Word: parekowhai
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...Flanked by the works of Michael Stevenson, Yuken Teruya and Michael Parekowhai (see following story), they also look remarkably at home in a gallery in subtropical Brisbane. Bento, for one, is smitten with the work of Japanese sculptor Teruya, who uses tweezers to fashion miniature trees from discarded paper shopping bags. "I love anything done with hands," she says. And contemporary art is all the richer for this poignant patchwork of the Pacific...
...contemporary wing across the street (the restored telephone exchange is now celebrating its 10th birthday), the plan for Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki 2009 is to seamlessly blend the two. Here audiences will be able to segue from a McCahon to a Moore, a Picasso to a Parekowhai. And if anyone can architecturally blend the old with the new, it's Francis-Jones (whose firm FJMT is overseeing the works with Auckland's Archimedia). In June, his redesign for the Sydney headquarters of the Historic Houses Trust won the top awards of the Royal Australian Institute of Architects; judges...
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