Ronnie van Hout
Artwork Detail
Ronnie van Hout’s Psycho is a self-portrait with a case of pre-millennial anxiety. Riffing off Alfred Hitchcock’s film about identity disastrously undone, van Hout’s work is a send-up of the tortured artist of popular mythology. Rather than the sombre figure of Colin McCahon, striding across the New Zealand
landscape and thundering apocalyptic proclamations, van Hout gives us a fanatical hobbyist trapped in the cage of his bedroom. Simultaneously playing the roles of obsessive fan and unrecognised creative genius, the artist constructs a hall of mirrors.
- Title
- Psycho
- Artist/creator
- Ronnie van Hout
- Production date
- 1999
- Medium
- house model, cardboard, paint, found object (table), video sender, colour television, video cassette recorder, video (single channel, standard definition, 4:3, colour, stereo sound)
- Dimensions
- 1180 x 1840 x 615 mm
- Credit line
- Chartwell Collection, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, 2001
- Accession no
- C2001/1/9/1-6
- Copyright
- Copying restrictions apply
- Department
- New Zealand Art
- Display status
- On display
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