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Still from Gregory Bennett's Nature Morte (2017) HD video, 13 minutes, 22 seconds, looped.

New Gregory Bennett Videos

TWO ROOMS

Auckland

 

Gregory Bennett
Nature Morte

 

18 August-16 September 2017

Dystopian animation

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Dirt Future

ARTSPACE AOTEAROA

Auckland

 

2017 new artists show
Dirt Future

 

4 August - 2 September 2017

Emerging artists show

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Koji Ryui's Echoer, as installed downstairs at Michael Lett.

Koji Ryui Exhibition

MICHAEL LETT

Auckland

 

Koji Ryui
Echoer

 

26 July - 26 August 2017

Small ceramic warrior heads


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et al. & Samuel Holloway: Upright Piano, 2013, painted and modified piano, annotated score; et al., DE NIEUWE STEM 1-3, 2006, frame, metal box, light fittings, acrylic & oil stick on paper, mp3 paper, headphones, Chartwell Collection, Auckland Art Gallery

Shout Whisper Wail

AUCKLAND ART GALLERY TOI O TAMAKI

Auckland

 

The 2017 Chartwell Show - a group exhibition

Shout Whisper Wail

20 May - 15 October 2017

2017 Chartwell show

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Billy Apple's Brown Room Subtraction as installed at Mokopōpaki.

Beyond the Brown Cube

MOKOPŌPAKI

Auckland


Billy Apple
Brown Room Substraction

 

2 August - 16 September 2017

Apple at Mokopōpaki

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Martino Gamper: 100 Chairs in 100 Days at City Gallery Wellington, 2017. Photo: Shaun Waugh

Teetering Hybrid Mongrel Furniture

CITY GALLERY WELLINGTON TE WHARE TOI

Wellington

 

Martino Gamper
100 Chairs in 100 Days


8 April -13 August 2017

Gamper’s 100 chairs


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Steve Carr, Motor Reliefs, 2017, Red Cam, 9 channel, duration approx 7 mins looped, unique

Carr at Lett

MICHAEL LETT

Auckland

 

Steve Carr
Variations for Troubled Hands

 

21 June - 22 July 2017

Videos and photography

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Bruce Barber, I Swear installation at Te Tuhi. Photo: Sam Hartnett

Barber ‘On’ Immigration

TE TUHI CENTRE FOR THE ARTS

Auckland

 

Bruce Barber
I Swear

 

13 May - 22 October 2017

Crucial election issue

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Fiona Pardington, Lycaeides melissa (Melissa Blue) wing scales, 1, 2016, photograph.  With thanks Musée Cantonal de Zoologie, Lausanne, Switzerland.

Fiona and Vladimir

STARKWHITE

Auckland

 

Fiona Pardington
Nabokov’s Blues: The Charmed Circle

 

22 June - 23 July 2017

Enlarged butterfly parts


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Dane Mitchell, Sketches of Meteorological Phenomena, 2014 -2017, sand, glass, multiple element, installations dimensions vary.

Mitchell Installation and Scans

HOPKINSON MOSSMAN

Auckland

 

Dane Mitchell
Aeromancy

 

30 June - 29 July 2017

Contrasting working methods

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Individual Happiness Now?

Individual Happiness Now’

Introduction by Roger Horrocks
Len Lye and Robert Graves, A definition of Common Purpose

Published by Govett-Brewster Art Gallery / Len Lye Centre 2017

Are Lye’s thoughts still relevant?

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Yuki Kihara, Odalesque (After Boucher), 2017, printed canvas, frame, positioned on Paradise , 2017, large scale poster. Photo: Sam Hartnett.

Three Shows

ARTSPACE AOTEAROA

Auckland

Part of ‘Singular Pluralities / Plural Singularities’

Yuki Kihara, Sarah Smuts-Kennedy, Shannon Te Ao

Curated by Misal Adnan Yildiz

May 18 - 1 July, 2017

Discordant Artspace combination


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Sarah Lucas, NUD CYCLADIC 3, 6, 10, 2010, all three: nylon tights, synthetic fibre, breeze blocks, steel wire. Tate: Purchased 2012.

The Body Laid Bare: The Show

AUCKLAND ART GALLERY TOI O TAMAKI

Auckland

 

Works from the Tate Collection
The Body Laid Bare: Masterpieces from Tate


18 March -16 July 2017

Some highlights

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Simon Ingram's Digital Plastique exhibition as installed at Gow Langsford.

Human-Robot Duets

GOW LANGSFORD GALLERY

Auckland

 

Simon Ingram
Digital Plastique

 

31 May-24 June 2017

Ingram’s latest ‘collaboration’

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Still from Jeremy Leatinu'u's Earthpushers, 2017, video work commissioned by Te Tuhi.

Ferrying the Spiritual

TE TUHI CENTRE FOR THE ARTS

Pakuranga

 

Jeremy Leatinu’u
Earthpushers

 

13 May - 22 October 2017

Jeremy Leatinu’u’s video


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Yona Lee, In Transit (Arrival), 2017, as installed. Commissioned by Te Tuhi, Auckland, in association with Auckland Arts Festival. Photo by Sam Hartnett.

Crossing Barriers

TE TUHI CENTRE FOR THE ARTS

Pakuranga

 

Yona Lee
In Transit (Arrival)

 

11 March - 19 November 2017

 

Yona Lee installation

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Tony de Lautour, Modern Letters 1, 2017, oil and acrylic on board in found frame, 1580 x 970 mm

De Lautour’s Contemporary Epistles

IVAN ANTHONY GALLERY

Auckland

 

Tony de Lautour
Modern Letters

 

17 May -10 June 2017

A reinvented alphabet

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Installation of Glen Snow's Would Not Frame at Antoinette Godkin.

Repurposing Framing Elements

ANTOINETTE GODKIN

Auckland

 

Glen Snow
Would not frame

 

2 May - 27 May 2017

Staying on the wall


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Still from Beatriz Santiago Muñoz, That which identifies them like the eye of the Cyclops, 2016. Three-channel digital video, sound, colour; 10:11 minutes.

Beatriz Santiago Muñoz at AUT

TE WAI NGUTU KĀKĀ GALLERY THREE

Auckland

 

Beatriz Santiago Muñoz
Their movements retain the light of the sun

 

13 April - 26 May 2017

Art from Puerto Rico

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Alex Vivian, Entry level sculpture (things), 2015, metal fencing, iron, wire, handbag, clothing cut-offs, rust, flannelette, glue, paper, plastic plane, towel, synthetic fur, adhesive, 500 x 1200 x 250 approx. mm

Frottage Cottage

HOPKINSON MOSSMAN

Auckland

 

Group show 

Frottage Cottage

 

19 April - 20 May 2017

Intriguing Surrealist show

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Rematerialised, as installed at Demo. Photo: Sait Akkirman

Materialised Painting – a Reprise, an Echo

DEMO

Auckland

 

Group exhibition
Rematerialised


27 April - 29 April 2017

The objectness theme