Blockbusters Exhibition. Dick Frizzell, Otis Frizzell And Mike Weston /  by JoFF Rae

    • Friday, 30 March 2012
    • 18:00 until 21:30
    • Saatchi & Saatchi NZ Gallery , 3rd Floor The Strand Parnell

New work from Frizzell and Son (Dick and Otis F) and Weston Frizzell (Otis Frizzell and Mike Weston in collaboration. 

In the vocabulary of graffiti art the term Blockbuster refers to a piece where one word occupies the entire wall. The outlined text is predominantly defined by the blacking out of the gaps and negative space. Parasitic of the underlying work, a BLOCKBUSTER envelopes and consumes the surface.

A Blockbuster is also the biggest thing of the summer, the thing everyone has to see.

WE KNOW LOVE YES WE DO /  by JoFF Rae

A projection of Love onto everyday objects in the form of hand drawn Maori patterns.  The Maori is well known for decorating their material cultural objects with patterns and symbols of life.  This imbues the objects with a personality and a meaning.  My patterns are symbols of a universal goodness that normally unseen is now put here to be seen.  My works are a series of paint pen drawings on household objects.  This signifies to me the amazing world we live in and the thoughts that follow from this feeling.

"I will present a Salon of this Art to celebrate Mothers, Family and Love.  There will be an opening evening and I will be at the Museum for three days following if anyone wishes to talk to me.  The work will be on display until May 1st."

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download & print your invitation - WE KNOW LOVE YES WE DO

Tawhiao presents this Salon in a context of transition and preparation after a series of collaborative exhibitions in 2011 including a triumphant residency at the Black Box in Paris.  We have seen Tracey Tawhiao return to Aotearoa and redevelop an inclusive solo presentation and installation with a series of public shows; a means to empower and encourage a grasp of her strong personality; and an opportunity to hone the skills required to connect and engage with her new Parisian audience in a manner that is unique to her heritage, custom and philosophy.

The Salon environment is fun and feminine, where Tawhiao encourages a direct connection with the works and the artist in a manner that is personal, honest and valuable at an emotional cost to the artist.  She celebrates "Mothers, Family and Love" - an indication of her motivation and purpose.

Tawhiao returns to Paris in June for the European summer and an auspicious invitational residency.

 

ERO /  by JoFF Rae

Ero : Melbourne based artist from New Zealand.

“….that we should treat all the trivial things in life seriously, and all the serious things of life with sincere and studied triviality.”
Oscar Wilde.

To meet as many people as I can and to experience as much as possible.

To never have a regret that was "... if only..."

And to find kindness and share that with other people I meet along the way.

Religious views Believe in one's self is to believe in other's
Political Views Narcissistic Party (Planet Ero in the alpha mega quadrant)
Favourite quotations Please allow me to introduce myself. I am a peacock without a cause. A piece of transcendent trash. A futile blast of colour in a futile colourless world. Dancing in the lifeboat, about truth on the tight-rope, about laughing in the face of the firing squad. A man shot through by arrows, (all be it self inflicted), and yet still alive.

This is one of my favorite quotes from the artist Sebastian Horsley and his Autobiography "Dandy in the Underworld". Its dark conceptual nature belies its true optimism for the human condition.
Take that as what you will.

Daniel Tippett >> 'Taupō Rulz' Opening December 9 /  by JoFF Rae

catalog & prices >>

1 / Escape From Black Rocks

Coromandel - escaping the tide / not falling off the edge

Giclée print - limited edition of 42

2 / Hibiscus Collation

Giclée print - limited edition of 25


3 / Wandering Cray

From a Fat Freddys Drop video - the Freddys Fish & Chip Shop sign

Giclée print - limited edition of 25


4 / Piwakawaka

Giclée print - limited edition of 42


5 / Can Kereru (original in the Otis Frizzell personal collection)

The nature of the bird - the Regal Pacifist

Giclée print - limited edition of 42


6 / Huia - Absent Friends

Giclée print - limited edition of 42

 

DT as he’s known to many.

Defined by all in the New Zealand street art scene as an iconic artist and described by TV3’s John Campbell as a premier graffiti artist, DT shows exclusively at Taupō Museum Gallery – opening Friday 9th December.  

The Taupō Rulz exhibition is open to public from December 10, 2011 to January 10, 2012.

Daniel DT Tippett has maintained an illustrious career that is an element of his ID – raw impulsive talent.

Informed with knowledge from his youth in Grey Lynn and Colville on the Coromandel Peninsula it becomes obvious that his art and his EGO are influenced by the physical environments he was raised in; urban and isolated surrounds inevitably translate as paradise in his paintings.

Taupō Rulz explores a recent period of Dan’s work that presupposes family and close friends in an introspective context:

...recognising the intrinsic influence of his father Warren Tippett in the temperament and attitude required of a fine artist; his artistic partnership and friendship with Darryl DLT Thomson; his older brother Ben and Mother Jill Pierce in their support of his life and work; and as a tribute to the Ngāti Tūwharetoa heritage of his partner Carly and their children Eva and Tupaia...

Dan’s prolific career involves collaboration and mutual inspiration with colleagues in an exclusive hip hop and urban art fraternity that has earned him the reputation as arguably the most technically skilled aerosol artist in New Zealand.

Street art crews around New Zealand owe much of their broken ground to Dan’s legacy of quality street art and graffiti.

Dan Tippett’s public art is not limited to major art commissions on walls and buildings however. His ability to work instinctively in challenging circumstances has seen a fleet of tourist vans in New Zealand and the USA adorned with DT art and his t-shirts are as famous as the people wearing them.

