Ronnie van Hout
Aotearoa New Zealand, b.1962
Quasi I
- 2018-2020
- Paint, rigid polyurethane, expanded polystyrene, fibreglass, stainless steel
- Purchased 2020
- 1000 x 540 x 410mm
- 2020/027
Location: Touring Gallery A
Tags: faces (animal or human components), fingers (animal or human components), hands (animal or human components)
Ronnie van Hout relishes the first-person plural. Versions of the artist – some credible, some more unhinged – show up regularly throughout his practice. Almost-Ronnies revisit his childhood, filter his experiences of the art world and act out darkly funny imaginings. The fun-sized effigies here are the smaller, more mobile offspring of Quasi, the giant, disembodied face-in-a-hand that loomed from the rooftop of this building in 2016. Whereas the original had a mournful malevolence, these more rambunctious homunculi seem cloned in the service of mischief and mayhem.
(Dummies & Doppelgängers, 2 November 2024 – 23 March 2025)