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Newspaper Reading Club Daily, devised by Fiona Connor and Michala Paludan, at Split Fountain. The reader is Inger-Lisa Hurst, accompanied by the artist Michala Paludan..  Photo by Asumi Mizuo.

Newspaper Reading as Oral Performance

SPLIT / FOUNTAIN

Auckland

 

Michael Parr and Blaine Western
The Loft was Made for No One
Fiona Connor and Michala Paludan
Newspaper Reading Club Daily

 

14 April - 16 April 2012

Opening of S/F’s new venue

JH
Amber Wilson, Hirsute Pond, 2012, oil on canvas, 600 x 600mm

Confections on the Lawn

ANNA MILES GALLERY

Auckland

 

Amber Wilson
Lagoon

 

11 April - 5 May 2012

Taste, tactility and colour mood

JH
Andrea Geyer, Criminal Case 40/61: Reverb 2009  6 channel video installation   HD video, sound, 6 stools 52 minutes  Courtesy the artist

Art Production as Film Set

LEN LYE CENTRE / GOVETT-BREWSTER ART GALLERY

New Plymouth

 

Tribe, Fast, Bartana, Geyer, Gillick and Vidokle

True Stories / Scripted Realities
Curated by Mercedes Vicente

 

10 March - 23 June 2012

 

Undermining moral certainty


JH
Martin Creed, Work No. 1096, 2011, framed photographic print, 1635 x 1645 mm, edition of 3

Creed in Auckland

MICHAEL LETT

Auckland

 

Martin Creed

 

6 April - 12 May 2012

Emphasis on painting

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Simon Morris, Coloured Line, 2012, acrylic, wall. Image: Jennifer French

Exhibition Venue Non-Objective

TWO ROOMS

Auckland

 

Billy Apple, Simon Morris, Christoph Dahlhausen
Gallery Abstract

 

9 March - 14 April 2012

Three variations on a theme

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ARTSPACE, Every cloud has a silver lining, at ARTSPACE. Photo Samuel Hartnett

ARTSPACE Looks Back

ARTSPACE AOTEAROA

Auckland

 

ARTSPACE staff

Every cloud has a silver lining

 

16 March - 5 April 2012

Needing a bigger more dynamic ARTSPACE


JH
Newell Harry, The natives are restless, 2006-2012. neon, helvetica neue lite (snowwhite), timer

Using Art to Combat Prejudice 2

TE TUHI CENTRE FOR THE ARTS

Auckland

 

International group show

What do you mean, we?

 


3 March - 6 May 2012

Racial bigotry as subject matter

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Kalisolaite Uhila, Mo'ul tukuausia, 2012, performance between 19 March - 1 April

Using Art to Combat Prejudice 1

TE TUHI CENTRE FOR THE ARTS

Auckland

 

International group show
What do you mean, we?


3 March - 6 May 2012

Building a fair and just world

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Listening to the cabbie on the way back

Thompson Installation

HOPKINSON MOSSMAN

Auckland

 

Luke Willis Thompson
Inthisholeonthisislandwhereiam

 

14 March - 31 March 2012

Despair, apathy, and inertia


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Fiona Jack, booklets for Pakuranga in Te Tuhiside image.

Fiona Jack’s Public Art Projects

TE TUHI CENTRE FOR THE ARTS

Auckland

 

Fiona Jack
Pakuranga

 

3 March - 6 May 2012

Historic landscape photographs and wharfie portraits

JH
Force Things installed at Gallery Three. On the far wall is Fibre Optic Broom, 2010, by Eddie Clemens. On the table is Soap Box by Michael Grobelny

Mey and Lacey Gallery Three Show

TE WAI NGUTU KĀKĀ GALLERY THREE

Auckland

 

Clemens, Grobelny, Nicoll, Rogers and Western
Force Things (Part of the 2012 Curatorial Season)

 

22 March - 24 March 2012

Part of AUT’s 2012 Curatorial Season

JH
Adrienne Vaughan, Monith, 2011, oil and enamel on canvas, 505 x 605 mm

Unusual Pairing at Miles

ANNA MILES GALLERY

Auckland

 

Adrienne Vaughan / Emily Hobson-Ritchie

 

7 March - 5 April 2012

Rat people and patterned abstractions


JH

Painting as Sex Object - Revisited

GOW LANGSFORD GALLERY

Auckland

 

Ian Scott
Late Models

 

21 March - 14 April 2012

Masturbation as an art historical pursuit

JH
A single image from YouTube

Live Art at Home

BMW Tate Live: Performance Room

London

 

Jérôme Bel
Shirtology at Tate

Curated by Catherine Wood and Kathy Noble

 

23 March 2012, 9.00 am

New global era for art

JH
Tomislav Nikolic, installation, acrylic, marble dust and gold leaf on canvas and timber, each 116 x 99.5 cm

Colour Beyond the Frame

FOX JENSEN MCCRORY

Auckland

 

Tomislav Nikolic

 

20 March - 29 April 2012

Symbolism and phenomenology


JH
Katie Thomas, Song of Trees, 2011, oil on canvas, 1450 x 1450 mm

Skeins of Painted Line

BATH STREET GALLERY

Auckland

 

Katie Thomas
The Seventh Day

 

7 March - 31 March 2012

Organic layered nets

JH
Peter Robinson, Structure & Subjectivity, 2012, felt, perspex, piano wire and wood - as installed at Sue Crockford Gallery

Robinson Looks Back

SUE CROCKFORD GALLERY

Auckland

 

Peter Robinson
Structure & Subjectivity

 

6 March 2012 - 31 March 2012

Felt as metaphor or pun

JH
Detail of the Quattro installation at Antoinette Godkin.

The Edges of Geometry

ANTOINETTE GODKIN

Auckland

 

Kennedy, Barry, Jansen and Monro
Quattro

 

22 February - 22 March 2012

Pushing into illusory space with form


JH
Details from Clemens von Wedemeyer, The Fourth Wall: Found Footage, 2008-2009, digtal video, 31 min and on right, How to create an unbelievable fiction? Interview with Ruggerro Deodato, 2008, HD video.

The Philippino Lost World: Real or Hoax?

TE WAI NGUTU KĀKĀ GALLERY TWO

Auckland

 

Clemens von Wedemeyer
The Fourth Wall


24 February - 4 April 2012

The Tasaday mystery

JH
René Magritte, The Black Flag, 1937, oil on canvas, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art © Trustees of the National Galleries of Scotland

Visiting Scottish Collection

AUCKLAND ART GALLERY TOI O TAMAKI

Auckland

 

Group exhibition

From Degas to Dali: Masterpieces from the National Galleries of Scotland

 

3 March - 10 June 2012

Modern masters come to Auckland

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Dale Frank's installation of paintings at Gow Langsford

Dale Frank Panorama

GOW LANGSFORD GALLERY

Auckland

 

Dale Frank
Devon is my favourite Luncheon meat

 

22 February 2012 - 17 March 2012

Varnish paintings lined up in row