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John Pusateri
rest 21 October - 1 November 2009
Preview: Tuesday 20 November 6-8pm |
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In a pleasing play on words, John Pusateri’s rest counterpoints his 2008 exhibition, wrest. In rest, as in wrest, John Pusateri is both artist and subject. This time a series of sensitive lithographic prints see him and a woman engaged in various dance-like positions. |
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| While Pusateri’s previous works conveyed a sense of struggle or tension between man and woman, this female counterpart plays a different kind of opposite. She lies or sits in states of repose, her weight supported by the male. Each pose is carefully choreographed to simultaneously convey a sense of lightness and weight, of relaxation and stress, of levity and gravity. Above all, there is a sense of playfulness and freedom in these works, and while the subject matter is pared back and personal, their universally human quality gives them no need for outside referents. |
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In 2008, Pusateri opened Auckland Print Studio, a professional lithography studio which is involved in projects with professional artists, architects and other design-based practitioners. He was recently awarded the prestigious 2010 Black Church Print Studio Residency in Ireland and is a finalist in the 2009 Waiheke Art Award. Pusateri currently lives and works in Auckland.
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