Opening Reception: Friday 2 November 6-8pm
Artists’ Talk: TBA
Open Hours: 11am – 5pm, Friday –
Sunday, 2 – 11 November 2018
UnpackAssembleAddDiscardCreate by Adrian Hall, Sibylle Hofter and William Seeto.
The exhibition examines individual
artworks created in diverse locations with works that engage with environments.
The concept of location initiates a way of working individually and between
artists with established practices and the difficulties encountered are made
more prominent by duration and distance.
The
exhibition is by three artists who deal with location as they merge and
intervene through metaphoric gaps, virtualities not easily categorised as one
or the other. By extending experience of localised environments, situations are
created whereby sites are adapted and changed to challenge perceptual and
personal awareness. In analysing diverse areas and environments, new ways of working are
discovered.
By
examining differences in work perceived knowledge and experience is extended
and heightened, changed and challenged. The bringing together of three
established practitioners is significant in that it showcases innovative and
exciting new works by artists in the geographical locations of New Zealand,
Germany and Australia.
Adrian
Hall
Adrian Hall is an artist with five decades of
living and working in the United States, New Zealand, United Kingdom,
Northern Ireland, Australia and New Zealand. His practice involved and moved
from painting to formal structures, photo/ video installations and sound works,
and all combinations. Currently, photographic works with textual addenda at
gallery scale rival his live practice; objects and structures and drawings
too. His work practice includes colleagues and friends in improvised
visual/ sonic collaboration. He relishes conjugations of mixed gender,
race, and generations. He continues to challenge preconceptions of the
world; and eliminates that which seems irrelevant, as he also
examines the sanctity of art as it is presumed to be.
Sibylle Hofter, ‘Portrait of the Continent in 4 Weeks. June – July’ & ‘219x132x219cm’_2012. photo: w.seeto
Sibylle Hofter
Sibylle
Hofter has over two decades of multi-media art practice that includes extended
research into extra-artistic fields, curatorial and participative approaches.
She is driven by a desire to create multi-faceted collaborative
photo-portrayals of countries she visits. Her interest is within regional
contexts and beyond, which operates outside the schemes of photographic genres.
Her work involves the ongoing Agentur Schwimmer photography project, which
promotes a simple approach in a complex world by asking what is behind facades?
What makes our daily reality work? What are our possibilities to perceive and
to show? Her approach is one of unrestrained enthusiasm to get to know more
about the inner workings of society and the questions arising out of
representing a multiplicity of background and other aspects of art in
developing visual languages that are beyond our daily visual experience.
William Seeto, ‘RmG 3’_2018. photo: w.seeto
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William Seeto, ‘RmG 2 (in deconstruction)’_2016. photo: w.seeto
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William Seeto
William Seeto is a site-specific
constructed installation and photomedia artist with a practice of more than
three decades with experience in creating perceptual installations and
photomedia works. His practice examines sensory and visual perception and
interrogates different ways artworks heighten or displace experience and
referential codes in photo-imagery. His constructed
installations examine perceptual qualities in
built environments and his ephemeral artworks are based on everyday materials
that seek to extend the dialogue by blurring the lines in order to expand
contextual meaning, and in so doing continue connections generated by reworking
ideas formed by deconstruction and reconstruction that is inspired by Arte
Povera.