Two Rooms presents a program of residencies and projects
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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.
Indoor sculpture garden
LOWER HUTT
13 February - 30 May 2010
Seung Yul Oh
Bogle Bogle
Bogle Bogle is a buoyant, entertaining show, an indoor, walk-through ‘sculpture garden’
This arrangement emphasises the light coming in the window
Unpacking My Library
Auckland
Unpacking My Library
Curated by Stephen Cleland
13 February - 11 April 2010
Cleland’s show though is only partially about books. Much of it is about catalogues, taxonomies, and how we classify things.
Anthony McCall: Drawing With Light
Wellington
Anthony McCall
Drawing with Light
Curated by Christina Barton
24 February - 25 April 2009
This is an unusually immersive show, though the presence of drawings on some walls also ensures an overtly analytic component where the viewer has to mentally link moving images with stationary marks
Janet Cardiff
Janet Cardiff
The Forty-Part Motet
20 February - 16 May 2010
Hearing the whispered snippets of local Home Counties English before they launch off into even ‘purer’ ecclesiastical Latin is fascinating for most New Zealand listeners.
Bill Viola at the New Dowse
Wellington
Bill Viola
The Messenger
20 February - 4 July 2010
This disturbing confusion between life and death is accentuated by the refracted dappled light which makes a healthy-looking body look bleached of blood and anaemic when submerged.
Bringing It All Back Home: Part Two
Wellington
Francis Upritchard
Save Yourself
26 February - 15 August 2010
Ornamentation here is paradoxically driven by reasons anti-social. For the dancer’s private delight only.
Bringing It All Back Home: Part One
Wellington
Judy Millar
Giraffe - Bottle - Gun
New Zealand at the 2009 Venice Biennale
26 February - 15 August 2010
It is extroverted work that sucks the visitor’s attention away from themselves and out into the flame or water-like parallel lines, layered clusters of specks and exploding angular scrapes dwelling on the stretched skin surfaces.
History seeking reconnoitres and sorties
Auckland
William Hsu and Nick Spratt
A lot or a little might be said but in the end there will be something to pass on
4 February - 20 February 2010
…but if an artist like William offers me a crunchy sugar-coated doughnut and there’s some lemon juice I can taste that reminds me, say, of my father’s pancakes, then there is a bodily experience I can remember…
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