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The HUM calendar features exhibitions & events by New Zealand arts practitioners working or living abroad.
Simon Denny, Read, Write, Own
Altman Siegel, San Francisco, USA
16 September —
21 October 2023
Altman Siegel presents Read, Write, Own, Simon Denny’s second solo exhibition with the gallery. Featuring new paintings from his Metaverse Landscape series alongside sculptures made using white boards from the Twitter office furniture liquidation sale initiated by Elon Musk, Denny examines the developing culture of new technology, drawing inspiration from the objects, documents, and images used and produced by its companies, organizations, and states.
Referencing the traditional painting genre of the landscape to consider the effect of digitization on the expansion of property and notions of land ownership, Denny’s Metaverse Landscape series depicts virtual properties in newly emergent digital worlds. Each painting portrays a tokenized visual representation (often resembling a simple stylized map or plan) that the owner of a piece of metaverse property receives when they purchase a plot of digital land in projects like Decentraland, The Sandbox, or Voxels – some of the earliest and most popular ventures invested in during the recent crypto/metaverse boom.
Altman Siegel presents Read, Write, Own, Simon Denny’s second solo exhibition with the gallery. Featuring new paintings from his Metaverse Landscape series alongside sculptures made using white boards from the Twitter office furniture liquidation sale initiated by Elon Musk, Denny examines the developing culture of new technology, drawing inspiration from the objects, documents, and images used and produced by its companies, organizations, and states.
Referencing the traditional painting genre of the landscape to consider the effect of digitization on the expansion of property and notions of land ownership, Denny’s Metaverse Landscape series depicts virtual properties in newly emergent digital worlds. Each painting portrays a tokenized visual representation (often resembling a simple stylized map or plan) that the owner of a piece of metaverse property receives when they purchase a plot of digital land in projects like Decentraland, The Sandbox, or Voxels – some of the earliest and most popular ventures invested in during the recent crypto/metaverse boom.
Kate Newby, The path guides the meaning
Rebecca Camacho, San Francisco, USA
11 August —
09 September 2023
As our lives are increasingly consumed and our actions dictated by mediated experiences, dominated by screens, regulated by algorithmic determinacy, and divorced from the physicality of our world, the work of artists engaged in process-based practices remind us of the importance of making and doing as a pathway to meaning, learning, and growth.
Favouring fluidity, collaboration, and collective work, the eight artists included in The path guides the meaning see opportunities in the everyday – relying upon quotidian materials and processes – and thoughtful collaboration with people in their communities. They produce works that challenge our contemporary tendency towards isolation and the technologically prescribed, foregrounding communal and shared experiences. In so doing, they pursue new forms of engagement with the world around us.
Artists presenting work include: Achraf Touloub, Carmen Argote, Carolyn, Pennypacker Riggs, Ektor García, Kate Newby, Lisa and Janelle Iglesias, Maia Ruth Lee and Sahar Khoury.
As our lives are increasingly consumed and our actions dictated by mediated experiences, dominated by screens, regulated by algorithmic determinacy, and divorced from the physicality of our world, the work of artists engaged in process-based practices remind us of the importance of making and doing as a pathway to meaning, learning, and growth.
Favouring fluidity, collaboration, and collective work, the eight artists included in The path guides the meaning see opportunities in the everyday – relying upon quotidian materials and processes – and thoughtful collaboration with people in their communities. They produce works that challenge our contemporary tendency towards isolation and the technologically prescribed, foregrounding communal and shared experiences. In so doing, they pursue new forms of engagement with the world around us.
Artists presenting work include: Achraf Touloub, Carmen Argote, Carolyn, Pennypacker Riggs, Ektor García, Kate Newby, Lisa and Janelle Iglesias, Maia Ruth Lee and Sahar Khoury.
Max Gimblett, The Beginning of Time
Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco, USA
11 February —
01 April 2023
In the spirit of impermanence—one of the core precepts of Buddhism—artworks in this solo show of the work of the 87-year-old Rinzai Zen monk Max Gimblett will rotate in and out of the galleries throughout the run of the exhibition. Viewers, if they visit the gallery repeatedly, will find a completely different installation of new work each time they return.
