Rodney Wilson: Mo’s Kitchen: An anthropology...

Opening in the Main Gallery on: Saturday 11 February 4.30 - 6pm

T.L.Rodney Wilson: Mo’s Kitchen: An anthropology of the kitchen “Assailed as we are by gastro-pornography, assaulted by the used car salesmen of the kitchen whenever we pick up the television remote, bombarded by libraries of cooking books spewing out onto the pavement on remaindered tables, I was reluctant to impose more foodism on the world. But Mo’s kitchen is a place of peace, delight, love and labour; a refuge. It is also a place of intrigue and passion as some of these little recordings attempt to show. Forgive me for adding further foodist folly to a world that craves its next hysteria. Some are born to lead, but some of us are just born to follow.” Rodney Wilson’s first training was in Fine Arts at the University of Canterbury, before completing a Doctoraal in Art History at the Radboud Universiteit, Nijmegen and a Ph.D. in Art History at Canterbury. He has been director of Christchurch’s Robert McDougall Art Gallery, Auckland Art Gallery, the National Gallery of Victoria, Auckland War Memorial Museum and founding director of the New Zealand National Maritime Museum. His last solo exhibition was 45 years ago, in 1967. Works from that early era are held in the Christchurch Art Gallery, Hocken Library University of Otago, and the Wallace Collection. He believes in a generous gap between shows! This exhibition is presented by The Depot’s Cultural Icons project. Interviews with significant contributor’s to New Zealand’s arts and culture (including an interview with Rodney Wilson by Hamish Keith) are available online, free of charge at: www.culturalicons.co.nz