艺术家Judy Millar和Francis Upritchard将代表新西兰参展09威尼斯双年展。他们带来的艺术装置分别为“Giraffe-Bottle-Gun”（长颈鹿-瓶子–枪）和“Save Yourself”（拯救你自己）。
新西兰国家馆将分别位于两个地方，Judy Millar的作品将安装于La Maddalena教堂， Francis Upritchard的“拯救你自己”将安装于Fondazione Claudio Buziol，两个场馆相距不远并同在大运河边。
La Maddalena教堂的广阔空间对Judy Millar的展览来说只管重要，空间上的干扰，错位以及混乱在这里自在上演。一个深层的图像将在这个环绕的空间来回奔涌，挑战着观众的行走路径，环绕并穿越这一建筑空间建立起自己的视野和景象，使人们对内部与外部，大与小，真实与幻象的理解所产生的紧张遍布其间。
而Francis Upritchard的“拯救你自己”包括了几组人物和构造，它们分布在Fondazione Claudio Buziol三个优雅的房间中。每一组人物和构造都处于一个模糊的历史时代场景中，将古代与未来结合，使人感觉既熟悉又不安。
新西兰馆负责人Jenny Harper称赞这两处场馆各有各的有趣之处，一个有小规模的美丽和独特性，而另一个则具有更大但是可以掌控的建筑规模。在这两个场馆中，两位艺术家无疑能将自己的创作才能发挥到极致。
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Judy Millar's "Giraffe-Bottle-Gun" and Francis Upritchard's "Save Yourself"
VENICE.- Two artists will represent New Zealand at the 53rd International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia; Judy Millar’s installation, Giraffe-Bottle-Gun, curated by Leonhard Emmerling and Francis Upritchard’s installation, Save Yourself curated by Heather Galbraith and Francesco Manacorda.
From 7 June– 22 November 2009 the New Zealand Pavilion will be located in two venues; Judy Millar’s installation will be at La Maddalena church, on the Strada Nova. One of Venice’s main thoroughfares, it is parallel to the Grand Canal on one of the prominent walking routes between Venice's train station and the Rialto.
Francis Upritchard’s Save Yourself will be exhibited in the intimate venue of Fondazione Claudio Buziol within Palazzo Mangilli-Valmarana, and is located closer to the Rialto Bridge on the same route. Her second floor grand palazzo exhibition rooms look directly out at the Grand Canal and are a short distance from Judy Millar’s exhibition.
The generous and unusual physical dimensions of La Maddalena are central to Judy Millar’s exhibition Giraffe-Bottle-Gun, allowing a full play of spatial disruptions, dislocations and inversions. A large visceral image will surge and loop around the circular space, channelling the path of the viewer and establishing views and vistas around and across the architectural space. Tensions between notions of inside and outside, large and small and real and illusionistic space will unfold.
The installation Save Yourself by Francis Upritchard will include clusters of figures and structures spread through the elegant three chambers within the Fondazione Claudio Buziol. Each grouping occupies an imaginary landscape which exists in an indeterminate historical period and combines the antique and futuristic, making the scene both familiar and unsettling.
New Zealand’s Commissioner Jenny Harper said, ‘Each venue is interesting in its own right, the Fondazione Claudio Buziol with its smaller-scale charm and uniqueness, and La Maddalena with its larger, but manageable, architectural scale. There is no question that each artist will be able to realise their creative endeavours to the best advantage in these venues.”
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