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Dan Arps, The Downward Spiral

Arps Book

DDNNYY, 2012

Dan Arps

The Downward Spiral
Text by Dan Arps and Tahi Moore

Hardcover, 192 pp

Arps and Moore text with Soh design

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Cover image of Hermes' Lack of Words: attributed to near the Black Fury Group, painter (Greek [Apulian], activie early 300s B.C.). Wine Jug with Arkas and His Mother, Kallisto, and the God Hermes. Terracotta Object. The J. Paul Getty Museum, Villa Coll.

Jamming the Signals

Hermes’ Lack of Words
Commissioning Editor: Alex Davidson
Texts: Jannides, Leach, Pollard, Graham, Daumal, Rimbaud
Visual contributions: de Boer, Cooper, Nashashibi, Hsu; Jannides
Softcover; 72 pp; b/w & colour illustrations
Artspace 2013

Artspace publication

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Matt Ellwood and Yoon Tae Kim's billboards at Te Tuhi's Reeves Rd site.

McDonalds As Architectural Icon

TE TUHI CENTRE FOR THE ARTS

Pakuranga

 

Matt Ellwood and Yoon Tae Kim
Te Tuhi Billboards

 

3 August - 20 October 2013

A madeover franchise


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Bepen Bhana, Postcards from the Edge, at Te Tuhi.

High Country Bollywood

TE TUHI CENTRE FOR THE ARTS

Pakuranga

 

Bepen Bhana
Postcards from the Edge

 

4 May - 29 September 2013

Bepen Bhana paintings

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Monique Hansen's Drawing Wall project at Te Tuhi.

Incising the Wall

TE TUHI CENTRE FOR THE ARTS

Auckland

 

Monique Jansen
Drawing Wall

 

3 August - 20 October 2013

Jansen’s novel way of creating a drawing

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Dan Arps, White Paintings, at Ferarispace

Arps at Ferari

FERARISPACE

Auckland

 

Dan Arps
White Paintings

 

13 September - 28 September 2013

As if painting with bodily secretions


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Peter Robinson: Acktion Paintings, 5-8, 2006-2008; Ack (re-Ack) 2006-2013

Robinson’s Ack Painting & Sculptural Explorations

HOPKINSON MOSSMAN

Auckland

 

Peter Robinson
Acktion Painting / Acktion Sculpture

 

13 September - 12 October 2013

Made Acktive

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Leigh Martin's Shimmer at Fox Jensen

Nacreous Delights

FOX JENSEN MCCRORY

Auckland

 

Leigh Martin
Shimmer

 

27 August - 28 September 2013

Switching wavelengths

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Martin Boyce: Of Kisses, 2009, Jesmonite and steel, 2250 x 1600 mm; Untitled 2008, steel, cotton, 2200 x 1300 x 70 mm. (Installation view).

A Milgrom Collection Sampler

AUCKLAND ART GALLERY TOI O TAMAKI

Auckland

 

From the Naomi Milgrom Collection
A Puppet, a Pauper, a Pirate, a Poet, a Pawn and a King


31 August 2013 - 27 January 2014

Conland’s carefully assembled selection


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Michael Stevenson, Proof of the Devil, 2008-2013, HD projection 25' 38 " (loop) Spanish with English subtitles; 4 channel sound installation 10' loop: steel, wood, paper, rock, plastic, electrical and electronic components, dimensions variable

Stevenson at Lett

MICHAEL LETT

Auckland

 

Michael Stevenson
Proof of the Devil

 

23 August - 28 September 2013

Panama in the seventies

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Blue Guts by Mark Braunias and Jill Kennedy, at the Film Archive: Egg Head, 2013, animation; Shit Face, 2013, animation

Braunias – Kennedy Collaboration

THE FILM ARCHIVE AUCKLAND

Auckland

 

Mark Braunias & Jill Kennedy
Blue Guts

 

3 September - 11 October

Evocative abstract animation

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Nick Austin, Shark Envelope, 2013, acrylic on canvas, 970 x 1940 mm

Terror in the Letterbox

HOPKINSON MOSSMAN

Auckland

 

Nick Austin
Total Dread

 

7 August - 6 September 2013

Nick Austin installation


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Greg Semu, Battle of the Noble Savage, Illford galerie, gold fibre silk, 350gsm 1000 x 1000mm, ©Musée Quai Branly & Greg Semu 2007

Greg Semu’s Battling ‘Noble Savages’

TWO ROOMS

Auckland

 

Greg Semu
Battle of the Noble Savage

 

23 August - 28 September 2013

Aotearoa’s ‘Forest of Signs’

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Oscar Enberg, Boothseat for Pukahontas, two pot automotive paint, fibreglass, permanent marker, powder-coated and chrome plated aluminium, leather, hand blown glass, rose plant, 3D printed plastic and brass spoon, 1200 x 600 x 510 mm

Unusual Synthesis

GLORIA KNIGHT

Auckland

 

Oscar Enberg
The Pynchons S01E01

 

15 August - 31 August 2013

Literature blended into American television

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Installation of The Other Place at Allpress Gallery

Eight Elam Graduates

ALLPRESS GALLERY

Auckland

 

Group show
The Other Place


7 August - 23 August 2013

 

New Freeman’s Bay Gallery


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Mladen Bizumic's Kodachrome Presents on the Edmiston North Scuplture Terrace of Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki

Bizumic on the Terrace

AUCKLAND ART GALLERY TOI O TAMAKI

Auckland

 

Mladen Bizumic
Kodachrome Presents


10 August 2013 - 6 April 2014

Tribute and gentle provocation

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Manon de Boer, One, two, many, 2012, 16 mm film transferred to HD video, 16:9, 21 mins, 38 secs.  Installed at Artspace. Photo by Sam Hartnett

Before and During Speech

ARTSPACE AOTEAROA

Auckland

 

Hsu, de Boer, Cooper, Nashashibi, Jannides
Hermes’ Lack of Words


26 July - 31 August 2013

Ruminations on language

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Julian Dashper (l-r): Untitled (2006),2 stacked reversed triangular primed canvases, 220 x 255 x 75 mm; Untitled (The End of All Obsessive Behaviour) Part 3, 2002, 4 stacked primed canvases, 155 x 155 x 170 mm; Untitled (2006), 3 joined primed canvases

Layered Dashper

MICHAEL LETT

Auckland

 

Julian Dashper
Untitled

 

2 August - 17 August 2013

Installation changed


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Roger Boyce, left to right: Mountain Head, 2011; Hills Head, 2011; Road Head, 2011 - all oil on board, 1300 x 1000 mm

Multiple Boyce

BATH STREET GALLERY

Auckland

 

Roger Boyce
Rock to Hide My Face

 

24 July -17 August 2013

Unique or conveyor belt production?

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Georgie Hill: Left to right; Horizon-line (pale fictions); Corner trellis (still life with Ruhlmann 'Coiffeuse a tapis' vanity); Pale fictions #3. Photo by Sam Hartnett

Georgie Hill Exhibition

IVAN ANTHONY GALLERY

Auckland

 

Georgie Hill
Pale Fictions

 

24 July - 17 August 2013

Studying modernist chair forms

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Clinton Watkins' Frequency Colour at Starkwhite. Photo: Sam Hartnett

Clinton Watkins Installation

STARKWHITE

Auckland

 

Clinton Watkins
Frequency Colour

 

25 July -17 August 2013

Sound driven opticality