Roundabout° Tel Aviv Museum of Art, 22 October 2011–29 April 2012
Roundabout° showcased works from the collection of American collectors and art dealers David Teplitzky and Peggy Scott. The couple’s ongoing project involves collecting and commissioning works from seminal and emerging artists from Australasia, the Pacific, Asia, the US, the Middle East, Europe, and Russia—with a strong focus on indigenous work. It is said that the show is designed as a ‘roundabout’, with no single way to navigate it.
Roundaboutº explores the possibilities of artistic exchanges between geographically separated cultures and of different traditions and languages. The full-color catalog was designed by award-winning graphic designer Paul Sahre and features the work of 108 artists from around the world, including New Zealand, Australia, Japan, South Korea, China, India, Bhutan, Tibet and Thailand. It also includes four scholarly essays by Nicholas Thomas, Rupert Richard Arrowsmith, Don J. Cohn and Marisa Mazria-Katz, as well as an interview with Roundabout collector David Teplitzky.
I worked on Roundabout° with David Teplitzky and Peggy Scott over a period of three years, travelling to Shanghai and Beijing, China, USA and frequently to Thailand. I also spent some time introducing David to our New Zealand Māori artists with the purpose of commissioning work that would become part of the curated exhibition. I collated and prepared biographical material and interviewed many of the 108 artists, and became part of the negotiating team that secured support for the exhibitions eventual showing at City Gallery Wellington.
Roundabout° City Gallery, Wellington 25 September 2010–16 January 2011 Artist list for Roundabout° - Adel Abdessemed, Romy Achituv, Vernon Ah Kee, Tony Albert, Chiho Aoshima, Minam Apang, Kamrooz Aram, Fereydoun Ave, Chinatsu Ban, Rina Banerjee, Del Kathryn Barton, Zadok Ben-David, Gordon Bennet, Tanyth Berkeley, Bhutanese Textile Project, Wutthichai Boontham, Eugene Carchesio, Sheba Chhachhi, Chuck Close, Sean Cordeiro and Claire Healy, Shane Cotton, Todd Couper, David Craig and Takeda Souun, Ed Cruikshank, Lesley Dill, Atul Dodya, Feng Bin, Jacqueline Fraser, Gade, Ori Gershit, Luis Gispert, Lyonel Grant, Keven Francis Gray, Osang Gwon, Gnkar Gyatso, Kith Haring, He Sen, Chris Heaphy, Huang Yan, Lonnie Jutchinson, Tim Johnson, Isaac Julien, Robyn Kahukiwa, Jitish Kallat, Reena Saini Kallat, Manjunath Kamath, Kitty Kantilla, Titus Kaphar, Anish Kapoor, Mike Kelley, Kim Dong Yoo, Rangi Kipa, Terrence Koh, Nim Kruasaeng, Sakarin Kueon, Sigalit Landau, Ugyen Lhendup, Liu Wei, Lena Liv, George Martin P.J., Cameron Martin, Wardell Milan, Wangechi Mutu, Yoshitomo Nara, Liz Neal, Shirin Neshat, Nortse, Julian Opie, Raquel Ormella, Fiona Pardington, Michael Parekowhai, Justin Ponmany, John Pule, Qiu JIe, Rashid Rana, Navin Rawanchaikul, Lisa Reihana, Tenzing Rigdol, Peter Robinson, Tom Sachs, Pinaree Sanpitak, Gigi Scaria, Greg Semu, Andres Serrano, Roger Shepherd, Doug and Mike Starn, Tavares Strachan, Sui Jianguo, Sung, Jerry Swaffield, Kelcy Taratoa, Thukral and Tagra, Roi Toia, Chintan Upadhyay, Hema Upadhyay, Wang Lei, Wang Luyan, Wang Qingsong, Wangmo, Jurmey, Kezang, and Sonam, Judy Watson, Areta Wilkinson, Xin Haizhou, Xing Danwen, Yuval Yairi, Yoo Seungho, Yu Hong, Yue Minjun, Zhu Wei.
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