HUGO KOHA LINDSAY

But will it float Gow Langsford Gallery 21 March–14 April 2018 Auckland City

Press Release

Primarily an abstract painter, Hugo Koha Lindsay adopts marks from both the personal surroundings of his home and studio and from the wider urban environment. Rubbings from the studio floor combine with swift gestures resembling surveyor markings - a type of code applied to pavements to signify future construction. Canvases are un-stretched, cut, sewn and re-stretched, organizing pictorial space through the work’s construction. Sections of Lindsay’s paintings are often left raw, invoking a transitional state. Lindsay states, “The sewn paintings act as topographies -an informational surface of which territories are divided by physical boundaries for the activity of painting to occur.”

The title of the exhibition But will it float takes its reference from the absurdist comedy game on the Late Show with David Letterman, where the validity of products, objects and commodities are tested via their buoyancy. The title also makes reference to the artist’s personal experience of the leaky building epidemic, which resulted in the major refurbishment and restructuring of many buildings throughout Tāmaki Makaurau, and wider Aotearoa.

About the Artist

Self-described interdisciplinary painter, Hugo Koha Lindsay lives and works in Auckland, New Zealand. His works are minimally abstract; he is unafraid to embrace an unprimed, raw canvas, or crumpled scraps of discarded fabric, and he often leaves behind traces of the studio floor. The spray painted strokes that sweep the canvases are gestural and raw, with a seemingly no holds barred approach that contradicts the crisp and defined areas of contrasting colour. Lindsay’s works are like working drawings, the layers are evident under paint and texture; nothing is hidden but each element adds up to a cohesive whole.

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About the Gallery

Gow Langsford is a commercial art space committed to fostering and promoting the best contemporary art from New Zealand and abroad. Located directly opposite the Auckland Art Gallery, Gow Langsford Gallery represents over thirty established New Zealand and international artists. Gow Langsford is one of the country’s most established galleries and is widely regarded as its most influential dealer gallery. Alongside a regular and varied exhibition schedule, Gow Langsford is a market leader in works on the secondary market.

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Saturday, 10 am – 4 pm
Closed Sunday

Gow Langsford Gallery

28-36 Wellesley Street East, Auckland, New Zealand

+64 9 303 9395
http://www.gowlangsfordgallery.com

Opening hours

Monday – Friday, 10 am–5 pm
Saturday, 10 am – 4 pm
Closed Sunday

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