5/13/2023 0 Comments Ten x Ten by Athol McCredie![]() ![]() How anyone could have walked past that window without being overwhelmed I’m not sure.” Wellington Harbour (1894) by James M Nairn. ![]() The composition seems barely under control, pointing to the limits of what makes an intelligible image….Combine this formal confusion with the sexual association of flowers and you have an emotional punch of lurid, seductive disarray and abandon. The photograph struck me for the way its euphoric riot of brightly coloured patterned petals is only just held together visually by snaking green stems. I would have written out a cheque then and there if I had been so empowered. That’s how it was when I saw this photograph spotlit in an Auckland dealer’s window. You know immediately there is no question they should be acquired. ![]() Inkjet print, purchased 2016Īthol McCredie, curator, photography: “Sometimes there are works that just say ‘Yes!’ when you see them. Tulips, Invercargill (2007) by Peter Peryer. Herewith, a selection of four luscious images. A new book from Te Papa features 10 of the museum’s curators writing about 10 of their favourite works in the national collection. But sometimes, in quiet, precious moments, they get to do what they got into the curating racket in the first place: marvel at awesome works of art. Certainly much of it is spent in soul-destroying forensic analysis of catalogue numbers many turn to drink. Te Papa curators talk about the artworks in the national collection that make them swoon.Ĭurators! What do they do all day? No one knows. ![]()
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