Calendar
Calendar
The HUM calendar features exhibitions & events by New Zealand arts practitioners working or living abroad.
Yona Lee at 15th Biennale de Lyon
Fagor Factory, Lyon, France
18 September 2019 —
05 January 2020
Yona Lee makes large, labyrinth-like installations. In the Fagor Factory, hundreds of metres of stainless-steel piping will be cut and welded to form elaborate linear structures that allow a different rapport with space. By incorporating items extracted from urban and domestic spaces, the artist infuses her piece with an everyday surrealism. Producing site-specific work, she arranges systems and networks that can equally seem authoritarian or utopian, utilitarian or playful. A musician who plays the cello, she conceives of her artworks as scores, which visitors are invited to interpret by engaging with them. Born in 1986 in Busan, South Korea, Yona Lee lives and works in Auckland, New Zealand.
Yona Lee makes large, labyrinth-like installations. In the Fagor Factory, hundreds of metres of stainless-steel piping will be cut and welded to form elaborate linear structures that allow a different rapport with space. By incorporating items extracted from urban and domestic spaces, the artist infuses her piece with an everyday surrealism. Producing site-specific work, she arranges systems and networks that can equally seem authoritarian or utopian, utilitarian or playful. A musician who plays the cello, she conceives of her artworks as scores, which visitors are invited to interpret by engaging with them. Born in 1986 in Busan, South Korea, Yona Lee lives and works in Auckland, New Zealand.
Kate Newby at IAC Villeurbane
IAC Villeurbanne Lyon, France
29 May —
11 August 2019
The IAC, placing research at the heart of its activities, occasionally presents itself as a place of Otium, an interval which favors thinking, meditation and awareness. Otium #4 groups together solo exhibitions by three artists from the same generation, coming from three continents: Leone Contini, Maria Laet and Kate Newby.
Kate Newby, an artist from New Zealand now living in New York, focuses her attention on the small objects found in our every day environment, in order to slow down time so as to appreciate the value held within a moment or a detail.
For IAC, Kate Newby blurs the frontier between interior and exterior, creating a back and forth between them, linking them through different procedures, like a line of tiles or via a golden or silver thread. Her work, both floating and anchored, invites one to become detached from oneself in order to turn one’s attention towards the outside. And so she offers a double impression, one of permanence through her adherence to the place which hosts the work, which is then almost immediately contradicted by the ephemeral sensation provided by her outdoor interventions. Changes in luminosity, and variations in the weather are then shown to be an integral part of the work, which is affected by these fluctuations. Kate Newby’s work becomes a tool for creating everything that can be seen and felt, it is the environment itself.
The IAC, placing research at the heart of its activities, occasionally presents itself as a place of Otium, an interval which favors thinking, meditation and awareness. Otium #4 groups together solo exhibitions by three artists from the same generation, coming from three continents: Leone Contini, Maria Laet and Kate Newby.
Kate Newby, an artist from New Zealand now living in New York, focuses her attention on the small objects found in our every day environment, in order to slow down time so as to appreciate the value held within a moment or a detail.
For IAC, Kate Newby blurs the frontier between interior and exterior, creating a back and forth between them, linking them through different procedures, like a line of tiles or via a golden or silver thread. Her work, both floating and anchored, invites one to become detached from oneself in order to turn one’s attention towards the outside. And so she offers a double impression, one of permanence through her adherence to the place which hosts the work, which is then almost immediately contradicted by the ephemeral sensation provided by her outdoor interventions. Changes in luminosity, and variations in the weather are then shown to be an integral part of the work, which is affected by these fluctuations. Kate Newby’s work becomes a tool for creating everything that can be seen and felt, it is the environment itself.