Archive for the ‘Visual Art’ Category
Translit - Kahu Scott - opening friday 10 sep
Monday, September 6th, 2010
CAMPBELL KNEALE Silence one 27th Aug 2010 (Painting exhibition)
Thursday, August 19th, 2010
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CAMPBELL KNEALE has become synonymous with earshattering volume and over the last 15 years
he has cultivated an extensive international following for his particular methods of systematically
reassembling the hearing range of audiences. Conversely, Campbell’s paintings are a deeply quiet act,
with corresponding silent results that function as a ‘pause’ or a ‘rest’ within a creative process that involves an intimidating amount of noise.
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‘SILENCE ONE’ represents the pinnacle of early explorations of the fullness
of emptiness, battles with noise, and discovering ‘the silent’ within a world increasingly unable to function
without electronic mediation. Drawing influence from the silent arcs of
cosmological phenomena, automatic writing, hermeticism, and second-hand Zen
books, Campbell’s intuitive processes allow the paintings to find their
own form, whilst celebrating the habitual and the repetitive. Given their
proper due, habit and repetition are transformed into meditative energies
where ideas of authorship are relaxed and the noise of their own spontaneity
is hushed into laser-guided improvisations whose hazy margins are held in
check by the restrictions and habits of the body.
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The Russian Frost Farmers Gallery
Fri 27th August
2 Eva street, Wellington
6pm
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shannon
Living with the living, Dying with the dead
Tuesday, August 10th, 2010
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Everydays a nice day for a flander down Fortitude Valley. Nine lives Gallery in Brisbane is showing Marks Alsweilers 4th solo offering ‘Living with the living, Dying with the dead’ which runs until the 17th of August. You’ve got a week left… run.
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See press release below..
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“Mark Alsweiler is an emerging artist from New Zealand currently living and working out of Sydney. He has been involved in several group shows throughout Australia and New Zealand. ‘Living with the Living, Dying with the Dead’ is Alsweiler’s fourth solo show. After showing at China Heights and Palmer Projects Gallery’s in Sydney, Alsweiler is showcasing his work for the first time in Brisbane at Nine Lives Gallery, in Fortitude Valley.”
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“The work is influenced by many things of personal interest including American Indian, Mexican and Western type imagery in particular for this show. Ideas are often generated from an affinity with the objects and imagery associated with the ways of old, most often sourced from old books. Music is a constant during the day and various references to song lyrics, titles or visual interpretations of songs all contribute to source ideas for the work. Alsweiler’s instantly recognizable characters are evident in his new work however to a lesser degree as he starts to reference various elements of the natural world.
‘Living with the Living, Dying with the Dead’ is a broad term to represent the ideas of past and present, old and new, alive and dead.”
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Subway Lung (a.k.a. Tokyo Windbag)
Thursday, August 5th, 2010
FROST FARMING ISTANBUL
Wednesday, July 21st, 2010
Photo: ©. Ralph Nashawaty - Mark Henley, Staying Abreast, 2010
NEW ZEALAND ARTISTS ABROAD 10.08.2010 – 04.09.2010
Conor Clarke | Trenton Garratt | Mark Henley | Veronica Manchego | Cam O’Connell
Daire Sanat (Istanbul) hosts a group show of New Zealand Artists working abroad. Drawn from practice in Berlin, NYC and Istanbul I COULD HAVE SWORN I, is a multimedia show exploring the inconsistency between fact, and the memory of the fact. Prosthetic memory and Phantom Limb Syndrome couple to create the shows curatorial focus; how we perceive ‘experience’ within a media saturated reality.
The show is facilitated by Mark Henley (The Russian Frost Farmers, NZ) and made possible by generous support from Hall architectural interiors (Istanbul)
Full curatorial text and artist bio’s available here.
Opening : 10th August, Tuesday / 19:00 / Daire Sanat
Artist talk : 14th August, Saturday / 16:00 / Daire Sanat
For contact regarding this international show please contact mark@therussianfrostfarmers.com
(iST) a question of INTEGRITY
Thursday, July 8th, 2010
Photo: ©. Ralph Nashawaty
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Mark Henley, Integrity: Structural and otherwise, 2010 (Mirror, timber and plastic)
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ISTANBUL, TURKEY -
Henley’s practice engages commonly found objects to create assemblages or bricolage. For Uncertainty: Istanbul he employs the reflectivity of mirror to create an illusionary effect for a series of ‘half’ objects. The reflection completes the symmtery of the ornate plastic forms where the other half does not literally exist, yet the Simit masa’s (Pretzel street vendor table) mirrored visual aligns with a second table beneath creating an unnerving sense of illusion. Integrity: Structural and otherwise, highlights Henley’s predisposition to the use of ubiquitous objects from local surroundings to prompt a re-questioning of their latent values.
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Mark Henley is an Artist / Facilitator currently living in Istanbul and co-founder of The Russian Frost Farmers.
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View details of the public art project here.
SARA CWYNAR
Monday, July 5th, 2010
SIMULATED LANDSCAPES
“A visual exploration of Jean Baudrillard’s idea that we live more in media simulations of reality than in reality itself. The book is made up of 24 collages working from the idea of “simulated landscapes”.
Extension of Kitsch Encyclopedia.”
16″ x 22″ Book
Printed on newsprint
Shannon
Firestarters
Friday, July 2nd, 2010
A few piks from the recent opening of James Robinson - Palimpsest with Black Boned Angel.
Gallery NOW open - Wednesday to Saturday 11am - 4pm
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