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Allan Wexler
Talk by Allan Wexler before exhibition opening
January 17 at 4.30pm
Gallery Two
January 17 - February 29, 2008
Gallery One & Two
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New York based artist, architect and designer Allan Wexler will come to AUT School of Art & Design in January 2008 with his design partner Ellen Wexler to hold a workshop in conjunction with an exhibition, opening at St Paul St Gallery on January 17, 2008.
Allan Wexler has an international reputation as an artist and architect and a long record of exhibitions, both in the US and Europe. His exhibition at St Paul St will be the first in the Southern hemisphere.
Allan has worked in the field of architecture, design and art for more than thirty years and is currently teaching at the Pratt Institute, New York. His projects have included architecture, public and private art commissions and museum education environments.
His works explore human activity and the built environment. He works as an investigator using series, permutations and chance rather than searching for definitive solutions. The works isolate, elevate, and monumentalise our daily rituals: dining, sleeping, and bathing. And they, in turn, become mechanisms that activate ritual, ceremony and movement, turning these ordinary activities into theatre.
Aaron Betsky writes about his work: “Wexler experiments on and in the real world. He pulls apart the structures of everyday life, plays with the materials out of which we construct our surrounds and our implements, and opens up new spaces with an world we thought we had defined. Sometimes they are spaces that only the imagination can enter through the portal of the model. Sometimes the proposals seem to indicate a return to basic principals rather than a progression into a bright future. What remains inherent throughout his work is the sense of experimentation – an investigation that operates as an extension of our ability to be at home in the world, to remake our reality, and to question our existence through what we make.” (Custom Built: A Twenty-year Survey of Work by Allan Wexler, 1999)
In the workshop participants will work with Allan on the exhibition for St Paul St Gallery. This is a unique opportunity for learning, exchange and collaboration with an outstanding artist. This workshop is suitable for final year spatial, architectural, design and visual art students, postgraduate and spatial and architectural practitioners who wish to take this rare opportunity to work with an internationally recognised artist and architect in a construction workshop setting.
Limited places available, to register your interest please contact: neil.cameron@aut.ac.nz
INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION WORKSHOP
With Allan & Ellen Wexler
January 8, 9, 10, 2008