Aotearoa Art Fair '23: Stand A7

Bergman Gallery Aotearoa Art Fair Auckland Waterfront The Cloud, 89 Quay Street Feature Presentation: Telly Tuita, The Immortal Tango of Love & War. Wellington-based artist Telly Tuita was born in Tonga in 1980 and immigrated to Sydney at age nine. Living in Australia for most of his life, Tuita’s disconnect from his Tongan heritage has long informed his practice. Exploring his cultural identity and the western ethos in which he was raised has given rise to Tuita’s distinctive visual language, the self-coined, Tongpop. Tuita’s chronicle mash-up of historical and contemporary...