The Art Gallery of New South Wales will present Hilma af Klint: The Secret Paintings, the first major survey in the Asia Pacific region of visionary Swedish artist Hilma af Klint (1862–1944), whose remarkable body of abstract and mystical paintings bring new perspectives to the narratives of modern art and has become an international sensation. When af Klint began creating her ambitious new works in 1906, no one had seen paintings like hers before – so monumental in scale, with .
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12122020 PHOTO: ROSA WOODS/STUFF A two-storey immersive installation by Japanese artist Chiharu Shiota has opened at Te Papa.
The new year has begun and there are loads of things to do in the capital this week, regardless of the weather.
Exhibitions
Te Papa, until April 18 Create! Look! Explore! Celebrate summer at Te Papa with a dynamic festival of events, activities, exhibitions, and fun. Get up close with art, the world’s first Māori VR film, objects from the TVNZ 1 series National Treasures, clay makers, Māori and Pasifika art, skate culture, a garden in the sky, and more.
Terminal
resembles a waiting room. Or, more specifically, those rooms currently more uncomfortable than a dentist’s, airports. Curated by Aaron Lister, this smart melancholy exhibition is dedicated to the politics, anxieties, dehumanisation and plain boredom of our airports’ transit spaces. The gallery’s rooms are cleverly accessibly themed ‘’arrivals’’, ‘‘departures’’, ‘’screening’’ and ‘’runway’’. Smart video works play on multiple airport information screens. There are even the seats you will find at Wellington Airport to wait on - the ubiquitous Eames Tandem Sling Seating.
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Even Quasi is waiting. The face-hand sculpture by Ronnie Van Hout, propped on legs made from an upturned two-finger salute glowers down on Ngākau Civic Square, atop City Gallery.