Kim Pieters

The Mallarmé Suite

20 Apr — 12 May 2013

were it to exist, were it to begin, 2013mixed media on board, 750mm x 920mm Photo credit Stuart Lloyd-Harris
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were it to exist, were it to begin, 2013
mixed media on board, 750mm x 920mm

Photo credit Stuart Lloyd-Harris

nothing will have taken place but the place, 2013mixed media on board, 1220mm x 1640mm Photo credit Stuart Lloyd-Harris
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nothing will have taken place but the place, 2013
mixed media on board, 1220mm x 1640mm

Photo credit Stuart Lloyd-Harris

were it to illumine, 2013mixed media on board, 1010mm x 1030mm AS IF, 2013 mixed media on board, 1050mm x 1090mm  Photo credit Stuart Lloyd-Harris
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were it to illumine, 2013
mixed media on board, 1010mm x 1030mm

AS IF, 2013
mixed media on board, 1050mm x 1090mm 

Photo credit Stuart Lloyd-Harris

All Thought emits a Throw of the Dice, 2013mixed media on board, 1000mm x 1750mm Photo credit Stuart Lloyd-Harris
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All Thought emits a Throw of the Dice, 2013
mixed media on board, 1000mm x 1750mm

Photo credit Stuart Lloyd-Harris

Installation view Photo credit Stuart Lloyd-Harris
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Installation view

Photo credit Stuart Lloyd-Harris

were it to be numbered, 2013mixed media on board, 1010mm x 980mm Photo credit Stuart Lloyd-Harris
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were it to be numbered, 2013
mixed media on board, 1010mm x 980mm

Photo credit Stuart Lloyd-Harris

a rock, a false manor, 2013mixed media on board, 990mm x 1220mm Photo credit Stuart Lloyd-Harris
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a rock, a false manor, 2013
mixed media on board, 990mm x 1220mm

Photo credit Stuart Lloyd-Harris

The work A Throw of the Dice by French Symbolist poet Stéphane Mallarmé is a reference that is elliptically evoked in Kim Pieters’ new paintings. The disjunction of language and image produce an enduring tension within her work, offering multiple points of encounter. This series of intense colour field paintings cut across Mallarmé’s philosophical and syntactic discussion of chance and necessity into a supplementary ‘open’. In this clearing the viewer is invited to occupy some presence of their own-being-human. This framing of event is a continuing project for Pieters and revolves around a question she constantly summons into her practice: 'what is a life?'

 

Kim Pieters (1959) lives and works in Dunedin, creating alongside her paintings: photographs, improvisational film and music. Selected painting exhibitions include: experimentum linguae (2009), Wall Works, Adam Gallery, Victoria University of Wellington (2009), something possible or i will suffocate (2009), abrahams journey, Bowen Galleries, Wellington (2012), is the colour the thing or is the thing the colour? (2012) with Kirsten Ferguson, Inge Doesburg Gallery, Dunedin, and Hop Scotch (2012) with Anoushka Akel, Artspace, Auckland.

Free Downloads:
A response to the exhibition by Melanie Oliver (pdf)