For the last 20 years, Hany Armanious has been an increasingly key figure in Australian art. City Gallery Wellington is pleased to present Hany Armanious: Morphic Resonance, the most comprehensive solo showing of his work in New Zealand to date.For the last 20 years, Hany Armanious has been an increasingly key figure in Australian art. City Gallery Wellington is pleased to present Hany Armanious: Morphic Resonance, the most comprehensive solo showing of his work in New Zealand to date.Hany provides us with an arresting and inventive take on everyday life through his re-working of our material culture. He works with such ubiquitous objects as the home work-station, the ink jet printer, the muffin, the billiard cue and the Croc shoe, shifting their meaning through irreverent and uncanny material transformations. Take for example the muffin, a curiously ubiquitous foodstuff. In Magic Muffin Mountain (2003-06), Armanious constructs a mound of voluminous muffins made from inedible expanding foam used in building construction.

Heather Galbraith curator says, "Armanious draws on images and objects from a diverse range of sources, morphing and overlaying styles and vocabularies to build playful, evocative and unexpected new configurations. His associations are intentionally far-fetched and comical, but are often very revealing about our priorities and preoccupations."

Morphic Resonance has been developed in association with Institute of Modern Art (IMA) Brisbane. A new monograph on Armanious' work produced in partnership with IMA Brisbane will be launched during the exhibition.

When: 12 May - 29 July 2007
Where: City Gallery Wellington, Civic Square, Wellington
Admission: FREE

Image: Hany Armanious, Magic Muffin Mountain (2003-06)