Projects 2018 includes work by 18 emerging and established artists based in Aotearoa New Zealand and Australia, complementing the selection offered by the 45 galleries participating in Auckland Art Fair. The result of an open call, the presentation aims to showcase a broad range of art unburdened by a prescriptive theme or curatorial conceit. Comprising installation, jewellery, painting...
The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there.—L. P. Hartley, The Go-Between (1953) Ian Fraser quotes this line in the final episode of the 1996 documentary series Revolution, which discusses the free-market reforms instituted by the Fourth Labour and National Governments in the 1980s and early 1990s.[1] In the context of the programme, the quotation evokes the gulf that...
Artspace’s current exhibition, New Perspectives, features the work of more than 20 artists whose work has begun to make ripples in the local scene. Produced in collaboration with Berlin-based New Zealand artist Simon Denny, the show encompasses an impressive range of material, including eye-wateringly fine paper-based works by Motoko Kikkawa, visceral poems by Owen Connors (printed intransigently...