Luminous moments
In Yang Fudong’s survey exhibition Auckland audiences are being seduced by immersive film and video installations, which reflect the filmmaking traditions of East and West—as well as the aesthetics of Chinese painting.
In Yang Fudong’s survey exhibition Auckland audiences are being seduced by immersive film and video installations, which reflect the filmmaking traditions of East and West—as well as the aesthetics of Chinese painting.
Suji Park’s art is a playful exploration of matter and form, which embodies contradictory states—interiority and exteriority, containment and dissolution, transparency and opacity. Virginia Were reports.
Virginia Winder investigates the ongoing efforts to upscale Len Lye’s kinetic sculptures, taking them to a scale the mercurial artist dreamed of but wasn’t able to achieve in his lifetime.
Over the past year, Cat Auburn has been creating a large tapestry comprised of 500 Victorian hair-rosettes, made out of horsehair. She talks to Margo White about the ideas behind this project, and the response from the equine community.
Visiting Gregor Kregar’s studio, Dan Chappell talks to the artist about his latest public sculpture commissions and his interest in visual perception, utopian architecture, geometry and kitsch.
Star Gossage’s paintings register intense psychological and emotional states and embody her deep connection with the land.
For 25 years Pauline Bern mentored many Unitec students who are now leading lights in New Zealand jewellery. Linda Tyler finds out how Bern opened her students’ eyes to the social context of jewellery and its exciting potential as an expressive medium.
With 150 works and extensive contextual material, including a gown room and old family photographs, Yvonne Todd’s survey exhibition lays bare the sources, influences and inspirations behind the work.
In September this year The Refusal of Time, a multimedia installation by South African artist William Kentridge, comes to City Gallery Wellington. The artist spoke to Dan Chappell about this spectacular work, which attempts to make visible the abstract idea of time.
Nigel Brown contributes work from his own collection for a survey exhibition at Milford Galleries Dunedin. Denys Trussell reports on the exhibition.