This biennial award recognises an artist who has made an outstanding contribution to contemporary art in New Zealand in the two years prior. Named in honour of artist Gordon Walters, it was established by founding benefactors and principal donors Erika and Robin Congreve and Dame Jenny Gibbs to make contemporary art a more widely recognised and debated and prominent feature of New Zealand cultural life.
2. List the 4 selected artists for 2010 and briefly describe their work.
Dan Arps: (Explaining Things)
Dan Arps work at first, and sometimes completely seems like a room filled with junk. His piece consists of found objects that most would find no use in. A lot of them in fact can be categorized as very "Kitch". The display is unprofessional, tape and screws all over the walls, as though he were giving the art world the big 'middle finger'. When you first walk into the room and you see these objects that have been collected, you start to question whether or not this is art?
he expressive and the deadpan are jammed together in 'Explaining Things'. Chunks of mass materials detritus, Youtube clips, furniture, ornaments and posters are re - worked into something that would sometimes appear o be illegible personal artifacts.
Alex Monteith: Passing Manoeuvre with Two Motorcycles and 584 Vehicles for Two-Channel Video
According to (Artists with eyes on prize, 2010) she “was trying to push what could be done in the little space between two rows of motorway traffic”.
Passing Manoeuvre with Two Motorcycles and 584 Vehicles for Two-Channel Video is a short film that shows a bike weaving its way through hectic traffic,(which is illegal in New Zealand's current road laws) from both front and rear view of the bike.
Fiona Connor: Something Transparent
Fiona Conner had made an installment that explores the architecture of the space that she was given. With two doorways it gives the viewers two different perspectives to her work. Her nominated work was a gallery’s front entrance which she replicates 14 times throughout her gallery space.
Saskia Leek: Yellow is the Putty of the world
Saskia Leek’s nominated work is a collection of her 11 paintings, she explores with subjects such as buildings, a sailing ship, a cat, a bowl of fruit and autumn leaves. She states that the painting process in her work is more important than it is about her subject matters
3. Who are the jury members for 2010?
Jon Bywater - Programme Leader, Critical Studies at Elam School of Fine Art, The University of Auckland.
Rhana Devenport - Director, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth
Leonhard Emmerling - Visual Arts Adviser, Goethe Institute, Munich, Germany, former Director, ST PAUL St, AUT University
Kate Montgomery - Director, Physics Room, Christchurch
4. Who is the judge for 2010 and what is his position in the art world?
Former-director of London's Tate Modern, Vicente Todoli, was appointed to judge the Walters Prize 2010 and announce the award winner on 8 October. “he has worked at New York's Whitney Museum, the IVAM in Valencia, and the Serralves Contemporary Art Museum in Oporto, as well as working alongside the ICA in Amsterdam and the Reina Sofía Museum.” (thinkSpain, 2010)
5. Who would you nominate for this years Walter's Prize, and why? Substantiate
you answer by outlining the strengths of the artists work. How does this relate
to your interests in art? What aspect of their work is successful in your opinion,
in terms of ideas, materials and/or installation of the work?
Although at first i found the fact that his work is considered art at all an arguable matter, i would personally vote for Dan Arps: 'Explaining Things'. I found myself spending the most time around his exhibition, discussing the work and finding small details. i was amused by his use of popular and kitch things of today's modern society, e.g popular posters and stickers that you would find in a teenagers room. I find that the best best quality about his work is that i was constantly questioning it, why did he put that there, why did he use this, out of all it was definitely the most interesting. His work inspired me to actually look at junk from a different perspective, how can i either make it usefull or simply turn it into my own piece of art.
http://www.aucklandartgallery.com/whats-on/events/2010/july/the-walters-prize-2010
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