Events

18 May 2010

Communiqué - Peter Robinson: Snow Ball Blind Time and other projects

Lecture

In Snow Ball Blind Time, (Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, 2008), Robinson realised a kind of artificial-industrial-nature, with the multi-level gallery threaded through with polystyrene chain. The links, varying in diameter from reasonable to supersized, plunged from floor to floor in the white gallery space. Justin Paton described the metaphors that surfaced when viewing the work; “First you’re in some kind of frozen foundry, industrial innards spilling over the balconies. Next it’s an art-historical junkyard, where memories of sculpture’s white-marble origins and recent minimalist past pile up. Then you’re amidst the ruins of the information age, with strings of weightless code heaped like rubble. But all this is just a warm-up for the largest room, where a tangle of chains piles into and over a gouged berg of polystyrene that is itself higher than a house. It looks less like an art-work than some kind of unnatural disaster.”

Peter Robinson was born in Ashburton, in 1966. He is currently Associate Professor at Elam School of Fine Arts, National Institute of Creative Arts and Industries, The University of Auckland. He has held artist residencies in Aachen, Düsseldorf, Berlin and Sydney; and guest lectureships in the United States, Sweden and Denmark. His work is shown and collected nationally and internationally. Peter will discuss this work and other projects.

Organisation:

School of Architecture and Planning