Where For Art Thou 'C'??

A couple of people I know have set up a new gallery space along K Road (448 Gallery). The last time I had been for a quick looksie, the space didn't really seem activated enough. However, they just opened a show called 'perfect but' by Michael Vincent Sperring and Amber and I were lucky enough to be passing by to catch it.

The space held a few drawings of tie-dyed deck chairs, along with the deck chair in real life. There also seemed to be some sort of spatial bark pit of sorts...and what looked like a picnic table (which they were using), which I didn't even realise was an intentional part of the exhibition until it appeared in a drawing...

The show itself was puzzling. We both agreed that there was something holding our attention, but we didn't really know what it was about. We threw ideas back and forth, discussed the historical importance of tie-dye as a medium and whether the artist had even though about such a thing. I remarked that to me, the tie-dye itself was really just a means of creating mark or treating surface, and in the end, the show seemed like a whole load of 'this is what the artist wanted to do and so he did it' and perhaps we were reading too much into it (as we often tend to do). Although, come to think of it i now, perhaps he was doing some sort of One and Three Chairs thing minus written language?

The artist also pointed out to us a painting above the fireplace/mantlepiece, which was apparently a Judy Millar original. Somehow I think he was yanking our chain?? Maybe the Judy Millar was the whole centre of the show and we just didn't know it?

Then we finally got along to the Giovanni Intra exhibition/archive at Artspace. Perhaps the longest time spent in a gallery this year due to the amount of reading material just splayed out on the table. A lone post-it note was found on the back of one:

Who is the mysterious 'C'?? Where are the available 'cats'? I do assume they mean catalogue...and what were they setting up? The show?? How appropriate a discovery for the 'concealment and revelation' theme they have going.

Was also excited to see the slide projectors! Oh the magical click sound of a slide changing to another...so very satisfying. How I have missed thee...

Was another scorching day in Auckland. Since galleries are not a/c friendly, we did not last long. That is all for now.

- Agnes