

Differences in kind and rhythm is the second in a series of dialogue exhibitions made at Te Uru since 2024 for which artists from Aotearoa are paired with international artists. This dialogue pairs the practices of Italian abstract painter Giorgio Griffa (b.1936, Turin) and local sculptor Peter Robinson (Ngāi Tahu, b.1966, Hakatere). This is the first time Griffa’s work will be exhibited in the Southern Hemisphere.
Despite being artists of different generations, backgrounds, and contexts, Griffa and Robinson both use repeat forms and processes in their work to address related concepts of repetition and difference, emergence and continuum.
Differences in kind and rhythm is the second in a series of dialogue exhibitions made at Te Uru since 2024 for which artists from Aotearoa are paired with international artists. This dialogue pairs the practices of Italian abstract painter Giorgio Griffa (b.1936, Turin) and local sculptor Peter Robinson (Ngāi Tahu, b.1966, Hakatere). This is the first time Griffa’s work will be exhibited in the Southern Hemisphere.
Despite being artists of different generations, backgrounds, and contexts, Griffa and Robinson both use repeat forms and processes in their work to address related concepts of repetition and difference, emergence and continuum.