Colourful Sheep Extravaganza At City Gallery

‘How much better is a man than a sheep?’
Colourful Sheep Extravaganza At City Gallery

MATTHEW 12:12 12:12 in installation
Friday 30 March to Sunday 1 April, City Gallery and Civic Square, FREE
ARTIST TALK, Saturday 31 March, 2pm, FREE

‘How much better is a man than a sheep?’ Gregor Kregar’s absurdist suite of works Matthew 12:12 explores the Holy Bible verse of the same name during Telecom Prospect 2007. A live sculptural installation of Matthew 12:12 takes place from Friday until Sunday in Civic Square, with twelve sheep in brightly coloured, 100% New Zealand woolly jumpers grazing within white picket-fence enclosures. On Saturday Gregor Kregar talks about the evolution of the Matthew 12:12 project and the ideas behind it, as well as his broader practice.

Matthew 12:12 has a range of manifestations in different spaces during Telecom Prospect 2007Prospect.Besides the live installation in Civic Square this weekend, a set of twelve photographic portraits of sheep, taken during an earlier staging of the work, are sited inside the gallery and are joined by a video work playing in Square" (until 15 April 2007).

The work grew out of the artist’s consideration of the way industrial rearing of livestock has shaped the landscape, and to a certain extent the culture, of Aotearoa. These woolly creatures are a mainstay of our economy and play a prominent role in our public cultural identity. When the work was developed New Zealand’s people-to- sheep ratio was 1:12.

Telecom Prospect: New Art New Zealand
City Gallery Wellington,
Civic Square, Wellington
11 February – 29 April 2007
Admission FREE
www.telecomprospect2007.org.nz

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