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Edith Collier: Early New Zealand Modernist
A rare opportunity to view the work of one of Aotearoa New Zealand’s most adventurous and experimental modernist artists.
Made in the Pacific: A Collection of Tāoga
A selection of Pacific tāoga from the Canterbury Museum in conversation with contemporary artworks that highlight the continued strength in culture and traditional art forms.
Mark Adams: A Survey | He Kohinga Whakaahua
A comprehensive survey spanning the artist's career.
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Max Gimblett Favorite – For Barbara
These early geometric works on paper, or geos as Max calls them, highlight the artist’s search for combinations of colour and form. If he was happy with the outcome, he would scale the geo up into a painting – such as Orange / Blue, which you can see to your right. The bars appear either on their own or in pairs, varying in thickness. For the double bars, Max explored different locations on the background field of colour; close together or separated in differing degrees from the edge of the composition. (Max Gimblett: Ocean Wheel 1 August – 15 November 2020)
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Max Gimblett BKG – Buddha – To Scale
Max considers his single bar and double bar paintings of the 1970s to be his first mature works. He began them when he moved to New York and settled into his studio on the Lower Bowery in 1974. He says: “I was thinking about tantric Indian art, about Borobudur, about Malevich, and I was thinking about Barnett Newman and Burgoyne Diller, and I was thinking about single bar at centre and double bar at the sides. […] Double bar, space between. Space between two conditions, two people, two states, dualism – dualism is […] firmly embedded in my work – dualism, state of two, a bridge between two.” (Max Gimblett: Ocean Wheel 1 August – 15 November 2020)
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Max Gimblett Easter Island
“The World Trade Towers […] were out my window and [are] now in my heart.” —Max Gimblett
Two vertical bars, the Twin Towers of the World Trade Centre in New York City, were a dominant feature in the lower Bowery neighbourhood where Max had his studio for several decades. They towered above the city, and when they were attacked on 11 September 2001 Max watched the destruction from the rooftop of his Bowery studio. In this work, the flat, geometric yellow and red bars of the towers are set against a lively vortex of jade green.
(Max Gimblett: Ocean Wheel, 1 August – 15 November 2020)
