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The HUM calendar features exhibitions & events by New Zealand arts practitioners working or living abroad.
Francis Upritchard, The Inner Island
Villa Carmignac, Porquerolles Island, France
29 April —
04 November 2023
As a mise en abyme of the insular location of the Fondation Carmignac on Porquerolles, the exhibition, The Inner Island, curated by Jean-Marie Gallais, explores an essential driver of creation, as powerful as it is common: the distancing of reality as to reveal an interiority.
While contemporary art has never been as political or engaged with the world as it is now, a whole section of creation, and particularly in painting, is seemingly breaking away from it in order to offer vertiginous immersions into inner worlds and recesses. What is the significance of this current distancing from reality?
Featuring more than 80 works by fifty artists, from private and public collections and also new productions, the exhibition will draw the dotted outlines of an inner island, inviting each visitor to fill in the gaps in their own way. Francis Upritchard presents a sculpture in the gardens.
As a mise en abyme of the insular location of the Fondation Carmignac on Porquerolles, the exhibition, The Inner Island, curated by Jean-Marie Gallais, explores an essential driver of creation, as powerful as it is common: the distancing of reality as to reveal an interiority.
While contemporary art has never been as political or engaged with the world as it is now, a whole section of creation, and particularly in painting, is seemingly breaking away from it in order to offer vertiginous immersions into inner worlds and recesses. What is the significance of this current distancing from reality?
Featuring more than 80 works by fifty artists, from private and public collections and also new productions, the exhibition will draw the dotted outlines of an inner island, inviting each visitor to fill in the gaps in their own way. Francis Upritchard presents a sculpture in the gardens.
Kate Newby, La Mer Imaginaire
Villa Carmignac, Porquerolles, France
20 May —
17 October 2021
Fondation Carmignac has invited American curator and writer Chris Sharp to organise its forthcoming exhibition at Villa Carmignac on the island of Porquerolles, France. Entitled La mer imaginaire (‘The imaginary sea’), this group exhibition will transform the villa into an underwater natural history museum, questioning the interactions between our civilization and the marine world. Visitors will dive into an aquatic ecosystem, navigating fascinating representations and marine creatures, both dreamy and threatening at once.
“La mer imaginaire will not only consider how artists are re-evaluating our relationship with nature, but also examine how nature, particularly the sea, sparks our imagination.” Chris Sharp
Fondation Carmignac has invited American curator and writer Chris Sharp to organise its forthcoming exhibition at Villa Carmignac on the island of Porquerolles, France. Entitled La mer imaginaire (‘The imaginary sea’), this group exhibition will transform the villa into an underwater natural history museum, questioning the interactions between our civilization and the marine world. Visitors will dive into an aquatic ecosystem, navigating fascinating representations and marine creatures, both dreamy and threatening at once.
“La mer imaginaire will not only consider how artists are re-evaluating our relationship with nature, but also examine how nature, particularly the sea, sparks our imagination.” Chris Sharp