Max Gimblett
Aotearoa New Zealand, b.1935
Blue Ridge – Over the Wild Blue Yonder – Homage to Henri Matisse
- 1986
- Pencil, acrylic polymer and metallic pigment on Arches Watercolour 300lb rough paper (France)
- The Max Gimblett and Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett Gift
- 737 x 1041mm
- 2011/168
Tags: abstraction, quatrefoils
“The quatrefoil was born in 1983. It came to me in a dream, and the quatrefoil said, Form me and paint me and I will heal you. I recognised it immediately as a mandala. A mandala is something that occurs in the mind as an image, as a symbol of wholeness. […] I see my paintings as part of Kandinsky’s modernism. My paintings exist to raise the spirit in the community and make for a better community. They are ritualistic objects of sacred value.” —Max Gimblett
(Max Gimblett: Ocean Wheel 1 August – 15 November 2020)
Exhibition History
[Untitled #1050 (25 November 2017 – 14 October 2018]https://christchurchartgallery.org.nz/exhibitions/untitled-1050)
“The artist is not the authority on their work. I mean I’m supposed to know something about it because I helped create it but I’m just one of the factors.”
—Max Gimblett, 2009
“The quatrefoil was born in 1983. It came to me in a dream and the quatrefoil said form me and paint me and I will heal you. I recognised it immediately as a mandala. A mandala is something that occurs in the mind as an image, as a symbol of wholeness. […] I see my paintings as part of Kandinsky’s modernism. My paintings exist to raise the spirit in the community and make for a better community. They are ritualistic objects of sacred value.”
—Max Gimblett, 2015