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Details
- Date
- 1988
- Media category
- Painting
- Materials used
- synthetic polymer paint, gouache, oilstick on 162 canvas boards Nos. 17188-17349
- Dimensions
- 251.0 x 639.0 cm overall installed
- Credit
- Gift of the artist 2006
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 92.2006.a-fffffff
- Copyright
- © Imants Tillers
- Artist information
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Imants Tillers
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About
This painting is from 'The book of power' series of multi-canvas appropriation works which Imants Tillers began in 1981 and still continues. Tillers cites the work of other artists to question authorial originality, how images circulate and to investigate ideas about location and place.
The numerals 1, 2, 3 are taken from 'Koru, 1, 2, 3' 1965 by New Zealand modernist painter Colin McCahon. Tillers has overlaid the McCahon work onto a landscape of Lake Wakitipu in New Zealand by colonial artist Eugene von Guérard. He has added a third appropriation, the signature of Italian artist Giorgio de Chirico. De Chirico's reuse of his own early 20th-century imagery, in works he painted much later, is an example of the cultural recycling that fascinates Tillers.
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Audio
Counting: one, two, three - Imants Tillers 2:36
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Exhibition history
Shown in 3 exhibitions
19301:
- National Art Gallery, Wellington, Wellington 25 Feb 1989–09 Apr 1989
- Bess Cutler Gallery, New York, 1989–1989
- Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Zealand 13 May 1989–11 Jun 1989
Towards Infinity: works by Imants Tillers, Museo de arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey (MARCO), Mexico, 24 Sep 1999–01 Jan 2000
Landmarks:
- Blue Mountains City Art Gallery, Katoomba 21 Jan 2017–19 Mar 2017
- Tamworth Regional Gallery, Tamworth 09 Jun 2017–13 Aug 2017
- Murray Art Museum Albury, Albury 29 Sep 2017–26 Nov 2017
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Bibliography
Referenced in 6 publications
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Anthony Bond OAM (Curator), Landmarks, Katoomba, 2017, 18-9 (colour illus.), 21.
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Graham Coulter-Smith, The Postmodern Art of Imants Tillers: Appropriation 'en abyme', 1971-2002, London, 2002, 173-174, 173 (illus.).
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Wystan Curnow, Imants Tillers and the 'Book of Power', Singapore, 1998, 96 (colour illus.).
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William Dart (Editor), Art New Zealand, 'Imants Tillers in Wellington', Jenny Harper & Imants Tillers interview, pg. 52-55, Auckland, Winter 1989, 52 (illus.).
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Jenny Harper, Imants Tillers: 19301, 1989.
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Charles Merewether, Towards Infinity: works by Imants Tillers, Mexico, 1999, 51 (colour illus.).
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