LORENE TAUREREWA

LORENE TAUREREWA Tafelspiele

8 June - 3 July 2013

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Milford Galleries Dunedin 18 Dowling Street (03) 477 7727 info@milfordhouse.co.nz

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Tafelspiele 3 (2 charcoal on pa

2013) aper, sheet: 1097 x 1539 mm

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Tafelspiele 2 (2 charcoal on pa

2011) aper, sheet: 1117 x 1527 mm

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Tafelspiele 4 (2 charcoal on pa

2013) aper, sheet: 1123 x 1509 mm

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Tafelspiele 5 (2 charcoal on pa

2013) aper, sheet: 1288 x 1530 mm

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Tafelspiele 1 (2011) charcoal on paper, sheet: 1520 x 1111 mm

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Wogengroupe 1 (2013) graphite on rice paper, frame: 632 x 505 x 31 mm, image: 240 x 245 mm

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Wogengroupe 2 (2013) graphite on rice paper, frame: 632 x 505 x 31 mm, image: 240 x 245 mm

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Wogengroupe 3 (2013) graphite on rice paper, frame: 632 x 505 x 31 mm, image: 223 x 232 mm

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Wogengroupe 4 (2013) graphite on rice paper, frame: 632 x 505 x 31 mm, image: 223 x 232 mm

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Wogengroupe 5 (2013) graphite on rice paper, frame: 632 x 505 x 31 mm, image: 240 x 245 mm

A palpable sense of unease permeates the works in New York-based artist Lorene Taurerewa’s new exhibition Tafelspiele. Her moody charcoal and pencil drawings suggest the unnerving figures that haunt our dreams, lurking just beneath the surface of our consciousness.

German for ‘table play’ or ‘table games’, the title of the show alludes in one sense to the tradition of memento mori : here “a tabletop is a certain model for a certain idea of life on this world: life on the flat-earth plane, without refuge, rimmed by oblivion (1). Ina similar vein, the monumental scale and feel of the Tafelspiele charcoals, evoke a sense of a theatre outside time; sculptural, disembodied heads watch over tableaux where secondary players sometimes act out their lonely plays.

The series of Wogengroupe pencil drawings on rice paper draw in viewers with their delicate intimacy and then unsettle with their theatre of carnivalesque characters. Allegorical in tone, a number of the works feature the Golliwog, or Huggermugger, who may be read as “the embodiment of creative, disruptive wit… Like the Pans, Lokis or Mauis of mythology, he is one who lays himself down - literally and figuratively in these works - to give room for Truth.” (2) Taurerewa’s visual narratives act as a starting point from which viewers must draw their own truths, coloured by the anxieties of their own subconscious and formed by the stories of their own lives.

Taurerewa’s drawings have their parallels in the dark fairy tales that served to illustrate fears of the unknown and the unspeakable. The artist gives form to the anxieties that lurk in the dark corners of the psyche, confronting viewers with dreamscapes that seem at once strange and eerily familiar.

1. Eoghan MacDaibheid, “The Dealer’s Hand: Traditions of Representation in Drawings by Lorene Taurerewa 2008 – 2010”, Art Monthly Australia, December 2011.

2. Beth Fiore, Huggermugger Exhibition Text, The Gallery, New York, October 2012.

EXHIBITION PRICELIST

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Tafelspiele 1 - 5 (2011/13)

6 - 10 Wogengroupe 1 - 5 (2013)

4,500 each unframed* 1,450 each framed

*Framing estimates available on request

All prices are NZD and include GST; Prices are current at the time of the exhibition

LORENE TAUREREWA lives New York, USA

The Strong Must Lead the Weak (2008)

“Taurerewa shifts scales and frames the way Shakespeare would set a play within a play, to structure different layers of fiction and thereby invert the relationships of cause and effect... These are not layers to be separated, rather roots hopelessly knotted, tangled from trying to grow in the inhospitable soil of our era, or perhaps of our human nature.” (1)

Tokoroa-born and New York-based, Taurerewa works in a range of media including charcoal, watercolours and oils. Her works tap into a world of the subconscious and raise many more questions than answers. Figures suggestive of freak show or circus escapees populate her drawn and painted worlds, their looming torsos creating a palpable sense of apprehension and unease.

‘Unnerved’, a group show at Brisbane’s Gallery of Modern Art in 2010 featured drawings from Taurerewa’s ‘Psychopompe’ series alongside works from Anne Noble, Michael Parekowhai and Lisa Reihana. Curator Maud Page described Taurerewa’s drawings as “Dark and otherworldly… [appearing] to exist outside time, emerging instead as the not-quite-controllable creations of psychological realms.”

(2) The set of 20 drawings were subsequently acquired by the Queensland Art Gallery for its permanent collection.

Taurerewa held a permanent position as Lecturer in Drawing in the School of Design at the Victoria University of Wellington from 2000-2009 and has featured in a regular schedule of national and international exhibitions throughout the last decade.

(1) (2)

McLeod, Warwick, ‘The Dealer’s Hand: Traditions of Representation in Drawings by Lorene Taurerewa 2008-2010’, Art Monthly Australia, Issue 248, April 2012, p34 Page, Maud, “Unnerved: Curator’s Essay” for “Unnerved: The New Zealand Project”, Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, 1 May – 4 July 2010.

