Peter Panyoczki b. 1953

'Existence is enigmatic. The events around us are inexplicable. There are obstacles in our way. More than ever, it seems to me, we actually want to avoid them. It affects...

ARTIS Gallery returned Aotearoa Art Fair on Thursday 2 - Sunday 5 March at The Cloud on Tāmaki Makaurau Queens Wharf. Located at Booth A5 the Gallery featured two distinct instalments over the course of the Fair. During the opening two days, we exhibited new works from Liam Barr, Nigel Brown, John Edgar, Fatu Feu'u, Hamish Foote, Andy Leleisi'uao, Peter Panyoczki, Ann Robinson, and Terry Stringer.

ARTIS Gallery presented three exhibitions over the course of five days at the Aotearoa Art Fair. New Zealand’s premier showcase for contemporary art, held on Wed 16 – Sun 20 Nov 2022 at The Cloud on Auckland’s Queens Wharf. For the Opening Night, Wednesday 16 November, and the first public day on Thursday, 17 November, the Gallery presented works from the estates of John Edgar & Llew Summers. Pivotal works owned by both artists have been made available by the their families to be exhibited on the ARTIS Gallery stand (A5).

“In August 2021, I couldn’t exhibit my work RE-FLECTIONS, due to the Covid lockdown. I made a statement then:
“ We live in a strange world that has turned our way of life upside down”. Since then even more sadly, absurd and surreal events have perpetuated worldwide. I complemented a few more works to actualize the status quo of my show. The essence and the topic of my exhibition however are the same. I am talking about the distant memories, not just those, which are piled up onto the crust of our personal psyche, but are also reminiscent in the sediment of our human history. We are elements of the chain that is forming us. In this exhibition I combine works, that can be sawn into a multifaceted narrative, always under the guidance of: “I know that I don’t know”

New Zealand’s premier showcase for contemporary art returned in 2021 from Wednesday 24 – Saturday 27 February at The Cloud on Auckland’s Queens Wharf .

John Blackburn is well known in Britain and New Zealand as an abstract painter of originality and vision. Shapes and applications have reoccured frequently in his works throughout the past decades, but they are always fresh and illuminating, reflecting both order and change – “continually open to experience and reassessment”. Blackburn’s paintings are made up of overlapping layers – each embedded with their own meaning. These contrasting layers interact with each other, creating an euphony of colour, texture and form.

Peter Panyoczki is a highly regarded mixed media artist, working in a hybrid of forms and mediums including painting, sculpture, installation, photography and digital technology. Panyoczki’s work expresses the paradox of communication that refuses to reveal itself by providing information of what it is made of. A common feature in Peter’s works is the presence of texture, be it actual surface texture or the representation thereof. The textured surfaces are evocative, forming notions of one’s past and inner self, or that which has been buried and forgotten.