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Current exhibition

Ralph Hotere: Zero to Infinity

9 July 2011 – 18 February 2012, Hocken Gallery

This show highlights milestones and lesser known moments in the prodigious career of Ralph Hotere, New Zealand's most significant living artist. The exhibition's title references both Hotere's Zero series of 1966-7 and the infinity symbol, which is a recurring motif visible in his work as recently as 2005. The concepts of zero and infinity, which alternately refer to nothing and boundlessness or eternity, are manifest through a series of visual signs that appear in Hotere's work including the colour black, the circle and the window frame.... More

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Upcoming exhibition

Kushana Bush: All Things to All Men

24 February – 14 April 2012, Hocken Gallery

Kushana Bush's latest satirical paintings playfully tout the impossible task of satisfying everyone's needs. Their delicate and alluring surfaces conflate disparate cultures, unsettle simplified notions of East and West and cut across cultural difference... More

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Exhibition Archives

Archives of Hocken Exhibitions from the last 14 years.

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Curator of Pictorial Collections
Tel 64 3 479 8871

Last revised; 31 January, 2012