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Rangituhia Hollis and Vaimaila Urale, Mata Mata at Mangere Arts Centre

Hollis and Urale in Mangere

MANGERE ARTS CENTRE NGA TOHU O UENUKU

Auckland

 

Rangituhia Hollis & Vaimaila Urale
Mata Mata

 

24 November 2012 - 7 February 2013

Recreational Cultural Synthesis

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Tahi Moore, Abstract sequels, returns, installed at Hopkinson Cundy

Tahi Moore in Arch Hill

HOPKINSON MOSSMAN

Auckland

 

Tahi Moore
Abstract sequels, returns

 

8 December 2012 - 26 January 2013

Text and added images

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Dane Mitchell: Radiant Matter I/II/III opened.

Dispersed Molecules as Sculpture

Dane Mitchell: Radiant Matter I/II/III

Essays: Beyn, Kreisler, Rabinowitz, Sharp and Mitchell

Pub. by Berliner Kunstlerprogramm / DAAD, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Artspace, 2011.

Radiant Matter’s book


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Grant Stevens publication cover, Are you Upset with Me?

Life’s Universal (Hackneyed?) Dilemmas

Grant Stevens
Are You Upset with Me?

 

Essays by Mark Pennings and Chris Kraus

Published by IMA and Gallery Barry Keldoulis 2011

Scrutinising sentimentality

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Shane Cotton, Eden to Ohaeawai, oil on canvas, 1998-2000. Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, gift of the Patrons of the Auckland Art Gallery, 2012

John Hurrell’s Twenty-One Picks

AUCKLAND DISTRICT

Highlights of 2012.

John’s personal choices

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The Coming Year…

The Publishers

Sustaining EyeContact

Sustaining this forum


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Maddie Leach, Evening Echo, 2011, detail, The tall lamp at Shalom Park, Cork, Ireland

Between Memory and Trace Part 3

TE TUHI CENTRE FOR THE ARTS

Auckland

 

Maddie Leach
Evening Echo

 

17 Nov. 2012 - 10 Feb. 2013

Leach’s symbolic layering

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Luke Willis Thompson, Untitled, 2012, in the Bev smail Gallery, Te Tuhi. Courtesy of the artist and Hopkinson Cundy Gallery, Auckland. Photo: Sam Hartnett

Between Memory and Trace Part 2

TE TUHI CENTRE FOR THE ARTS

Auckland

 

Luke Willis Thompson
Untitled, 2012

 

17 Nov. 2012 - 10 Feb. 2013

Manurewa tragedy contemplated

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Ruth Ewan, The New Idealism, 2010, collection of inner record sleeves. Photo: Sam Hartnett

Between Memory and Trace Part 1

TE TUHI CENTRE FOR THE ARTS

Auckland

 

Ruth Ewan
The New Idealism / Paul Robeson project archive/ Them that plants them is soon forgotten

 

17 Nov. 2012 - 10 Feb. 2013

Remembering the McCarthy era


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Steven Chow, You leave, I Stay Behind, 2012, film still, dual channel HD video

A Room With A View

TE TUHI CENTRE FOR THE ARTS

Auckland

 

Steven Chow
You leave, I stay behind

 

17 Nov. 2012 - 10 Feb. 2013

Two locations simultaneously

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James Wylie, Quarter Report (Fear mamet), 2012, book, strong hand grip, carpet

Temporary Merger

SUE CROCKFORD GALLERY

Auckland

 

Snake Pit and Sue Crockford Gallery
Club Mirage

 

28 November - 22 December 2012

Grunge meets Chic

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Shahriar Asdollah-Zadeh, Persepolis, 2012, L.E.D. Kebab sign, Turkmen Ersari rug. Photo: Sam Hartnett

More from The Globalising Wall

MANGERE ARTS CENTRE NGA TOHU O UENUKU

Mangere


Shahriar Asdollah-Zadeh, Alex Monteith
The Globalising Wall


24 Nov. 2012 - 7 Feb. 2013

 

The Asdollah-Zadeh and Monteith contributions


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Danae Stratou's The Globalising Wall at Mangere Arts Centre Nga Tohu o Uenuku. Photo: Sam Hartnett.

Containing Civilian Movement

MANGERE ARTS CENTRE NGA TOHU O UENUKU

Mangere

 

Danae Stratou
The Globalising Wall

 

24 Nov. 2012 - 7 Feb. 2013

 

Physical barriers erected between countries

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Ross Manning, Field Emissions, downstairs at Starkwhite. Photo: Sam Hartnett

Light and Sound Works from Brisbane

STARKWHITE

Auckland

 

Ross Manning
Field Emissions

 

26 November 2012 - 22 December 2012

Atmospheric versus linear light

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Never Mind the Pollocks at St Paul St Gallery Three

Is It Right to Laugh at Men Painting?

TE WAI NGUTU KĀKĀ GALLERY THREE

Auckland

 

Group show
Never Mind the Pollocks


22 November 2012 - 8 December 2012

Seventies revisited?


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Max Gimblett, Leda and the Swan - in Memorriam -for Cy Twombly, 2011, gesso, acrylic, vinyl polymers, epoxy, aqua size, aluminium leaf, silver leaf, canvas, 96 x 80 x 2 in

Gimblett Rectangles

GOW LANGSFORD GALLERY

Auckland

 

Max Gimblett
The Ballad of the South Pacific

 

28 November - January 2013

Greater delicacy of surface

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Gavin Hipkins, This Fine Island, 2012, 16 mm colour negative film, Florence Noble and Joe Dekker-Reihana

Hipkins on Darwin

THE FILM ARCHIVE AUCKLAND

Auckland

 

Gavin Hipkins
This Fine Island

 

28 November 2012 - 1 February 2013

The Bay of Islands revisited

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Deborah Crowe /Eldon Booth, [Eddy]II, 5.1 surround sound installation in the mezzanine gallery at Artspace.

Grating and Seductive

ARTSPACE AOTEAROA

Auckland

 

Deborah Crowe & Eldon Booth
[Eddy]II

 

27 November - 20 December 2012

Artspace sound work


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Andre Hemer, wallpaper_05 smudged, 2012, digital pigment prints on Harman Gloss fibre paper, 39.5 cm x 44.5 cm (with frame)

Exploring Digital Wallpaper

ANTOINETTE GODKIN

Auckland

 

Andre Hemer
Hot Wallpapers

 

13 November - 10 December 2012

Customising its abstraction

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American Gangster Reprise

MICHAEL LETT

Auckland

 

Jacqueline Fraser
The Making of American Gangster 2012

 

8 November - 22 December 2012

Critique or loving embrace

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Rohan Wealleans and Karl Fritsch works at Ivan anthony

Wealleans / Fritsch Collaboration

IVAN ANTHONY GALLERY

Auckland

 

Rohan Wealleans and Karl Fritsch
Knuckle Fresser

 

31 October - 24 November 2012

Fritleans & Wealsch Inc.