Zac Langdon-Pole
Artwork Detail
'The Dog God Cycle', 2022 comes from a suite of large-scale jigsaw puzzles made up of more than 128,000 individual pieces that were exhibited in Zac Langdon-Pole’s 2022 exhibition Porous World. This immense work is a composite image made from combining 19th-century Romantic landscape paintings with the latest images from NASA’s Hubble and James Webb space telescopes. Langdon-Pole employs what he calls ‘ghost templates’ to focus our attention on how we comprehend images. Inspired by the figure–ground picture problems used in psychology, Langdon-Pole’s ‘ghost templates’ co-opt their confusion of subject so that viewers find themselves questioning what they are looking at, as well as how they perceive and understand the world.
– Natasha Conland, Senior Curator, Global Contempoary Art, 2023
- Title
- The Dog God Cycle
- Artist/creator
- Zac Langdon-Pole
- Production date
- 2022
- Medium
- recombined jigaw puzzles of: Stephan's Quintet (2022), NASA, ESA, CSA, and STScl Rocky mountain Landscape (1870), Albert Bierstadt
- Dimensions
- 3010 x 3930 x 40 mm
- Credit line
- Chartwell Collection, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, purchased 2022
- Accession no
- C2022/1/20/3.1-4
- Copyright
- Permission to be gained
- Department
- New Zealand Art
- Display status
- Not on display
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