For Sale Blog

We are happy to announce the extension of For Sale Showspace.
Even more, we are delighted to remind you of the upcoming exhibition:
In A Forest by Ann Shelton.
Opening Night: Thursday 12th May 2011
7pm - 11pm
Artist Talk with Ann Shelton at 7.30pm
Refreshments will be available.
All welcome!
The exhibition runs until 19th May 2011

Ann Shelton (MFA, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada) was born in New Zealand. Shelton is recognised as one of New Zealand’s leading photographic artists and in 2010 she was the overall winner of the CoCA Anthony Harper Contemporary Art Award, judged by Lara Strongman. Most recently she edited the publication Sightseeing: an exhibition and a publication of postcards that explore the representation of place in contemporary German and New Zealand photography – this group show includes Shelton’s work among the 8 German and 8 New Zealand artists featured. In 2009 she exhibited the series Public Places in Images Recalled (Bilder auf Abruf), Germany’s largest photographic biennale curated by Tobias Berger and Esther Ruelfs. Shelton’s work is regularly seen in New Zealand and around the world in countries as diverse as China, Lithuania, Italy, England, Poland, Australia and Canada.

In 2006 Shelton's major project a library to scale was awarded the Trust Waikato Contemporary Art Award, and in 2007 the project toured New Zealand and Australia. In 2004, Shelton was the Govett-Brewster New Zealand Artist in Residence, she produced the solo museum show a kind of sleep and completed once more from the street, originally presented at Starkwhite Auckland. Recent group shows include Unpacking My Library at Te Tuhi Center for the arts Auckland curated by Stephen Cleland, Collect/project at the Adam Art Gallery, curated by Tina Barton and Earth Matters at the Auckland City Art Gallery, curated by Natasha Conland.

Her works are featured in numerous public and private collections in New Zealand and overseas, including the Govett-Brewster, The Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa and the Chartwell Collection. Shelton has had many artist books, catalogues, and books published, including Redeye (Rim Books, New Zealand/Dewi Lewis, England, 1997). Shelton lectures in Fine Art and Photography at Massey University in Wellington and is currently Chair of Enjoy Public Art Gallery, Wellington’s artist-run space. She is represented by Starkwhite and Paul McNamara Gallery.

Currently Shelton lives in Berlin.

For further images and documentation of art works please see
www.annshelton.com

Ann Shelton, Seedling, Cornelius Johnson. 'Hitler Oak' (awarded at the
1936 Olympics), backyard, Koreatown, Los Angeles. Growing in what was
probably the back yard of the athlete's mother. Difficult to find, this
tree was mentioned in a Los Angeles Times article dated 1995. Cornelius
Johnson received one of several Gold medals won by African Americans at
the games. 2 x colour pigment prints 1m x1.25m each, 2011.

Absent Presence
21st April - 25th April 2011

Clarisse d'Arcimoles - Outside, it was snowing

Clarisse d'Arcimoles - 16 impressions sous plastique

Nina van der Voorn - Beyond The Ashes Exhibition view

Christian Nyampeta - Here Now

'Absent Presence’ brought together a selection of work which explores occupation, presence and aparitions.
Through photography, installation and sculpture, this exhibition combines personal relics and intimacy which reflect both nostalgia and reality.

Clarisse d’Arcimoles (FR)
Outside it was snowing...
On the 24th of December, I decided to head back to my grandmother’s house.
Apart from a few minor improvements, the house has changed very little since I was a child. There is something very comforting about knowing that everything is where it always has been.
The time changed, absences accumulated, but these objects never left their place. They are the truthful preservers of the presence.
In contrast '16 impressions sous plastique' is a collection of self-portraits of d’Arcimoles in a series of hostels rooms while travelling across India. The intimate environments are generic yet personal in their brief occupation, denined by the detritus of previous tenants or sterile anonymity, accompanied by unlikely commentary and recommendations.

Outside, it was snowing...
Archival Inkjet Prints
26 cm x 26 cm
Edition of 10
2010

Nina van der Voorn (NZ)
Beyond The Ashes
An intensely personal experience of the changed relationship that occurs when someone passes away: “In that instant when my mother stopped breathing forever, when her heart and her lungs and her thoughts became silent and her body succumbed to death, our relationship did not. It just changed, for “mourners do not just move on and relinquish the relationship to the lost person, but continue to have a relationship with that lost person or object for the rest of their lives” Although the body is at first cold, later gone, a presence resides, for death is not a form of erasure.
Sometimes it is hard to comprehend that the change has happened; dreams and thoughts set in the past confuse ideas of the present. It is easy to get caught with your head facing backwards.”
Download the catalogue here (pdf)

Beyond The Ashes
C-type Print
50 x 60
Edition of 6
2010

Christian Nyampeta (NL)
Here Now
Ongoing investigation of the historical and contemporary materiality. The fossil-like objects in this installation resonate with locking devices used on captives during imperial excursions. If we consider these captives as substantially fueling the progress, perhaps then the objects are improvised abstractions and emblems of the present enslaving materiality.

Here Now
Wall installation:
Various material
Various dimensions
Price on request
2008 - 2010

Opening Print Works
14th April 2010

Thank you for coming over!
The show runs until this Sunday 17th April

Upcoming Show
Thursday 14 April 2011
Festive opening: 7pm - 11pm
Refreshment will be available.
All welcome

Print works by Merijn Hos, Momoko Suzuki
Christian Nyampeta, Duncan McNaughton, Alberto Hernandez, Olivia Sautreuil and Seif Alhasani

Christian Nyampeta

Olivia Sautreuil

Seif Alhasani

Momoko Suzuki

Merijn Hos

Another Magazine: Review of Photographic Show; 7th April 2011

http://www.anothermag.com/current/view/1009/Transitional_Photography

Thank you!

Screening Eating Scarlet, 9th April

Visitors received a delicious plate.

For Sale Opening 07 April 2011

For this first week, the works on show congregated around photography.
The different themes presented collectively explored transition. This exhibition featured work by Bronwen Parker-Rhodes, Emilie Lindsten, Sophie Dutton, Nina van der Voorn, Christian Nyampeta, and Nicol Vizioli alongside the presentation of Buffalo, an art and lifestyle magazine.

Thank you for coming over!