Centre International d'Art et du Paysage
Vassivière Island
87120 Beaumont-du-Lac
France
The Drift of the World: Zac Langdon-Pole
The work of New Zealand artist Zac Langdon-Pole proposes unlikely juxtapositions: hybrid forms that bring divergent scales of time, materials and systems of knowledge into close proximity. For his first solo exhibition in France, the artist presents new works in sculpture, installation and photography that explore themes of transformation, repetition and the spiralling nature of history. Deriving its title from a poem by William Bronk, the exhibition traces our innate desire to organise and affix meaning in a world constantly in flux. Moving from a grain of sand to the celestial bodies, The Drift of the World unspools multiple trajectories, attending to the specific within the infinite, as well as the tendency of all things to arise from and return to dust.
Opening Saturday, 28 June:
5 pm – Exhibition opens
5:30 pm – Guided tour with the artist
6 pm – Cocktail reception open to all
Exhibition curator: Alexandra McIntosh.
With the support of APMAC.
Thanks to Nicolas Derieux, Alex Ferko, Gwendoline Jooren, Léna Martin, Ambre Muller, Juliette Perrot-Gay, Emilie Renard (Bétonsalon), Roman Vogel; Gedimat Vaxivière (Eymoutiers) and the Musée de l'Homme (Paris).
Zac Langdon-Pole
Zac Langdon-Pole (b. 1988) is a New Zealand artist currently based in Tāmaki Makaurau, Auckland. After gaining a BFA (Hons) from Elam School of Fine Arts at the University of Auckland in 2010, Langdon-Pole received a Meisterschüler from Frankfurt’s Städelschule in 2015.
His photographic and sculptural work of found and fabricated artefacts traverses a range of scales from the familial to the celestial, all connected by the artist’s interest in memory, translation, and the ordering of social and natural worlds.
In 2018 he was recipient of the BMW Art Journey prize at Art Basel. In 2017 he was awarded the Ars Viva Prize and in 2018 he was selected as the seventh recipient of the BMW Art Journey. His work has been exhibited at numerous prominent international venues, including: Museum für Moderne Kunst Frankfurt; Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal; S.M.A.K, Ghent; Kunstverein Munich; and the NTU Centre for Contemporary Art, Singapore. A survey of his practice, Containing Multitudes, was exhibited at City Gallery Wellington, Te Whare Toi, in 2020-21.
Recent projects include: The 11th Asia Pacific Triennial, QAGOMA, Brisbane (2024-25); Chimera, presented at both Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane and Sculpture on the Gulf, Waiheke (2024); Entity Studies at STATION, Sydney (2023); Portals and Omens: New Work from the Collection at Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki (2024); Porous World, Michael Lett 3 East St (2022); Walls to Live Beside, Rooms to Own: The Chartwell Show at Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki (2022-2023); and Lines of Flight, CIAP Vassivière (2022).
