Sculpture has re-established itself as one of the most vital art forms for today. The Obstinate Object: Contemporary New Zealand Sculpture calls together recent New Zealand sculpture which foregrounds the making of and engagement with objects and object-ness as central to the experience of the medium.
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The Obstinate Object: Contemporary New Zealand Sculpture
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Philip Beesley Hylozoic Series: Vesica
World Premier of International Venice Architecture Biennale artist Philip Beesley’s Hylozoic Series: Vesica to open at City Gallery Wellington
Canadian based interdisciplinary artist Philip Beesley will premier his new work Vesica in the Hirschfeld Gallery from April 19- June 10 2012.
Vesica forms the newest exploration of Beesley’s Hylozoic Series which is concerned with experimental architecture exploring qualities of contemporary wilderness.
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Poly Wants a Cracker
The title of the work alludes to what Ioane describes as fiapalagi attitudes: a desire to behave like Palagi to the detriment of one’s own culture. Combining the term ‘Poly’, meaning Polynesian, with ‘Cracker’, a racial slur for white males, Ioane dares to suggest that some Pacific people may be attracted to Palagi or fiapalagi practices as a means of advancing themselves socially and economically.
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