past exhibitions
drawings, lithographs and monotypes
by gerben hermanus
Artist’s statement.
My work is a continuous experiment in which I combine drawings into installations. I try to let them interact up to the point that they tell story’s.
In an exhibition space I build landscapes and places where we can live and survive. These places are safe places that we have conquered on nature. Animals will guide us.
The drawings are partly made on location. While making them I try, in an intuitive way, to create a “tension” between them, the space they are in and the installation. The drawings become “actors” in a landscape made out of carton and plain wood.
This working process is like a relay race. Concepts, forms or elements of drawings/paintings and installations are used in successive projects.
I observe the cultivation of the artificial landscape in my direct surrounding and find it interesting how humans and animals act in it or deal with it.
Gerben Hermanus, June 2005.
>>> runs till 7 march 2007
muka gallery 68b ponsonby rd
track record
an installation covering 516 days at muka
artists’photographs by stephen robinson
and monotypes by frans baetens
Beginning from May 2003 every time an artist was working at Muka Studio Stephen Robinson came and made a portrait photo of that artist finally he added a photo of Magda and Frans as the resident workers of the studio.
Beginning from 3 July 2005 every time a print run ended Frans Baetens made a small monotype with the ink that was used for that particular print run.
The two collections constitute two overlapping diaries of the activity at Muka.
1. Michael Harrison New Zealand 18 May 2003
2. Kasper Bonnèn Denmark 20 July 2003
3. Annette Højlund Denmark 15 August 2003
4. Magda Van Gils New Zealand 15 August 2003
5. Mark Lammert Germany 7 April 2004
6. Charlotte Schleiffert The Netherlands 15 April 2004
7. Jongsuk Yoon Korea 18 June 2004
8. Sven ‘T Jolle Belgium 27 July 2004
9. Katharina Hinsberg Germany 7 September 2004
10. Megan Campbell New Zealand 29 September 2004
11. Harry Watson New Zealand 29 September 2004
12. Johan Tahon Belgium 29 September 2004
13. Michael Jäger Germany 23 December 2004
14. Barry Cleavin New Zealand 4 May 2005
15. Jenny Watson Australia 21 July 2005
16. Don Binney New Zealand 21 July 2005
17. John Walsh New Zealand 1 August 2005
18. Grahame Sydney New Zealand 1 August 2005
19. Ann Veronica Janssens Belgium 8 February 2006
20. Jus Juchtmans Belgium 3 March 2006
21. Kathryn Madill New Zealand 24 April 2006
22. Terry Matassoni Australia 19 May 2006
23. Dick Frizzell New Zealand 7 August 2006
24. Noel Lane New Zealand 14 November 2006
25. Frans Baetens New Zealand 14 November 2006
26. Saskia Baetens New Zealand 23 November 2006
>>> runs till 7 february
muka gallery 68b ponsonby rd
Marilynn Webb
'from the south'
preview friday nov 10th
6:00pm - 7:30pm
>>> runs till 29th nov
muka gallery 68b ponsonby rd
Marilynn Webb's latest series celebrates the mana of the naming of southern places as well as alluding to the ecological devastation occurring in south island locations such as the Lake Mahinerangi tussock and the Waitaki River.
Created in solidarity with groups such as 'Artists Against Aqua' and the 'Upland Landscape Protection Group' these works refer to both the pollution of the waterways and the construction of wind turbines by trust power and meridian Energy.
Webb has been highly active in her support for these campaigns with their extremely diverse membership that even includes All Black Anton Oliver.
Wind turbines will not only be obsolete within the next seventy five years but will also tarnish and irreplaceably destroy the beauty of the southern landscape for future generati
see the works >>> here
a double launch
1 “reclining woman”
a new major lithograph by dick frizzell
2 “virtual and physical”
this is more than just another exhibition, this is the start of a new muka project.
with this project we want to :
- launch our brand-new website
- with a show of a very different kind of art works
and do this simultaneously, virtually on the web and physically at our ponsonby gallery.
think of a computer image, an initial sketch and a finished painting, sculpture or print…
where is the artist’s creativity most present , most directly perceivable?
we believe that the initial drawing is crucial.
that is why muka invited artists to present some of their preliminary drawings and sketches to the art loving public.
these works might lack the lustre of a finely crafted finish, but they contain the power of the original artistic spark
muka gallery’s new “artist’s treasure trove” section will specialise in this kind of direct material inviting our clients to collect and enjoy these treasures
and all (5-18 inclusive)
are welcome to visit art for young people
adult free zone
hamilton
saturday 21 october 12:00-4:30pm
waikato museum of art and history
cnr victoria & grantham streets
christchurch
friday 17 november 12:00-7:00pm
saturday 18 november 12:00 - 7:00pm
sunday 19 november 12:00-7:00pm
the arts centre
cnr rollestone ave & hereford st
elizabeth kelly room
nelson
monday 20 november 12:00-7:00pm
provincial museum, town acre
cnr of hardy & trafalgar streets
