James Cousins joins Gow Langsford Gallery

New Zealand painter James Cousins has exhibited extensively since the mid 1990s.  His work has featured in international and local group exhibitions and in solo exhibitions in Christchurch, Wellington and Auckland. Last year Cousins’ work was selected for group shows Afterimage (Two Rooms Gallery, Auckland) and PX: A purposeless production / A Necessary Praxis (St Paul Street, Auckland). More....



 

Tony Cragg at Belvedere, Vienna

Tony Cragg versus F.X. Messerschmidt juxtaposes the work of two major artists Tony Cragg and Franz Xaver Messerschmidt (1736 - 1783).  Messerschmidt is considered one of the most remarkable sculptors of the 18th century largely due to the modernity and expressive radicalism of his studies of the human gesture. Tony Cragg, born in Liverpool in 1949, numbers among the most interesting contemporary sculptors working today. The Belvedere presents predominantly those works in which the artist starts out from humanoid forms and various silhouettes of faces in profile, which he defaces in order to make them unrecognisable.  By presenting the works in contrast, Curator Jon Wood implores us to view the artists work from a new perspective which he intends will raise new issues of debate.

28 January - 25 May 2008

Paul Dibble at Art in the Woolshed Exhibition

From the 8 - 16 March 2008  Art in the Woolshed 2008 will exhibit work by Paul Dibble.  Art in the Woolshed is a fundraising exhibition supporting the protection and restoration of Tawharanui Sanctuary.

Dick Frizzell in Sinfonia Antartica at The New Dowse Museum

Sinfonia Antartica explores the Antarctic landscape though paintings, photographs, music and sculpture from ten NZ artists who illustrate the alien landscape with an artistic medley that ranges from global warming and the Erebus disaster. Sinfonia Antartica, showcases this great white continent as seen through the eyes of painters Dick Frizzell and Nigel Brown, ceramist Raewyn Atkinson, poets Bill Manhire and Chris Orsman, jeweller Kirsten Haydon and photographers Ann Noble, Andris Apse and Joyce Campbell.

The New Dowse Museum 31st March - 17th August 2008

Max Gimblett, Honorary Visiting Professor of the National Institute of Creative Arts and Industries

Max Gimblett will be the inaugural honorary Visiting Professor of the National Institute of Creative Arts and Industries, Auckland University, Auckland, New Zealand and will be teaching there in May 2008



Reuben Paterson: Billboard Project

Reuben Paterson is the second artist to create a work specifically the ARTSPACE Billboard Project. In partnership with the Langham Hotel ARTSPACE invites contemporary artists to create works 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

Sotheby’s present Bernar Venet Sculpture Exhibition

For the first time Sotheby’s is presenting an exhibition of a solo artist.  Approximately twenty five Bernar Venet sculptures are on show in the lush grounds of the Isleworth Golf and Country Club in Florida. The monumental sculptures will showcase the artist’s work of the last two decades, highlighting some of his most distinctive themes.
January through April 2008



Chris Heaphy joins Gow Langsford Gallery

We are pleased to announce that Chris Heaphy is now represented in New Zealand by Gow Langsford Gallery. An emerging presence within the competitive global art market, Heaphy's broad appeal derives in part from the invention and development of a visually arresting personal symbology of signs. Informed by a Derridean analysis of the instability of the sign, Heaphy is particularly interested in the “inevitable change or slippage of meaning of the symbol.” (Artist’s statement, Frieze Art Fair, London, 2007).  Drawing from an artillery of motifs both conventional and invented, the artist constructs signs within signs that piece together indicators of his own identity. Fundamentally his practice engages with the notion that the relationship between sign and signifier, like that of culture and identity, is fluid, ambiguous and in a constant state of flux.

Chris Heaphy recently enjoyed international success at this year’s 2007 Frieze Art Fair in London with all three of his paintings exhibited by Marianne Boesky Gallery (New York) being purchased by international collectors.

 

The artist's inaugural exhibition at Gow Langsford Gallery will be a solo show scheduled for 2008.



Tim Hawkinson at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney

Gow Langsford Gallery is delighted to be able to offer a selection of these works for sale.



The Museum of Contemporary Art in association with the Sydney Festival presents Mapping the Marvellous, a survey exhibition of work by American artist Tim Hawkinson. Debuting for the first time in Australia, Hawkinson has exhibited extensively in the US and Europe, recently commanding a one man show at the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles in 2007 and earlier a significant mid-career retrospective held in 2005 by the Whitney.  This exhibition reveals a sample of Hawkinson’s prolific creative output and includes sculpture, photo-collage and drawing from the mid-1990’s to the present.

For further information please contact the gallery.