He also paints sets for television, short films, feature films and music videos and designs graphics for businesses, music albums and promotional posters.

He continues to share his collection of quality vinyl as a DJ at numerous public events, concerts and festivals and on his regular radio show The Hold Up, hosted with DLT on BaseFM.

The Taupō Rulz show involves several bodies of work and purpose with large format brush and spray can canvases and boards plus a limited edition of exclusive Giclée prints.

In addition the Taupō Museum Shop will also sell a range of Dan’s t-shirt prints, posters and postcards for the duration of the exhibition.

Dan Tippett on his Taupō Rulz...
“By representing the juxtaposition of being a Graff’ Artist in paradise and by taking the hip hop aesthetic and being true to developing a style that reflects our influences of coming from an island at the bottom of the Pacific – I think Taupō will appreciate my medium, method and message.”

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Tracey Tawhiao, George Nuku to show Paris /  by JoFF Rae

Tracey Tawhiao & George Nuku to show Paris << November 2011
Tracey & George Nuku will feature in La Galerie Moaroom exposition Black House, a subjective selection of talents of New Zealand design, architecture & contemporary art...
ART :: Tracey Tawhiao, George Nuku, Sofia Tekela Smith, Marian Fountain

DESIGN :: Jakob+MacFarlane, David Trubridge, Patrick Morris, Roderick Fry

ARCHITECTURE :: Stevens Lawson Architects

JR / Inside Out Project & ARTIVIST /  by JoFF Rae

>> view INSIDE OUT PROJECT ARTIVIST : Taupō

B&W portrait photographs collected for submission to theJR/Inside Out Project

"peeps with a story... from Taupō.  simple."  ARTIVIST : JoFF Rae has had a personal submission to JR's Inside Out Project accepted & has started on a group submission as Inside Out Project Taupō.  here's the backend of the detail to the project...

"This is cool.  Street Art has never been so accessible or popular & JR has won the TED prize... so he makes the whole World his gallery & we get to help him by being in his exhibition."

INSIDE OUT is a large-scale participatory art project that transforms messages of personal identity into pieces of artistic work. Upload a portrait. Receive a poster. Paste it for the world to see.

About The Project

INSIDE OUT is a large-scale participatory art project that transforms messages of personal identity into pieces of artistic work. Everyone is challenged to use black and white photographic portraits to discover, reveal and share the untold stories and images of people around the world. These digitally uploaded images will be made into posters and sent back to the project’s co-creators for them to exhibit in their own communities. People can participate as an individual or in a group; posters can be placed anywhere, from a solitary image in an office window to a wall of portraits on an abandoned building or a full stadium. These exhibitions will be documented, archived and viewable virtually.

INSIDE OUT is a collaboration between the artist JR, the TED Prize and you.

JR speaks to Al Jazeera

group statement: "ARTIVIST : creative by any means necessary! developing an environment conducive to being creative - urban & fine art & acts in Taupo, NZ"

ARTIVIST : JoFF Rae submitted the photograph above with a personal statement on art & madness... http://www.insideoutproject.net/#/sp/392Po

Inside Out Project Taupō < click here for detail on group action plan for Taupō, Friday 14 October 2011

JR, a semi-anonymous French street artist, uses his camera to show the world its true face, by pasting photos of the human face across massive canvases. At TED2011, he makes his audacious TED Prize wish: to use art to turn the world inside out.

Working anonymously, pasting his giant images on buildings, trains, bridges, the often-guerrilla artist JR forces us to see each other. Traveling to distant, often dangerous places — the slums of Kenya, the favelas of Brazil — he infiltrates communities, befriending inhabitants and recruiting them as models and collaborators. He gets in his subjects’ faces with a 28mm wide-angle lens, resulting in portraits that are unguarded, funny, soulful, real, that capture the sprits of individuals who normally go unseen. The blown-up images pasted on urban surfaces – the sides of buildings, bridges, trains, buses, on rooftops — confront and engage audiences where they least expect it. Images of Parisian thugs are pasted up in bourgeois neighborhoods; photos of Israelis and Palestinians are posted together on both sides of the walls that separate them.

JR’s most recent project, “Women Are Heroes,” depicts women “dealing with the effects of war, poverty, violence, and oppression” from Rio de Janeiro, Phnom Penh, Delhi and several African cities. And his TED Prize wish opens an even wider lens on the world — asking us all to turn the world inside out.

INSIDE OUT is funded by The Sapling Foundation, Social Animals and generous donations from people like you.

Inside Out Project Taupō - poster... /  by JoFF Rae

The process involved with capturing the image, uploading & registering, making a statement with the image, interacting with the IOP staff & then receiving the poster in the mail with instructions is as much a part of the idea as pasting the image & relogging the image, location & further documentation... "turn the world inside out with art"

http://www.insideoutproject.net/s/392Po

George Nuku Art > MAS | Museum Aan de Stroom, Antwerp /  by JoFF Rae

George Nuku's installation piece

For the Display of Power theme (+4), the New Zealand artist George Nuku created an installation piece that is inspired by a Maori meeting house. A house like this unites people with their ancestors. The figures and designs on the entrance to the house represent the power of the ancestors and are meant to make a lasting impression on the visitor.

Nuku’s piece represents the body of an ancestor. He sculpts in the ancient Maori tradition, but uses modern-day materials such as polystyrene and plexiglass. 

With his installation piece, the artist once more places sacred objects from Polynesia in a respectful environment outside the mundane museum display case. At the same time, he is giving a nod to the giant, Antigoon.