WINTER EXHIBITS AT AUCKLAND ART GALLERY TOI O TĀMAKI

Check out the new exhibits arriving at Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki this winter.

ALL THAT WAS SOLID MELTS: 5 June

Take a journey through a series of emotional and philosophical encounters. Contemporary global artists reach through history and humanity to pull out fragments of isolation, stoicism, anxiety and dread.

REUBEN PATERSON: 19 June

Contemporary artist Reuben Paterson unveils his new work for the gallery’s forecourt pool.

Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, Central Auckland © Auckland Unlimited

SLOW WONDER: 3 July

Come and take a closer look at illumination. Bill Culbert's lightbased experiments reveal how light can transform everyday objects, including how it behaves in space.

ROMANCING THE COLLECTION: 14 August

Discover a large selection of the gallery’s History, Portrait, Landscape, Genre and Still-life paintings, collated from the 19th century and beyond.

VOCABULARY OF SOLITUDE: 28 August

Swiss installation artist, Ugo Rondinone, brings scores of life-size clown sculptures to Auckland, presenting a juxtaposition of happy rainbow hues mixed with the melancholy of sadness and silence.

Vocabulary of Solitude © Arken Museum of Modern Art, Ishaj 2018

MANPOWER: MYTHS OF MASCULINITY: 4 September

A collection of artworks depicting eroticised male bodies, many of which have paraded the gallery's walls since 1888. Observe changing attitudes towards sexuality.

Main Image: Vocabulary of Solitude © Arken Museum of Modern Art, Ishaj 2018