Auckland City Artist Talk #4

Shirazeh Houshiary was born in Iran, trained at Chelsea School of Art and is now living and working in London.  Houshiary works across the media of sculpture, painting and animation. She is as a subtle painter of what often seem like monochromes, but are minutely detailed works comprising of hundreds of thousands of lines on the canvas. She is also renowned for her ethereal sculpture towers, variously made of cast glass bricks, cast limestone or anodised aluminium.

 Daniel Von Sturmer creates mesmerising video tableaux showing real objects in real time, but framed in such a way that they seem like illusions: paint being poured, string curling on a ground, and squares of paper floating across a surface. Von Sturmer was born in New Zealand but has lived and worked in Melbourne throughout his career, and in 2007 represented Australia at the 52nd Venice Biennale.

These artists are visiting Auckland as part of a public art project briefing. Auckland City Council is pleased to present this lecture in conjunction with an exciting portfolio of major public art commissions planned for the city, which will be developed over the next few years. The council is currently working with selected artists from New Zealand and overseas on concepts.

 For more information contact pontus.kyander@aucklandcity.govt.nz or garrett.rob@gmail.com

 Watch out for more lectures in this series (February 2010):

Anthony McCall (UK / USA)

Jennifer Allora and Guillermo Calzadilla (Puerto Rico)