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    Carl Sydow

    Aotearoa New Zealand, b.1940, d.1975

    Drawing 5: XIX

    • 1975
    • Letrafilm and ink on paper
    • Purchased 1976
    • 602 x 815mm
    • 76/05

    Tags: abstraction, geometric abstraction, Op art, patterns (design elements)

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    Exhibition History

    Carl Sydow Around 1971. Perspex, hose. Sydow family collection
    Sydow: Tomorrow Never Knows
    Mervyn Williams Chromatic Invention No 11 (A) 1969. Serigraph. Collection of Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū 2009
    Op + Pop
    Drawing 5,xix,1975, Carl Sydow (detail)Christchurch Art GalleryReproduced with persmissionletrafilm/letratone1975    
    Carl Sydow (1940-1975) Memorial Exhibition
    Image: uploads/2024_06/76_05.jpg

    Related reading: Op + Pop

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    To the memory of Julian Dashper

    To the memory of Julian Dashper

    One of the highlights for staff over the eight or so years that the Christchurch Art Gallery was open prior to the shakes was the opportunity to work alongside Julian Dashper on his exhibition To The Unknown New Zealander. 

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    Untitled 1956 by Gordon Walters

    Untitled 1956 by Gordon Walters

    This article first appeared as 'Balancing act' in The Press on 17 August 2012.

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    Glittering

    Glittering

    When it comes to posting comprehensive pictures of your new exhibitions online, opinion is divided.

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    Selected proofs

    Selected proofs

    Peter Trevelyan's exhibition Selected Proofs is currently on at the University of Canterbury's  SOFA Gallery until 7th September.

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    Julian Dashper's Untitled 1996

    Julian Dashper's Untitled 1996

    Sound artist Paul Sutherland chooses his favourite work from the Gallery’s collection.

     

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    The pleasure of making: objects taking centre stage in the space of the art gallery

    The pleasure of making: objects taking centre stage in the space of the art gallery

    Was it serendipity that the opening of Christchurch Art Gallery's Burster Flipper Wobbler Dripper Spinner Stacker Shaker Maker coincided with that of Slip Cast, a group exhibition at the Dowse Art Museum that also focused on the pleasure that artists take in manipulating materials in the process of making art?

    Continued

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    New Zealand in the Biennale of Sydney and the Biennale of Sydney in New Zealand

    New Zealand in the Biennale of Sydney and the Biennale of Sydney in New Zealand

    and the Biennale of Sydney in New Zealand

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    Te Pūtahitanga ō Rehua

    Reuben Paterson Te Pūtahitanga ō Rehua

    As a young boy, Reuben Paterson used to play with the sparkling black sand on Piha beach; now as an artist he often uses glitter in his works. In this one, he took inspiration from Māori mythology connected with water, cleansing, transformation and stars. Pūtahitanga can mean constellation. Rehua was a son of Rangi-nui (the sky father) and Papa-tū-ā-nuku (the earth mother), and is associated in Tūhoe legend with the star Antares. To make this dazzling kaleidoscopic landscape, Paterson digitally layered and rearranged his own drawings. He likens the shifting black and white patterns to the restless energies and histories that have unfolded on the whenua (land) of Aotearoa New Zealand. Their optical push-and-pull highlights that what can be seen depends on who is doing the looking. What catches your eye?

    (Wheriko - Brilliant! 17 May 2019 – 16 February 2020)

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    Tootoo

    Julia Morison Tootoo

    Julia Morison’s Tootoo was created as part of a brim-full series of multi-panelled paintings called Gargantua’s Petticoat. The series is an array of riotous provocation, full of abstracted sensual forms that allude to corsetry and piercings, petticoats and hula hoops, bed springs and bandages. Julia was painting lecturer at the University of Canterbury from 1999–2007. This followed eight years living in France, an originally unanticipated outcome of being awarded the one-year Moët et Chandon Fellowship artist residency in 1990.

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

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    June Pause

    Simon Morris June Pause

    Op + Pop 6 February – 19 June 2016

    Packed with an energetic sense of movement, Simon Morris’s painting gives the effect of a boldly rhythmic musical score. Its pattern, appearing at first to be random or chaotic, is found to be sequenced and repeating, and with diagonals regularly breaking up the picture plane.

    Morris builds on the legacy of pioneering New Zealand geometric abstractionists such as Carl Sydow and Gordon Walters. This optical sequence was generated by a mathematical formula, which he says “creates images that I wouldn’t come up with myself. It’s like the system partly makes the work.”

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