Judy Millar: Giraffe-Bottle-Gun | 2009
Published 2009 by Kerber Verlag, Germany.
54 pages.
240 x 150mm, softcover, with colour illustrations
Edited by Leonhard Emmerling
With an essay by Jennifer Gross
Design and photography by Harald Richter
ISBN 978-3-86678-313-3
'It is with great pleasure that New Zealand presents Giraffe-Bottle-Gun, an extraordinary installation by Judy Millar at the 53rd La Biennale di Venezia 2009. . . Judy Millar 'takes over' the interior of La Maddelena, a circular church in Cannareggio - indeed, there is a sense in which her site literally becomes her canvas. . .
The alignment of her thinking with the theme of this Biennale, Making Worlds, is as uncanny as her painted (and sculpted) installation. For Millar has constructed an impressive and remarkable series of worlds in the presentation of her work to date, worlds which grew from her beginnings in Aotearoa New Zealand, but equally which are connected visually to Europe, especially Venice. Millar's exploration of the continuum of art practice - from Tintoretto to more recent abstraction - made her selection compelling on this occasion.'
— Foreword by Jenny Harper, New Zealand Commissioner, Venice Biennale 2009
