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Two Rooms presents a program of residencies and projects
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
Locked-Down Black; Floating White
Auckland
Jonathan Jones
10 March - 10 April 2010
The austere drawings of black angular and straight lines seem to reference Mondrian and van Doesberg.
Last Ride in a Hot Air Balloon: Part 1 - Bodies At Risk
The 4TH Auckland Triennial
Last Ride in a Hot Air Balloon
12 March - 20 June 2010
Part One: Bodies at Risk
Brilliantly Inarticulate Polish Conceptual Art
Auckland
Oskar Dawicki
The last Polish artist
26 February - 27 March 2010
Other works are more about ambiguities of language and identity.
The Art of Bodily Immersion
Auckland
Jim Allen
Small Worlds
17 March - 17 April 2010
In this gap alternatively the body follows where there is ‘nothing’ for the eye to see.
They are subtly painterly in the way Lochore has rendered the properties of a shiny surface raked over by light.
Malone Beats Malevich
Auckland
Daniel Malone
Barbarian in the Garden
2 March - 27 March 2010
Malone loves testing out metaphors by swapping unusual materials around, inserting them where they are least expected.
Cornelia Parker Comes To Auckland
Auckland
Cornelia Parker
No Man’s Land
11 March - 10 April 2010
Parker here presents a beautifully hung and wittily selected show, each item having some quality of built-in menace
Around The Window
Anya Henis
Soft Rocks Stainer
24 February - 25 March 2010
And the drawing does appear preoccupied with the body as scattered floating repeated fragments…
Two Rooms Residency Show
Auckland
Joachim Bandau
New Watercolours
11 March - 10 April 2010
These works are technically exquisite…
Erratic (classically PoMo) McLeod
Auckland
Andrew McLeod
24 February - 20 March 2010
They draw your eye in so it doesn’t want to leave…
The Half Remembered Landscape of Capitalism
Auckland
Andy Tolhurst
Slow Burning
3 March - 1 April 2010
They seem sort of eighties in mood
Paterson at Gow Langsford
Auckland
Reuben Paterson
Dear Beauty, Dear Beast
24 February - 20 March 2010
While it is indisputable that our culture is indeed homophobic, making a connection between the murdered victims of gay bashing and these animal portraits is bizarre - to put it kindly.
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