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Tony Fomison No! 1971. Oil on canvas. Collection of Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū, purchased 1973. Reproduced with permission
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Tony Fomison No! 1971. Oil on canvas. Collection of Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū, purchased 1973. Reproduced with permission
This exhibition is now closed
Treasured portraits populate empty spaces in our changing city.
It's not exactly starting all over again with a blank canvas, but it is related to ideas about repopulating a place that's been emptied and dramatically changed. Across our altered cityscape, an eclectic selection of portraits from the collection will be gradually unveiled to fill empty spaces – vacant lots, broken buildings, newly exposed walls. Recently re-photographed in their frames, enlarged billboard versions of treasured portraits will provide interesting and unexpected company. Creating their own new stories and narratives, the portraits also remind us of a treasured collection.
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Date:
May 2013 – September 2015 -
Curator:
Ken Hall -
Exhibition number:
940 -
In association with