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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

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Richard Killeen, Alive in New Zealand, 1971, oil on hardboard, 420 x 570 mm

‘Oafish’ AND Urbane Killeen

IVAN ANTHONY GALLERY

Auckland

 

Richard Killeen
Forty-Eight Years In Between

 

5 June - 29 June 2019

Juxtaposed but opposing mindsets

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PĀNiA!, Honorary Consulate (Mobile Cardboard Detachment) (2019), cardboard, adhesive, masking tape, plastic toy lawn mower. 49 x 31.5 x 78 cm. Photo: Arekahānara

Ambassadorial Preoccupations

MOKOPŌPAKI

Auckland

 

PᾹNiA!, Yllwbro, A.A.M. Bos
The Dutch Embassy


1 May - 22 June 2019

Three artists interwoven

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Ron Left, Escalator 4, 2017, acrylic and digital photography on aluminium, 900 x 1600 mm

Ron Left’s Media Hybridity

ARTIS Gallery

Auckland

 

Ron Left
Shadow Series

 

11 June - 24 June, 2019

Painting over photography

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Mark Schroder, 'Goldkorp' as installed at RM. Detail. Photo: Sam Hartnett

Schroder’s Allegorical Installation

RM

Auckland

 

Mark Schroder
Goldkorp

 

22 May - 7 June 2019

Perils of dubious gold investment

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Esther Leigh, Verge 1, 2019, mixed medium, 560 x 640 mm unframed

Esther Leigh Mini-Survey

ANTOINETTE GODKIN

Auckland

 

Esther Leigh
Weight

 

14 May - 15 June 2019

Enigmatic perceptual processes

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Cao Fei, Asia One, 2018. Image © the artist and Vitamin Creative Space. Photography by Sam Hartnett.

A Fresh Curatorial Approach

GUS FISHER GALLERY

Auckland

 

International group show

We’re Not Too Big to Care

 

6 April - 15 June 2019

A re-energised Gus Fisher

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Richard McWhannell, Are We Nearly There Yet? AKA, Call of the Wild, 2017-18, oil on canvas, 707 x 832 mm

McWhannell’s Oneiric Social Panoramas

OREXART

Auckland

 

Richard McWhannell
Truth or Consequences

 

11 May - 31 May 2019

Surreal Facescapes

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Julian Hooper, Sisters, 2019, acrylic on canvas, 300 x 460 mm

Hooper’s Faces of ‘Ribbon’

IVAN ANTHONY GALLERY

Auckland

 

Julian Hooper
The Room Takes Shape

 


8 May - 1 June 2019

Diagrammatic Visages

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Marlee McMahon, M-tooth, 2019, acrylic on canvas (2 panels), 705 mm x 610 mm (left); 845 mm x 720 mm (right)

Aberrant Abstraction

BOWERBANK NINOW

Auckland

 

Marlee McMahon
Carbonated

 

2 May - 1 June 2019

Eccentric, oddball and clever

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Yonel Watene, Hongi, 2019, Macrocapa, Ash, Kauri, Redwood, Pine, Tawa; Linseed, Teak and Danish oils; turpentine, oil paint, carnauba wax. lmage courtesy of ArtsDiary

Two Seas Simultaneously

TE WAI NGUTU KĀKĀ GALLERY TWO

Auckland

 

Group show
Two Oceans at Once

15 February - 17 May 2019

An AUT exhibition

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Gavin Hipkins, The Valley (2019), digital video still, 14 minutes.Image courtesy of the artist and Starkwhite.

Hipkins’ Devonshire Video

TE URU WAITAKERE CONTEMPORARY GALLERY

Titirangi

 

Gavin Hipkins
The Valley

 


23 February - 2 June 2019

Adjacent to The Homely II

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‘Deconsecrating’ City Gallery so it reverts to being a library?

EyeContact (teenie weenie) Essay #29

Why kill a gallery to save a library?

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