Gow Langsford Gallery / New Premises Opening 26 Lorne St, Auckland / May 2008

Gow Langsford Gallery is pleased to announce that its new premises will open on Lorne Street in May 2008. Formerly the ‘Lorne Street Backpackers’ building, the completely refurbished site is a welcome transition for the gallery, its generous dimensions facilitating the optimum exhibition of large scale sculpture and painting. The gallery’s current location on the corner of Kitchener & Wellesley Streets will remain as a private viewing room available by appointment only.

A mid career retrospective of one New Zealand's most recognised artists Karl Maughan, has recently opened at Palmerston North's Te Manawa Art Gallery.  Curated by Nicola Jennings, the exhibition's location is particularly poignant - the area being Maughan's home-town.  

Jennings writes:

Maughan’s dedication to his subject has not prevented development in his work... Having worked through the immersive views of rampant gardens that characterise his early work, Maughan stepped back in the mid 1990s to view the wider landscape. The sense of barely contained chaos that pervaded his early work has been supplanted by a sense of order emanating from carefully manicured lawns and shaped shrubbery. And while Maughan still paints on a large scale, the viewer is no longer thrust into the garden in quite the same way. In works of the last few years the foreground is again often dominated, now by Maughan’s characteristic rhododendron bushes full of flower, yet glimpses of sky and distant landscape are still evident.

Sara Hughes & Reuben Paterson I 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 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

Katharina Grosse will exhibit at the Palazzo Strossi in Florence with an installation similar to that shown at St Paul St gallery in Auckland this year. Curated by Francesca Nori, ‘Emotional Systems’ combines an exhibition, a publication and a programme of lectures that interprets the subject of ‘emotions’ “in light of the latest discoveries in neurological science regarding the brain and its effects on the emotions”. This exhibition marks the inauguration of the Centro di Cultura Contemporanea - a new space intended to provide a creative platform for contemporary art and culture.

FRAC Auvergne will stage a double solo show with Katharina Grosse.  The first part, from the 30th of November 2007 to the 20th of January 2008, will consist of an in situ work in their 250m² space.The second part, from the 1st of February to the 16th of March 2008, will show 75 paintings on paper on the partially destroyed in situ installation. The FRAC Auvergne will edit a 150 page book in english and french with texts from Jean-Charles Vergne and Hans de Wolf.

Paul Dibble's work will feature at the Auckland Botanic Gardens where a major sculpture exhibition will be held in late 2007 and biennially thereafter. "The inaugural exhibition will run for three months, from 4 November 2007 to 31 January 2008. Twenty seven sculptures will be displayed along a trail around 1.7 kilometres in length. The trail wanders through many of the Auckland Botanic Gardens iconic plant collections and around its main lakes - a truly majestic setting.”

Max Gimblett I Upcoming Exhibitions

Max Gimblett has been selected for the exhibition Simulasian at the November Inaugural Asian Art Fair in New York City, curated by Eric Shiner and Lilly Wei.  From November 3, Gimblett will also exhibit in Brush meets Brush, at the San Francisco Zen Center. The ink painting on exhibition is a collaborative work with the zen monk Great Dragon - an influential teacher under which Gimblett has studied. 

Max Gimblett will show new works at Gow Langsford Gallery from the 16 October - 10 November 2007.



Simon Ingram now exhibiting with Gow Langsford Gallery

Simon Ingram has exhibited locally and internationally for over ten years. His work is held in the Gibbs, Chartwell and Fletcher Trust collections, and he was recently awarded a Creative New Zealand New Work Grant. Over the last twelve months his work has featured in four major public gallery exhibitions: Just Painting at the Auckland Art Gallery,  Four Times Painting at the Adam Art Gallery, The Secret Life of Paint, Dunedin Public Art Gallery, and PX: A Purposeless Production/A Necessary Praxis currently showing at AUT"s St Paul Street Gallery.

Through its use of DIY technology and self organising systems Ingram's work investigates decision making in painting and the relationship between the machine made and the human or hand made.  Painting Assemblage No.6, currently on show at 34 ST Paul St Auckland, consists of a machine constructed from aluminium and Lego painting an abstract image on a 2 x 2 metre linen canvas in thick white oil colour with a brush. The painting produced is pictorially lyrical and dense yet produced entirely by a machine over the course of the exhibition.

PX - A purposeless production / A necessary praxis at St. Paul Street Gallery is curated by Leonhard Emmerling.  The exhibition features works by gallery artists:  Katharina Grosse, Simon Ingram and Judy Millar,  alongside Paul Mc Carthy, Gerhard Richter and Guy Benfield.

PX is supported by the Chartwell Trust and Gow Langsford Gallery