Tuesday, 1 November 2011
The Nita Gini Collection: Lauren Lysaght
Opening at the Gus Fisher Gallery the Nini Gini Collection is an assembly of unorthodox objects, the unlikely heirs to a legacy of New Zealand’s Crown Lynn tradition.
4 November 2011 to 14 January 2012
On at the
Gus Fisher Gallery the Nini Gini Collection is an assembly of
unorthodox objects, the unlikely heirs to a legacy of New Zealand's
Crown Lynn tradition. Lauren Lysaght has painstakingly constructed
each of these items by hand, using cardboard, plaster of Paris,
wood veneer, and other found materials, and drawing on the memory
of her grandmother Nita Gini's collection of ceramics. Veering
dramatically from the formality with which collections are often
presented, the exhibition adopts a brassy, roguish and indomitably
homemade aesthetic to consider objects we often call 'precious', in
a pleasingly irreverent light. Larger-than-life, this work
continues a story where the objects have almost become characters
in their own right. The Crown Lynn narrative is far from complete;
in The Nita Gini Collection it carries on, lively and
exultant. The Nita Gini Collection: Lauren Lysaght
was first exhibited at City Gallery Wellington.
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