A mobile exhibition of tiny proportions

A mobile exhibition of tiny proportions

A mobile exhibition of tiny proportions is popping up around Wellington alongside the Fringe Festival. Alter+EGO is a visual arts exhibition that investigates artists egos as individuals and as performers – the relationship between our everyday identity and our ‘performance’ identity.  While some artistic egos may be larger than life, the show’s curator Vaune Mason insisted that in this exhibition, all the works together, could be squeezed into the back of a truck.

Mason, who is a graduate of the Whitireia Bachelor of Applied Arts (Visual Arts and Design) program, has collected an unusual mix of artists covering a range of disciplines and approaches.

There are 21 artists involved: painters, illustrators, costumiers, jewelers and sculptors. Of those, Vivian Atkinson, Vaune Mason, Annie Collins, Nadine Smith, and Kathryn Yeats are all graduates of Whitireia, tutored by well known Jeweller  Peter Deckers, who is also in the show.

The venue for the exhibition is equally unusual: The Palace is a 4 ton truck that usually carts around the circus equipment for Fuse Circus, but also masquerades as a mini mobile venue - allowing this exhibition to “pop up” round Wellington. Its part of the humor of the exhibition that even the venue has an “alter-ego”.
                                                                                                                              

Mason says that when planning the exhibition, the idea that the works would be really squeezed together in the truck was a positive.“I wanted to create a sense of the tensions involved in an artist’s world. Our sometimes egocentric behaviors can contrast with desires for anonymity or a fear of exposure. I think that the works placed like this will create a sense of struggle for individual identity, and form a rich visual world for visitors to the show.”

The image of an art gallery in the back of a truck might suggest something rough and ready, but don’t be fooled. Alter+EGO offers viewers a small but intense burst of beautiful, whimsical and sometimes very personal arts experience.

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The Alter + Ego gallery will be located:

Odlins Plaza (the waterfront by Macs Brewery) 25th and 26th February from 12 – 7pm
Courtenay Park cnr Taranaki St and Courtenay Place February 27th 10 – 7pm and 28th 10 – 5pm.
The Wellington Railway Station, March 1st and 2nd from 10 – 4pm.
 

Places are still available in the Bachelor of Applied Arts (Visual Arts and Design) and also in the Certificate in Visual Arts.
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