Critique art, win tickets to Artworks—COMP CLOSED
A steady diet of rugby is expected for the next few weeks, but it’s important to get a regular dose of culture as well so we don’t all turn into Colin Meads. And where better to do that than Artworks, an exhibition where more than 100 New Zealand artists will be on show at St Mathew in the City, including the unique ‘Treasures’ collection, an assortment of never seen before drawings and sketches from renowned New Zealand artists including Dick Frizzell, Bill Hammond, Dame Louise Henderson and Max Gimblett. We’ve got six double passes (tix valued at $20 each) to give away and all you have to do is give us your best impression of a chinstroking art critic and come up with a ridiculous critique of one of these paintings. 
The annual Artworks Exhibitions are organised by the Rotary Club of Ellerslie Sunrise Inc and has raised more than $1.1 million for charity on top of providing New Zealand artists with over $1.7 million of income. The charity proceeds from all Artworks Exhibition sales will go to the Auckland Medical Research Foundation, whose mission is to improve the health and wellbeing of all New Zealanders and future generations, the Pindrop Foundation, which helps New Zealanders suffering with hearing loss, and local Rotary projects.
If you don’t back your critical skills, you can purchase tickets for the VIP gala opening or exhibition or register for master classes at www.iticket.co.nz. And for further information on the Artworks Exhibition visit www.artworksnewzealand.co.nz.
Date: Tuesday 20 September 2011 (VIP Gala Opening); Wednesday 21 September – Friday 23 September 2011 (General Exhibition)
Time: 10.30am – 4.00pm
Venue: St Matthew-in-the-City, Auckland
SGMM
September 6, 2011
my (insert recent client) campaign was better.
Considered
September 6, 2011
While your call for ridicule in art appreciation is possibly well intentioned, it is as ill-considered as it is facetious (and consequently, as objectionable as it is, happily, doomed to fail).
You have an opportunity to present to your readership or, given the vacuous nature of the great majority of the written content on your site image, as is more likely to be the case, your image perusers, with a few informed well chosen and enlightening words to guide the eye and mind into appreciation of any one of these works, pieces or perhaps, if you will allow the slight cross-fertilisation of reference, in this context presented as they are in the virtual realm, installations. Shame that you spurned so rich a resource and brazen an invitation. Take for example the apparently but as is clear to the informed eye, unfeasibly simple, portrait in white. A cutting even acerbic commentary on the melting pot which at once, while mocking the population planning aims of some, in a triumph of aesthetic and message, simultaneously celebrates the undeniable beauty of it's progeny. The feminine form, though trans may spring deliciously to mind, is effete and gracious upon the clear stream of fecund pre-embryonic seed upon and from which springs our heroine, the muse and focus. Distinct as she is yet a blur, a myriad of genetics and ethnicity of influence in marvellous, muddied outcome at once, broad of polynesian visage, blue of nordic eye and undeniably alluring, mysterious and what can we do but gaze, rapt and wonder. As we shall at St Mathews in the City but this time, at the works not divine, but of man, woman and trans artistes.
P2D2
September 6, 2011
empty space has never looked so filled.
the cup that is my minds eye is overflowing with rambunctious excitement and appreciation of such cerebral wonderment
Jim
September 13, 2011
This work intriguingly counterpoints the surrealism of the underlying metaphor, while simultaneously constructing a panadol-inducing cranial frenzy.