Peter Robinson has slipped the rug from under Aotearoa New Zealand's identity politics and critical fetishes for nearly two decades. Now manipulating that definitive material of disposable culture – polystyrene – the artist has turned his aggressive humour and formal concerns towards the transformations of internal architectural spaces within a critique of global consumerist excesses.
Snow Ball Blind Time is Robinson's most recent and expansive project, commissioned by and presented at the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery. The work harnesses the language of the spectacular, it inhabits the converted cinema building, devouring the internal spaces of the building with formal wit, critical bite and comic giganticism.
Curated by Gallery Director, Rhana Devenport, Snow Ball Blind Time occupies the entire 574 square metres of the Gallery. The installation responds to and engages with the Gallery's seven interconnecting internal spaces to form a vast spatial drawing. This is only the second time since the opening exhibition in 1970 by Leon Narbey, that the entire Gallery has been offered to an artist in a single commissioned work.
Snow Ball Blind Time is Robinson's most recent and expansive project, commissioned by and presented at the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery. The work harnesses the language of the spectacular, it inhabits the converted cinema building, devouring the internal spaces of the building with formal wit, critical bite and comic giganticism.
Curated by Gallery Director, Rhana Devenport, Snow Ball Blind Time occupies the entire 574 square metres of the Gallery. The installation responds to and engages with the Gallery's seven interconnecting internal spaces to form a vast spatial drawing. This is only the second time since the opening exhibition in 1970 by Leon Narbey, that the entire Gallery has been offered to an artist in a single commissioned work.
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