Zac Langdon-Pole
Biography
Zac Langdon Pole, Breath as Breath, 2020 (film, 11min 38secs). Music by Samuel Holloway. Exhibition view as seen in ‘Lines of Flight’ CIAP Vassiviere, photo by Aurélien Mole.
Zac Langdon Pole, Translatio Studii (No such thing as Western Civilisation), 2020 (ceramic fragments, brass staples, 73 x 173 x 186mm)
Zac Langdon-Pole, Passport (Argonauta) (v), 2018, paper nautilus shell, Sericho meteorite (iron pallasite, landsite: Sericho, Kenya) 107 x 33 x 56mm
Zac Langdon-Pole, Containing Multitudes, Installation View, City Gallery Wellington, 2021
Zac Langdon-Pole, Containing Multitudes, Installation View, City Gallery Wellington, 2021
Zac Langdon-Pole, Ars Viva 2018, Installation View, Kunstverein München, 2017
Zac Langdon-Pole, La Biennale de Montréal, Installation view, 2016-17 / Photo: Guy L’Heureux
Zac Langdon-Pole, La Biennale de Montréal, Installation view, 2016-17 / Photo: Guy L’Heureux
Zac Langdon-Pole, La Biennale de Montréal, Installation view, 2016-17 / Photo: Guy L’Heureux
Zac Langdon-Pole, Lacunae Mouths (detail), 2016, six chrome mouth casts, chain, shackles, dimensions variable
Zac Langdon-Pole, Gloss (3. Bones kiss sour air), 2016, framed digital photograph, de-bossed text 382 x 474 x 28mm
Zac Langdon-Pole, Gloss (2. Where Paradise Storms), 2016, framed digital photograph, de-bossed text 382 x 474 x 28mm
Zac Langdon-Pole, Lacunae Mouths, 2016, six chrome mouth casts, chain, shackles, dimensions variable, Installation view, Michael Lett, 2016
Zac Langdon-Pole, Au Hazard (borer cabinet), 2016, Rimu and glass cabinet, 24ct pure gold, 427 x 908 x 760mm
Zac Langdon-Pole, On the Shoulders of Giants, Kunsthalle Mainz, 2016
Zac Langdon-Pole, The Torture Garden (verso view), 2016, framed digital print, photograph taken by Willem de Rooij, 2015, digital prints, Problem Poem 2, quote from p.g. 2, The Torture Garden, by Octave Mirbeau, 1889
Zac Langdon-Pole, end of history, 2015, framed digital print, photograph taken by Willem de Rooij, 2015, digital prints, The Union Jack and the Southern Cross, by Miri Davidson, The New Inquiry, March 24 2015
Museum für Moderne Kunst Frankfurt am Main
Zac Langdon-Pole, My Body… (Brendan Pole), 2015, 297 individual photographs, 15 x 10cm each, overall dimensions variable, Installation view, La Biennale de Montréal, 2016-17 / Photo: Guy L’Heureux
Zac Langdon-Pole, Lacunae Mouth (shell fossil), 2016, chrome mouth cast, chain, shell fossil, chain, shackles, dimensions variable
Zac Langdon-Pole, King Bird of Paradise (Apoda), 2016, re-prepared taxidermy bird of paradise, glass vitrine case (altered), Installation view, Triennale Kleinplastik, Fellbach, 2016
Zac Langdon-Pole, King Bird of Paradise (Apoda), 2016, re-prepared taxidermy bird of paradise, glass vitrine case (altered), Installation view, Triennale Kleinplastik, Fellbach, 2016
Zac Langdon-Pole, Pieces of 8, 2015, single channel HD digital film, 5’17min, Installation view, The Physics Room, Christchurch, 2015-16
Zac Langdon-Pole, The Pearl Diver, 2015, anchor chain, steel shackle, gold, ‘Alien Sex Robot’ (Dan Arps, 2010), polystyrene, digital prints, acrylic paint, dimensions variable
Zac Langdon-Pole, The Pearl Diver, 2015, anchor chain, steel shackle, gold, ‘Alien Sex Robot’ (Dan Arps, 2010), polystyrene, digital prints, acrylic paint, dimensions variable
Zac Langdon-Pole, [sic], Blue Oyster Art Project Space, Dunedin, New Zealand, 2014
Zac Langdon-Pole, [sic], Installation view, Blue Oyster Art Project Space, Dunedin, 2014
