With works taken from across the motu, Aratoi’s Autumn exhibition schedule is a nod to the lessons of our past and how we can adapt them to create a better future.
Main Gallery exhibition Der Tiefenglanz: Deep Gloss is a collaboration by contemporary jeweller Karl Fritsch and photographer Gavin Hipkins which plays on notions of perception.
Hipkins has selected images from his archive of negatives, and printed these as gelatin silver photographs, before passing them onto Fritsch,
who mounts them onto aluminium sheets— independently and brusquely pierces each one with his own archive of found gemstones and fine metals hoarded from his studio.
This exhibition is a collaboration with the Hamish McKay Gallery in Wellington with loans from
across Aotearoa.
“Aratoi is thrilled to be showcasing the collaborative work of two of our country’s leading artists,” say Aratoi’s Director Sarah McClintock. “The final work, a result of their intimate trust in each other, is at one dark, irreverent, shocking and poignant.”
Complimenting Der Tiefenglanz: Deep Gloss in the Main Gallery is local artist Janet Green.
Green looks back over 50 years of her artistic practice, through her drawings, paintings and ceramics, taking inspiration from school days learning biology, her time working in the British Museum and as Site Conservator on archaeological excavations in South Eastern Türkiye and Cyprus.
Her exhibition is aptly named Conglomeration, where many disparate things are collected together in an unusual way.
The Byzantine Palm Trees were observed on her travels on a cave wall near Göreme in Cappadocia, Türkiye – and first drawn in her sketch book in 1998. By contrast, the Girl with the Greyhound was inspired by a glimpse while driving down High Street, Carterton.
AUTUMN EXHIBITIONS:
Der Tiefenglanz: Deep Gloss by Karl Fritsch
and Gavin Hipkins 22 March – 8 June
Janet Green: Conglomeration 22 March – 8 June
