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Shane Cotton, The Hanging Sky / [curated by] Justin Paton ; with Eliot Weinberger, Geraldine Kirrihi Barlow and Robert Leonard.

By:

Cotton, Shane

Contributor(s):

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: Christchurch, N.Z. : Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu, 2013Description: 192 pages : colour illustrations ; 38 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

187737525X
9781877375255

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

709.2 23

Contents:

The ghosts of birds / Eliot Weinberger -- Finding space : six encounters with Shane Cotton / Justin Paton -- Ever in between / Geraldine Kirrihi Barlow -- The treachery of images / Robert Leonard -- Plates.

Review: ''For two decades Shane Cotton (ONZM, Ngāpuhi) has been one of New Zealand's most acclaimed painters. His works of the 1990s played a pivotal part in that decade's debates about place, belonging and bicultural identity. In the mid 2000s, however, Cotton headed in a spectacular and unexpected new direction: skywards. Employing a sombre new palette of blue and black, he painted the first in what would become a major series of skyscapes, vast, nocturnal spaces where birds speed and plummet. The Hanging Sky brings together highlights from this period with four distinctive new responses. New York essayist Eliot Weinberger offers a poetic meditation on what he calls 'the ghosts of birds' in Cotton's paintings. Christchurch Art Gallery senior curator Justin Paton plots his own encounters with Cotton across six years in which the artist was constantly 'finding space'. Melbourne-based curator Geraldine Kirrihi Barlow confronts the haunting role of Toi moko, tattooed Māori heads, in the paintings and in her own past. And Institute of Modern Art Director Robert Leonard argues the case for Cotton as a cultural surrealist exploring 'the treachery of images'. This beautifully presented, grandly scaled book on one of New Zealand's best-known artists features accessible, readable texts by internationally acclaimed writers. This book is an essential purchase for audiences with an interest in New Zealand art. The book will be a must for appreciators of beautiful books, as well as readers who have followed the authors and wish to read more of their writingz'--www.craigpotton.co.nz

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	City Campus City Campus Main Collection	709.2 COT (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		A511703B

"The exhibition Shane Cotton: The Hanging Sky, curated by Justin Paton, was organised by Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu is association with the Institute of Modern Art (IMA), Brisbane and showed in Australia and New Zealand in 2012 and 2013." -- p. 192.

Includes plates: (p. 52-183)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

''For two decades Shane Cotton (ONZM, Ngāpuhi) has been one of New Zealand's most acclaimed painters. His works of the 1990s played a pivotal part in that decade's debates about place, belonging and bicultural identity. In the mid 2000s, however, Cotton headed in a spectacular and unexpected new direction: skywards. Employing a sombre new palette of blue and black, he painted the first in what would become a major series of skyscapes, vast, nocturnal spaces where birds speed and plummet. The Hanging Sky brings together highlights from this period with four distinctive new responses. New York essayist Eliot Weinberger offers a poetic meditation on what he calls 'the ghosts of birds' in Cotton's paintings. Christchurch Art Gallery senior curator Justin Paton plots his own encounters with Cotton across six years in which the artist was constantly 'finding space'. Melbourne-based curator Geraldine Kirrihi Barlow confronts the haunting role of Toi moko, tattooed Māori heads, in the paintings and in her own past. And Institute of Modern Art Director Robert Leonard argues the case for Cotton as a cultural surrealist exploring 'the treachery of images'. This beautifully presented, grandly scaled book on one of New Zealand's best-known artists features accessible, readable texts by internationally acclaimed writers. This book is an essential purchase for audiences with an interest in New Zealand art. The book will be a must for appreciators of beautiful books, as well as readers who have followed the authors and wish to read more of their writingz'--www.craigpotton.co.nz

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