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Geoff Tune

Pilgrimage Venice San Marco 7/06

Pilgrimage Venice San Marco 7/06

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In 2005 Geoff Tune painted a series of works called Pilgrimage. These paintings are connected thematically to the idea of a journey in both time and space through Britain and Europe in search of particular places and associations. As a colonial with British lineage, Tune was drawn to the sites and cultural artefacts of cities, monuments and places with a longer, richer history than that available to him in New Zealand. In the titles of the Pilgrimage series he has identified a number of cities
and sites in France, Italy and Britain with which he engaged on various levels. They include Avignon, Roussillon, Florence, Lugano, Amalfi, and Castlerigg. The paintings take the form of meditations or responses to the places visited, not depictions of them in a literal sense. A parallel in music might be with Liszt's Years of the Pilgrimage pieces for the piano. The paintings retain the formal vocabulary Tune had developed in his previous works and are essentially abstract. We do not find images of landmarks or monuments though there are allusions to artworks like Michelangelo's sculptures in the Medici Chap
  • Artist Bio
Geoff Tune was born in 1947 and grew up in Gisborne before attending Elam School of Fine Arts, gaining a Diploma of Fine Arts with Honours in 1969. He gained his teaching diploma in 1970 and was the Head of the Manukau School of Visual Arts. Tune has exhibited throughout New Zealand for over thirty years. His work is well received and he is a regular participant in the Mt Eden Artists Community project held every summer. Many of his paintings and drawings have explored the image of Mt Eden, more recently as a reference point for the continuum of symbolic elements that define our place in the cyclical continuity of time. Geoff Tune is mentioned in several publications about New Zealand art, including Elva Betts NZ Art A Modern Perspective, Peter Capes NZ Painting Since 1960 and Kate McGaheys Concise Dictionary of New Zealand Artists. He has recently had a number of successful sales to overseas collectors.
In 2005 Geoff Tune painted a series of works called Pilgrimage. These paintings are connected thematically to the idea of a journey in both time and space through Britain and Europe in search of particular places and associations. As a colonial with British lineage, Tune was drawn to the sites and cultural artefacts of cities, monuments and places with a longer, richer history than that available to him in New Zealand. In the titles of the Pilgrimage series he has identified a number of cities
and sites in France, Italy and Britain with which he engaged on various levels. They include Avignon, Roussillon, Florence, Lugano, Amalfi, and Castlerigg. The paintings take the form of meditations or responses to the places visited, not depictions of them in a literal sense. A parallel in music might be with Liszt's Years of the Pilgrimage pieces for the piano. The paintings retain the formal vocabulary Tune had developed in his previous works and are essentially abstract. We do not find images of landmarks or monuments though there are allusions to artworks like Michelangelo's sculptures in the Medici Chap
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