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Autumn 2017 Newsletter CC41215 With support from from support With Incorporated is a registered charity - - charity registered a is Incorporated Te Uru Waitakere Contemporary Gallery Gallery Contemporary Waitakere Uru Te Commissioning gallery Commissioning Opening Saturday 27 May, 4pm May, 27 Saturday Opening Presented by Te Uru as part of the Auckland Arts Festival Arts Auckland the of part as Uru Te by Presented 27 May – 20 August 2017 August 20 – May 27 Silo Park Silo programme. 10 March – 26 March 2017 March 26 – March 10 Opening Saturday 29 April, 4pm April, 29 Saturday Opening Gallery. Part of the Auckland Festival of Photography 2017 2017 Photography of Festival Auckland the of Part Gallery. Contemporary Gallery in partnership with Tauranga Art Art Tauranga with partnership in Gallery Contemporary 29 April – 9 July 2017 July 9 – April 29 designed for the specific reverberant qualities of Silo 6. 6. Silo of qualities reverberant specific the for designed University of Sydney and toured by Te Uru Waitakere Waitakere Uru Te by toured and Sydney of University activated smoke-bubble machine and a soundtrack that is is that soundtrack a and machine smoke-bubble activated (Sydney) and Céline Struger (Vienna). Struger Céline and (Sydney) This exhibition was developed by Colin Rhodes at the the at Rhodes Colin by developed was exhibition This technology through photography, video, an audience- an video, photography, through technology Andre Hemer (Christchurch/Vienna), Biljana Jancic Jancic Biljana (Christchurch/Vienna), Hemer Andre combines digital and analogue analogue and digital combines The Exquisite Wound Exquisite The London/New York), Catherine Clayton-Smith (Sydney), (Sydney), Clayton-Smith Catherine York), London/New Antwoord. and imagined. Featuring Ry David Bradley (Melbourne/ Bradley David Ry Featuring imagined. and video he directed for South African rap-rave group Die Die group rap-rave African South for directed he video existence. a way to communicate ideas of place – locally, globally globally locally, – place of ideas communicate to way a three videos including the artist’s award-winning music music award-winning artist’s the including videos three through her latest work, which questions the nature of our our of nature the questions which work, latest her through the physical and digital interplay of light and space as as space and light of interplay digital and physical the and white images from the last two decades, and features features and decades, two last the from images white and years later, that formative experience continues to reverberate reverberate to continues experience formative that later, years Clifford, an international network of artists negotiate negotiate artists of network international an Clifford, is a provocative collection of 75 black black 75 of collection provocative a is Theatre of the Mind the of Theatre which was launched at Lopdell House Gallery in 1996. 20 20 1996. in Gallery House Lopdell at launched was which between artist Andre Hemer and curator Andrew Andrew curator and Hemer Andre artist between Ballen’s first solo exhibition in New Zealand. Zealand. New in exhibition solo first Ballen’s 22 April – 9 July 2017 July 9 – April 22 Roger Ballen’s Ballen’s Roger , , book, and exhibition touring the produced she The Big C Big The skyscapes of Titirangi and developed in collaboration collaboration in developed and Titirangi of skyscapes Curated by Colin Rhodes, this touring survey exhibition is is exhibition survey touring this Rhodes, Colin by Curated was diagnosed with cancer at age 23. Out of this experience, experience, this of Out 23. age at cancer with diagnosed was locality of Auckland. Auckland. of locality In this exhibition, presented amidst the elevated elevated the amidst presented exhibition, this In wounds, do they make us bigger or smaller?” says Swan, who who Swan, says smaller?” or bigger us make they do wounds, Aotearoa to make a new work in direct response to the the to response direct in work new a make to Aotearoa still rooted firmly in photography. in firmly rooted still being wounded, but we can choose how we relate to those those to relate we how choose can we but wounded, being by a single shift. This April, Taguchi will be travelling to to travelling be will Taguchi April, This shift. single a by and connecting timezones of night and day. and night of timezones connecting and has invented a new hybrid aesthetic in these works but one one but works these in aesthetic hybrid new a invented has defended identities. No one can get through life without without life through get can one No identities. defended any place, and the chain reaction that can be sparked sparked be can that reaction chain the and place, any scenes from one place to another, collapsing distance distance collapsing another, to place one from scenes and sculptural techniques to create elaborate sets. Ballen Ballen sets. elaborate create to techniques sculptural and “Our wounds interrupt our carefully constructed and fiercely fiercely and constructed carefully our interrupt wounds “Our for reinvention, performance and play embedded in in embedded play and performance reinvention, for window that can record or transmit in real time, relaying relaying time, real in transmit or record can that window recent series he has employed drawings, painting, collage collage painting, drawings, employed has he series recent begs the question, “what are we without them?” them?” without we are “what question, the begs becoming and disassembling, he revels in the potential potential the in revels he disassembling, and becoming digital age, screens have become a kind of electronic electronic of kind a become have screens age, digital he developed a style he describes as ‘ballenesque’. In his his In ‘ballenesque’. as describes he style a developed he we relate to the disappearance of our physical bodies, which which bodies, physical our of disappearance the to relate we stop-motion techniques. In the constant flux of things things of flux constant the In techniques. stop-motion window to another world, while in our interconnected interconnected our in while world, another to window documentary photography is clear but through the 1990s 1990s the through but clear is photography documentary and scientist David Shillington. The works contemplate how how contemplate works The Shillington. David scientist and Taguchi creates formations that are animated through through animated are that formations creates Taguchi outside. In art history, a painting’s frame can offer a a offer can frame painting’s a history, art In outside. years. In his earlier works his connection to the tradition of of tradition the to connection his works earlier his In years. Charlie Ha, engineer Peter Swan, light artist Peter Stoneham, Stoneham, Peter artist light Swan, Peter engineer Ha, Charlie Using everyday materials found in the immediate vicinity, vicinity, immediate the in found materials everyday Using spaces or electric light into the darkened landscape landscape darkened the into light electric or spaces has been living and working in South Africa for over 30 30 over for Africa South in working and living been has visual artist Rebecca Swan in collaboration with composer composer with collaboration in Swan Rebecca artist visual works by Berlin-based Japanese artist Yukihiro Taguchi. Taguchi. Yukihiro artist Japanese Berlin-based by works between realities, channelling daylight into interior interior into daylight channelling realities, between of his generation. He was born in New York in 1950 but but 1950 in York New in born was He generation. his of is an interdisciplinary installation by by installation interdisciplinary an is The Exquisite Wound Wound Exquisite The In September 2016, Te Uru presented five stop-motion stop-motion five presented Uru Te 2016, September In Windows can be a division, a connection or a conduit conduit a or connection a division, a be can Windows Roger Ballen is one of the most important photographers photographers important most the of one is Ballen Roger ION T N-FORMA I MORE IND M HE T F O RE T THEA E WOUND E T I S XQUI E THE WS WINDO HING tc WA HI: C TAGU UKIHIRO Y S BALLEN’ OGER R Rebecca Swan, Andre Hemer, New Tuscan Sunset Scans 2015 All Hearts Are Sacred Hearts Are All AUTUMN 2017 AUTUMN morning. ANZAC teuru.org.nz and Friday Easter Closed Christmas Day, Day, Christmas Closed Auckland 0642 Auckland Auckland Titirangi Titirangi 60109 Box PO Road Titirangi 420 [email protected] 10am to 4.30pm to 10am 8087 817 9 +64 Monday–Sunday Contact us Contact us Visit LOOKING AHEAD EXHIBITIONS Soundship (descender1) Soundship As our 30th anniversary year continues, it is timely that Te Uru celebrates one of Titirangi’s best-known photographers; Brian Brake. Brake settled in this area in the 1970s, commissioning the now iconic Brake House from architect Ron Sang, and contributed works from his Japan series for our opening exhibition in November 1986. Brake’s influence is significant and his Monsoon series has directly inspired American photographer Steve McCurry. Picturing Asia: David Haines and Joyce Hinterding, Double Take brings together the work of these two master documenters in Te Uru’s biggest exhibition of HEAT: CUSHLA DONALDSON: JACQUELINE FAHE Y: photography to date. In recent months, we have also acknowledged the careers of John Parker and Anne SOLAR REVOLUTIONS THE FAIRY FALLS WHERE MY EYE LEADS McCahon, and we look forward to sharing a modest selection of work by Jacqueline Fahey in March. We are now in an era of HEAT: the Earth is quite literally The Fairy Falls, a solo exhibition by Tāmaki Makaurau- Jacqueline Fahey is one of Aotearoa’s foremost Substantial projects like Picturing Asia, co-presented heating up, with new global temperature records set Brian Brake. Film director Akira Kurosawa standing before an image of his principal star, Toshiro Mifune, Tokyo, Japan, 1963.
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