Price: NZD3750 ea (group POA)
Medium: recycled kauri or totara, pine, steel, black acrylic paint
Dimensions: 940x200x30mm ea
Date: 2021, 2024 (black)
Notes:
The axes are available as a grouping or individually. Left to right, #5, #Bk3, 34, 31, 1 #34 (centre work) is sold.
The initial idea for 'Disrupt', Bennett's latest installation, came from Allen Curnow's verse tragedy, 'The Axe'. An analogy for the colonisation of New Zealand, Curnow located his narrative of destruction on the island of Mangaia in the Cook Islands. The axe is a metaphor for the disruptions brought about by the metal technology and religious ideas of Europeans who arrived in the Pacific. Now, there is another colonisation impact looming - that of AI, Artificial Intelligence, and the changes that will bring.
Further work by this artist
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On the Brink
2024 -
Fragment 2
2024 -
Fracture 2 – Precipice #1-#5
2024 -
Fracture 2 – Precipice (detail of #1, #6)
2024 -
Fracture – Yakage Honjin, Japan
2024 -
Fracture – Kaju Studio Yataka Yama, Japan
2024 -
Disrupt Trio
2021-2024 -
Precipice
2024 -
Disrupt Bk4, #12, Bk5
2021-2024 -
Fracture Study #5
2024 -
Fracture Study #10
2024 -
Fracture Study #11
2024 -
Disrupt Sculpture Study #4
2024 -
Disrupt Sculpture Study #2
2024 -
Ukabu
2006 -
Study from Fracture
2024 -
Playing for Time
2024 -
Around Every Circle
2020 -
Study for Pooling Ignorance
2015-16 -
Remarkable 2
2018 -
Study for Sculpture Karihi – 2
2005 -
Remarkable 3
2018 -
Hidden Depths
2009 -
Hard to Swallow
2012 -
Latitude 41º 12.2’S Longitude 173º 19.7’E
1989 -
Mimic
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Connect
2021 -
Connect
2022 -
Study for Sculpture – Gauge
2009