Calendar
Calendar
The HUM calendar features exhibitions & events by New Zealand arts practitioners working or living abroad.
Iain Cheesman, Think Objects Think
Nomadic Art Gallery, Online
10 May —
16 June 2022
On the occasion of Iain Cheesman's new book Think Objects Think, The Nomadic Art Gallery is pleased to announce an online presentation of new in-and-outdoor sculptures by the Auckland-based artist. The shelf artworks, included in his book and this exhibition, are juxtaposed with two large outdoor sculptures that can be visited at the artist's place at specific to be announced times.
On the occasion of Iain Cheesman's new book Think Objects Think, The Nomadic Art Gallery is pleased to announce an online presentation of new in-and-outdoor sculptures by the Auckland-based artist. The shelf artworks, included in his book and this exhibition, are juxtaposed with two large outdoor sculptures that can be visited at the artist's place at specific to be announced times.
Kim Pieters, Is the sky blue
Nomadic Art Gallery, Online
30 April —
11 June 2022
Kim Pieters' solo exhibition Is the sky blue brings together an installation with paintings from 2019 and an audio-visual work. The artworks, produced in the artist's inner-harbor studio in Ōtepoti/Dunedin, New Zealand, are informed by a deep engagement with a strand of European philosophy that deals with the shape of life, from Spinoza through Deleuze, as by her own living. The works on display are specifically inspired by Maurice Blanchot's book The Infinite Conversation.
Kim Pieters' solo exhibition Is the sky blue brings together an installation with paintings from 2019 and an audio-visual work. The artworks, produced in the artist's inner-harbor studio in Ōtepoti/Dunedin, New Zealand, are informed by a deep engagement with a strand of European philosophy that deals with the shape of life, from Spinoza through Deleuze, as by her own living. The works on display are specifically inspired by Maurice Blanchot's book The Infinite Conversation.
James Robinson, Old Brain
Nomadic Art Gallery, Leuven, Belgium
12 February —
26 March 2022
The 4m long mural Old Brain consists out of 35 free-floating strips of ‘processed’ canvas from different periods of his illustrious career. This massive installation, which is the eye-catcher in the main space, connects the six paintings and ten works on paper of nearly 15 years of Robinson’s artistic production together.
For James Robinson's first solo-exhibition in Belgium, Old Brain refers to the primordial dimensions of human mental activity that are preverbal and instinctual, and which facilitate the integration of our memories, our fantasies, and our perceptions of the external world in the service of our efforts to negotiate our way through life in response to the terms imposed by the conditions of our existence. These primitive processes are overlaid by the inclusion of written text inscribed over certain panels, which shows how the cognitive part of the brain, with its ability to marshal the resources of propositional logic, subsequently comes to engage with these more instinctual operations.
The 4m long mural Old Brain consists out of 35 free-floating strips of ‘processed’ canvas from different periods of his illustrious career. This massive installation, which is the eye-catcher in the main space, connects the six paintings and ten works on paper of nearly 15 years of Robinson’s artistic production together.
For James Robinson's first solo-exhibition in Belgium, Old Brain refers to the primordial dimensions of human mental activity that are preverbal and instinctual, and which facilitate the integration of our memories, our fantasies, and our perceptions of the external world in the service of our efforts to negotiate our way through life in response to the terms imposed by the conditions of our existence. These primitive processes are overlaid by the inclusion of written text inscribed over certain panels, which shows how the cognitive part of the brain, with its ability to marshal the resources of propositional logic, subsequently comes to engage with these more instinctual operations.
Philip Trusttum, Marcus Hipa and Ahsin Ahsin in Hop Hip
The Nomadic Art Gallery, Leuven, Belgium
22 October —
27 November 2021
The inaugural exhibition Hop Hip explores the dynamic field of tension between music and visual art, between rhythm and colour. The term hop literally means jump while hip, freely translated, is a term that catapults you to imaginary places where you are enlightened to act or enjoy. By bringing together three artists from different backgrounds working in New Zealand with a Belgian sculptor, The Nomadic Art Gallery aims to visually/conceptually dissect the rhythmic cadence inherent in the artworks.
In the main space, Philip Trusttum (1949), one of New Zealand’s most celebrated artists, exhibits four works from the ‘Pictures at the Exhibition’ series (2001-2004) inspired by the same piece for the piano by Russian composer Modest Mussorgorsky. In the white-cube space and basement, Trusttum is showing nine works from the ongoing selfie and mask series started in 2018.
The upstairs space is filled with paintings and drawings by two Pacific artists, Marcus Hipa and Ahsin Ahsin. Cook Island raised, New Zealand born Ahsin Ahsin’s impressions of the digital realm made it to the real world. The three exhibited works, the Lilac series, reveal a nostalgic and at times dreamlike engagement with popular entertainment and technology of previous decades. Visually Ahsin incorporates early internet imagery, late 1990s web graphics, his trademark crocodiles, glitch, 3D rendered objects, unnatural hues, sci-fi and cartoons. The raw drawings of Niue-born Marcus Hipa follow the visual and conceptual beat of Hip Hop. The convoluted and interlocked lines merge into another, creating an image that seems to expand and bubble-up.
The inaugural exhibition Hop Hip explores the dynamic field of tension between music and visual art, between rhythm and colour. The term hop literally means jump while hip, freely translated, is a term that catapults you to imaginary places where you are enlightened to act or enjoy. By bringing together three artists from different backgrounds working in New Zealand with a Belgian sculptor, The Nomadic Art Gallery aims to visually/conceptually dissect the rhythmic cadence inherent in the artworks.
In the main space, Philip Trusttum (1949), one of New Zealand’s most celebrated artists, exhibits four works from the ‘Pictures at the Exhibition’ series (2001-2004) inspired by the same piece for the piano by Russian composer Modest Mussorgorsky. In the white-cube space and basement, Trusttum is showing nine works from the ongoing selfie and mask series started in 2018.
The upstairs space is filled with paintings and drawings by two Pacific artists, Marcus Hipa and Ahsin Ahsin. Cook Island raised, New Zealand born Ahsin Ahsin’s impressions of the digital realm made it to the real world. The three exhibited works, the Lilac series, reveal a nostalgic and at times dreamlike engagement with popular entertainment and technology of previous decades. Visually Ahsin incorporates early internet imagery, late 1990s web graphics, his trademark crocodiles, glitch, 3D rendered objects, unnatural hues, sci-fi and cartoons. The raw drawings of Niue-born Marcus Hipa follow the visual and conceptual beat of Hip Hop. The convoluted and interlocked lines merge into another, creating an image that seems to expand and bubble-up.