Georgina McWhirter Pictures They Want to Make: Recent Auckland photography, edited by Chris Corson-Scott and Edward Hanfling (Photoforum, Auckland, 2013), 176 pp, $60. Pictures They Want to Make: Recent Auckland photography is not (always) a book of photos of Auckland, nor is it (often) photography by people living in or hailing from the region. What […]
Spiromorphs, Piromorphs, Torsomorphs and Peopillics
Jamie Hanton His Own Steam: The Work of Barry Brickell, by David Craig and Gregory O’Brien (Auckland University Press, 2013) 217 pp., $65. His Own Steam, The Work of Barry Brickell was released in conjunction with the retrospective exhibition of the same name presented at the Dowse Museum, Lower Hutt earlier this year. The publication […]
Farm Fences, Land Slips, Tree Stumps
Andrew Paul Wood Ngā Tau ki Muri (Our Future), by Ans Westra (Suite Publishing, 2013), 160pp., $40. For centuries nature and the natural world was a primary inspiration for the arts – a situation that became increasingly problematic as ‘nature’ was reduced in status to a factory to supply the cities in the inexorable migration […]
Have Paintbrush, Will Travel
David Eggleton Two Hundred and Forty Years of New Zealand Painting, by Gil Docking, Michael Dunn and Edward Hanfling (David Bateman, 2012), 280 pp., $99.99; Behind the Canvas: An Insider’s Guide to the New Zealand Art Market, by Warwick Henderson (New Holland, 2012). 200 pp., $45; Hanly, by Gregory O’Brien and others (Ron Sang Publications […]
Dear Antarctica
Alice Miller Science on Ice: Discovering the Secrets of Antarctica, by Veronika Meduna (Auckland University Press, 2012), 225 pp., $59.99; These Rough Notes, by Bill Manhire, Anne Noble, Norman Meehan, and Hannah Griffin (Victoria University Press, 2012), 64 pp., $40.< A Canadian band I once loved sang an unlikely song about an Antarctic explorer meeting Foucault […]
False Light
Hanna Scott The Evening Hours: Ben Cauchi, edited by Aaron Lister (Victoria University Press, with City Gallery Wellington, 2013), 125 pp., $60. Ben Cauchi’s images are like a series of unanswered questions. That means that this monograph The Evening Hours: Ben Cauchi is perfectly timed. The exhibition at City Gallery, and the publication that coincides […]
The Transparent Eyeball
Max Oettli Laurence Aberhart: Recent Taranaki Photographs, by Laurence Aberhart, with essays by Paul Brobbel, Peter Ireland and others, (Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, 2012), 69 pp., $33. Flying up to Auckland from the South you can often see Mount Taranaki, and if it’s clear you see the amazing radial land-use pattern around it especially to the […]
Subjective, Not Comprehensive
Aindriu MacFehin Artspace 25 : Every Cloud Has a Silver Lining, edited by Caterina Riva, with texts by Tobias Berger, Chris Kraus and others, (Artspace Auckland, 2012), 160 pp., $ 40. Art books are a mystery. Art itself is mysterious, not just because it is often better understood in retrospect but more because in […]
Time-bound Status of Desire
David Herkt Manly Affections: The Photographs of Robert Gant 1885–1915, Chris Brickell, (Genre Books, 2012), 208 pp. $50. Time is the final mystery. Although space has been repeatedly reconceived over the last millennia by physics, technology, and culture, our concept of the one-way flow of time has remained relatively consistent and undisturbed. We exist […]
Wanderlust
David Eggleton Selling the Dream: the Art of Early New Zealand Tourism, edited by Peter Alsop, Dave Bamford and Gary Stewart (Craig Potton Publishing, 2012) 408 pp., $79.99. The days when glamour and romance were still attached to travel are well and truly over. Now economy travel by air is referred to colloquially as […]
Precarious Looking
Kathryn Mitchell Van der Velden: Otira, by Peter Vangioni and Dieuwertje Dekkers (Christchurch Art Gallery, 2011), 96 pp. $49.99. Serendipitously, shortly after receiving the review copy of the Christchurch Art Gallery’s Van der Velden Otira catalogue (authored by Peter Vangioni and Dieuwertje Dekkers), I made the trip from Christchurch through Otira to Greymouth on the […]
The Anthropocene Era
David Eggleton Kermadec, edited by Bronwyn Golder and Gregory O’Brien, (PEW Environment Group/Tauranga Art Gallery, 2011) , 176 pp., $79.99; River-Road: Journeys through Ecology, by David Cook, Wiremu Puke and Jony Valentine (Rim Books, 2011), 92 pp., $40; Old New World: Photographs by Mary Macpherson, (Lopdell House), 96 pp. $50; Ice Blink: An Antarctic Imaginary, […]
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