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Mark O'Donnell, Post, 2013, and Double Backboard, 2013. Photo: Sam Hartnett

When Functionality Replaces the Optical

ARTSPACE AOTEAROA

Auckland

 

Mark O’Donnell
Titan

 

25 October - 16 November 2013

Nonvisual properties of paint

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Mark Braunias, Untitled, 2013, diptich, coloured cutouts, 850 x 1200 mm

Paper Versus Canvas

BATH STREET GALLERY

Auckland

 

Mark Braunias
Encyclo Dimensional

 

30 October - 23 November 2013

Looking at surface

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Installation of Tomislav Nikolic's Utopia: The Ending of Glamour, at Fox Jensen

The Nooks and Crannies of a Painting

FOX JENSEN MCCRORY

Auckland

 

Tomislav Nikolic
Utopia: The Ending of Grammar

 

8 October - 16 November 2013

Normally ignored surfaces


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Andrew Barber, Yankee, 2013, patchwork cotton, 3200 x 3200 mm

Andrew Barber’s Floor and Wall Flags

HOPKINSON MOSSMAN

Auckland

 

Andrew Barber
Flags

 

18 October - 16 November 2013

New immersive installation

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Gregory Bennett, Utopia IV, HD video, duration of loop: 8.49 mins

Gregory Bennett’s Quick-Stepping Hordes

TWO ROOMS

Auckland

 

Gregory Bennett
Dromospheres

 

4 October - 2 November 2013

Satirical visceral videos

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Gloria Knight, Werk, 2013, detail, as installed at Gloria Knight

Venue as Artistic Persona

GLORIA KNIGHT

Auckland

 

Gloria Knight

Werk

 

10 October - 26 October 20013

Constructed dealer fronting as artist


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Paul Lee, Washcloth Stills, 2010, towels, ink, paint, thread, wire hoops, each 285 x 310 mm

Paul Lee at Lett

MICHAEL LETT

Auckland

 

Paul Lee
Active Light

 

2 October - 9 November 2013

Towelling wall works

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Rohan Wealleans, Black Widow, 2013, acrylic on canvas, 150 x 150 cm. On the far right: Space Map 2 and Space Map 3

Assorted Wealleans

IVAN ANTHONY GALLERY

Auckland

 

Rohan Wealleans
MINDSTORM

 

25 September - 19 October 2013

Parallel investigations

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Li Xiaofei, A Foreign Boss

China’s Approach to Fordism

STARKWHITE

Auckland

 

Li Xiaofei
Assembly Line-Entrance

 

3 October - 26 October 2013

Working conditions on the assembly line


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Rewiti Arapere, Te Aitanga-a-tiki, 2013, cardboard, permanent marker, paint marker, 1000 x 1000 x 500mm; image courtesy of the artist

Artist / Curator Collaboration

Corner

Auckland

 

Solo exhibition
Rewiti Arapere


18 September - 16 October 2013

Waikato-Manukau connection

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David Cross's Level Playing Field/Powerslide on the corner of Gloucester St and Colombo St, part of SCAPE7

David Cross’s ‘Level Playing Field / Powerslide’

SCAPE7

Christchurch

 

David Cross

Level Playing Field/Powerslide

 

27 September - 9 November 2013

Art as a competitive sport

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Porous Moonlight as installed at Papakura Art Gallery. Works by Denys watkins and Dan Arps

Painting Survey in Papakura

PAPAKURA ART GALLERY

Papakura

 

Group exhibition of paintings
Porous Moonlight


7 September - 19 October 2013

Adventurous selection of semi-abstractions


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Bruce Barber, Untitled (Glider/Float), 1971-2 /2008, steel tray, railway sleepers, high tensile steel, water, brass eye plates, wooden logs. On long term loan to Te Tuhi. Photo: Sam Hartnett

Bruce Barber’s 70s Sculpture

TE TUHI CENTRE FOR THE ARTS

Pakuranga

 

Bruce Barber
Untitled (Glider/Float)

 

4 May 2013 - 9 February 2014

Riffing off Duchamp’s ‘painting’

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The audience in the Auckland Art Gallery lecture theatre listening to Simon Soon lecture on Malaysian art in the 1970s. Photo: Melissa Laing

St. Paul Street Gallery Curators’ Forum

AUCKLAND ART GALLERY TOI O TAMAKI

Auckland

 

Guest speakers and panelists

St Paul St 2013 Curatorial Symposium

 

7 August - 9 August 2013

 

Varied selection of guest speakers

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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