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January 2010 / Art Asia Pacific Almanac 2010
Gow Langsford Gallery gets a generous mention in the current Art Asia Pacific Almanac. The issue takes a focussed look at contemporary art, markets and trends from Asia, the Pacific and the Middle East. The writer notes Gow Langsford as a stand out member of the newly formed Auckland Art Precinct and includes a large image of John Pule's painting First Day on Earth. Read the full article online here or click to download. 
January 2010 / Reuben Paterson in Asia Pacific Triennial NZ Herald review
Andrew Clifford looks at the 6th Asia Pacific Triennial in this weekend's Herald and features an image of Reuben Paterson's Whakapapa: Get Down On Your Knees. Read the full article here.
January 2010 / David McCracken at Connells Bay Sculpture Park.
David McCracken's new work The Best Laid Plans Go West is now on permanent display at Connells Bay Sculpture Park. For further information or to arrange a visit, please contact Connells Bay directly.
January 2010 / TAG: James Cousins and Simon Ingram reviewed in Art Forum online
It is rare that international critics head this far into the South Pacific so we are especially pleased that our current exhibition TAG is reviewed in ARTFORUM online.
New York based critic Michael Wilson writes "Ranged around the space in ones and twos, the diminutive panels perform a variety of material and compositional stunts, the paired artists' contributions interacting neatly with each other to the degree that they nearly appear as products of a single hand. All the pictures make use of intense color, Cousins adding the counterpoint of allover textural effects, while Ingram relies on simple, linear brushwork." Read the full review online here or down load.
January 2010 / Max Gimblett in EXCHANGE at the Institute of Contemporary Art at Maine College of Art
Exchange explores collaboration as the means to transfer ideas and generate new modes of thinking. This exhibition series will feature diverse collaborative approaches including the joining of arts and letters, the merging of the physical boundaries of the human body, institutional collaboration, and a project requiring the participation of ICA visitors. These projects manifest as collaborations between individuals, groups, and institutions traversing subjects as broad as oil politics, the history of optics, Zen practice and personal space.
In the Lunder Gallery animal dreaming highlights an ongoing collaboration between painter Max Gimblett and poet and cultural critic Lewis Hyde. Inspired by their shared interest in Buddhist practice, Hyde and Gimblett have created a series of works on paper and artist books. animal dreaming features works spanning their twenty years of collaboration and debuts a new series of paintings made for the ICA.
The exhibition runs 20 January - 11 April, 2011 at the Institute of Contemporary Art at Maine College of Art. For further information see here.
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mage : Lewis Hyde and Max Gimblett, Fish Forget Trap, plaster, epoxy, oil-based silkscreen ink, copper leaf, acrylic and vinyl polymers, wood panel, 2009
Art Sunday coincides with the opening of The 4th Auckland Triennial and with all the Precinct businesses open, as well as free entertainment and giveaways it should be a great day.
Art Sunday is an opportunity to celebrate the Auckland Art Precinct, The 4th Auckland Triennial, the building of the Auckland Art Gallery and the fact that we live in a culturally and artistically thriving environment. Some events that will occur during the Art Sunday include a childrens drawing competition at The Lane Gallery and a coffee voucher handout at Parsons Bookshop.
Visit Gow Langsford Gallery during Art Sunday and enter the draw to win a collection of art books including a signed copy of Max Gimbletts 2002 monograph. (conditions apply)
Start your art adventure in Khartoum Place where you can pick up your Art Sunday map then follow the yellow dots. Throughout the Precinct, local cafes will be serving great coffee and the galleries will be offering boutique NZ wine and of course some of NZs best art.
Find out more about what's happen throughout the Precinct on the Auckland Art Precinct blog.
November 2009 I Reuben Paterson at 6th Asia Pacific Triennial
The 6th Asia Pacific Triennial opens in Brisbane next month and includes a major work by gallery artist Reuben Paterson. Paterson has created a colossal work specifically for the exhibition. Titled Whakapapa: Get Down on Your Knees (2009) the eight metre squared painting brings together iconography from many bodies of work using his glitterdust technique.
