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    Ronnie van Hout

    Aotearoa New Zealand, b.1962

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    • 2007
    • Mixed media
    • Purchased, 2007
    • 581 x 153 x 220mm
    • 2007/032.1-2

    Tags: artists (visual artists), boxes (containers), dolls, labels (identifying artifacts), men (male humans), miniature (size attribute), people (agents), portraits, self-portraits, stripes, suits (main garments), words

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    Exhibition History

    Leo Bensemann St Olaf c.1937. Oil on canvas on board. Collection of Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū, Lawrence Baigent / Robert Erwin Bequest 2003. Reproduced with permission
    Bad Hair Day
    Ronnie van Hout Failed Robot [detail] 2007. Polystyrene, fibreglass and paint. Private collection, Melbourne. Reproduced courtesy of the artist. Photograph by Vicki Petheridge.
    Ronnie van Hout: who goes there
    Richard KilleenBook of the Hook1996. Acrylic on aluminium.Collection of Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū, purchased 2000
    Wunderbox
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    Hair Story

    Hair Story

    In drawing attention to the theatre of personal grooming, Bad Hair Day brings together portraiture and caricature with a variety of less readily classifiable works of art. The densely packed selection spans a vast historical range. And in putting bowl cuts and bushy beards alongside wayward wigs and whiskers, it highlights the sometimes comical aspects of hair, especially when styles are extreme. If wry intent is discernible throughout the exhibition, however, we shouldn’t let this fool us: hair is a topic that easily turns serious.

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    Not Quite Human

    Not Quite Human

    Lara Strongman: The title of your new work for the Gallery is Quasi. Why did you call it that?

    Ronnie van Hout: Initially it was a working title. Because the work would be outside the Gallery, on the roof, I was thinking of Quasimodo, from Victor Hugo’s The Hunchback of Notre-Dame. I was coming out of a show and research around the idea of the freak, the outsider and things that are rejected—thinking about how even things that are rejected have a relationship to whatever they’ve been rejected by. And I called it Quasi, because it’s a human form that’s not quite human as well. The idea of something that resembles a human but is not quite human.

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    Spooky

    Spooky

    Maybe it's just a Halloween hangover, but there's something strange in the neighbourhood.

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    Christchurch-born artist Ronnie van Hout part of Populate!

    Christchurch-born artist Ronnie van Hout part of Populate!

    Ronnie van Hout is the artist responsible for the mysterious figure pointing skywards that has appeared on the roof of a central city building.

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    But seriously

    But seriously

    When it comes to contemporary painting, seriousness has a way of turning into solemnity, and solemn art is just asking for it.

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