Zac Langdon-Pole, Meine Bilder, Installation view, The Physics Room, Christchurch, 2014
Zac Langdon-Pole, Untitled, 2012, fabric, cotton, 2130 x 1320mm
Zac Langdon-Pole, Nothing By Itself, Installation view, Michael Lett, 2012
Zac Langdon-Pole, Nothing By Itself, Installation view, Michael Lett, 2012
Zac Langdon-Pole, T.O., 2012, found canvas, un-stretched, reversed and re-stretched, 868 x 744mm
Zac Langdon Pole, Translatio Studii (No such thing as Western Civilisation), 2020 (ceramic fragments, brass staples, 73 x 173 x 186mm)
Zac Langdon-Pole, Containing Multitudes, Installation View, City Gallery Wellington, 2021
Zac Langdon-Pole, Ars Viva 2018, Installation View, Kunstverein München, 2017
Zac Langdon-Pole, La Biennale de Montréal, Installation view, 2016-17 / Photo: Guy L’Heureux
Zac Langdon-Pole, Lacunae Mouths (detail), 2016, six chrome mouth casts, chain, shackles, dimensions variable
Zac Langdon-Pole, Gloss (2. Where Paradise Storms), 2016, framed digital photograph, de-bossed text 382 x 474 x 28mm
Zac Langdon-Pole, Au Hazard (borer cabinet), 2016, Rimu and glass cabinet, 24ct pure gold, 427 x 908 x 760mm
Zac Langdon-Pole, The Torture Garden (verso view), 2016, framed digital print, photograph taken by Willem de Rooij, 2015, digital prints, Problem Poem 2, quote from p.g. 2, The Torture Garden, by Octave Mirbeau, 1889
Zac Langdon-Pole, My Body… (Brendan Pole), 2015, 297 individual photographs, 15 x 10cm each, overall dimensions variable, Installation view, La Biennale de Montréal, 2016-17 / Photo: Guy L’Heureux
Zac Langdon-Pole, King Bird of Paradise (Apoda), 2016, re-prepared taxidermy bird of paradise, glass vitrine case (altered), Installation view, Triennale Kleinplastik, Fellbach, 2016
Zac Langdon-Pole, Pieces of 8, 2015, single channel HD digital film, 5’17min, Installation view, The Physics Room, Christchurch, 2015-16
Zac Langdon-Pole, The Pearl Diver, 2015, anchor chain, steel shackle, gold, ‘Alien Sex Robot’ (Dan Arps, 2010), polystyrene, digital prints, acrylic paint, dimensions variable
Zac Langdon-Pole, [sic], Installation view, Blue Oyster Art Project Space, Dunedin, 2014
Zac Langdon-Pole, Untitled, 2012, fabric, cotton, 2130 x 1320mm
Zac Langdon-Pole, Nothing By Itself, Installation view, Michael Lett, 2012
Zac Langdon-Pole
Born 1988, Auckland (NZ). Lives and works in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland (NZ)
Zac Langdon-Pole’s 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. 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.
A survey of his practice, Containing Multitudes, was exhibited at City Gallery Wellington, Te Whare Toi, in 2020. In 2018 Langdon-Pole was selected as the seventh recipient of the BMW Art Journey and in 2017 he was the recipient of the Ars Viva Prize. Recent projects include: Walls to Live Beside, Rooms to Own: The Chartwell Show at Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki (2022-2023); Lines of Flight / Lignes de Fuite at the Centre International d’Art et du Paysage, L’ile de Vassiviere, France (2022) Splendide Mendax, (with Daniel Boyd) at STATION Gallery, Melbourne (2021-2022); the body and its outside, Michael Lett, Auckland (2021).
From February to May 2022 Langdon-Pole was the McCahon House Artist in Residence at Parehuia, Titirangi.
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Zac Langdon Pole, Breath as Breath, 2020 (film, 11min 38secs). Music by Samuel Holloway. Exhibition view as seen in ‘Lines of Flight’ CIAP Vassiviere, photo by Aurélien Mole.
