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    André Hemer

    b.1981

    CASS

    • 2012
    • Acrylic on canvas
    • Purchased, 2012
    • 593 x 685mm
    • 2012/048
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    Tags: appropriation (imagery), buildings (structures), clouds, landscapes (representations), melancholy, mountains, natural landscapes, people (agents), platforms (floors), railroad stations, suitcases, sunlight, trees, utility poles, yellow (color)

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    Exhibition History

    André Hemer CASS (detail). 2012
    André Hemer: CASS
    Image: uploads/2023_03/2012_048.jpg

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    Cass

    Rita Angus Cass

    Working alongside her friends Louise Henderson and Julia Scarvell in the high country of Te Waipounamu, Rita Angus made sketches for this now-famous view of the small railway station at Cass. Though it went unsold at its first exhibition, she came to value it highly, seeing a clarity and truthfulness in her sharply focused treatment of the scene. As she later recalled: “[T]hose days of clear blue green skies, sun setting behind the dark hills, cold shadows … They were happy days. I long for a later return into the mountains. How little did I think then … that Cass would come to have any meaning to the painter.”

    (Perilous: Unheard Stories from the Collection, 6 August 2022- )

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    Coming to your coffee table soon

    On perusing Thames & Hudson's glossy new art publication, we saw a familiar name.

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    CASS

    CASS

    André Hemer's exhibition CASS is well worth a visit if you are near the Christchurch Art Gallery's space above NG on Madras street.

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    From CASS to <del>CASS</del> - Iterations of New Zealand's 'greatest painting'

    From CASS to <del>CASS</del> - Iterations of New Zealand's 'greatest painting'

    Over 50 iterations of Rita Angus's 1936 painting Cass are collated in André Hemer's new exhibition CASS, which considers ideas of distance, deletion and dislocation.

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    Manchester Street

    Manchester Street, Christchurch by Louise Henderson was painted in 1929 and shows a streetscape that remained largely unchanged until the earthquake of 22 February.

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