During the New Zealand International Arts Festival, Te Papa is delighted to present an exciting programme of art, history and discussion, including: Cézanne to Picasso: Paintings from the Julian and Josie Robertson Collection, New York; Splendours of Japan - Treasures from the Tokyo National Museum; Close Encounters Taonga Whakairo (Carved Treasures) at Te Papa; Art Thursday Lecture Series; and TREATY 2 U - A touring exhibition.
Cézanne to Picasso: Paintings from the Julian and Josie Robertson Collection, New York
28 February - 29 March 2006
Level 4. Free entry.
A rare opportunity to experience a remarkable selection of exquisite works by some of the masters of modern art including Cézanne, Picasso, and Braque. On loan from the Julian and Josie Robertson Collection, New York, this exhibition will be on display for four weeks only.
Fourteen works representative of many of the major phases of modern painting between 1875 and 1950, in effect documenting the movement of art from impressionism to abstraction. Some exceptional individual works feature in the exhibition, such as those by Braque, Nolde, Redon, and Fantin-Latour. But the great attraction of the selection is that it is a sampling of excellent and typical works by some of the most famous painters in the history of modern art. The works also range across genres - landscape, still life, nude, and marine.
In addition, Jonathan Mane-Wheoki, Te Papa’s Director Art & Collection Services will present a talk entitled “From the music of the silk-brush to the music of the axe: Cézanne to Picasso”, which will discuss personal and professional reflections of the Josie and Julian Robertson Collection. Two floor talks will so be presented in the exhibition.
Thursday 2 March
6pm-7pm: From the music of the silk-brush to the music of the axe: Cézanne to Picasso. Discover colour and structure in modern French painting (from Impressionism to Cubism) - with Jonathan Mane-Wheoki, Te Papa's Director Art and Collection Services. Presented in association with the exhibition Cézanne to Picasso: Paintings from the Julian & Josie Robertson Collection, New York.
Icon, Level 2. Free entry.
Please note: This lecture will run in place of the Toi Te Papa Unplugged
Lecture advertised in the New Zealand International Arts Festival programme.
The Unplugged lectures have been deferred until October 2006.
Saturday 18 March
11.15am-12 noon: Cézanne to Picasso: Paintings from the Julian & Josie Robertson Collection, New York Floortalk. Join Jonathan Mane-Wheoki, Te Papa's Director Art and Collection Services, for a walk around this stunning exhibition.
Level 4. Free entry.
Saturday 25 March
11.15am-12 noon: Cézanne to Picasso: Paintings from the Julian & Josie Robertson Collection, New York Floortalk. Join Victoria Robson, Te Papa Curator Art, for a walk around this stunning exhibition. Level 4. Free entry.
Splendours of Japan - Treasures from the Tokyo National Museum
4 March - 30 April 2006.
The TOWER Gallery, Level 4, Te Papa.
Admission charges apply.
Splendours of Japan - Treasures from the Tokyo National Museum is the prestigious result of five years’ planning for an unparalleled cultural exchange.
This collaboration between Te Papa and the most important art institution in Japan provides a rare opportunity for museum visitors in this country to experience the high artistic achievement and elegance of Japan’s cultural heritage from the most ancient times through the end of the Edo period in the mid-nineteenth century.
From Japan’s finest samurai swords, fashioned more than 700 years ago to exquisite Buddhist arhat scrolls, these Japanese ‘National Treasures’, seldom seen outside Japan are among a spectacular selection of some 130 items that offers visitors a taste of Japan’s rich culture, including pottery 5000 years old, burial ornaments, samurai armour and swords, textiles, and exquisite calligraphy and woodblock prints.
In association with the exhibition, and with examples from Te Papa¹s collections, Jonathan Mane-Wheoki, Te Papa's Director Art and Collection Services will present ‘Modern European art and the Japanese woodcut’, a discussion on how Dutch and French artists engaged with the Japanese woodcut print (Thursday 9 March, Icon, Level 2. Free entry).
Close Encounters Taonga Whakairo (Carved Treasures) at Te Papa
12.15pm - 1.00pm
Thursdays and Fridays during the Festival - 2, 3, 9, 10, 16, 17, 23, and 24 March
The Marae, Level 4
Free entry.
