Lot #20 - Ralph Hotere
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Auction House:Webb's
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Sale Name:Vision Series
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Sale Date:24 Nov 2015 ~ 6.30pm (NZ time)
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Lot #:20
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Lot Description:Ralph Hotere
Untitled (from the Baby Iron series)
acrylic on burnished corrugated iron in Roger Hicken frame
770mm x 710mm
signed and dated Port Chalmers '83 -
Notes:The Baby Iron series comprises works produced by Ralph Hotere from 1983 to 1984 that employ corrugated iron and wood in conjunction with text and symbols. Unlike the Aramoana and Polaris series created during this period, the Baby Iron series is devoid of ardent political content. What is rather more relevant to the interpretation of the series is the substrate on which the works were executed. Narrow panels of corrugated iron with an industrially repetitive sense of uniformity were incised using a blowtorch, much like a painter’s paintbrush. Residual marks as a side effect of the blowtorching process make the artist’s presence apparent as they shed light on the process with which the work was created. The reflective surface the material creates was likened by New Zealand poet Cilla McQueen (and Hotere’s former partner) to a “hall of mirrors”.1 1 McQueen, Cilla, Baby Iron. In Gregory O'Brien (ed.), Hotere: Out of the Black Window, Godwit: Auckland, 1997. p. 114. KATE SHAPIRO
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Estimate:NZ$40,000 - 50,000
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Realised Price:
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Category:Art
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