Keyword results: Neon Parc
'Unearthing The Hawke', Lane Cormick
Alcohol will be available at this opening. (This will become relevant later.)
Lane Cormick is really into the Eastern European body artists from the 1960s and 70s. There was a group of 'Viennese Actionists' who were most known for their rather violent and fucked up 'trangressions' of the body. Their stunts were pretty bloody and shocking.
Motivational Bunker, Dan Arps
Dan Arps buys psychedelic fantasy pop art posters from a bong shop near his house in Auckland, known as 'Sharpies', and paints or sticks things on them, and exhibits them. He is a very well known New Zealand artist and a dude.
Alongside this exhibition, you can buy his monograph, Gestapo Pussy Ranch.
Only Way Out of Here – Lane Cormick
It’s a big week for Neon Parc. Not only are they opening Lane Cormick’s bold (and sometimes beautiful) photographic snapshots, they’re also Presenting I Dig Your Voodoo with Auckland gallery Gambia Castle at Joint Hassles in Northcote.
Like his friends at Neon, photographer, film-maker and ‘endurance based performer’ Lane is not one to do things half-heartedly.
The Brotherhood
The Brotherhood is an exhibition of works from artists previously featured in the international homo art almanac They Shoot Homo’s Don’t They?. Running in Melbourne as part of the Midsumma Festival artists exhibiting include internationals such as Kenneth Anger (USA) who was one of America’s first openly gay film-makers, ‘the reluctant pornographer’ Bruce LaBruce (CAN) as well as locals such as the recent Samstag Scholarship recipient Paul Knight.
Everything - Matt Hinkley
Before there were computers, people did EVERYTHING by hand. This might seem unbelievable to those of us that now consider our computers lifelines, but it’s true. Although the creative process was slower back in the day, the final results were still as impressive as a glossy A4 print.
In his exhibition, Everything, Matt Hinkley turns his back on the digital to focus on the hand crafted.
Dark, shiny by Noël Skrzypczakv
There is something immediately unsatisfying about calling a piece of art abstract expressionist, and perhaps that's the point. You are using the strictures of language to talk about explosive, visceral forces; the role of the critic and writer is to invent ways to avoid talking about it. If we had the luxury of invention, Noël Skrzypczak's work is perhaps better described as 'paint art' than painting itself, and we'd have to use poetics to arrive at satisfactory descriptions.
Kids Stay Free
All good things must come to an end. Fortunately for you there’s still time to taste-test the delectable ‘Kids Stay Free’ exhibition at Neon Parc, before the gallery switches to solo showings.
Home to 11 artists, the squat, unassuming gallery which opened at the start of April is currently home to a mix of installation art, print and canvas by an eclectic selection of Australians.
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