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Wai Ching Chan at Window

WINDOW UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND

Aucland

 

Wai Ching Chan
Hold

 

4 September - 28 September 2019

Māori and Chinese synthesis

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Installation of Campbell Patterson's 'Tight Jeans' digital videos: one 2018, the other 2007; one 51'57'', the other 46'09''.

Patterson at Lett

MICHAEL LETT

Auckland

 

Campbell Patterson
diaries

 

7 September - 5 October 2019

Videos and paintings

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Richard Bryant, Link, 2019, acrylic on panel, 300 x 350 mm

Richard Bryant Paintings

IVAN ANTHONY GALLERY

Auckland

 

Richard Bryant
The Circle and the Seal

 

28 August - 21 September 2019

Channelled control?


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Installation of Anh Tran's And then, one day, my love, you come out of eternity, at Artspace Aotearoa. Photo: Andrea Christache

Emerging Artists at Artspace

ARTSPACE AOTEAROA

Auckland

 

Daniel John Corbett Sanders, Anh Trần

First part of 4/4


31 August - 28 September 2019

 

The first two (of four)

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Patrick Lundberg’s Wall ‘Slots’

IVAN ANTHONY GALLERY

Auckland

 

Patrick Lundberg
In the Vastness of Sorrowful Thoughts


28 August - 21 September 2018

Precise mathematics microsized

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Tomislav Nikolic, pay the prophets to justify your reason, 2018 - 2019, mixed media.

Tomislav Nikolic: Eight Paintings

FOX JENSEN MCCRORY

Auckland

 

Tomislav Nikolic
pay the prophets to justify your reasons

 

15 August - 14 September 2019

Two approaches


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Yuk King Tan, Crisis Of The Ordinary, 2019, string, collected protest objects from Hong Kong, Korea and New Zealand, dimensions variable. Photo: Sam Hartnett

Yuk King Tan in Auckland

STARKWHITE

Auckland

 

Yuk King Tan
Crisis of the Ordinary

 

21 August - 7 September 2019

Three installations and a video

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Fiona Clark, Chris Dickenson, Mr America 1970, Mr Universe 1974 and Grand Prix 1980 winner, Auckland, 1980, Vintage C-Type handprint on Agfacolor Paper, printed 1981, 250 x 365 mm (paper size).

An Unusual Pairing

MICHAEL LETT

Auckland

 

Dan Arps and Fiona Clark
Fiona Clark and Dan Arps

 

31 July - 31 August 2019

Arps and Clark combination

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Joyce Campbell, Flightdream, 2015 (installation view). Image © the artist and Two Rooms, Auckland. Photograph by Sam Hartnett.

The Slipping Away

GUS FISHER GALLERY

Auckland

 

Group exhibition

The Slipping Away



6 July - 7 September 2019

Pollutants, monsters and light


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A still from Richard Billingham's Ray and Liz. The image shows Lol, played by Tony Way.,

NZIFF ’19 Overall

Auckland

 

New Zealand International Film Festival
Various theatres around Auckland

 

18 July - 4 August 2019

An attempted summing up

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Front cover of Richard von Sturmer's 'Postcard Stories': Mayon Volcano, Albay Province, Philippines..

Releasing the Benefits of a Wild Imagination

Richard von Sturmer

 

Postcard Stories


Titus Books, Kaipara, 2019

Stimulating creative writing

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Alberto Garcia-Alvarez: 2014-102, 2014, mixed media on wood, 570 x 245 x 40 mm; 2017-107, 2017, mixed media on wood, 415 x 155 x 40 mm

Lines in Real and Optical Space

TIM MELVILLE GALLERY

Auckland

 

Alberto Garcia-Alvarez
Labyrinth

 

16 July - 17 August 2019

Colour as Modifier


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Image from 'Capital in the 21st Century'. The film is based on Thomas Piketty's book and directed by Justin Pemberton

A Thin Slice of NZIFF 2019 So Far

Auckland

 

New Zealand International Film Festival

Various cinemas around Auckland City

 

18 July - 4 August 2019

A varied programme of engrossing quality

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Installation of Leigh Martin's Mass (Squared) exhibition at Two Rooms. Photo: Sam Hartnett

Mysterious Leigh Martin Paintings

TWO ROOMS

auckland

 

Leigh Martin
Mass (Squared)

 

12 July -10 August 2019

Overtones of Surrealism

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Guy Ngan, Newton Post Office Mural, 1973, aluminium, 2900 x 7250 mm. Courtesy of Auckland Art Gallery. Photo: Sam Hartnett

Guy Ngan at Artspace

ARTSPACE AOTEAROA

Auckland

 

Guy Ngan
Either Possible or Necessary

7 June - 17 August 2019

Co-ordinating with The Dowse


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Eric Baudelaire's Letters to max, 2014, HD video, colour, 5:1, surround, 103 mins. As installed at Te Tuhi. Photo: Sam Hartnett

Whose Body? Whose Country?

TE TUHI CENTRE FOR THE ARTS

Pakuranga

 

Baudelaire, Riddiford Graham; Wardill
Wax Tablet

9 June - 11 August 2019

Andrew Kennedy’s Wax Tablet

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David Cowlard, Unreliable Landscapes -- Downtown, Auckland, 2017 (I-III). Photo: Sam Hartnett

Cowlard’s Billboards

Te Tuhi Billboards

Aucklasnd

 

David Cowlard
Unreliable Landscapes - Downtown, Auckland, 2017 (I - III)

 

9 June - 11 August 2019

CBD architecture meets Pakuranga

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Connah Podmore, The body also holds mine, 2019, charcoal on paper. Detail. As installed on Te Tuhi's Drawing Wall. Photo: Sam Hartnett

Podmore Drawing/Text

Te Tuhi’s Drawing Wall

Auckland

 

Connah Podmore
This Body Also Holds Mine

 

9 June - 11 August 2019

A meditation on maternal bonding


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Justine Varga, Alopecia, 2016, chromogenic photograph, 110.5 x 91.5 cm (framed). Photo: Sam Hartnett

Justine Varga’s Photograms

TWO ROOMS

Auckland

 

Justine Varga
Memoire

 

31 May - 6 July 2019

The use of bodily, politically-loaded, ‘stencils’

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Installation shot of Conor Clarke's photgraphs in 'Unchained Melody' at Two Rooms. Photo: Sam Hartnett.

Conor Clarke’s Processual Allegory

TWO ROOMS

Auckland

 

Conor Clarke
Unchained Melody

 

31 May - 6 July 2019

Richly layered installation

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Fiona Pardington, TIKI: Orphans of Māoriland, 2019, installation view. With thanks to the Wellcome Collection | Science Museum Group. Photo: Sam Hartnett

Dodgy but Numinous

STARKWHITE

Auckland

 

Fiona Pardington
Tiki: Orphans of Māoriland

 

12 June -11 July 2019

Images of fake Māori tiki