Rohan Wealleans
Monday, February 1st, 2010Disciple of the Pearl I first started thinking of paint as a weighty physical material at the end of my first year at Art School. In preparation for the final exhibitions, everything received a frenzied application of white acrylic to banish the year’s smears and splatters and gallerise the institution. This was an annual procedure; [...]
Ann Veronica Janssens
Friday, January 29th, 2010This Very Shining Moment …faithful to my habits as a philosopher of science, I tried to consider images without attempting personal interpretation. Little by little, this method, which has in its favour scientific prudence, seemed to me to be an insufficient basis on which to found a metaphysics of the imagination… Only phenomenology – that [...]
Peter Robinson
Thursday, October 29th, 2009Petrochemical Wonderland Start with the feeling of walking into the gallery and being hit by something huge, an interior landscape, a petrochemical wonderland. The huge twining mass of intricately draped and interlinked polystyrene is soft, almost glowing under the gallery lights. The installation Snow Ball Blind Time lacks the distancing irony and sardonic humour often [...]
Jae Hoon Lee
Monday, December 1st, 2008Auckland artist Jae Hoon Lee creates composite images: stitched-together landscapes, strangely flayed portraits and kaleidoscopic nature studies. His digital prints are seamless, but oddly disjointed. Lee is an analytical cubist with Photoshop skills. The dyptich Residue is a dual portrait whose subjects are giant eruptions of refuse. The shapes echo Archiboldo heads, but whereas the [...]
Daniel Crooks and Jae Hoon Lee
Saturday, May 3rd, 2008From the catalogue to the exhibition Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane 3 May – 21 June 2008 As well as furnishing us with family portraits and a billion framed sunsets, the camera has offered new horizons and new tyrannies. Our bodies and imaginations are squeezed through the shutter, dreaming in Technicolor and diarising in wobbly [...]
Sylvie Fleury Interview
Thursday, September 30th, 1999Seductions International art nomad, Geneva-based Sylvie Fleury works without a studio, her artistic practice driven by invitation and assembled in the gallery. Fleury ambiguously appropriates the stuff of the fashionable lifestyle – paintings, carpets, shoes, hemlines; incorporating her passion for muscle cars and her space programme in installation, sound work, and video. Mantras from fashion [...]