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Visiting Asia at home

The complex ‘personalities’ of Asia have been explored in-depth by New Zealand artists, and now their works have been brought together in an amazingly vibrant exhibition, Visiting Asia.

The works are the result of residencies in various parts of Asia, including China, Indonesia, India, Japan, Taiwan and South Korea, by 15 Kiwi artists: Fiona Amundsen and Tim Corballis, Ben Buchanan, Kushana Bush, Steve Carr, Liyen Chong, Matthew Cowan, Kerry Ann Lee, Jae Hoon Lee, Reuben Paterson, Jade Townsend, Tim Veling, Kate Woods, Erica van Zon and Tiffany Singh.

Gallery director Toni MacKinnon says the works run the gamut, from “emotionally affecting” to “gently having fun with cultural misunderstandings”, and across media, from video works to a fantastic sculptural pieces and installation.

 “Tiffany Singh’s video work was made following Nepal’s earthquake in 2015.  In her work Singh is seen moving through the streets of Nepal. The work remembers sacred sites that existed before the earthquake but are since gone.”

Jal also spent her residency in Nepal.

“Jal has recorded voices of prayer in 900 beautiful handwritten ribbons. The work also uses locally sourced earth and water, giving it a tangible connection to Hastings,” says MacKinnon.

The exhibition kicked off with a first for the gallery, an opening choreographed by two senior visual arts students from EIT.

Rebecca Lees and Dunja Tornier were tasked with producing an event opening that would appeal to younger audiences. “They came through. The opening of Visiting Asia was really successful, our biggest ever, with 150 plus people across a really broad range of ages,” said MacKinnon.

“Visitors to the gallery were offered gift bags and invited to contribute to the mandala. A pizza truck was in Civic Square and by all accounts is keen to come back as it was very popular towards the end of the night with visitors stopping to buy a pizza before heading home. There was a really great buzz in the area too with [new gallery] Parlour Projects having its inaugural opening on the night.”

Visiting Asia, put together by Hastings City Art Gallery, Auckland’s Te Tuhi Gallery and the Asia NZ Foundation, is on at Hastings City Art Gallery until July 17, and entry is free.

MacKinnon is working on attracting more collaborative projects to the gallery. “It allows us to be more ambitious about the scale of exhibitions and our event programme. It also puts us on the map nationally,” she says.

Hastings City Art Gallery, 201 Eastbourne Street East, Hastings, see: www.hastingscityartgallery.co.nz

 

4 October 2017

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