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The HUM calendar features exhibitions & events by New Zealand arts practitioners working or living abroad.
Simon Denny, Metaverse Landscapes
Kunstverein Hannover, Hanover, Germany
14 May —
16 July 2023
Metaverse Landscapes, Simon Denny’s most recent series of works, offers a glimpse into a number of the rapidly growing immersive virtual worlds enabled by block-chain technology. Denny looks at the mechanics and visual vernacular of “metaverse” spaces that offer users an array of inter-actions: from social networking via custom-made characters to the purchase and sale of collectibles and, ultimately, digital real estate.
Metaverse Landscapes draws upon the art-historical idioms of landscape painting and modernist abstraction as well as the techniques used to represent virtual lands today. Combining UV print and oil painting, the works convey fragments of metaverses—not as they are experienced by their users in real-time, but as they are featured on sales platforms like OpenSea. These representations resonate with the tactics used by European colonisers who set out to sea, laying claim to what they encountered: first-person picturesque depictions of “exotic” vistas or top-down aerial surveys, representing lands as new and ripe for extraction.
Metaverse Landscapes, Simon Denny’s most recent series of works, offers a glimpse into a number of the rapidly growing immersive virtual worlds enabled by block-chain technology. Denny looks at the mechanics and visual vernacular of “metaverse” spaces that offer users an array of inter-actions: from social networking via custom-made characters to the purchase and sale of collectibles and, ultimately, digital real estate.
Metaverse Landscapes draws upon the art-historical idioms of landscape painting and modernist abstraction as well as the techniques used to represent virtual lands today. Combining UV print and oil painting, the works convey fragments of metaverses—not as they are experienced by their users in real-time, but as they are featured on sales platforms like OpenSea. These representations resonate with the tactics used by European colonisers who set out to sea, laying claim to what they encountered: first-person picturesque depictions of “exotic” vistas or top-down aerial surveys, representing lands as new and ripe for extraction.
Louisa Afoa, Edith Amituanai, Darcell Apelu, Grace Iwashita-Taylor, Raymond Sagapolutele, Kereama Taepa, Pati Solomona Tyrell in Ocean Memories, curated by Cora-Allan Lafaiki Twiss
Kunsthalle Faust, Hanover, Germany
17 October —
14 November 2021
With the exhibition Ocean Memories, the Kunstverein Kunsthalle Hannover is showing a selection of contemporary photography, poetry, video and 3D prints by artists from Oceania.
Curator Cora-Allan Lafaiki Twiss developed the concept of the exhibition as a journey together with the artists. A journey into contemporary art. This trip is shaped by the examination of their indigenous history. In this tradition lies the starting point of the exhibition, which tells of the memories of stories, dances, navigation and handicrafts of their ancestors.
Featuring Aotearoa and Pacific artists, Louisa Afoa, Edith Amituanai, Darcell Apelu, Grace Iwashita-Taylor, Raymond Sagapolutele, Kereama Taepa and Pati Solomona Tyrell, the works in the exhibition depict the tension between traditional and contemporary art and culture, opening up a dialogue of reflection and examination of colonialism and racism as well as gender and diversity.
With the exhibition Ocean Memories, the Kunstverein Kunsthalle Hannover is showing a selection of contemporary photography, poetry, video and 3D prints by artists from Oceania.
Curator Cora-Allan Lafaiki Twiss developed the concept of the exhibition as a journey together with the artists. A journey into contemporary art. This trip is shaped by the examination of their indigenous history. In this tradition lies the starting point of the exhibition, which tells of the memories of stories, dances, navigation and handicrafts of their ancestors.
Featuring Aotearoa and Pacific artists, Louisa Afoa, Edith Amituanai, Darcell Apelu, Grace Iwashita-Taylor, Raymond Sagapolutele, Kereama Taepa and Pati Solomona Tyrell, the works in the exhibition depict the tension between traditional and contemporary art and culture, opening up a dialogue of reflection and examination of colonialism and racism as well as gender and diversity.