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Milford Galleries Dunedin

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LORENE TAUREREWA lives New York, USA

EDUCATION 1996

Bachelor of Fine Art (Painting), Quay School of the Arts, Wanganui

SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2013 2012 2011 2010

2009 2008

2007 2006

2005 2004 2002

Tafelspiele, Milford Galleries Dunedin Lorene Taurerewa, Thermostat Gallery, Palmerston North THE END, Artspace, Brooklyn, New York, USA The Company of Fools, Helen Gory Galerie, Melbourne, Australia Lorene Taurerewa, Suite Gallery, Wellington Sleight of Hand, PATAKA Museum of Arts and Cultures, Porirua Yardmeter Editions, Brooklyn, New York, USA More Eccentrickery, Chaffers Gallery, Wellington White Paintings, Oedipus Rex Gallery, Auckland Eccentriks, A.I.C.H Gallery, New York, USA Psychopompe, Oedipus Rex Gallery, Auckland Sensible World, Chaffers Gallery, Wellington Drawings, NZ Consulate, Santa Monica, Los Angeles, USA Degrees of Separation, Oedipus Rex Gallery, Auckland National Museum of Contemporary Art, Changdong Gallery, Seoul, Korea Lorene Taurerewa Drawing, PATAKA Museum of Arts and Cultures, Porirua Journey of 1000 Miles, Sarjeant Gallery, Wanganui Lorene Taurerewa: Here and Now, Fifty2gallery, Wellington Big Drawings, Lopdell House Gallery, Auckland Inherited Bodies, PATAKA Museum of Arts and Cultures, Porirua Body Speak, Neut Gallery, Wellington

GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2013 2012

2011

2010 2009

2008

Large Works, Milford Galleries Dunedin Mervyn Williams/Chris Bailey/Lorene Taurerewa, Milford Galleries Dunedin Intraspace Project, Waikato Museum, Hamilton Fountain Art Fair, New York, USA NORTHSIDE Art Exhibition, Many Conversations, Brooklyn, New York, USA Brucennial 2012, New York, USA Contemplations and Conjectures, Schick Art Gallery, Saratoga, New York, USA Influential Women, Kentler International Drawing Space, Brooklyn, New York, USA THE END, The Sugarbread House, Brooklyn, New York, USA Suit of Skin, Small Works Gallery, Brisbane, Australia Legends : Obsessions with the Incomprehensible and the Uncanny, La Trobe Regional Gallery, Melbourne, Australia WANDERLUST, Yes Gallery, Brooklyn, New York, USA GIMME SOME TRUTH: a Return to Form, In Rivers Gallery, Brooklyn, New York, USA Figuration Today: the Surrealist Influence, McLean Project for the Arts, Washington DC, USA Unnerved: The New Zealand Project, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia Unnerved: The New Zealand Project, Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia Chrysalid, Amelia Johnson Gallery, Hong Kong INSIGHT: Contemporary Approaches to Drawing, Ann Street Gallery, New York, USA Soul Ideologie, Gallery Korea, Park Ave, New York, USA Drawing Center Viewing Program, New York, USA New Zealand Embassy, 3 person show, Paris, France Samoa Contemporary, PATAKA Museum of Arts and Cultures, Porirua Samoa Contemporary, Tauranga Public Art Gallery

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2007 2004 2003 2002 2001 2000

Essence of Asia: Eastern Influences in Western Art, Asian Fusion Gallery, New York, USA Wahine Pasifika, Te Wa Gallery, Wanganui Dolly Mix (W)rappers, PATAKA Museum of Arts and Cultures, Porirua Summer Show, Te Wa Gallery, Wanganui Dolly Mix (W)rappers, Waikato Museum of Art and History, Hamilton Pacific Blue, Sarjeant Gallery, Wanganui

AWARDS 2006

IASK Residency: The National Artists Studio: National Museum of Contemporary Art, Korea Martin Hughes, Contemporary Pacific Art Award, Winner

COLLECTIONS Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane National Gallery of Victoria James Wallace Collection, Auckland PATAKA Museum of Arts and Cultures, Porirua Private and public collections in New Zealand, USA, Australia, Europe and Asia

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY 2011 2010

2009

2008

2007 2005

McLeod, Warwick, The Dealer’s Hand: Traditions of Representation in Drawings by Lorene Taurerewa 2008 - 2011, Art Monthly Australia, November, 2011 Crawford, Ashley, Profile Lorene Taurerewa, Australian Art Collector, October – December 2010, pg 108 - 109 Martin-Chew, Louise, Impressive Kiwi Gothic, Australian Art Review, August 2010 Brown, Warwick, Seen This Century: 100 Contemporary New Zealand Artists, A Collectors Guide, Godwit, Auckland, pg 348 - 349 Lorene Taurerewa in New York, Film documentary for Kete Aronui Arts Program, KIWA Films, Auckland Greenpoint Gazette, New York, 10 October 2008 McNamara, TJ, Painted Canvas Reflects Better than a Mirror, NZ Herald, 1 May 2008 Cunnane, Abbey, Samoan. Sort of, NZ Listener, 3 May 2008 McNamara, TJ, City and Suburbs, Auckland Herald, 21 April 2007 Misool, Wolgan, Lorene Taurerewa, Korean Arts Monthly Magazine, February 2007, pg 55 Davidson, Owen, Spirit and Form, The Art of Lorene Taurerewa, Art New Zealand, No 117, Summer 2005/2006, pg 58 - 61 Chalmers, Linda, The Arrival of Contemporary Pacific, New Zealand Investor Monthly, March 2005, pg 3

What Will Become of Us (2008)

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