Gimblett’s paintings are a unique and mindful hybrid of the New York school of abstract expressionism with traditions of manuscript illumination and icon painting, Asian calligraphy, kintsugi, and lacquerware. His sculptural panels–tondos, ovals, and his signature four-lobed quatrefoil – are completely and idiosyncratically gilded in various types of gold or platinum, referring to the universality of devotional objects. With these very contemporary works, his intention is the marriage of Modernism with mysticism. Every work in this exhibition is an altarpiece; each is an offering.
In the spirit of impermanence—one of the core precepts of Buddhism—artworks in this solo show of the work of the 87-year-old Rinzai Zen monk Max Gimblett will rotate in and out of the galleries throughout the run of the exhibition. Viewers, if they visit the gallery repeatedly, will find a completely different installation of new work each time they return.
Gimblett’s paintings are a unique and mindful hybrid of the New York school of abstract expressionism with traditions of manuscript illumination and icon painting, Asian calligraphy, kintsugi, and lacquerware. His sculptural panels–tondos, ovals, and his signature four-lobed quatrefoil – are completely and idiosyncratically gilded in various types of gold or platinum, referring to the universality of devotional objects. With these very contemporary works, his intention is the marriage of Modernism with mysticism. Every work in this exhibition is an altarpiece; each is an offering.
Max Gimblett: juggernaut
Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco, U.S.A.
08 September —
10 October 2020
Simon Denny at de Young Museum
de Young Museum, San Francisco, U.S.A.
22 February —
25 October 2020
Simon Denny: Security Through Obscurity
Altman Siegel Gallery, San Francisco, U.S.A.
14 January —
22 February 2020
Altman Siegel is pleased to present an exhibition of new sculptures, wall reliefs and framed works by the New Zealand born, Berlin based artist Simon Denny. This will be the artist’s first solo show in San Francisco. Addressing the intersection of technology, society and aesthetics, Denny sources the material for his work from within the objects, documents, and images produced by technology companies and states. In preparation for this exhibition, Denny acquired a collection of scarves from an auction of the estate of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. A towering figure in the former British colony of New Zealand during Denny’s formative years, Thatcher is synonymous with the neoliberal agenda advocating free markets, deregulation and privatization that is under increasing scrutiny as signs of rampant economic inequality become ever more visible on the streets of our globally connected cities.
Altman Siegel is pleased to present an exhibition of new sculptures, wall reliefs and framed works by the New Zealand born, Berlin based artist Simon Denny. This will be the artist’s first solo show in San Francisco. Addressing the intersection of technology, society and aesthetics, Denny sources the material for his work from within the objects, documents, and images produced by technology companies and states. In preparation for this exhibition, Denny acquired a collection of scarves from an auction of the estate of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. A towering figure in the former British colony of New Zealand during Denny’s formative years, Thatcher is synonymous with the neoliberal agenda advocating free markets, deregulation and privatization that is under increasing scrutiny as signs of rampant economic inequality become ever more visible on the streets of our globally connected cities.
Lisa Reihana: in Pursuit of Venus [infected]
de Young Museum, San Francisco, U.S.A.
10 August 2019 —
05 January 2020
Lisa Reihana’s in Pursuit of Venus [infected]—a recent acquisition by the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco—is exhibited for the first time in the continental United States. The extraordinary 70-foot-long video, animating Reihana’s representation of eighteenth-century views of the Pacific Islands, is presented with the historic French wallpaper on which it is based—Les Sauvages de la Mer Pacifique(Native Peoples of the South Pacific), 1804–1805—plus an eighteenth-century folio with engravings of scenes from Captain James Cook’s travels in the Pacific Ocean, both also from the Museums’ holdings.
Reihana reimagines the wallpaper as a vast digital scroll that moves through live-action vignettes placed within an idealized background inspired by the original wallpaper, and asks viewers, “Who tells the story and how do images, past and present, shape our understanding of history?” Reihana has revised the narrative to critique notions about Pacific culture and history that originated with the European voyages of exploration during the eighteenth-century Age of Enlightenment and persist even today.
Lisa Reihana’s in Pursuit of Venus [infected]—a recent acquisition by the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco—is exhibited for the first time in the continental United States. The extraordinary 70-foot-long video, animating Reihana’s representation of eighteenth-century views of the Pacific Islands, is presented with the historic French wallpaper on which it is based—Les Sauvages de la Mer Pacifique(Native Peoples of the South Pacific), 1804–1805—plus an eighteenth-century folio with engravings of scenes from Captain James Cook’s travels in the Pacific Ocean, both also from the Museums’ holdings.
