner Reiterer, Heimo Zobernig and Katharina Grosse will each create works for stations along the line. Grosse will realise a large, colourful wall painting at Chlodwigplatz station using her spraypainting techniques.
More information can be found on the KVB website. (image: Grosse installing at Odense)
March 2010 I Sara Hughes at Federation Square, Melbourne
Sara Hughes' recent project Heat Wave responds to the location of Federation Square and with a wider contextual context that relates to issues of climate change and Australian culture. The work is made up from a group of eleven umbrellas created to become giant pie charts referencing particular statistics; they are attached to concrete upturned water tanks that have the reference of each statistic painted onto them.
There is an ironic or incongruous nature of beach looking umbrellas taking up the middle of a city square. As areas of public space shrink within contemporary cities and move towards the commercially owned and motivated (often filled with cafes sporting umbrellas sponsored by drink, food and cigarette companies) this project negotiates aspects of the culture landscape to produce an aesthetically and critically engaging environment.
The project will be up till the 25th April. For more information see the Federation Square website.
March 2010 / Judy Millar at Te Papa
Judy Millar's Giraffe-Bottle-Gun is now on show at Te Papa Tongarewa. In association with Creative New Zealand, Te Papa Tongarewa has brought back New Zealand's 2009 Venice Biennale installations - Millar's Giraffe-Bottle-Gun and Upritchard's Save Yourself for the public of New Zealand to enjoy. The exhibitions are free and can be seen on the 5th floor of the museum from 26 February to 15 August 2010. For more information on visiting the show see Te Papa Tongarewa's website.
March 2010 / New Editions by Dick Frizzell
Gow Langsford has two new editioned works by Dick Frizzell available. All Square in Love and War and Red Haring VI use Frizzell's iconic Grocer and Haring tiki images. See here for all available editioned works by Frizzell. Purchase any of these three Frizzell editions this month and get a 10% discount off the unframed price.
(Images left to right: All Square in Love, War and Red Haring VI)
March 2010 / Sara Hughes at Hawkes Bay Museum and Art Gallery
Sara Hughes' For Kultur opens tomorrow night at the Hawkes Bay Museum and Art Gallery. Sara will be giving an artist's lecture on Saturday 13 March at 11 am.
Hughes has transformed the gallery into a forest of light creating a perceptual experience in which her ideas can be encountered; creating a dialogue between the disparate histories of each artifact in relation to her own work. She constructs new meanings and associations by utilizing a wide array of methodologies and techniques in order to draw the viewers attention to social and cultural issues inherent in the work. Her installation combines and juxtaposes imagery from the collection, exploring the way in which strands of information weave together to shape our understanding of culture and civilisation.
See the Hawkes Bay Museum and Art Gallery website for more details and visiting hours.
March 2010 / Karl Maughan works
New works by Karl Maughan now available. Left Clearview, Right Tuturewa, each 1370 x 1370 mm. Contact to enquire.
February 2010 / Recently arrived 
Gow Langsford Gallery is pleased to offer Julian Schnabel's Flamingo I (1991). Contact to enquire about this work. (image: Schnabel, Flamingo I)
February 2010 / Reuben Paterson announced in Sydney Biennale line up
Reuben Paterson will exhibit at the 17th Biennale of Sydney opening in May. Paterson will show nine commissioned works which respond to the heritage site of a Military Officer's guardhouse and residence on Cockatoo Island in Sydney Harbour. See here for more information on the Biennale.
February 2010 / Nova Paul at Whitechapel Gallery, London
Nova Paul's film Pink and White Terraces, shown at Gow Langsford in 2008, is currently on show at Whitechapel Gallery in London.
This exhibition is part of Art in the Auditorium, a collaborative project organised by the Whitechapel Gallery with institutions from Europe, Asia, South America and the US to provide a showcase for the work of some of the most exciting young artists working with film, video and animation today. Her film is one of two works included in the show, the other by Berlin Based Charly Nijensohns. For more information on the exhibition see here.
Pink and White Terraces was shown in 2008 along with a series of editioned film stills. A limited number of these related works are available for purchase. Contact Anna Jackson to enquire. (image: Paul, Film Still 14)
February 2010 / New Works by Max Gimblett
We have just received new works from Max Gimblett's studio in New York. Please contact us for images of available new works. (image: Gimblett, Night of the Books, 2009)
February 2010 / Last days for Stoneleigh Sculpture in the Gardens
This weekend is the chance to see David McCracken's work in Stoneleigh Sculpture in the Gardens and works from Paul Dibble's Geometric Figure series at the Auckland Botanic Gardens. For opening hours and directions see the Auckland Botanic Gardens website. (image: McCracken, The Land is Slowly Liquid, 2009)
February 2010 / David McCracken, Gregor Kregar and Paul Dibble at Cable Bay Vineyards
An excellent excuse to enjoy the summer days at Waiheke! The Cable Bay Summer Sculpture exhibition including works by David McCracken, Gregor Kregar and Paul Dibble is still on show at Cable Bay Vineyards. For opening times and information on visiting the show, please contact Cable Bay Vineyards. (image: Dibble, Tui-ee-ee, 2009)
February 2010 / Judy Millar at Te Papa
New Zealander's have the chance to see works from Judy Millar's exhibition Venice Biennale exhibition Giraffe-Bottle-Gun at Te Papa. New Zealand at the Venice Biennale opens to the public on the 26th of this month and includes works from by Millar and Francis Upritchard. For more information see Te Papa's website.