Peter Robinson: Ack And Other Abdications

Author: Brian D. Butler (Editor)

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Description

Ack and Other Abdications documents and considers the life of one sculpture, Ack - at once vast ice-flow and intestine that appeared first at Artspace in Auckland in 2006, was reworked for the Auckland Art Gallery in 2008, a showing that won the artist the Walters Prize.

Table of contents

Documentation of Ack, Artspace, Auckland, 2006 -- Documentation of Ack, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki, 2008 -- Post-Ack, 2009 -- Laura Preston, 'Finding Base in Absurdity: Peter Robinson - Back from Ack' -- Matt Crookes, 'Playing God and its Pitfalls' and 'Ninety Per Cent Air' -- Gwynneth Porter, 'Dying is easy, comedy is hard' -- Fiona Gillmore and John Ward-Knox, Untitled -- Dan Arps, 'Killed by Death' -- Contemporaneous paintings and drawings (unexhibited), 2006- 2010.