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Wednesday 17 February, exactly a week before the opening of the Auckland Art Fair, and all eyes were on the latest COVID news in New Zealand. There was talk that the art fair was on, that the art fair was probably off. And then that evening the official d ...
A Journey of Modern Pacific Art – By Rachel Smith
The logistics of taking part in an international art fair when you are an art gallery based on a small island in the Pacific is challenging at the best of times. When you add the year that has been into the mix, it all gets very interesting. The 2021 Auc ...
Mahiriki Tangaroa – Essay by Arthur Buerms.
Mahiriki Tangaroa - Deforms Our Senses And Informs Our Mind. “ If we look at the myths, legends and oral traditions and at the cosmologies of the people of Oceania, it becomes evident that they did not conceive of their world in microscopic proportions ...
Contemporary Art In The South Pacific, Bergman Gallery & The New Frontier by Rachel Smith.
Contemporary Art In The South Pacific, Bergman Gallery & The New Frontier…by Rachel Smith. For two centuries, European anthropological mischaracterizations have dominated perceptions of the broader Pacific region. Of more recent times, there has ...
Andy Leleisi’uao – Essay by Arthur Buerms.
Andy Leleisi’uao’s Diasporic Pulse of Faith & Patience, A Puzzling Visionary Tale. An essay, written by a Papa’a (European) who knows neither Aoteroa nor Pacific art nor Samoan Va, must be treated with care. Nevertheless, in all abstraction, it can ...
KAMOAN MINE by Rachel Smith.
Andy Leleisi’uao KAMOAN MINE Survey exhibition curated by Ben Bergman May 2 – July 14 TSB | Wallace Arts Centre Hillsborough, Auckland, New Zealand. KAMOAN MINE by Rachel Smith. It is impossible not to notice the contrast: corned beef cans with ...
Tungane Broadbent & Reuben Paterson – Today, Tomorrow & Yesterday.
Tivaivai/Paintings / July 4 – August 31, 2017 Three brief but beautiful days and one fabulous exhibition. My trip to the island of Rarotonga, the main island in the Cook Islands, was uncomfortably sandwiched between auction commitments. I had to consid ...
Fabric and Glitter, by Rachel Smith
There are definite challenges to working with glitter. Artist Reuben Paterson has long since accepted that the minute shiny particles will be found everywhere in his New Zealand studio. Like the product he works with, Paterson’s career is a glittering one ...
HYPER-DECENTRALISATION AND THE DISSOLUTION OF ART FRAMEWORKS IN THE PACIFIC, MARK CROSS.
The only way that art can be exorcised from the constraints of the frame is to reduce the importance of those ultimate of art frameworks the institutions. In saying this I should qualify that there is an obvious benefit of having these institutions exist ...
Waiting for the Clouds to Clear: The Art of Mahiriki Tangaroa by Jacqui Durrant
On the surface, Mahiriki Tangaroa's paintings Waiting for the Clouds to clear and Language of Another suggest the vibrancy of Pacific island life, and yet there is much that lies beneath. The most striking thing about Cook Islands artist Mahiriki Tanga ...