6th Asia Pacific Triennial : Gallery of Modern Art and Queensland Art Gallery. Opening weekend 5 - 6 December. Runs through 5 April 2010.
Check out Reuben Paterson's Whakapapa: Get Down on Your Knees on the cover of the current Issue of Art & Australia. Gregor Kregar's work is featured on the back cover as winner of the Summer 2009 ANZ Private Bank and Art & Australia Contemporary Art Award. Dick Frizzell's Car Crash also features on the Summer issue of Artnews.
November 2009 I Simon Ingram in With Your Eyes Only at Kunstverein Medienturm, Graz, Austria
WITH YOUR EYES ONLY is an experimental project featuring new work by Simon Ingram at Kunsterverein Medienturm in Graz, Austria . The show looks at elements of perception in a collage of artistic interventions and objects. Within the framework of reductive art, the levels of perception and mechanisms of viewing are questioned in a multi-disciplinary and playful approach.
The basis for this are the phenomenological premises of the artistic production process, such as colour, light, material or time, which influence the structure und content of reductive works, thereby opening up the exemplary questioning regarding perception. The visual scaffolding for the artistic interventions is an architectonic display which shifts the exhibition spaces by 35 degrees, thereby triggering the experience and shifted perception of reductive art.
Exhibiting artists include Simon Ingram, Greet Billet, Kjell Bjorgeengen, Alexandra Dementieva & Aernould Jacobs, Ward Denys, Clemens Hollerer, Leopoldine Roux, Esther Stocker, Tilman, Pieter Vermeersch, Dan Walsh and Carrie Yamaoka.
With your Eyes Only runs 12.12.2009 - 13.02.2010
Gow Langsford is open this Sunday 22nd November
Gow Langsford Gallery, along with other businesses and galleries in the area will be open this Sunday from 12 - 4 pm. To celebrate the open day Gow Langsford Gallery will be offering a 10 % discount on gallery publications and on all editioned works. The event coincides with the Auckland Art Gallerys Big Day Art and will provide the citys definitive art experience.
The Auckland Art Precinct involves business in the Lorne and Kitchener Streets area including Parsons Bookshop, John Leech Gallery, FHE Galleries, Fingers Jewellery, Tim Melville Gallery, The Lane Gallery on Victoria Street East, Gow Langsford Gallery, Antoinette Godkin Gallery, City Art Rooms and OREXART. More information on the Precinct can be seen here. The businesses in the Art Precinct are working together with the Auckland Art Gallery and the Auckland City Council to make the Art Precinct Auckland's finest Visual Arts destination.
November 2009 I Judy Millar announced as New York residency recipient
Congratulations to Judy Millar who has been awarded the Creative New Zealand New York Residency. Hosted by the International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP) Judy will be in New York February through next May year. For more information on the program see Creative New Zealand's press release here.
November 2009 I Sara Hughes Publication
Sara Hughes new publication Feedback Runaway is now available for purchase. Published by Revolver Publishing in Germany, Feedback Runaway includes texts by Christoph Tannert and Christina Vgh and was produced during her residency at the Kuenstlerhaus Bethanien in Berlin. See publication details here and contact us to purchase (RRP $65).
November 2009 I Reuben Paterson on telly
Reuben Paterson will be featured on TVNZs Newartland. Episode 12 There Goes the Moon airs on Saturday 21st November and will be available online after the screening.
Photo by Grant Finlay
November 2009 I Sara Hughes' commission at Central Park, Papakura
Commissioned by Papakura District Council, Sara Hughes has been working with Chow:Hill Architects on a permanent outdoor stage at Central Park in South Auckland. The stage is now open to the public and will host the first performance on December 4. Hughes has covered the roof, floor and structural supports for the roof with blasts of colour which give the impression of a giant lightbox.
