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Marcus Moore
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Marcus Moore
 
Marcus Moore
 
Fresh is a series which profiles the work of thirteen of New Zealand's most exciting current practitioners. All recent graduates from arts institutions, both local and international, these artists draw on a vast terrain of medium and criticality's, giving an overview of the diversity and depth of contemporary practice today.

 

A GOOD TRADITION WELL MAINTAINED
Marcus Moore
August 22 - September 8 2001

Based currently in Wellington, where he is tutoring at the Massey University School of Art and Design, Marcus Moore is a former Christchurch old boy.

Drawing on his time in the city of plains, Marcus's work for The Physics Room makes overt reference to Christ's College, the traditional and exceedingly proper boys college which Marcus attended, and at which such art luminary's as Peter Robinson have taught at.

Playing off varying notions of being male, Marcus cuts sound clips of Christ's boys singing, into popular songs by U2, Tom Petty and Bruce Springsteen - staples of late 1980's FM radio and filtered through memories of high school lust and desire. Shiny thermos flask bulbs revolve in the gallery space, a gentle stab of phallic imagery, and yet also a link back to kinetic sculptures by that most famous Christchurch ex-pat, Len Lye.


Reviews & Essays

Fresh - A series profiling Contemporary New Zealand Practitioners
Essay by Lee Devenish
in The Physics Room Annual 2001
ISBN 0-9582359-1-0

Strutting their stuff
The Press, 2001 Aug. 29, p. 34
Peers, Robyn.
Recreation by Paula Collier; Risky Business by Dane Mitchell; A Good Tradition Well Maintained by Marcus Moore.

Young & Contemporary
The Package, September, 2001
Lee Devinish