Michael Lett At Auckland Art Fair

Jim Allen, Shane Cotton, Simon Denny, Colin McCahon

Stand 26 at The Auckland Art Fair
Marine Events Centre
135 Halsey St
Viaduct Harbour
Auckland

1 - 3 May 2009
Friday 10am-9pm
Saturday and Sunday 10am-6pm

Michael Lett is pleased to announce the gallery’s participation in the 2009 Auckland Art Fair, featuring works by Jim Allen, Shane Cotton, Simon Denny and Colin McCahon.

Jim Allen has been practicing since the 1960s and is widely regarded as a pioneer of post-object and performance-based art in Australasia. Following the recent exhibition, Hanging by a Thread II, at Michael Lett in March this year and the release of a new publication, the gallery will exhibit a series of photographic prints from Poetry for Chainsaws, the 1976 performance at the Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide.

Shane Cotton is one of New Zealand’s most significant contemporary painters. At the Auckland Art Fair Michael Lett will exhibit a major new painting by Cotton, I will look over here. You look over there. This work, that features a vast expanse of shadowy canvas sparsely occupied by small intricate motifs including a skull and winged serpent, is the last of a series of three, the first of which, Red Shift, was included in the 2007 Auckland Triennial.

Michael Lett 's stand will also include a new work by Simon Denny – a glass-faced metal box that hovers between a protective display case, amateur woodshop experiment, aquarium and bulky parody of a flat-screen television. Denny, who is currently based in Frankfurt am Main, has exhibited extensively in Europe over the past two years, most recently participating in the 2008 Brussels Biennial and making a solo presentation at Lutgen Meijer Gallery, Berlin in 2009.

Alongside these pieces the gallery will present Oaia and Clouds by Colin McCahon (1975). A rare example from the important series from the 1970s, Oaia and Clouds features a largely abstract constellation of cloud-like forms, one of which resembles Oaia Island off the coast of Murawai, suspended on an inky background.

The Auckland Art Fair Sculpture Court will also feature Nodding Dogs, new sculptural work by Steve Carr, and Michael Parekowhai’s cast bronze Kapa Haka.

The gallery at 478 Karangahape Road will be open during the fair, with Fiona Connor’s Something Transparent (please go round the back) until 16 May.

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