Unnerved: The New Zealand Project

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Unnerved: The New Zealand Project

Maud Page,Wystan Curnow and more
192 pages paperback colour illustrations

This richly illustrated publication — bringing together more than 120 works by over 30 artists, from the late 1960s to the present — explores a particularly rich, dark vein found in contemporary New Zealand art and cinema, and includes a strong focus on photography and moving-image works.

Essays by the Gallery’s curatorial staff explore the work of each artist, while lead essays by Maud Page, Senior Curator, Pacific Art, and Wystan Curnow, Professor of English at the University of Auckland, examine New Zealand’s contemporary artistic practice in terms of complex traditions and histories, as well as a changing social, political and cultural landscape.

Major sculptures by Michael Parekowhai, installations by Lisa Reihana and Michael Stevenson, and photographic series by Yvonne Todd, Gavin Hipkins, Anne Noble and Greg Semu feature alongside film and video art by Sriwhana Spong and Nathan Pohio, as well as the work of emerging artists James Oram and Lorene Taurerewa.

‘Unnerved: The New Zealand Project’ is at the Gallery of Modern Art and Australian Cinémathèque from 1 May to 4 July 2010, and will travel to the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, later in 2010.

RRP: $39.95

Internet Price: $35.95