PURAKAU: MYTHS & LEGENDS: MITOS Y LEYENDES

13 mAY 2011 - 7 FEBRUARY 2012

Santisima Virgen de la Barrikadas
Image courtesy of Xavier Meade

Curated by Xavier de la Cueva Meade (Mexico, NZ)  and Flor de Lis Lopez Hernandez(Cuba)

All cultures have myths and legends woven into the fabric of their traditions.
Eleven artists and fourteen writers from Aotearoa, Cuba, Mexico and Spain respond to the idea of myths and legends, creating twelve posters that tell of legends and contemporary political myths, challenging our complacency with war, the planet, colonisation and life.
Over nine months, we will reveal to you four posters at a time... allowing each to tell their tale in Maaori, Spanish and English. We encourage you to read these walls.  

Artists:

Mexico: Arturo Meade, Carlos PeZ, Yescka (Asaro Collective)
showing from May - July 2011

Cuba: Claudio Sotolongo Menendes, Ernesto Perez Castillo, Michele Miyares Hollands, Yani Monzon Calero
showing from August - October 2011

Aotearoa New Zealand: Denis O'Connor, Michael Reed, Natalie Robertson, Xavier Meade
showing from November 2011 - February 2012

catalogue writers: CATALOGUES ARE AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE AT THE MUSEUM FRONT DESK

Mexico: Carlos A. Mead. Luiz Delac, Los Appo Stoles Irreverrentes

Cuba: Flor de Lis Lopez Hernandez, Claudio Sotolongo Menendes, Ernesto Perez Castillo, Michele Miyares Hollands, Yani Monzon Calero

Aotearoa New Zealand: Danny Butt, Jon Bywater, Denis O'Connor, Michael Reed, Natalie Robertson, Xavier Meade

All works in Purakau now belong to the Collection of the Waikato Museum Te Whare Taonga o Waikato