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    André Hemer

    b.1981

    CASS

    • 2012
    • Acrylic on canvas
    • Purchased, 2012
    • 593 x 685mm
    • 2012/048
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    Tags: appropriation (imagery), buildings (structures), clouds, landscapes (representations), melancholy, mountains, natural landscapes, people (agents), platforms (floors), railroad stations, suitcases, sunlight, trees, utility poles, yellow (color)

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    André Hemer CASS (detail). 2012
    André Hemer: CASS
    Image: uploads/2021_02/2012_048.jpg

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    Cass

    Rita Angus Cass

    The sweeping clouds, rumpled hills and sharp-edged brightness of Rita Angus’s Cass came together in a brilliant fusion of invention and accomplishment following a ten-day stay at the remote high country railway settlement in the autumn of 1936. Boosted by the company of fellow artists Louise Henderson and Julia Scarvell, and alert to the setting’s barren beauty, she had strong influences to draw on. Henderson, who had arrived from Paris in 1925 and taught at Canterbury College School of Art from 1927, was one. Other influences seen are Japanese woodblock prints and the art of the Northern Renaissance, both detected in the work’s overall sharp focus and decorative, flat, patterned sections.Some ten years after painting this work, Angus recalled the experience: [T]hose days of clear blue green skies, sun setting behind the dark hills, cold shadows … They were happy days. I long for a later return into the mountains. How little did I think then … that Cass would come to have any meaning to the painter.

    (As Time Unfolds, 5 December 2020 – 7 March 2021)

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    CASS

    André Hemer's exhibition CASS is well worth a visit if you are near the Christchurch Art Gallery's space above NG on Madras street.

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    From CASS to <del>CASS</del> - Iterations of New Zealand's 'greatest painting'

    Over 50 iterations of Rita Angus's 1936 painting Cass are collated in André Hemer's new exhibition CASS, which considers ideas of distance, deletion and dislocation.

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    Manchester Street, Christchurch by Louise Henderson was painted in 1929 and shows a streetscape that remained largely unchanged until the earthquake of 22 February.

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