City Gallery Wellington is the home of the
Prospect series. The second exhibition in an ongoing project which
surveys contemporary art in this country, Telecom Prospect
2004: New Art New Zealand provides a glimpse of the most exciting and
compelling artworks produced in the past three years. It's a sample
which dips into something much larger-broad enough in scope to
capture the diversity of art-making in Aotearoa New Zealand today,
intimate enough to offer a personal view.
Responding to this diversity of artistic practice, Telecom
Prospect 2004 presents major work by 43 artists, encompassing
painting, drawing, sculpture, installation, performance, video,
film and computer software. Artworks by senior artists are placed
alongside those of younger artists with whom their practice
reveals
strong connections, acknowledging the ongoing cross-pollination
of ideas across generations. Artists from throughout New Zealand
are included - from Auckland to Port Chalmers, Great Barrier
Island to Porirua. And like many New Zealanders today, several
of
the
exhibiting artists are based outside New Zealand, although they
continue to return to New Zealand to show their work.
Telecom Prospect 2004 is an unruly beast,
designed to sprawl across the city like an exuberant infection,
through galleries, cinema, a hall, a local bus service, your cell
phone, your home PC. It has a celebratory quality, an inclusive
nature, and would like to welcome you in. Please enjoy!
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