Zac Langdon Pole, Translatio Studii (No such thing as Western Civilisation), 2020 (ceramic fragments, brass staples, 73 x 173 x 186mm)
Zac Langdon-Pole, Passport (Argonauta) (v), 2018, paper nautilus shell, Sericho meteorite (iron pallasite, landsite: Sericho, Kenya) 107 x 33 x 56mm
Zac Langdon-Pole, Containing Multitudes, Installation View, City Gallery Wellington, 2021
Zac Langdon-Pole, Containing Multitudes, Installation View, City Gallery Wellington, 2021
Zac Langdon-Pole, Ars Viva 2018, Installation View, Kunstverein München, 2017
Zac Langdon-Pole, La Biennale de Montréal, Installation view, 2016-17 / Photo: Guy L’Heureux
Zac Langdon-Pole, La Biennale de Montréal, Installation view, 2016-17 / Photo: Guy L’Heureux
Zac Langdon-Pole, La Biennale de Montréal, Installation view, 2016-17 / Photo: Guy L’Heureux
Zac Langdon-Pole, Lacunae Mouths (detail), 2016, six chrome mouth casts, chain, shackles, dimensions variable
Zac Langdon-Pole, Gloss (3. Bones kiss sour air), 2016, framed digital photograph, de-bossed text 382 x 474 x 28mm
Zac Langdon-Pole, Gloss (2. Where Paradise Storms), 2016, framed digital photograph, de-bossed text 382 x 474 x 28mm
Zac Langdon-Pole, Lacunae Mouths, 2016, six chrome mouth casts, chain, shackles, dimensions variable, Installation view, Michael Lett, 2016
Zac Langdon-Pole, Au Hazard (borer cabinet), 2016, Rimu and glass cabinet, 24ct pure gold, 427 x 908 x 760mm
Zac Langdon-Pole, On the Shoulders of Giants, Kunsthalle Mainz, 2016
Zac Langdon-Pole, The Torture Garden (verso view), 2016, framed digital print, photograph taken by Willem de Rooij, 2015, digital prints, Problem Poem 2, quote from p.g. 2, The Torture Garden, by Octave Mirbeau, 1889
Zac Langdon-Pole, end of history, 2015, framed digital print, photograph taken by Willem de Rooij, 2015, digital prints, The Union Jack and the Southern Cross, by Miri Davidson, The New Inquiry, March 24 2015 Museum für Moderne Kunst Frankfurt am Main
Zac Langdon-Pole, My Body… (Brendan Pole), 2015, 297 individual photographs, 15 x 10cm each, overall dimensions variable, Installation view, La Biennale de Montréal, 2016-17 / Photo: Guy L’Heureux
Zac Langdon-Pole, Lacunae Mouth (shell fossil), 2016, chrome mouth cast, chain, shell fossil, chain, shackles, dimensions variable
Zac Langdon-Pole, King Bird of Paradise (Apoda), 2016, re-prepared taxidermy bird of paradise, glass vitrine case (altered), Installation view, Triennale Kleinplastik, Fellbach, 2016
Zac Langdon-Pole, King Bird of Paradise (Apoda), 2016, re-prepared taxidermy bird of paradise, glass vitrine case (altered), Installation view, Triennale Kleinplastik, Fellbach, 2016
Zac Langdon-Pole, Pieces of 8, 2015, single channel HD digital film, 5’17min, Installation view, The Physics Room, Christchurch, 2015-16
Zac Langdon-Pole, The Pearl Diver, 2015, anchor chain, steel shackle, gold, ‘Alien Sex Robot’ (Dan Arps, 2010), polystyrene, digital prints, acrylic paint, dimensions variable
Zac Langdon-Pole, The Pearl Diver, 2015, anchor chain, steel shackle, gold, ‘Alien Sex Robot’ (Dan Arps, 2010), polystyrene, digital prints, acrylic paint, dimensions variable
Zac Langdon-Pole, [sic], Blue Oyster Art Project Space, Dunedin, New Zealand, 2014
Zac Langdon-Pole, [sic], Installation view, Blue Oyster Art Project Space, Dunedin, 2014
Zac Langdon-Pole, Meine Bilder, Installation view, The Physics Room, Christchurch, 2014
Zac Langdon-Pole, Untitled, 2012, fabric, cotton, 2130 x 1320mm
Zac Langdon-Pole, Nothing By Itself, Installation view, Michael Lett, 2012
Zac Langdon-Pole, Nothing By Itself, Installation view, Michael Lett, 2012
Zac Langdon-Pole, T.O., 2012, found canvas, un-stretched, reversed and re-stretched, 868 x 744mm