AUCKLAND ART FAIR

OPENING WEDNESDAY MAY 23
May 23 - May 27, 2018

Trish Clark Gallery is pleased to be exhibiting at Auckland Art Fair 2018, New Zealand's re-vitalised niche regional art fair. Now representing 23 artists, senior and emerging, Trish Clark Gallery has also introduced a number of renowned international artists to the Australasian region, including Anthony McCall, Alfredo Jaar and Kimsooja. While Trish Clark Gallery is strongly engaged with photography and moving image, the presentation for Auckland Art Fair will counterpoint these aspects with other more viscerally experienced (by maker and audience) aspects of contemporary art under the rubric of ‘the haptic’.

The past century saw ‘the death of painting’ (initially proclaimed by Rodchenko and other Russian Constructivists in 1921) and yet its contemporary continuation seems assured; the ancient arts of working in glass and stone retain, in the right hands, a deeply contemporary edge; the immediacy of the artist’s hand revealed in drawing is both the most ancient of humankind’s artworks and a contemporary delight. Trish Clark’s booth will employ this range of media in varied scale, delivering unexpected conversations between artists. (Image: Eemyun Kang, Donna, 2016, acrylic and oil on canvas 900 x 900 mm)