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NameExtensum/Extensor
ProductionPauline Rhodes; artist; 1982; Christchurch
Classificationworks of art, installations (visual works)
Materialspaper, wood, steel, plastic, paint
Materials Summarypaper, wood, steel, plastic and paint.
Techniquessculpture techniques
DimensionsOverall: 8229mm (width), 5486mm (height), 17068mm (length)
Registration Number1983-0082-1
Credit linePurchased 1983 with New Zealand Lottery Board funds
Overview
Extensum/Extensor began when Pauline Rhodes created a series of ‘landscape extensions’, placing green rods, or ‘extensors’, in outdoor settings around Banks Peninsula. She saw these temporary installations as ‘exploring wide open space and panoramic vistas’.
Here, the work is enclosed. Rolls of rusted paper replace the iron-rich soil of Banks Peninsula. From their paper base, the extensors seem to strain beyond the gallery, reaching towards the ‘wide open space’ they have known.