Orexart starts the year in its new space in the heart of Ponosnby Road with an exciting exhibition by Richard McWhannell.
An epic landscape in every sense of the word, the territory has been a site of revolt and revolution for centuries. Traces of past and present conflict are everywhere, from the Spanish colonial architecture and shrines, through to the border patrol vehicles and Trump’s ill-fated wall.
The borderlands also loom large in McWhannell’s personal history: the land of cowboy films and their tales of bandits and desperados, of Larry McMurtry’s Lonesome Dove, the ballads of Marty Robbins and, of course, the Uber Cowboy, John Wayne.
Every town, every road, every name evokes a song, a film, a Cormack McCarthy novel and McWhannell’s paintings are populated with the faces and places of legend, but the vast and resolutely untamed desert remains the star of the show.
OREX, 221 Ponsonby Road, www.orexart.co.nz
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