![]() ![]() ![]() Visitors walked through exposed cavities and air conditioning ducts and used the goods lift as the only access to the hidden back section of the show.Ĭurated by Glenn Barkley, this was Stevenson’s largest solo exhibition to date, featuring key works from his extensive practice of more than 20 years.Ī dedicated microsite was created to accompany the exhibition, featuring a number of text and video resources providing a deep insight into Stevenson’s work and artist practice. The artist took advantage of the impending renovations of the MCA building and included the removal of gallery walls as part of his installation, revealing the hidden architecture of the building as intrinsic to the exhibition experience. In this work Stevenson created a series of objects including maps and prints related to journey, as well as remaking and launching a replica of Fairweather’s raft. It included the 2004 installation Argonauts of the Timor Sea which began with the meticulous investigation and research of the infamous and almost ill-fated, raft journey of Australian modernist painter Ian Fairweather. This retrospective included a number of Stevenson’s ambitious installation-based works produced over the past six years as well as new works configured specifically for the MCA. In 2003 he was selected to make the solo. resident artist at the Wattis Institute CCA in San Francisco. In 2002 he was awarded the New Zealand residency programme at the Knstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin and in 2006 he was the Capp St. The idea of ‘uncertainty’ is a term that is used within a number of different fields including economics Stevenson’s practice, comprising drawings, objects and installations, explores this idea and the collision between American-based governmental conspiracy theories, the art world, cold war subtexts, the global financial crisis and the seepage of these events into the cultural communities of New Zealand and Australia. Michael Stevenson is a New Zealand artist born in 1964 since 2000 he has been living and working in Berlin. This exhibition provided an overview of a career spanning more than 20 years, beginning with regional realist landscapes and still life paintings. Originally from New Zealand, now based in Berlin, Michael Stevenson has been described as an anthropologist of the avant-garde. At the centre of Michael Stevenson's art practice is a sustained investigation into objects that give form and physical expression to broad ideological.
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