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exhibition Details
In 1912 the Italian poet Marinetti predicted that all art would become abstract, a statement that caused uproar when he presented his Futurist manifesto to his audience in Paris. For many, it was enough to deal with the Impressionists’ experiments with light and colour, or the Expressionists’ insistence on emotion in art. New Zealand expatriate artist Frances Hodgkins was present when Marinetti’s manifesto was delivered, and as she reported afterwards on a return visit to the Antipodes, while it was stirring to hear his proclamations, she didn’t believe she would ever give up drawing from life. Yet by the 1930s many artists in Europe had moved towards various kinds of abstraction. Game Changers begins with examples of modernist forms of art that developed in Europe in the latter part of the 19th-century, and ends with New Zealand artists who embraced abstraction in turn.
- Date
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- Curated by
- Mary Kisler
- Location
- Upper Grey Gallery, level 1
Artworks in this exhibition
Le pont japonais (The Japanese Bridge)
oil on canvas
Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, on loan from the collection of Hideaki Fukutake
On display
Focal point
oil on board
Mackelvie Trust Collection, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, purchased 1991
On display
Vanessa Bell Pregnant
oil on canvas
Mackelvie Trust Collection, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, purchased with the assistance of the National Art Collection Fund, 1992. Frame sponsored by the Portrait Group
On display
Landscape of Bleached Objects
On display
Abstract with a bottle
On display
1939 (composition)
On display
The Sloop Inn, St Ives
oil on canvas
Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, gift of Lucy Carrington Wertheim, 1948
Tree of Knowledge
mixed media on copper and plywood
Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, gift of Thanksgiving Foundation, 2023
On display
Royal Albion
oil on canvas
Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, gift of Lucy Carrington Wertheim, 1948
Mother and Child
oil on canvas
Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, purchased 1952. Frame sponsored by Graham Mitchell
On display
Sea Holly No. 1
tempera on board
Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, The Ilene and Laurence Dakin Bequest, purchased 2014
On display
Head of a Girl
On display
Saint-Palais
On display
Torso from the ‘Rock Drill’
On display
Torso II (Torcello)
On display
Orange Bush
oil on canvas
Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, bequest of Mr Alfred Douglas George Glass, 1979
Verre et Pichet (Glass and Pitcher)
oil on canvas
Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, on loan from the Thanksgiving Foundation, 1999
Torse noir assis
bronze
Mackelvie Trust Collection, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, purchased 1948
Untitled
acrylic on canvas
Chartwell Collection, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, purchased 2011