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Two Rooms presents a program of residencies and projects
Mystic Panoramic Sandwiches
Auckland
Barbara Tuck
Habits of Paradise
7 April - 8 May 2010
They contain collage-like fragments of landscape or clumps of terrain, botany or sky, usually aligned within horizontal strata.
Exquisite Watercolours of Calamities
Auckland
Linden Simmons
In the Passing of a Night
13 April - 8 May 2010
The work is not just about manual finesse but a meditation on economic and geographic separation
Running Out Of Time
Auckland
Darryn George
Rarohiko
28 April - 22 May 2010
George is interested in systems of knowledge and how cultures accumulate and store it.
Self-referential Killeen Bores
Auckland
Richard Killeen
The Presence of Objects
21 April - 22 May 2010
There are signs within this self-referential exhibition that the work is getting jaded
Last Ride in a Hot Air Balloon: Part 5 - Dialogue
Various Venues
The Auckland Triennial
Last Ride in a Hot Air Balloon
Curated by Natasha Conland
13 March - 20 June 2010
This year’s Triennial is not an overwhelming success
After K comes L
Auckland
Chris Lipomi
Interactive Visual History Compression (The Ks)
21 April - 15 May 2010
It’s an unusual, extremely interesting exhibition.
Process and Perception
Auckland
Sculpture Season 2010
Curated by Melissa Laing
Agnes So and Anthony Cribb
22 April - 1 May 2010
They both delight in examining instability and temporality, mixing their interest with a mischievous humour
Re-vitalising, Revamping Stock
Auckland
Group show
From the Stockroom
1 April - 27 April 2010
It includes some surprises and some revitalisations within a new group context.
Enlarged Bleached Maps on Telly
Auckland
Sue Novell
Bionica
8 April -8 May 2010
The seven paintings feature a colourful pixelated line where paint is applied in linear formations of small squares.
Last Ride in a Hot Air Balloon: Part 4 - The Economy
Various venues
The 4th Auckland Triennial
Last Ride in a Hot Air Balloon
12 March - 20 June 2010
The theme of global economy Natasha Conland handles more adroitly than any other.
Last Ride in a Hot Air Balloon: Part 3 - The Imagination
Various venues
The 4th Auckland Triennial
Last Ride in a Hot Air Balloon
12 March -20 June 2010
The theme of the imagination is a more prevalent aspect than what initially it might seem.
Unusual Drawings
Auckland
Peter Gibson Smith
Buried
31 March -24 April 2010
It makes compelling viewing to see drawing, photography, painting and sculpture blended in such an innovative fashion.
Intriguing Tension
Auckland
Boris Dornbusch
Phantom Limb Construction Sites
31 March - 1 May 2010
They provide definite clues that anticipate the ‘correct’ answers of these riddlelike artworks.
Last Ride in a Hot Air Balloon: Part 2 - The Journey
Various Venues
4th Auckland Triennial
Last Ride in a Hot Air Balloon
12 March - 20 June 2010
I want to skimpily draw out the notion of movement in some of these works - a trajectory.
Vary and Umberg at Jensen
Auckland
Elizabeth Vary and Gunter Umberg
New Works
16 March - 1 May 2010
Both these painters make sculptural objects that project out from the wall.
Georgie Hill Goes Mellow - With Spring Light
Auckland
Georgie Hill
Cold Shoulder
24 March - 17 April 2010
They look like some odd printing hybrid with sugarlift blended with a lithographic process,
Thomas Ruff in Auckland
Auckland
Thomas Ruff
Photographs
26 March - 24 April, 2010
This show is a good introduction to Ruff’s practice but it really barely scratches the surface.
Hot Vertiginous Pleasures
Auckland
Amber Wilson
The Bends
3 March - 1 April, 2010
Wilson’s inventively decorative paintings are rich heady concoctions that celebrate ocular pleasure
Superb Paintings
Auckland
Schaeffer Lemalu & Johl Dwyer
Milk Waterfall
16 March - 3 April 2010
The juxtaposition of such opposite methodologies is so refreshing
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