Exhibition: WestFarbe - Paint vs Colour
Senior Lecturer in Fine Arts, Noel Ivanoff, will be taking part in WestFarbe: Paint vs Colour, curated by the German based artist Christoph Dahlhausen, along with other New Zealand-based and international artists.
Date & time
30 • 01 • 20 11:00 AM—6:00 PMLocation
Two Rooms Gallery - 16, Putiki Street, West Lynn, Arch Hill, Waitemata, Auckland, 1021, New Zealand View map
The exhibition is the first of two iterations in New Zealand; first at Two Rooms Gallery in Auckland and then Centre of Contemporary Art in Christchurch.
The German language uses the term Farbe for both the phenomena of colour and for the material of paint. By contrast, the English language differentiates between colour and paint, suggesting a space within the practice and discourse of painting in which generative questions can be raised. In Western Europe during the 1970’s and 80’s artists began to orientate their practice around these questions, testing out the fundamental relationships and basic conditions of painting
This exhibition explores such artistic investigations by bringing together process-orientated and chromatically driven approaches to the medium of painting. Operating as a platform for discussion, WestFarbe establishes dialogue between practices concerned with aspects of ‘Farbe’ in different but fundamentally phenomenological and explorative ways.
WestFarbe: Paint vs Colour curated by the German based artist Christoph Dahlhausen, began in Bonn at the contemporary artspace raum2810 in 2016 and travelled throughout Germany to Kunstmuseum Gelsenkirchen in 2017 and the Stadtmuseum Siegburg in 2018. For each venue the list of artists and works varied and this will continue during its ongoing tour to other host galleries and institutions.
The most recent iteration in Auckland features artists: Helen Calder (NZ), Renee Cosgrave (NZ/AU), Christoph Dahlhausen (D), Judy Darragh (NZ), Katharina Grosse (D), Marcia Hafif (US), Callum Innes (UK), Noel Ivanoff (NZ), Leigh Martin (NZ), Simon Morris (NZ), Christine Reifenberger (D), Winston Roeth (US), David Thomas (AU).
There will be a preview of WestFarbe: Paint vs Colour from 6pm-8pm on the 30 January. The exhibition will be running at Two Rooms Gallery from the 31 January until the 29 February, 2020.
Gallery Hours: Tuesday – Friday 11am – 6pm. Saturday 11am – 3pm. For more information, please visit the Two Rooms Gallery website.
Image: WestFarbe, Stadtmuseum Siegburg (Ivanoff, Milanoski, Kremer, Morris)
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