Michael Stevenson
Berlin-based New Zealand artist Michael Stevenson's artworks seem to come at you from every angle, and not only in the literal sense.
Overview
Berlin-based New Zealand artist Michael Stevenson's artworks seem to come at you from every angle, and not only in the literal sense. His sculptures, like The Gift which is a raft made from, among other things, bamboo, a World War II parachute and National Geographic magazines, are wild and multilayered and his video works, which combine allegories via audio over rhythmic visual motion, are insightful, funny, confusing and mesmerising.
Stevenson's going to confuse and mesmerise us even more with his new retrospective over two layers at the MCA. While the show will present a range of work from over the past 10 years, Stevenson also considered the space itself an installation and he's taken to carving up the museum's precious walls. The skeleton of the MCA, parts that were hidden until now, will be revealed and co-exist with the rest of his artwork in an unusual intermingling of seen and unseen, planned and unplanned.
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