Reihana reimagines the wallpaper as a vast digital scroll that moves through live-action vignettes placed within an idealized background inspired by the original wallpaper, and asks viewers, “Who tells the story and how do images, past and present, shape our understanding of history?” Reihana has revised the narrative to critique notions about Pacific culture and history that originated with the European voyages of exploration during the eighteenth-century Age of Enlightenment and persist even today.
Yuki Kihara in panel discussion at de Young SF
de Young Museum, San Francisco, U.S.A.
1.00PM — 3.00PM
10 February 2019
1–2 pm
Join us for Perspectives on Gauguin: Returning the Gaze, a panel discussion between interdisciplinary artist, Yuki Kihara, and Gauguin scholars, Elizabeth Childs and Belinda Thomson, in conversation with curator Christina Hellmich about their approaches to presenting the art and life of one of history’s most groundbreaking and controversial artists. In conjunction with the exhibition Gauguin: A Spiritual Journey.
2:30–3:30 pm
Additionally, scholar, Caroline Boyle-Turner, and Maria Gauguin, great grand-daughter of Gauguin, will speak about Gauguin's impact on Danish, as well as Tahitian and Marquesan descendants. They will also discuss recent DNA analysis of Gauguin's teeth.
1–2 pm
Join us for Perspectives on Gauguin: Returning the Gaze, a panel discussion between interdisciplinary artist, Yuki Kihara, and Gauguin scholars, Elizabeth Childs and Belinda Thomson, in conversation with curator Christina Hellmich about their approaches to presenting the art and life of one of history’s most groundbreaking and controversial artists. In conjunction with the exhibition Gauguin: A Spiritual Journey.
2:30–3:30 pm
Additionally, scholar, Caroline Boyle-Turner, and Maria Gauguin, great grand-daughter of Gauguin, will speak about Gauguin's impact on Danish, as well as Tahitian and Marquesan descendants. They will also discuss recent DNA analysis of Gauguin's teeth.
Yuki Kihara, First Impressions: Paul Gauguin
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, USA
17 November 2018 —
07 April 2019
In the first exhibition at the Fine Arts Museums dedicated to the work of Paul Gauguin (1848–1903), an exceptional display of more than fifty Gauguin paintings, wood carvings, and ceramics from the renowned collections of the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen, will be on view for the first time in San Francisco. In presenting these pieces alongside Oceanic art and Gauguin works on paper from the Fine Arts Museums’ permanent collections, the exhibition explores Gauguin’s inner quests and imaginings—his spiritual journey—and how his intimate relationships with his wife, other artists, and people he encountered during his sojourns shaped his experiences, his work, and his development as an artist.
Included in the exhibition is a new video work, First Impressions: Paul Gauguin by interdisciplinary artist Yuki Kihara, commissioned by the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco and the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen, that addresses the colonial gaze represented by Gauguin and turns it back toward Western culture.
In the first exhibition at the Fine Arts Museums dedicated to the work of Paul Gauguin (1848–1903), an exceptional display of more than fifty Gauguin paintings, wood carvings, and ceramics from the renowned collections of the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen, will be on view for the first time in San Francisco. In presenting these pieces alongside Oceanic art and Gauguin works on paper from the Fine Arts Museums’ permanent collections, the exhibition explores Gauguin’s inner quests and imaginings—his spiritual journey—and how his intimate relationships with his wife, other artists, and people he encountered during his sojourns shaped his experiences, his work, and his development as an artist.
Included in the exhibition is a new video work, First Impressions: Paul Gauguin by interdisciplinary artist Yuki Kihara, commissioned by the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco and the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen, that addresses the colonial gaze represented by Gauguin and turns it back toward Western culture.
Sriwhana Spong at Kadist
Kadist, San Francisco, California, U.S.A.
07 February —
21 April 2018
The exhibition If These Stones Could Sing focuses on the body as a site to engage the politics of public monuments. Organised in the wake of recent events in the US that have made us reconsider who and what we commemorate, the exhibition is an investigation into aspects of the body and its ability to address our collective past, while offering new and unexpected meanings.
The exhibition If These Stones Could Sing focuses on the body as a site to engage the politics of public monuments. Organised in the wake of recent events in the US that have made us reconsider who and what we commemorate, the exhibition is an investigation into aspects of the body and its ability to address our collective past, while offering new and unexpected meanings.