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November 19, 2009

Exhibition of the week


Madeleine Child and Philip Jarvis @ Mary Newton Gallery

The Age of Aquarius

Artists are obsessive magicians that constantly challenge the ways we connect with the world, by means of engagement and creativity; and there is a growing tendency amongst them to (re)use and recycle everyday objects and give a new life to detritus or "left-over". There is also a growing fascination, perhaps echoing our current environmental situation, for the mineral and the organic, that are capable of evolving ways to survive... So the idea of a growing obsession can quickly come in to minds when looking at the work of Madeleine child and Philip Jarvis presented at the Mary Newton Gallery, and described by the artists as coral from obsessive compulsive nervous fiddling.
Out of rubber bans, paint-saturated sponges, ceramic polyps and pottery, they made joyful and bright sculptures , that mirror both complex marine life systems and sophisticated embedded decorations, raising questions about nature versus culture; but also male/female, authentic/inauthentic, funny/serious...etc. With a contagious humour, and through an engagement with the everyday, whether they imitate domestic detritus (as seen in their previous work) or they use them, they express something crucial about being in and of this planet, about the here and now.

November 13, 2009

Call for proposals

Looking for multi-media artists that deal with the city as an image. Proposals to be send before the 1st of December 2009.

November 11, 2009

A new artists-run space in Wellington!

Finally, a new artists-run space is about to be launch in Wellington, thanks to Justin J.Morgan! We should be able to invest it from February 2010, but I can already tell you that the space is great and big! Already working on some exhibition proposals. Sounds promessing.