This Festival, enjoy a very special experience of Te Papa’s Māori Collection. All carvings have a mauri – a life essence. All carvings make connections through time and have a story to tell. This is an opportunity to see some exceptional carved taonga, some of which are being shown in public for the first time, and hear their stories.
In a series of lunchtime presentations, Te Papa’s Māori Collection team along with some of Aotearoa’s master carvers and leading Māori artists will show these exquisite carvings and share their knowledge and expertise on the tradition that is whakairo.
Note: due to the delicate nature of the carvings and specialised conservation requirements, they will be on display only during the presentation.
Thursday 2 March
12.15pm-1pm: Close Encounters: Taonga Whakairo (Carved Treasures) at Te Papa - Mark Kopua. Mark Kopua (Ngāti Ira, Te Aitanga ā Hauiti, Ngāti Porou) is a carver and tā moko artist. After a 23-year career as a traditional carver, Mark started doing tā moko full-time. During his carving career, he worked on several meetinghouses as Head Carver and continues to work as a consultant on Māori arts. He is in high demand for his tā moko work and, from his home in Tolaga Bay, regularly travels to work on clients around the North Island. Mark will discuss the styles and significant carvers from his area, the East Coast of the North Island.
The Marae, Level 4. Free entry.
Friday 3 March
12.15pm-1pm: Close Encounters: Taonga Whakairo (Carved Treasures) at Te Papa - Mark Kopua. Mark Kopua (Ngāti Ira, Te Aitanga ā Hauiti, Ngāti Porou) is a carver and tā moko artist. After a 23-year career as a traditional carver, Mark started doing tā moko full-time. During his carving career, he worked on several meeting houses as Head Carver and continues to work as a consultant on Māori arts. He is in high demand for his tā moko work and, from his home in Tolaga Bay, regularly travels to work on clients around the North Island. Mark will discuss the styles and significant carvers from his area, the East Coast of the North Island.
The Marae, Level 4. Free entry.
Thursday 9 & Friday 10 March
12.15pm-1pm: Close Encounters: Taonga Whakairo (Carved Treasures) at Te Papa - Lyonel Grant. The work of the carver Anaha Te Rahui and the Ngāti Tarāwhai style of carving will be explained by Lyonel Grant (Ngāti Pikiao, Ngāti Rangiwewehi, Te Arawa). An honours graduate from the New Zealand Māori Arts and Crafts Institute in Rotorua, Lyonel trained under master carver John Taiapa. He carved the meeting house ‘Matapihi o te Rangi’ in Tokoroa and ‘Ihenga’ in Rotorua, and has completed many commissions and exhibited extensively for national and international audiences. In 2002, he exhibited a series of domestic-scale sculptures at the John Leech Gallery in Auckland. He was the concept developer behind the New Zealand entry for the Chelsea Garden Show exhibit in London in 2004, which won a gold award.
The Marae, Level 4. Free entry.
Thursday 16 March & Friday 17 March
12.15pm-1pm: Close Encounters: Taonga Whakairo (Carved Treasures) at Te Papa - Clive Fugill, Master Carver. Clive Fugill (Ngāi Te Rangi, Ngāti Ranginui, Tainui, Ngāti Rangiwewehi) is Master Carver at the Te Puia school of carving in Rotorua, which is renowned for its expertise in the traditional Māori art form of carving. He will demonstrate and discuss carving techniques using traditional stone tools.
The Marae, Level 4. Free entry.
Thursday 23
12.15pm-1pm: Close Encounters: Taonga Whakairo (Carved Treasures) at Te Papa - Rangi Hetet, Master Carver. Rangi Hetet (Ngāti Tuwharetoa, Ngāti Maniapoto) began his career with a fraternity of carvers known as Konae Aronui under the direction of legendary Tohunga Whakairo (Expert Carver) Tuhaka Kapua and later Hone Taiapa. In nearly 50 years as a carver, Rangi has carved several meeting houses and built four traditional 60-foot waka taua (canoe). Rangi has taught and practised traditional Māori arts at the Rotorua Institute of Māori Art and Craft and at various other institutions of learning. Rangi continues to pass on his knowledge of Māori carving in the specialist Māori Art School named Konae Aronui Wananga that he established with his wife Erenora Puketapu Hetet.
