Major Publication On Work Of Michael Parekowhai

First Major Publication Dedicated To The Work Of Michael Parekowhai.

Michael Lett is pleased to announce the release of the first major publication dedicated to the work of Michael Parekowhai.
 
Michael Parekowhai (b. 1968, Nga-Ariki, Ngati Whakarongo; Arts Foundation of New Zealand Laureate 2001) is one of New Zealand's foremost contemporary practitioners. He has an extensive exhibition history, and his work is held in all major public and private collections in Australasia, as well as growing numbers of museum and private collections across the world.
 
Michael Parekowhai's narrative is complex - yet his work is open to a variety of readings to a range of viewers across the spectrum of visual literacy. He draws on an abundant range of readymade vocabularies, which are then re-manufactured in the work. Although the key themes of his practice could be described as deliberate takes on notions of introduced species and culture, the potentially political dimensions, however, are downplayed. Ideas of camaraderie - the band of brothers, tools of teaching and childhood learning (in particular Cuisenaire rods and kitset models), as well as quotes from the canon of modern art history and popular culture openly play out in many of Parekowhai's stories.
 
This extensive publication provides a long-overdue resource on Parekowhai's practice, drawing together for the first time over 300 full colour illustrations that catalogue almost two decades of practice.
 
The publication features a text by Justin Paton, former editor of Landfall, present curator of contemporary art at Dunedin Public Art Gallery, and best-selling award-winning author of How To Look At A Painting. His essay The Big Ask: 20 Questions About Michael Parekowhai provides a discussion of Parekowhai's practice in dialogue with its accompanying visual resource.
 
Michael Parekowhai has released a new photographic edition, available only with a limited number of 100 copies of this publication. Mare Tranquilitatis: Sea of Tranquility (2007) is a 8 x 6" c-type black photograph of a golf-ball at 1:1 scale.
 
Copies of the publication are currently available from selected booksellers or directly from Michael Lett.
RRP NZ$ 160.00 (inc GST) + shipping (where applicable)
 
Examples of the edition, inclusive of publication, are currently available only from Michael Lett.
NZ$ 500.00 (inc GST) + shipping (where applicable)
 
 
For orders, retail or trade enquiries, please contact Michael Lett directly: Ph. +64 (0)9 303 4211 / Fax +64 (0)9 303 4210
 
Michael Parekowhai
ISBN 978-0-9582831-0-6
First edition, 2007
 
two accompanying volumes:
 
Yellow cloth-bound hardback with white foil blocking on cover and spine
Oxford hollow spine, section sewn
600 pages + endpapers
140gsm woodfree pagestock
305 full colour illustrations
232 x 175mm (portrait)
spine width 58mm
 
Boxboard cover, perfect bound
48 pages
80gsm cream woodfree pagestock
text by Justin Paton and full image details
220 x 168mm (portrait)
spine width 5mm

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