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Vital statistics
Behind the scenes
I'm just back from Sydenham, where the big grey wall I mentioned yesterday is receiving its first layer of Resene Manuka Honey. Nothing like the sight of paint rolling out to warm an art-starved curator's heart.
A wall that's grey, but not for long.
More soon on Bunker Notes about the artist whose work this is. In the meantime, here are some vital statistics from the practical end of this Christchurch Art Gallery/Gap Filler collaboration (cheers to Peter Bray and Chris Pole for the numbers):
50 litres Concrete Primer
80 litres Resene Manuka Honey
40 litres Resene Milk Chocolate (to paint 10125 dots)
60 litres Black (to paint 95 very large black silhouettes)
300 A0 sheets of paper (which is about 300 square metres, to create stencils for those 95 black shapes)
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Exhibition
I seem to have temporarily misplaced my sense of humour
November 2011 – December 2015
Stretching across a vast wall at the gateway to Sydenham, Wayne Youle's new public artwork is a shadowboard, where tools for rebuilding hang alongside many familiar but precious objects.