Kaleidoscope: Abstract Aotearoa

Helen Calder, Everything in its right place (Arrangement for seventeen colour groups 17/51), 2011-2017, acrylic paint, stainless steel pins. Photograph by Maarten Holl. Te Papa

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Installation view of Kaleidoscope: Abstract Aotearoa, 2020. Photo by Maarten Holl. Te Papa

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Rebecca Baumann, Automated colour field (variation 8), 2017, 140 flip clocks, laser-cut paper, batteries. Photograph by Maarten Holl. Te Papa

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Mikala Dwyer, Wall necklace, 2013, acrylic, mirrored acrylic, glazed ceramic, painted wood, steel, stone, glass, vodka, plastic, ink, leather, natural cord, synthetic cord, copper wire. Photograph by Maarten Holl. Te Papa (2017-0013-1/AA)

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Artists

Rebecca Baumann
Gordon Bennett
Stella Brennan
Helen Calder
Steve Carr
Julian Dashper
Mikala Dwyer
Ralph Hotere
Lonnie Hutchinson
Richard Killeen
Len Lye
Milan Mrkusich
Ani O’Neill
Reuben Paterson
Bridget Riley
Theo Schoon
Ian Scott
Tiffany Singh
Carl Sydow
Ngataiharuru Taepa
Anaha Te Rahui
Geoff Thornley
Sopolemalama Filipe Tohi
Gordon Walters

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Abstract art is often presented as a 20th-century European invention. Kaleidoscope turns that on its head and celebrates how the exploration of shape, colour and pattern have captured our imaginations in the Pacific.