Plus: Meet our Monet, The Māori Portraits, Lee Mingwei and His Relations

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Ann Shelton: Dark Matter
Experience Dark Matter at Auckland Art Gallery

Uncover the dark undertones of Wellington-based photographer Ann Shelton’s images in this survey exhibition that draws on 20 years of the artist’s work.

Shelton is known for photographs of her social scene in Auckland in the late 1990s and, more recently, for images that use doubling and mirroring to unearth and disturb both true and fabricated histories. Subjects of Shelton’s work include the people around her, the imagined tales of ‘monstrous’ women and stranger-than-fiction local events.

26 Nov 2016 – 17 Apr 2017
Level 2 – free entry

Ann Shelton, The Comfort Woman, 2015-16
Performance
Sat 26 Nov
2pm – free

Enjoy a performance that accompanies Ann Shelton’s new photographic series jane says.

Ann Shelton
In conversation
Sat 26 Nov
3pm – free

Ann Shelton and curator Dr Zara Stanhope discuss the relationships around the body and photography in Ann Shelton: Dark Matter.

The air is a material (still) 2016
Film premiere: This air is a material
Sat 26 Nov, 4pm – free

Filmmaker Becky Nunes introduces the premiere of her documentary on Ann Shelton, This air is a material (2016).

Free tours
Claude Monet, Le pont japonais (Japanese Bridge), 1918–1924
Meet our Monet!
On now – free entry

The first painting by Claude Monet under our stewardship went on display at the Gallery last week. The painting, Le pont japonais (Japanese Bridge) 1918–1924, depicts Monet’s famous waterlily garden and Japanese bridge, a scene he is most celebrated for and which he painted more than 100 times. The painting was presented to Auckland Art Gallery on a five-year long-term loan by Soichiro Fukutake, initiator and owner of the Benesse Art Site in Naoshima, Japan.

See the work on level 1 in Game Changers: International Modernism

EXHIBITIONS
Gottfried Lindauer, Pare Watene, 1878
The Māori Portraits: Gottfried Lindauer’s New Zealand
Until 19 Feb 2017 – free entry

Explore Aotearoa New Zealand’s rich history through more than 120 historical portraits of Māori and Pākehā by our most prolific professional colonial painter, Gottfried Lindauer. See up close ancestral figures painted in razor-sharp detail and view paintings depicting Māori life from the late 1800s to early 1900s New Zealand. Learn about the artist’s early days in Bohemia, his artistic developments in New Zealand, and the close relationships he built with patrons and those he photographed and painted. Discover how the artist contributed to the significance of portraiture in New Zealand and learn what his works mean for us today.

Lee Mingwei, The Mending Project The Mending Project, 2009/2014
Lee Mingwei and His Relations: The Art of Participation
Until 19 Mar 2017 – $12.50, Members and Children 12 and under FREE

Mending, letter writing, sleeping and receiving the gift of song are just some of the ways you can experience Lee Mingwei and His Relations: The Art of Participation, a newly-opened exhibition by one of the world’s most engaging international contemporary artists. Developed by Mami Kataoka for Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, this is the first time Lee’s work has been experienced in Auckland and is the largest retrospective of the artist’s practice in the southern hemisphere.

Hole of Yellow Archipelago 2015 (installation view)
Hole of Yellow Archipelago
Final weeks – free entry

There are only a few weeks left to enjoy Hole of Yellow Archipelago an innovative and hugely popular collaboration between Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, artist Judy Darragh, Balmoral Primary School children and AUT's TurnSpace Collective. Designed to seize your child's attention and transport them through activity and imagination, the installation takes its lead from Darragh's bright and layered work, and shares its clever and alluring sense of fun.

EVENTS
Jane Davidson-Ladd
Talk
Sun 20 Nov
1pm – free

Doctoral candidate and former Gallery curator Jane Davidson-Ladd presents a talk comparing the portraiture of Gottfried Lindauer and Louis John Steele.

Zealong tea plantation
Demonstration
Sun 20 Nov
3pm

Join Germán Tirado from Zealong tea for a tea tasting presentation and demonstration.

Martine Syms
Easy Listening
Tue 22 Nov
6pm – free

On the occasion of Artspace’s current exhibition Potentially Yours, The Coming Community, exhibiting artist Martine Syms will present her performative lecture, Misdirected Kiss.

An Accidental Berliner (2015)
Film
Sat 26 Nov
2pm – $5

Doc Edge presents a screening of An Accidental Berliner (2015), a film about one New Zealander's first-hand experience of the Fall of the Wall.

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Image credits:
Ann Shelton, The Courtesan, Poroporo (Solanum sp.) 2015–2016, from the series jane says, Courtesy of the artist; Ann Shelton, The Comfort Woman, Stock (Matthiola sp.) 2015–2016, from the series jane says, Courtesy of the artist; Claude Monet, Le pont japonais (Japanese Bridge) 1918–1924, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, on loan from the collection of Soichiro Fukutake; Gottfried Lindauer, Pare Watene 1878, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, gift of Mr H E Partridge, 1915; Lee Mingwei, The Mending Project 2009/2014, Lee Mingwei and His Relations: The Art of Participation – Seeing, Conversing, Gift-Giving, Writing, Dining and Getting Connected to the World (installation view), Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, 2014–2015. Photo: Yoshitsugu Fuminari, courtesy Mori Art Museum, Tokyo; Hole of Yellow Archipelago (installation view) 2015, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki.