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John Nixon

JOHN NIXON

EPW: Silver Two Rooms 27 August–3 October 2026 Auckland
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Begun in 1995, John Nixon’s EPW: Silver developed over the following decade and a half as a sustained exploration of the monochrome, materiality and light. In Nixon’s words, ‘silver is opaque and reflective, a non-colour in the sense that we know colours to be’. Inspired by sunlight playing across silver-painted industrial rooftops, these paintings situate Nixon within an orbit of modernist experiment—Constructivism, Minimalism, the ZERO group and Fontana’s Spatialism. From tactile effects on rough hessian to smoother applications on MDF and canvas, their glimmering surfaces might evoke the infinity of the cosmos or the flash of sunlight on snow, while conveying above all the pure force of abstraction.

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Sydney-born contemporary artist John Nixon was a leading figure of Australian abstraction and experimental art. Spanning more than half a century from the late 1960s, his career was defined by formal experiments and innovation that encompassed painting to collage, photography, video, dance and experimental music performance.

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Two Rooms is a contemporary art exhibition venue located in a converted warehouse in Central Auckland, New Zealand. Opened in August 2006, Two Rooms presents a program of residencies and projects by leading International and New Zealand contemporary artists. The building houses two exhibition spaces, the Project Room and the Long Room.

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16 Putiki Street
Newton
Auckland
New Zealand
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Tue - Fri, 11am - 6pm
Sat, 11am - 3pm
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Auckland 16 Putiki Street, Newton
Two Rooms contemporary art gallery in Auckland New Zealand
Two Rooms
16 Putiki Street, Newton, Auckland, New Zealand
+64 9 360 5900
http://www.tworooms.co.nz

Opening hours
Tue - Fri, 11am - 6pm
Sat, 11am - 3pm
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