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ARTEXPLORE: RECENT AKL GROUP TOUR To Ponsonby Gall

ARTEXPLORE: RECENT AKL GROUP TOUR To Ponsonby Galleries – An exciting tour contrasting the ‘Traditional Contemporary’ with ‘Millennial Contemporary’. ‘FHE, OREX, SUITE, Limm Gallery,
Images #1 Outside FHE, #2 OREX Group Show ‘the Limitless Horizon’ -Tony Lane, #3 Richard Mcwhanell, #4 Peter James Smith, #5 Arie Hellendoorn -Suite Gallery, #6, #7 Limm Gallery #8 Kaws Family.

ArtExplore Quick Visit to Christchurch: CHCH Art G

ArtExplore Quick Visit to Christchurch: CHCH Art Gallery. Exhibition ‘Paper, Creature, Stone’ Francis Upritchard. The struggle: with absurdity, meaningless tasks, ugliness, miracles, beauty, insignificant complexity…it’s all there….awkward and delicious, bending the art canon out of shape. Images Myth of Sisyphus #1 &2 (detail), A Peach & Miraculous Floating Stones (description), Eeling in the Otakaro (detail), Stick Workers, a watercolour painting (description).
@chchartgallery #francisupritchard

ArtExplore Hundertwasser Tour: ‘Arted Out’ our

ArtExplore Hundertwasser Tour: ‘Arted Out’ our group by also visiting Whangarei Arts Centre: Nick Austin – Life Puzzle, ‘joining dots in strange ways’…15 or so years of his art so far… First Image: Pandadol 2007, 2- ‘Travelling Envelope #9 2012. Then a work from ‘MACHINE IN THE GARDEN’, Automata paintings by Simon Ingram.
@roberthealdgallery @simoningram.xyz

ArtExplore Hundertwasser Tour. We had a dedicated

ArtExplore Hundertwasser Tour. We had a dedicated group of ArtExplorers on a very exciting and successful tour of the Hundertwasser Centre in Kawaka & the Hundertwasser Museum in Whangarei. Celebrating his nearly 30 years living in this region of New Zealand. Also the Hundertwasser shares the space with the Wairau Maori Art Gallery – with A Pou tahuhu at the entrance carved by Chris Bailey. Featured Painting is PEPEHA 2021 by Emily Karaka. A great experience which you can’t possibly absorb in one visit - we are sure to repeat.
@hundertwasserartcentre

ArtEXplore AKL: Emma Fitts ‘Lapping at Your Door

ArtEXplore AKL: Emma Fitts ‘Lapping at Your Door’ Objectspace Ponsonby Auckland. Stunning display of light through a paint saturated, intricately stitched canvas forming an architectural canopy/wall. Referencing Eileen Gray’s canopy balcony of her famous E-1027 House (~1929, South of France) and Fitt’s own explorations light softening and transposing exteriors/interiors. Best seen in the afternoon on a Sunny day. Images of Interior, exterior, and Eileen Gray’s E-1027 Balcony. On until May 2023 – so plenty of time to get to see it!
Our guided tour to the Hunderwasser, Whangarei – this weekend – time to book last places!
#emmafitts #objectspace #melanierogergallery

ArtExplore AKL: Dale Frank, ‘In the Dark the Dru

ArtExplore AKL: Dale Frank, ‘In the Dark the Drunken Ghosts of Masturbations Past’, Gow Langsford Gallery. ‘Frank consistently subverts the medium of painting through embracing its materiality in newfound ways’…you enter a dark, wonderous grotto, beautifully enhancing the glowing, jewel like resplendent surfaces….Must see. Finishes 4 May 2022. Works illustrated: ADHD ADFA…, Abigail who…, Abigail who…Detail, Lionel….Detail, Lionel.
#gowlansfordgallery #dalefrankstudio

ArtExplore: Recent ArtEXplore Tour of Krd/Newton G

ArtExplore: Recent ArtEXplore Tour of Krd/Newton Galleries expertly guided by Linda Tyler. This tour was especially a 'be there' to appreciate the art. 1. 'Kowhaiwhai' Maori Artists at Tim Melville, 2. Kelcy Taratoa, A Delicate Balance of Space' Melanie Roger Gallery, 3. Andrew Barber, 'Shipwreck', Two Rooms, 4&5 Classic Bill Culpert, FoxJensenMcCory, IRoll , Layla Rudneva-Mackay, Starkwhite....and much more. Incredible breadth of art in just 2 hrs!

ArtExplore AKL: Waiheke Island. Sculpture on the G

ArtExplore AKL: Waiheke Island. Sculpture on the Gulf ArtEXplore Tour: We were treated to so many unusual views, contrasting the ‘human made with the natural landscape’. Here is an example, The spiky, glowing interior of Virginia Leonard’s urns presenting a rimed horizon to the distant seascape of the gulf.
Watch for ArtExplore Facebook Events for our upcoming art tours in Auckland and Wellington.
#gowlansfordgallery #ginleonard

ArtEXplore AKL: Waiheke Island. Sculpture on the G

ArtEXplore AKL: Waiheke Island. Sculpture on the Gulf ArtExplore Tour. Lang Ea, KA BOOM! (2016/2022) The vibrant red of 600 Acrylic pom poms amongst the pohtukawas. Beautiful but deadly – like the flash of explosions we see from Ukraine every night on the news. KA BOOM is the emblematic cartoon title - to all those wars reaching back for Lang Ka to hers family’s experience of the horrors of Pol Pot’s regime in Cambodia from which they fled. A Knife wound in our NZ landscape to disturb our relative tranquility.
#artistlangea

