20.05.08 Max Gimblett gifts artworks to Auckland City Art Gallery contd...

Max Gimblett says he and Barbara are honoured to gift the works of art to the foundation to demonstrate their support of the development of the gallery’s main building. “Barbara and I recognise the importance of a creative and healthy gallery. This gift shows our support for the role of the foundation in strengthening the gallery’s position as the leading art museum in New Zealand,” says Gimblett. Gimblett, who has lived in the United States since the mid 1960s and exhibited widely in New Zealand and abroad, is gifting key works from the last 40 years of his artistic practice. Auckland Art Gallery’s curator of contemporary art, Natasha Conland worked closely with Gimblett at his studio in the Bowery, New York, to select the 51 works on paper that make up the gift. “This collection captures the extraordinary range in Gimblett’s artistic temperament from his early portraiture to his achievements with abstract form and a long-standing exploration of Zen calligraphic technique. “Most of all this collection reveals the artist’s extraordinary sensitivity to the very materials of art, especially ink, paper and pencil,” says Conland. A number of key works from the gift will be included in the new collection displays that will be the feature of the newly developed main gallery building in late 2010.  The art works will be formally gifted to the Auckland Art Gallery Foundation at a special event attended by Max Gimblett, foundation chairperson John Judge, Auckland city Mayor Hon. John Banks and gallery director Chris Saines in the Auckland Town Hall on Wednesday, 21 May at 6pm.

For more information: Eran Donders Communications coordinator, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki Phone: +64 9 307 7706, Mobile 027 291 9953 Email: eran.donders@aucklandcity.govt.nz

26.04.08 I Saatchi & Saatchi New York to host corporate reception for Guggenheim show

Saatchi & Saatchi, through the office of CEO Worldwide Kevin Roberts, are to sponsor a corporate reception in February 2009 for the exhibition "American Art and the East" that is the centerpiece of the Guggenheim Museum's 50th anniversary. In particular, they will celebrate the work of artist Max Gimblett who will be included in this prestigious show scheduled for early 2009.

26.03.08 I Max Gimblett to exhibit at Guggenheim, New York

Max Gimblett will show work in American Art and the East curated by Alexandra Munroe. The Exhibition opens at the Guggenheim Museum, New York, in February 2009 as a centerpiece of the museum's 50th Anniversary of the Frank Lloyd Wright building. American Art and the East is a masterpiece show featuring works by canonical figures of the 20th century and leading younger artists working today. The exhibition will travel to the West Coast, Asia, and Europe through 2010. A fully illustrated, 475 page catalogue will accompany the exhibition. Edited with an introduction by exhibition curator Alexandra Munroe, it will be the first comprehensive study of the influence of Asian aesthetics and philosophy on modern and contemporary art.

26.03.08 I Max Gimblett in Mindfood Magzine

Max Gimblett will feature in issue 3 of Mindfood Magazine due for publication on May 12. Max was recently interviewed by Donna Duggan, associate editor of the magazine at his New York studio.