November 2009 I Two new publications on Judy Millar
Two new publications on Judy Millar are launched this month in New Zealand. Both published by Kerber Art, Germany, You You Me Me (RRP $59.95) is an artists' monograph covering Millar's career to date and Giraffe-Bottle-Gun ($19.95) documents her recent exhibition of the same title at the 2009 Venice Biennale. For further details and to purchase see our publications page.
November 2009 I Judy Millar in Metro Magazine
Frances Morton writes about Judy Millar is the current issue of Metro Magazine. On sale now.
October 2009 I Gregor Kregar: Guest Artist at National survey exhibition on Slovenian Sculpture, Ljubljana.
Gregor Kregar has recently installed Dweling for Nordung. As invited guest artist for a national survey exhibition on Slovenian Sculpture Kregar created a temporary public project for the main square in the centre of Ljubljana. The sculptural installation Dweling for Nordung incorporates a reflective geometric construction with a four channel sound component (Composition for sculptural tools and viola) the sound reverberated the shapes and forms of the sculpture throughout the square activating the entire environment.
October 2009 I Gregor Kregar Twisting the Void, 2009
Twisting the Void is now permanently installed at the NZI Centre, Viduct Basin in Auckland.
Designed by Jazzmax Architects the feature glass building uses state-of-the-art features to create an environmentally friendly structure. Kregars two large hanging structures (each 5.5 x 5 x 4 metres) are created from mirror polished stainless steeel that reflects and fragments the environment they inhabit as well as echoing invisible molecular structures. Commissioned especially for the new building the works can be seen in the main foyer at the NZI Centre, corner Fanshawe St and Market Place.
October 2009 I Dick Frizzell The Painter
Dick Frizzell's new monograph Dick Frizzell - The Painter was launched at Gow Langsford Gallery last night. Published by Random House, it is an exquisite publication with over 300 pages documenting the artists career to date. Available from Parsons bookshop (RRP $75).
October 2009 I Reuben Paterson and WORLD at the National Gallery of Victoria
The current exhibition at the National Gallery of Victoria, Together Alone: Australian and New Zealand Fashion, looks at relationships between Australian and New Zealand fashion designers and features Reuben Patersons glitter suit. From the WORLD collection I don't like sport, but I can jump the glitter suit is a collaboration with WORLD designers Francis Hooper and Denise L'Estrange-Corbet. Photo: Michael Ng
October 2009 I Gregor Kregar Mathew 12/12
Previously exhibited at Prospect 2007, City Gallery, 2007, Wellington; A&P Show, The Christchurch Art Gallery, 2007 and Sculpture on the Gulf, 2005, Matthew 12/12 is included in a new publication Hair'em Scare'em by cutting-edge visual publishing house Gestalten. Twelve sheep are presented in colourful woollen jumpers inside a picket fence enclosure. The work questions our relationship to this often overlooked animal that is still so important to the New Zealand psyche and economy.
More information on Hair'em Scare'em is available from the Gestalten website.
September 2009 I Art Precinct
Gow Langsford Gallery is pleased to be part of the Art Precinct, Auckland's Visual Art Destination. The initiative, which launches this weekend, involves Parsons Bookshop and the art galleries in the block of Wellesley, Kitchener, Victoria and Lorne Streets in Auckland central city.
September 2009 I Situate update 
The winner of Situate: An International Sculpture Competition was announced this month. Gallery artist Paul Dibble narrowly missed out on the commission and was ranked second of the five finalists. Congratulations to Paul Dibble on this placing and on winning the Popular Vote from the City of Perth.
Submissions and the winning work by James Angus can be viewed online here.
September 2009 I Karl Maughan on New Artland
Karl Maughan features in the latest episode of TVNZ's New Artland. Watch the episode online here.
September 2009 I Judy Millar in Financial Times
Judy Millar speaks to Richard Holledge about her home, work, and installation Giraffe-Bottle-Gun in the Financial Times. Read the article here.