ArtExplore AKL: Waiheke Island. Windswept landscap

ArtExplore AKL: Waiheke Island. Windswept landscapes and Sculpture All added to the drama of a very enjoyable tour of some thirty sculptures for 2022 ‘Sculpture on the gulf’. Here our band of ArtExplorers are among 55 carved pou, Anton Forde’s ‘Te Kotahitanga o Whakamaru’ (The Unity of Protection, 2022 #atonfordart

ArtExplore AKL: Sculpture In The Gardens Auckland

ArtExplore AKL: Sculpture In The Gardens Auckland Botanic Gardens January 2022. ‘We Are Going To Live In The Trees’ Gina Fergusson & Dale Cotton. Aluminium, rubber, plastic, steel, found materials, ‘algorithmic’ sound Equipment. A large, enthusiastic group of ArtExplorers guided by one of the Curators of this year’s exhibition, Linda Tyler. A varied and delightfully rambling exhibition of 20 Sculptures set in the lush Botanic Gardens. Perfectly suited to our Red Covid conditions.
Join us soon for a tour of ‘Sculpture in the Gulf’.
aucklandbotanicgardens.nz #aucklandcitycouncil

ArtExplore AKL: Bill Culbert ‘Slow Wonder’ AAG

ArtExplore AKL: Bill Culbert ‘Slow Wonder’ AAG. A sort of ‘small’ but very good retrospective of one of our significant artists (d.1919) but spent most of his career overseas, rep. NZ at the 2013 Venice Biennale. His focus and forte was ‘light’ and the artist’s ‘play of light’ is great in this exhibition. Shown here: ‘Spacific Plastics’ 2001: A field of plastic objects pushed and pulled across the floor by the light of fluorescent tubes. Beautifully conceived but from a 2022 perspective the dystopian horror creeps in – the flotsam & jetsom of plastic that is drowning our planet.
@aucklandartgallery #aucklandcitycouncil

ArtExplore AKL. BRING IN THE CLOWNS. AAG Clowns ha

ArtExplore AKL. BRING IN THE CLOWNS. AAG Clowns have a special place – laughter, horror, foolishness, pathos, fragility – there is a serious reminder ‘not to touch’ – just about perfect for our fragile, don’t touch, Covid cricles of avoidance. Art Curations loves to seize on didactic semiotics, coded messages but I think I’ll just stick with the beauty, pathos and solitude of Ugo Rondinone’s Clowns. Worth a sit down and contemplation with these guys.
@aucklandartgallery #aucklandcitycouncil

Newest member of our ArtExplore Team Looking Forwa

Newest member of our ArtExplore Team Looking Forward to 2022

ArtExplore Auckland A beautiful ray of sunshine o

ArtExplore Auckland A beautiful ray of sunshine on our bush walk thanks to that wonderful & generous young artist 👩‍🎨

ArtExplore Auckland: Meanwhile starring at the ce

ArtExplore Auckland: Meanwhile starring at the ceiling…..David Allsop at Suite Gallery is displaying a new work of art each day in the window. Today: ‘Capricorn and yellow square window’ by artist Bonco. From his current exhibition at Suite: ‘Count The Stars -IF Indeed You Can’. The unthinkability of that task….but someone is out there trying.
#suite.co.nz

ArtExplore Auckland: While we wait out Lockdown!!

ArtExplore Auckland: While we wait out Lockdown!!! Please everyone than can be vaccinated DO IT! Anyway – new Gallery in town- LIMN Gallery. A wide mixture of artists both local and international – ASKEW ONE, Component, Banksy, Jimi Grins, KAWS, Keith Haring, Shepard Fairey, Takashi Murukami, Collective: Weston Frizzell – and many more. Definitely, a move over Baby Boomers – let in GenerationY/Millennials - bent to curation – but hey, they are already the next big generation. Will be on our ArtExplore Artwalks visting list.
@limn_gallery

ArtExplore Auckland: A very successful van tour t

ArtExplore Auckland: A very successful van tour through the galleries of South Auckland by ArtExplorers, just days before our current Lockdown. Mangere Art Centre, exhibition: Hoea! Works from Te Tairawhiti who have been involved with Hoea! Gallery since its opening, January 2021. Each of the works speak to Whakapapa and connection from a matauranga Maori perspective. Incudes here the challenging neon work, ‘He aha te say a to quini’ – Artist Glenis Philip Barbara 2020.
Looking forward to another tour as soon as Covid conditions allow.
@mangereartscentre @aklcouncil @publicartakl

ArtExplore Auckland: Untitled work by Andrew Keal

ArtExplore Auckland: Untitled work by Andrew Keall, from his Doctoral Presentation Exhibition, ‘Inhabiting In-betweens: Making paintings and being Made’, Elam School of Fine Arts, Auckland Uni. This is a real deep dive into the meta exploration of painting as an artistic phenomenological process. This work is strangely unique in that it follows no consistent style or pictorial agenda but you can see of elements of virtually every technique and variety of pictorial structures within the work. We are watching this artist with keen interest.
Acquired for the ArtExplore Collection just two hours before Level four Lockdown – maybe that’s something to do with the aura of this work too.
@andrewkeall @whangareiartmuseum @elamartists

ArtEXplore WGTN: Le temoin 1941, Man Ray. ‘The

ArtEXplore WGTN: Le temoin 1941, Man Ray. ‘The eye exists in an untamed state’ Andre Breton, The Surrealist Revolution, No.4, 1925. Surrealist Exhibition. From ‘Surrealist Art’ Te Papa Tongarewa. To 31 October 2021. The Dream Revolution!
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