Laurence Aberhart Old bridge structure from new bridge, Clutha River, Alexandria December 1980 Courtesy of the artist

AUCKLAND.-Laurence Aberhart has been a pioneer and forerunner in contemporary New Zealand photography since the 1970s, and is increasingly recognised as a major international figure. This Saturday Auckland Art Gallery opens Laurence Aberhart, a landmark exhibition in New Zealand photography from City Gallery Wellington.

City Gallery senior curator Gregory O’Brien worked closely with the artist and writer/curator of contemporary art, Justin Paton, to mount the major survey show, which brings together over 200 key works from the last four decades in fourteen thematic clusters. The exhibition testifies to Aberhart’s extensive and faithful meditation on culture and time. Aberhart’s photographs resonate with a poetics of place that makes them an essential part Laurence Aberhart Old bridge structure from new bridge, Clutha River, Alexandria December 1980 Courtesy of the artist of New Zealand’s history as well as offering insights

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