Not For Entertainment
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When:
| Tue 8 May ’12, 11:00am–6:00pm |
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| Wed 9 May ’12, 11:00am–6:00pm |
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| Thu 10 May ’12, 11:00am–6:00pm |
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| Fri 11 May ’12, 11:00am–6:00pm |
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| Sat 12 May ’12, 11:00am–4:00pm |
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| Tue 15 May ’12, 11:00am–6:00pm |
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| Wed 16 May ’12, 11:00am–6:00pm |
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| Thu 17 May ’12, 11:00am–6:00pm |
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| Fri 18 May ’12, 11:00am–6:00pm |
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| Sat 19 May ’12, 11:00am–4:00pm |
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| Tue 22 May ’12, 11:00am–6:00pm |
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| Wed 23 May ’12, 11:00am–6:00pm |
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| Thu 24 May ’12, 11:00am–6:00pm |
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| Fri 25 May ’12, 11:00am–6:00pm |
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| Sat 26 May ’12, 11:00am–4:00pm |
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Where: Whitespace, 12 Crummer Rd, Auckland
Restrictions: All Ages
Ticket Information:
- Admission: Free
Website:
Event listed by: Deborah White
Few exhibitions in recent memory, save perhaps 2007's Turbulence Triennial, have self-consciously assembled work that is so hard to look at, so challenging to think about, and so necessary. Doris Salcedo once said of her work that: 'As an artist, I don't have the opportunity to choose the themes that inform a piece. The oft-celebrated freedom of the artist is a myth.'
The artists that make up Whitespace Gallery's Not For Entertainment - Andy Leleisi'uao, Ross Ritchie, Niki Hastings-McFall, Pete Wheeler, Lauren Lysaght, and Locust Jones - share the impetus to create works that confront realities that we wish were not real. Lysaght's miniature hearses lose no elaborateness to their scale, and Hasting-McFall's tiny tomb breathes an optimistic breath into her version of a burial. Jones' ink drawing recalls Picasso's Guernica, while Ritchie and Wheeler offer modernised momento mori. Leleisi'uao's slight sculptures, though unsettling, are themselves born of an awareness of a reality that must be addressed.
Not For Entertainment draws together a group of artists that are all engaged in a startling project - creating works that confront their own realities as artists (and humans), while reminding viewers that we are not immune to these realities. The prospect - and likewise the exhibition - is challenging: this is not for entertainment.






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