{"id":1129,"date":"2022-06-21T09:39:25","date_gmt":"2022-06-21T09:39:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/teuru.org.nz\/?post_type=mec-events&p=1129"},"modified":"2022-12-05T20:49:54","modified_gmt":"2022-12-05T07:49:54","slug":"a-way-through-colin-mccahon-s-gate-iii","status":"publish","type":"mec-events","link":"https:\/\/www.teuru.org.nz\/whats-on\/calendar\/a-way-through-colin-mccahon-s-gate-iii\/","title":{"rendered":"‘A way through\u2019\u00a0Colin McCahon’s Gate III"},"content":{"rendered":"

As part of the Colin McCahon centenary year, McCahon\u2019s epic 1970 mural, Gate III,<\/em> makes its first appearance in Auckland since it was originally commissioned for Auckland City Art Gallery\u2019s Ten Big Paintings <\/em>exhibition in 1971.<\/p>\n

Gate III<\/em> was painted in Auckland, drawing on a combination of west-coast views, rural landscapes and religious texts. It returns to the \u2018I Am\u2019 motif that he first painted while living in Titirangi in the 1950s and anticipates the grand works he would paint from his new studio in Muriwai. The painting is atypically large for art in 1970s\u2019 Aotearoa, made possible through the Auckland City Art Gallery\u2019s patronage. It is an urgent address to McCahon\u2019s public.<\/p>\n

Implicit in the painting is McCahon\u2019s acknowledged ambition to make a statement against the nuclear threat, a statement that would reach even the most sceptical viewer of modern art. Given humanity\u2019s indefatigable and self-centred quest for power, this message still resonates today.<\/p>\n

Immediately following the nationwide tour of Ten Big Paintings<\/em>, Gate III<\/em> was purchased for the Victoria University of Wellington Art Collection. Since 1972 it has been on permanent public display at the University.<\/p>\n

Literally a \u2018one painting\u2019 exhibition, \u2018A way through\u2019<\/em> offers three thematic entry points into McCahon\u2019s work: addressing its material history as a commissioned artwork destined for a university collection; locating it within McCahon\u2019s artistic output; and as a lens on the fraught socio-political times in which it was painted. These themes are drawn out in the accompanying archival material especially gathered for the occasion.<\/p>\n

Developed and toured by Adam Art Gallery Te Pataka Toi. Supported by Dame Jenny Gibbs.<\/p>\n

Image: Gate III<\/em>, painting by Colin McCahon. Dominion post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers. Ref: EP\/1978\/1078\/5A-F. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand.<\/p>\n

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Literally a \u2018one painting\u2019 exhibition, \u2018A way through\u2019 offers three thematic entry points into McCahon\u2019s work: addressing its material history as a commissioned artwork destined for a university collection; locating it within McCahon\u2019s artistic output; and as a lens on the fraught socio-political times in which it was painted. These themes are drawn out in the accompanying archival material especially gathered for the occasion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1132,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"mec_category":[9,7],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teuru.org.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mec-events\/1129"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teuru.org.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mec-events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teuru.org.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/mec-events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teuru.org.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teuru.org.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1129"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teuru.org.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teuru.org.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teuru.org.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1129"},{"taxonomy":"mec_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teuru.org.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mec_category?post=1129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}