MELTDOWN
Visualizing Climate Change
A collaboration between Project Pressure. Presented in conjunction with The New Zealand Festival
including work by Renate Aller (DE/USA) Corey Arnold (USA) Michael Benson (USA) Scott Conarroe (CA) Simon Norfolk (NG/UK) Christopher Parsons (USA) Peter Funch (FR/USA) Noémie Goudal (FR) Erwin van den Ijssel (DK) Adam Hinton (UK/USA) Klaus Thymann (DK)
EXHIBITION ON VIEW
Saturday 26 February – Sunday 8 May
Whirinaki Whare Taonga | 836 Fergusson Drive, Upper Hutt Central, Upper Hutt 5018
Exhibition will travel to The Nelson Provincial Museum – Pupuri Taonga o Te Tai Ao
All works will be moved by boat to reduce the carbon footprint.
Nelson Provincial Museum
Town Acre 445, Cnr Trafalgar and Hardy Streets, Nelson
enquiries@museumnp.org.nz
03 548 9588
The Nelson Provincial Museum is New Zealand’s oldest museum. Collections date back to 1841 when the Nelson Institute was established on ship by the New Zealand Company.
ABOUT THE EXHIBITION
curated by Klaus Thymann and Leanne Wickham
The exhibition is a narrative of the importance of glaciers told in a scientific, illustrative and poetic way and each artist has a unique take on the subject. It shows scale from the planetary level to microscopic biological impact, and considers humanitarian suffering and more. Together, the artistic interpretations in MELTDOWN give visitors unique insights into the world’s cryosphere, its fragile ecosystem and our changing global climate.
Proudly supported by the Embassy of the United States, Hutt Mana Trust, Upper Hutt City Council Sustainability Fund and the Lion Foundation.
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The Space Between Memory and Expectation photo book published by Kehrer Verlag ISBN: 978-3-96900-027-4 in the USA signed copies available via Photo-Eye Books Essays by: Makeda Best, Curator of Photography at the Harvard Art Museums and Courtney J. Martin, director of the Yale Center for British Art
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Born in Germany, Renate Aller lives and works in New York. “The Space Between Memory and Expectation” and “side walk 6′ apart in NYC” are her most recent books, both published by Kehrer Verlag, Germany. “Mountain Interval” and the artist’s previous projects “Ocean and Desert”, “dicotyledon” (published by Radius Books of Santa Fe) and the long term project “Oceanscapes – One View – Ten Years” (co published by Kehrer Verlag and Radius Books) support the artist’s investigation into the relationship between Romanticism, memory and landscape – in the context of our current socio-political awareness.
Her works are in the collections of corporate institutions, private collectors and museums, including Lannan Foundation, Santa Fe, N.M., National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Yale University Art Gallery, CT, George Eastman House, Rochester, NY, New Britain Museum of American Art, CT, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany, Chazen Museum of Art, Madison, WI, Parrish Art Museum, Water Mill, NY, , Musée des Beaux-Arts, Le Locle, Switzerland and New-York Historical Society Museum, New York, NY Where a solo exhibition with “side walk 6′ apart in NYC” will be held in March – July 2022.