September 2009 I Gregor Kregar Dwelling for Nordung
Gregor Kregars new work Dwelling For Nordung will be unveiled this month in Ljubljana. The sculpture is inspired by Slovenian engineer and space scientist Herman Potocnik Ordungs influential book The Problem With Space Travel (1928) and particularly his great and anticipatory vision of the future. The work is suspended in the air and will look like a reflective, crystal cloud and work will further explore the possibility of mobile, floating utopian architecture.
"Since the beginning of time, mankind has considered it as an expression of its Earthly weakness and inadequacy to be bound to the Earth, to be unable to free itself from the mysterious shackles of gravity. Not without good reason then has the concept of the transcendental always been associated with the idea of weightlessness, the power "to be able freely to rise into the sky." And most people even today still take it as a dogma that it is indeed unthinkable for Earthly beings ever to be able to escape the Earth. Is this point of view really justified?" (Hermann Potocnik Noordung The Problem With Space Travel)
Dwelling for Nordung is shown in conjunction with a major survey exhibition of Slovenian Contemporary Sculpture at a location within Mestni Trg, in the old city centre of Ljubljana.
September 2009 I Reuben Paterson in Wall Works at Adam Art Gallery
To celebrate the tenth anniversary of the Adam Art Gallery artists have been invited to create works directly on the walls of the gallery. Visitors will be able to see the works in progress from 8 September. Artists involved include gallery artist Reuben Paterson, David Cauchi, Michael Harrison, Patrick Lundberg, Julia Morison. Simon Morris, Kim Pieters and Jeena Shin.
The exhibition provides an opportunity to celebrate the gallerys history without dwelling on our past; the temporal projects and their relationship to the site will present instances of the mobility and responsiveness to which the Adam Art Gallery aspires.
(source Adam Art Gallery website)
Adam Art Gallery
Wall works
8 September - 4 October 2009
August 2009 I Bernar Venet at Arsenale Novissimo Venice, Venice Biennale
Bernar Venet is exhibiting at Arsenale Novissimo Venice, Venice Biennale.
The Venetian Arsenal (Italian: Arsenale di Venezia) is a shipyard and naval depot that played a leading role in Venetian empire-building. It was one of the most important areas of Venice, lying in the Castello sestiere and home to the major component of the Venice Biennale.
August 2009 I Katharina Grosse The Greedy I
Katharina Grosses exhibition The Greedy I opens in at Galerie Mark Mueller in Zurich this week with guest Colin McCahon.
The exhibitions runs 27 August through October 17.
July 2009 I David McCracken joins Gow Langsford Gallery
Gow Langsford is pleased to announce that David McCracken has joined its stable of represented artists. David McCracken was born in 1963 in Auckland. He began sculpting in his teens, mostly figurative work carved in wood. Returning to Auckland in his early twenties he worked in a variety of jobs including boat building and construction and gained skills using fibre and later steel fabrication and welding.
McCracken became involved in performing arts and in a short time was working full time in the production of sets and props. At this time he began making sculpture using a wide variety of materials. McCracken saw the potential of steel fabrication for producing art from readily available and inexpensive scrap when he could afford little else. He also experimented using a variety of materials including river rocks, synthetic hair and found objects. He furthered his metal fabrication skills to include aluminium, stainless steel and corten steel, and began casting in bronze and stainless steel. In 2000 he had his first solo exhibition Fabrications at the McPherson Gallery and exhibited at the Beecroft outdoor sculpture show, marking the beginning of a series of floating works. In 2001 he was short listed for the Wallace Awards and had a second show H2O2 at McPherson Gallery as well as some private commissions. McCracken has exhibited in a variety of outdoor exhibitions including Sculpture in the Gulf (winning the Peoples Choice award in 2005), and Shapeshifter. He has been short listed for the Wallace Awards three times, being an award finalist twice
July 2009 I NZ Herald Review of Every Day is Like Sunday
In The Hand that Made the Garden T.J McNamara reivews Karl Maughan's exhibition Every Day is Like Sunday and draws comparision to Impressionist painter Monet. Read the full exhibition review here.