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Working with appropriated imagery, Idris Khan’s photos are all-encompassing composites, consolidating iconic cultural symbols of similar type into single ‘super-images’. In this selection of his every… series, Khan aggregates the work of renowned artists Bernd and Hilla Becher, famous for their vast photographic collections of buildings and industrial sites. Exposed in translucent layers, anchored by the compositions’ continuous shapes, the Becher’s gasholders and gabled houses loose their commanding simplicity and rigid formalism, descending into fractured and gestural blurs merely suggestive of the originals. Through this process of layering, Khan creates a poetic malleability from the fixed codes of history. Compressing the timeline of repetition into indivisible subsuming moments, his photos offer a glimpse into the sublime.

Idris Khan

every…Bernd and Hilla Becher Gable sided House

2004

Photographic print (framed) 208 x 160 cm

Idris Khan

every…Bernd and Hilla Becher Prison type Gashouse

2004

Photographic print (framed) 208 x 160 cm

Idris Khan

every…Bernd and Hilla Becher Spherical type Gashouse

2004

Photographic print (framed) 208 x 160 cm

Dear Paul… Closing Event & Screening of The Cove

Sunday 6 September 2009, 5.30pm

The Physics Room/The Regent on Worcester

Tickets $15

As a supplement to Paul Johns’ environmentally aware exhibition Dear Paul…, The Physics Room would like to invite you to attend a screening of The Cove, the latest film to tackle head-on the questionable international trade in whales and dolphins and the ineffectiveness of the International Whaling Commission.

As a means to draw attention to this important cause, The Physics Room invites you to join us this Sunday at 5.30pm in the gallery for refreshments and a final look at Dear Paul… with the artist before we all head down to The Regent on Worcester to watch The Cove. 

The film follows US conservation group Oceanic Preservation Society—equipped and financed to the tune of $5 million by Netscape founder Jim Clark—as it penetrates the massive wall of security around the capture of dolphins to populate the world’s dolphinariums. Directed by National Geographic photographer Louie Psihoyos, the environmental focus of The Cove is also supported by the involvement of American video installation artist Diana Thater. The result is a spectacular, hard-hitting film that promises to not only assault your conscience but also your senses.

Narrated by Ric O’Barry, a former dolphin trainer who captured and trained the five dolphins who played the title character in the television series ‘Flipper’, the film focuses on Taiji, Japan, where fishermen hunt for dolphins to be sold into the entertainment industry, as well as for their mercury-tainted meat. The result is a provocative mix of investigative journalism, eco-adventure and arresting imagery that adds up to an urgent plea for hope.

Tickets are $15 and $2 from every ticket sold will be donated to Greenpeace/Sea Shepherd. 

Please book in advance with The Physics Room by 5pm, Friday 4 September.

Contact the gallery to book your ticket by email: physicsroom@physicsroom.org.nz, phone +64 3 379 5583, or by visiting The Physics Room.

THE PHYSICS ROOM contemporary art project space

2nd Floor 209 Tuam Street

PO Box 22 351, Christchurch, New Zealand

Tel +64 3 379 5583  Fax +64 3 379 6063

http://www.physicsroom.org.nz

Gallery hours: Tuesday–Friday 10am–5pm, Saturday & Sunday 11am–4pm (closed Monday & Public Holidays)

Tonight (Tuesday 1st September) at COCA there are exhibition openings for Preview 2009 in the Mair Gallery, which showcases fantastic contemporary emerging artists from around the South Island. Runs until the 17th of September, so get in quick to snap up some great pieces of work from these promising artists.

The North Gallery will be holding the exhibition Kill Yr Idols, Eat Yr Heroes featuring Dylan Taylor, Rose-Marie Salmon and Jamie Richardson. Exhibition on until the 19th of September.

Dylan Taylor All Up In Yr Grill Graphite, Gilding Wax and Gold Left on Paper

Dylan Taylor Get inside ya boy Acrylic on found media 170 x 100 mm

Dylan Taylor Royal Mess Pigment Liner on Paper

Rose-Marie Salmon Come Sail Your Ships Around Me Cotton and Acrylic on Canvas 141 x 150 mm

Rose-Marie Salmon Reta ‘O’ Yeah Embroodery and Paint on Canvas 620 x 620 mm

Rose-Marie Salmon Wrongdoings Embroidery and Paint on Canvas

Simon Edwards will be opening in the Canaday Gallery with the exhibition Transalpine which is up until 20th September.As well as Ben Ried in the Front Gallery with his exhibition A Bird in the Hand, runs until the 20th of September.

Simon Edwards 6 O’clock Shadow Charcoal on Paper 900 x 750 mm

Simon Edwards Letting Go Oil on Canvas

Ben Reid Rabbits Galore! (detail) (triptych) Drypoint and Silkscreen

Will be a great night with some stunning works on show.

Doors open at 5:30

66 Gloucester Street

Hope to see you all there!

Discussion Evening

L-Shaped Counter Georgie Hill

Thursday 3 September 2009, 5.30pm

The Physics Room

FREE

Acting as an elaborate ruse for the senses, Georgie Hill’s recent works on paper present serene internal enclaves that appear heavy-hearted and time-worn. Throughout our personal investigations of these spaces, Hill invites us to invest in the subtlety and symmetry of each of her scene’s various details. Consequently, the drifting sense of temporality within these unfamiliar realms proves both hypnotic and haunting as unseen currents and influences play across the walls of these disarming, dreamlike rooms.

This Thursday, The Physics Room would like to invite you to join Art Historian Julie King and local Artist Brenda Nightingale in an open discussion chaired by The Physics Room’s Project Coordinator Sophie Keyse in relation to Georgie Hill’s exquisite works and her exhibition L-Shaped Counter.

For more information contact the gallery via physicsroom@physicsroom.org.nz or +64 3 379 5583.

THE PHYSICS ROOM contemporary art project space

2nd Floor 209 Tuam Street

PO Box 22 351, Christchurch, New Zealand

Tel +64 3 379 5583  Fax +64 3 379 6063

http://www.physicsroom.org.nz

Gallery hours: Tuesday–Friday 10am–5pm, Saturday & Sunday 11am–4pm (closed Monday & Public Holidays)