The Marae, Level 4. Free entry.
Friday 24
12.15pm-1pm: Close Encounters: Taonga Whakairo (Carved Treasures) at Te Papa - Rangi Hetet, Master Carver. Join Rangi Hetet (Ngāti Tuwharetoa, Ngāti Maniapoto) for a unique back-of-house tour. Rangi began his career with a fraternity of carvers known as Konae Aronui under the direction of legendary Tohunga Whakairo (Expert Carver) Tuhaka Kapua and later Hone Taiapa. In nearly 50 years as a carver, he has carved several meeting houses and built four traditional 60-foot waka taua (canoe). Rangi has taught and practised traditional Māori arts at the Rotorua Institute of Māori Art and Craft and at various other institutions of learning. Rangi continues to pass on his knowledge of Māori carving in the specialist Māori Art School named Konae Aronui Wananga that he established with his wife Erenora Puketapu Hetet.
Begins at The Marae, Level 4. Free entry.
Art Thursday Lecture Series
The Art Thursday lecture series during March will discuss issues each of the exhibitions in turn.
‘From the music of the silk-brush to the music of the axe: Cézanne to Picasso’
Thursday 2 March, 6pm-7pm
ICON, Level 2. Free entry.
Discover colour and structure in modern French painting (from Impressionism to Cubism) - with Jonathan Mane-Wheoki, Te Papa's Director Art and Collection Services. Presented in association with the exhibition Cézanne to Picasso: Paintings from the Julian & Josie Robertson Collection, New York.
Icon, Level 2. Free entry.
‘Modern European art and the Japanese woodcut’
Thursday 9 March, 6pm-7pm
ICON, Level 2. Free entry.
Find out how Dutch and French artists engaged with the Japanese woodcut print - with Jonathan Mane-Wheoki, Te Papa's Director Art and Collection Services. Presented in association with the exhibition Splendours of Japan, Treasures from the Tokyo National Museum, and with examples from Te Papa¹s collections.
Icon, Level 2. Free entry.
Lecture 3. 'Taonga as art - The issues'
Thursday 16 March, 6pm - 7pm
The Marae. Free entry.
This stimulating panel discussion will look at many of the issues relating to the presentation and understanding of taonga Maori (Maori cultural treasures) as art: tikanga (customary values), the heritage of the Te Maori, the continuity and discontinuity between taonga and contemporary Maori art, appropriation, and much more.
Please note: This lecture will run in place of the Toi Te Papa Unplugged
Lecture advertised in the New Zealand International Arts Festival programme.The Unplugged lectures have been deferred until October 2006.
TREATY 2 U – A touring exhibition
11-19 March, 10am-6pm
The Plaza (Outside), Te Papa. Free entry.
It took 7 days to write, 7 months to sign, 165 years to debate … and counting. TREATY 2 U brings the story of the nation’s founding document to all New Zealanders through a unique touring exhibition.
You can experience the Treaty through sight, sound, video, cartoons, and animated graphics. Use the latest technology to find out more and have your say. The exhibition also offers replicas of the original nine Treaty documents.
TREATY 2 U covers the events that led up to the Treaty, from first contact between Māori and Pākehā, to lengthy debate the night before signing. It explains what is written in the documents and the crucial differences between the Māori and English versions. The exhibition follows the documents’ journeys during 1840 as more signatures were sought. And it looks at the varying expectations held by Māori and Pākehā groups.
Discover which expectations were met and which were not as time went on. Understand the growing unrest among both Māori and Pākehā that led to a settlement process and how that process works.
TREATY 2 U aims to show that despite controversy over the years, the Treaty of Waitangi continues to help New Zealanders understand the past, make sense of the present, and build for the future.
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Contact
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Bridget MacDonald, Manager Communications, 029 601 0180, 04 381 7083, bridgetm@tepapa.govt.nz
Paul Brewer, Director Marketing & Communications, 021 532 920, 04 381 7023