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Urban Soule update

URBAN SOULE Newsletter
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Oct 2011

Issue No.10
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Dear Friends,
As most of you I had a major Jaw Surgery [http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?llr=msg7b7cab&et=1108339394208&s=528&e=0018ca…]
on October 4th,
The surgery was a success and I am healing well and feeling much better, I still
have another three weeks of having my mouth wired shut,many months of liquid/soft
food diet and a long road to recovery, but once all is healed I should be back to
normal!

18 Oct: Regan Ha-Ha Tamanui "Personal Heroes" (NZ)

OREXART
Entry at Upper Khartoum Place, Kitchener Street
Deliveries to 1st Floor 32 Lorne Street
Auckland, New Zealand
Tel. 649 379 0588
Open Tue - Fri 10 - 5 l Sat 11 - 3

http://www.orexgallery.co.nz/artist_pages/Tamanui_PersonalHeroes.htm

In his most recent solo exhibition, Tamanui presents Personal Heroes, a retrospective portrait series of New Zealand's beloved All Blacks players to coincide with the 2011 Rugby World Cup.

Invoking 19th Century colonial portraits of the 'noble savage', Tamanui's players of Maori, Pacific Islander and Pakeha descent are at once signifier of historical colonialist hegemony, and critique of contemporary corporate globalisation.

Personal Heroes reminisces on rugby union's recent history, before the professional era ushered in. In this series, Tamanui explores themes of 'the working class man' and the 'team vs individual'. These themes serve as an allegory for contemporary culture and the 21st Century decline of community.