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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

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Regan Gentry, Bombs 12 -13, carved and glued pumice

More Carved Dexterity from Gentry

WHITESPACE

Auckland

 

Regan Gentry
Floating

 

14 February - 4 March 2012

Volcanic arsenal


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Derrick Cherrie, a selcction if the Bride Paintings and works from the Arrangement Spreading Series 2009-11, paint, mirror-glass, macaroni, collage, tampons, cigarettes, plastic chains

Smith-curated show

SNAKE PIT

Auckland

 

Group exhibition
Running on Pebbles: through-lines with incidents and increments


17 February 2012 - 1 March 2012

Jumping into Auckland’s Snake Pit

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Alicia Frankovich's Bodies & Situations at Starkwhite.

Frankovich Videos

STARKWHITE

Auckland

 

Alicia Frankovich
Bodies and Situations

 

10 February 2012 - 10 March 2012

Pondering Chaplin and Genet

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Daniel Malone, Epicurios of an Other CV......, at Hopkinson Cundy

Poland and the EU.

HOPKINSON MOSSMAN

Auckland

 

Daniel Malone
…A Communist Kiosk in a Common Market

 

9 February 2012 - 10 March 2012

 

Malone castigates the Poles


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Selina Foote's Tuileries installed at Sue Crockford

Starting With a Portrait

SUE CROCKFORD GALLERY

Auckland

 

Selina Foote
Tuileries

 

7 February - 3 March 2012

Transmutation of art historical detail

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James K. Lowe, Like Home series, chromira print, di-bond mount, 800x 1000 mm

Photographers Look at Cinema

TWO ROOMS

Auckland

 

James K. Lowe, Haruhiko Sameshima, Ben Cauchi
It’s all make believe

 

10 February 2012 - 3 March 2012

Three diverging approaches

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DJN performing The Concrete Mix at Audio Foundation on 4 February 2012

DJN at Audio Foundation

AUDIO FOUNDATION

Auckland

 

DJN
Seeing and Hearing

 

4 February 2012 - 25 February 2012

Experiencing and remembering sound


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Uneven Taylor at Lett

MICHAEL LETT

Auckland

 

Imogen Taylor
Balls Deep

 

26 January 2012 - 25 February 2012

Wild oscillation in quality

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Campbell Patterson, So Tired, 2012, towel, sultana bran, pins, 1120 x 1070 mm

Varied Patterson Exhibition

MICHAEL LETT

Auckland

 

Campbell Patterson
So Tired

 

26 January 2012 - 25 February 2012

Videos, sculpture and painting

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Christine Hellyar, Hutton and Cotton: The McGregor Museum Revisited, in Gallery Two, Gus Fisher. Photo by Sam Hartnett.

Remember Museums?

GUS FISHER GALLERY

Auckland

 

Christine Hellyar
Hutton and Cotton: The McGregor Museum Revisited

 

20 January 2012 - 3 March 2012

Hellyar’s storing and interpretation of biological curiosities


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John Radford with Len Lye's Universe in Phil Dadson's OSMOSIS (of Len Lye's Universe), 2011, HD video, 6 min.15 sec. Courtesy of the artist and Starkwhite

Artists Responding to Lye

LEN LYE CENTRE / GOVETT-BREWSTER ART GALLERY

New Plymouth

 

Lye, Mitchell, Dadson, Laird, Thomson, von Sturmer
Old Genes: Artists Reading Len Lye


10 December 2011 - 26 February 2012

Treating Len as writer

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Reuben Paterson, Unsung, 2012, mylar foil, courtesy the artist. Photo: Sam Hartnett.

Paterson’s reflected light

GUS FISHER GALLERY

Auckland

 

Reuben Paterson
Bottled Lightning


20 January - 3 March 2012

Mini-survey at Gus Fisher

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Cover of Wayne Barrar's Torbay tī kōuka: a New Zealand tree in the English Riviera

Aotearoa Invades Blighty

University of Plymouth Press, England

Wayne Barrar book of photographs

Torbay tī kōuka: a New Zealand tree in the English Riviera
Essays by Philip Simpson and Peter Simpson
December 2011

The English enthusiasm for the cabbage tree


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Ben Clement, Babes and Flowers (detail), lighter stickers, tiles, expanding foam

Group Show at Snake Pit

SNAKE PIT

Auckland

 

Kennedy, Clement, Champion, Beekhuis and Tocker

Queens Chain

 

23 January 2012 - 7 February 2012

 

Gambia Castle influenced presentation

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Working image from Cat Auburn's video, Crying Cliffs

Auburn Video

VIEWFINDER

Auckland

 

Cat Auburn
Crying Cliffs

 

25 January 2012 - 7 February 2012

Viewfinder project in front window of Auckland Public Library

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Mariana Vasssileva's sculpture, Going Out, and video, Never carry two watermelons under one arm - at Starkwhite. Photo by Sam Hartnett.

Vassileva Video, Drawings & Sculpture

STARKWHITE

Auckland

 

Mariana Vassileva
The gentle brutality of simultaneity

 

6 January 2012 - 31 January 2012

European symbolism


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To Take Place, behind the glass, at Window

Gallery as Storage Receptacle

WINDOW UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND

Auckland

 

Recent graduates
To Take Place

 

16 Dec. 2011 - 16 Feb. 2012

Examining potentiality

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Pule Survey

AUCKLAND ART GALLERY TOI O TAMAKI

Auckland

 

John Pule
Hauaga (Arrivals)

 

17 Dec. 2011 - 25 March 2012

City Gallery’s touring show

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Paul Cullen's five covered book, r/p/m, published by Split/Fountain

Paul Cullen Publication

SPLIT / FOUNTAIN

Paul Cullen book
r/p/m

Essays by Laird, Watson, Dale, and Laing
Designed by Narrow Gauge and Jayme Yen
5 paper covers, 110 pp

Interpreting ‘scientific’ research