Auckland Art Gallery

 Turuki Turuki! Paneke Paneke!

24 May- 24 August 2008

Auckland Art Gallery exhibition Turuki Turuki! Paneke Paneke! When Maori Art Became Contemporary, on show from 24 May until 24 August, commemorates the 50th anniversary of the first exhibition of contemporary Maori art in Auckland.

In 1958, mentor and educator, Matiu Te Hau curated an exhibition held at the University of Auckland that featured the paintings, sculpture and ceramics of five Northland teachers.
The artists were Arnold Manaaki Wilson, Ralph Hotere, Muru Walters, Katerina Mataira and the late Selwyn Wilson.

Now 50 years on, in recognition of the significance of the original exhibition, Auckland Art Gallery curator Ngahiraka Mason has mounted Turuki Turuki! Paneke Paneke!, an exhibition that showcases some art work from the original display and others from the late 1950s and early 1960s.

Selwyn Wilson Girl with a Grapefruit
1949 oil on board, on loan from private collection.

“The original exhibition captured the mood of the 1950s and drew attention away from Maori art displayed in museums and redirected that focus to another kind of Maori art,” says Mason.

Exhibition Palette

Aalto Gallery Molasses, Aalto Anecdote, Aalto Backspin, Aalto Florin

Katerina Mataira Deep water
n.d. acrylic on board, on loan from a private collection

“These were heady times of change and social reform and the artists were innovating and experimenting as teachers, visual artists and crafts people. I believe these artists were the founders of the contemporary visual Maori art culture that we have today.”

Arnold Wilson
n.d. Courtesy Arnold Wilson

The exhibition title, drawn from a chant that kept paddlers to a constant beat and sung as part of the formal mihi on the marae, acknowledges the mana of the artists for their role in advancing and moving Maori art into the imagination of both Maori and Pakeha.

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Ian Macdonald
Whale Stranding at Muriwai Beach No.51
1975
C-type photograph
Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki, gift of the artist, 2001

Stuart Page and Michael Shannon
High Street, Christchurch
1981
silkscreen print
Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki, purchased 1984

                   
Michael Stevenson
The New Zealand Herald
'DARLINGS OF QUEEN ST' DELISTED
Friday 6 OCTOBER 1989
2002
photocopy, screenprint and dye on paper
Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki, purchased 2003

Michael Stevenson
Auckland Star
"LET'S STOP, LET'S HAVE A BARBEQUE"
Friday 29 JANUARY 1988
2002
photocopy, screenprint and dye on paper
Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki, purchased 2003

Laurence Aberhart

16 February - 11 May 2008 New Gallery


View of exhibition.

Aalto Tensile, Aalto Gallery White
 

Laurence Aberhart
Two memorials, Porangahau, Hawke's Bay 17 May 2003
Courtesy of the artist

 
Aalto Gallery White, Aalto Tensile
view of exhibition

Aalto Tensile, Aalto Gallery White, view of exhibition.

Aalto Gallery White

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