MO TE UPOKO-O-TE-IKA / FOR WELLINGTON

PRESS / INFO:

• Rings actor plans capital exhibition The Dominion Post, July 2003
• Rings star turns fans on to poetry fehlt, by Ann-Marie Johnson, The Dominion Post, Dec. 2003 (it's about the poetry reading accompanying the exhjibit)
• Viggo says thanks in pictures,, By Bess Manson, The Dominion Post, Nov. 2003
• Viggo Mortensen, Photographer, Massey News
• Photographs by Viggo Mortensen - Curator's note at city Gallery website  
• Viggo Mortensen - Painting with Light by Christopher Harrod, New Zealand Art Monthly, Apr. 2004

VISITORS' REPORTS:

Report by Ozambersand at Viggo-Works

COMMENTS:

Semi documentary images such as the results of a hangi on a beach, or a Maori youth grinning at the camera, sit alongside abstract images of spirals, arcs and zigzags - city lights taken at night with an unfocussed camera waved or jiggled in a figure of eight motion. One memorable print is a double image of a fern frond, taken in the Akatarawa forest, a bright luminous green.

Overall, this body of something like a hundred surreal and often abstract images, represent an enjoyable and visually satisfying experience.

From: Viggo Mortensen - Painting with Light by Christopher Harrod, New Zealand Art Monthly, April 2004

EXHIBITED WORKS

PHOTOS AT WELLINGTON CITY GALLERY
(Michael Hirschfeld Gallery)

Adelaide Road 2003 Aro Street 2003 Autumn Wellington 2 2003 Autumn Wellington 2003 Courtenay Place 2003 Follow 2000 Fon 2000 Jarem 2000 Kaitoke 2 2003 Kaitoke 3 2003 Kaitoke 2003 Kapiti 4 2003 Kapiti 6 2003 Kapiti 7 2003 Kapiti 2003 Kilbime 2003 Later, Red 2000

Lower Hutt 2 2003 Lower Hutt 2003 Lyall Bay 2000 Mana 2 2003 Mana 2003 Miramar 2003 Mt Victoria 2 2003 Mt Victoria 2003 Paraparaumu 3 2003 Pimmerton 2003 Pukerua Bay 2003 Shipshape 2 2000 Shipshape 5 2000 Shipshape 6 2000 Shipshape 2000 Spring, Wellington 2000 Tawa 2003

PHOTOS AT MASSEY UNIVERSITY