Thursday 22 October • 4.30 - 5.15PM • Free Event
Artists’ Talk
Karl Fritsch & Gavin Hipkins
Join us for a conversation with artists Karl Fritsch and Gavin Hipkins, moderated by Sarah McClintock, Director of Aratoi Wairarapa Museum of Art and History.
The talk will be followed by the Opening Celebration of Fritsch and Hipkins' new exhibitions at The Arts House Trust, from 5.30–7.30pm:
Der Tiefenglanz: Deep Gloss, developed and toured by Aratoi Wairarapa Museum of Art and History, the artists and Hamish McKay Gallery.
Die Ausgrabung, the first presentation of the project in Tāmaki Makaurau, which was initially exhibited in conjunction with a joint artists’ residency at the Dunedin School of Art, Otago Polytechnic.
Karl Fritsch
Karl Fritsch is a Pōneke-based artist. He has exhibited extensively nationally and internationally. His rings reference traditional goldsmithing techniques, yet they dramatically reframe their expressive range, making him one of the most influential contemporary jewellery makers.
His work is held in the collections of leading museums and public collections, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, and Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Wellington.
Gavin Hipkins
Gavin Hipkins is an award-winning Tāmaki Makaurau-based artist. He has exhibited widely over the last three decades. His photography and moving image works interrogate how images create meaning through fragmentation and circulation. His work explores the nation state, particularly in colonised countries in an era of re-imagined communities and ideas of social and political utopia. His practice engages film as a cinematic art that blurs conventional genres of essay film, documentary and experimental narrative structures.
His work is included in public collections including the Queensland Art Gallery, the Auckland Art Gallery, Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, and George Eastman Museum of Photography and Film, New York. He is an Associate Professor at Te Waka Tūhura Elam Fine Arts, the University of Auckland.