Imitating Life - The artist as translator of the world around us

The over-used image of the pipe by Rene Magritte is a good example of art imitating life. It is not a pipe at all, merely representation of something we recognise and call "a pipe". 

Whether it is the use of colour to mimic nature, or evocation of some feeling or picture-perfect likeness, all art can ever do is suggest, imply, mimic and imitate. 

Image: Uncle Hone's Cloak, Rhonda Bird 2005.Trust Waikato Collection.

Related Event: Imitating Life - Curator's Floor Talk, 19 June 2015, 1pm - 2pm. 

About the Trust Waikato Art Gallery 

Through the generous contribution of Trust Waikato, Waikato Museum is able to offer this gallery dedicated to exhibiting a rich blend of Trust Waikato artworks and works from the Museum’s own collection.
 
The Trust’s active collection of Waikato relevant artworks and historical documents will often be displayed with some relevance to other museum exhibitions or significant events in the Waikato cultural calendar. Most of the works will have some link to Tainui tangata whenua, the land, the river, representations of the colonial past and the rich history of the Waikato region.
 
Visit the Trust Waikato website here.