Congratulations To Artists

Congratulations To Artists

The team here at Toi o Tahuna would like to congratulate four of our artsits who have been selected to participate in the much anticipated 'roundaboutº' exhibition @ city gallery, wellington, new zealand. The exhibition features works by Robyn Kahukiwa, Roia Toia, Todd Couper & Rangi Kipa.

roundaboutº is a unique collection of exceptional contemporary artworks produced by 108 gifted artists from around the world.

From China, India, Japan, Thailand, Bhutan and Tibet to New Zealand, Australia, the USA, Israel, Russia and the UK, the extensive geography that separates these artists finds common ground in roundaboutº.

roundaboutº is committed to facilitating creative dialogue and exchange between artists and cultures, particularly those that might not otherwise enjoy such altruistic freedoms. As such, it is a vehicle designed to celebrate our differences as well as our similarities in acknowledgement of the diversity of our planet and the rich and vital discourse that emanates as a result of its cross-currents.

The number 108 was chosen for its spiritual associations within Eastern faiths and manifest in the number of beads that comprise a Buddhist or Hindu mala necklace (commonly called prayer beads or Buddhist Rosary).

Though roundaboutº does not subscribe to any one faith or truth it does promote the idea that, perhaps like the beads on a mala necklace, we are all the sum of our parts: neither one part greater nor less significant than the rest. And if roundaboutº were to adopt a mantra to recite upon the mala it would certainly be a prayer for ‘peace’.

Rotating upon the axis of the roundaboutº homepage pinwheel is a quote from the visionary leader Martin Luther King Junior. Extracted from his famous speech ‘Where do we go from here?’ delivered in Atlanta, Georgia 1967, ‘I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear’ encapsulates the essence of the roundaboutº ethos.

It is also a challenge for all to experience the show, and the world that surrounds it, with this philosophy in mind.

We also wish to thank David Teplitzky, director of roundaboutº, for bringing Toi o Tahuna in at the beginning of this project - we look forward to working with him again in the future.

roundaboutº (free entry too!)
25 September 2010 - 11 January 2011

Toi o Tahuna
Church Lane, Queenstown
www.toi.co.nz 

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