News
March 2008
Reuben Paterson Limited Edition Moustache Glasses
Reuben Paterson's limited edition art glass visits The Logi Cup ca.525 BC, collection of the Christchurch Art Gallery. The cup is an ornately decorated vessel that when full to the brim and raised to the lips was designed to mask the face of the drinker, creating universality in the Dionysian ritual of intoxication and celebration.
A set of 6 heatprinted decal on Bormioli Roco Italian crystal.
Premium Mod.No 6
59cl 20 oz each
h 238 mm - 7 1/2"
round 95 mm - 3 3/4"
Signed Limited edition of 15
$850.00
Of Deities and Mortals at the Christchurch Art Gallery
Recent works by Sara Hughes and Reuben Paterson are included in Of Deities and Mortals at the Christchurch Art Gallery, open from 16 November 2007 - 10 February 2008. Titled after a line in John Keats' poem Ode on a Grecian Urn, Of Deities or Mortals takes eight objects from the University of Canterbury's James Logie Memorial Collection of Greek artifacts, and invites eight contemporary New Zealand artists to create a response. For more information about the show and featured artists, visit the Christchurch Art Gallery or email info@gowlangsfordgallery.co.nz
Reuben Paterson Billboard Project
Reuben Paterson is the second artist invited to create a work for the ARTSPACE Billboard Project. In partnership with the Langham Hotel ARTSPACE invites artists to create a work (measuring 22.5 x 4 meter) to fill the hotel’s billboard on Auckland’s K’Road. The project offers the artists an opportunity to work on a colossal scale, in a new medium and in a context that extends beyond the gallery walls.
Paterson’s billboard captures his use of theatre foil in a playful undulating panel of stripes. ARTSPACE director Brian Butler says, “When I was thinking about various artists to invite for the billboard project, I always thought that Reuben could work on such a massive scale. The way his new work plays between abstraction, Pop and Op art is perfectly communicated.”
Until March 7 2008
Reuben Paterson at NBK Berlin
Reuben Paterson, Shane Cotton and John Pule have been invited to exhibit at the Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin, as part of the exhibition Dateline: Contemporary Art of the Pacific Islands. The exhibition, which is a curatorial collaboration between Rhana Devenport of the Govett Brewster Art Gallery and Dr. Alexander Tolnay, director of NBK, will tour Germany and return to New Zealand in 2008.
Dr. Tolnay says he aims "to explore recent developments in the contemporary art of the Pacific tracking along the "date line" and investigating how a new generation of artists in the region reacts to the complex contradictions between tradition, modernity and globalization in today's world. The exhibition should explore the various ways in which renewal and evolution of indigenous traditions are occurring, incorporating cross-cultural interaction while at the same time contending with the pressures of "ethnokitsch" and tourism"
Exhibition dates at NBK: 7 September -19 October 2007
The City Gallery Kiel: 25 January - 24 March 2008
City Gallery Sindelfingen: 20 April -22 June 2008
Reuben Paterson at Eden Artspeak 2007
A dynamic schedule of artist's talks have again been compiled by Eden Arts.
The talks have become a regular part of the Auckland summer arts calendar and attract a wide range of professionals associated with the arts, students, as well as emerging and established collectors. Paterson will talk about his recent travels, and artists residency in New York at the ISCP (International Studio and Curatorial Programme).
Reuben Paterson and Peter Madden: Thursday 8th March, 7pm - 9pm.
Raye Freedman Arts Centre, Epsom Girls Grammar School, Gillies Ave
Reuben Paterson: SQUARE2 at City Gallery Wellington
Reuben Paterson's work, Te Putahitanga o rehua, will be on exhibition at the City Gallery Wellington from 25 September - 23 October as part of their SQUARE2 programme. SQUARE2 is a dedicated new site for moving image artworks located in the entrance of City Gallery Wellington, with rows of ‘square’ monitors which display the works.