FRSH FSH
From June 12 to 17, an empty waterfront building will be transformed into a colourful and surreal mixture of imaginative scenes and worlds in the exhibition FRSH FSH, the collaborative project of four young Auckland lads.
Having stumbled upon the Britomart Union Fish building, artists Cinzah Merkens, Ralph Matthews, Rob Tucker and Andrew De Freitas were inspired - and in just three months they have compiled a collection of illustrations, installations, street art, film and paintings based on transport and transition.
“One of the running themes of the exhibition is the juxtaposition of real life modes of transport and general routines of travel, to and from work, pushing to inspiration from international travel and imaginative travel,” says Cinzah Merkens, who works in an illustrative manner often on unconventional canvases, such as rare pieces of wood or old house doors. “My works play on themes of undiscovered lands and the quirky humorous or slightly disturbing characters that lurk within it,” he says.
The four friends work in different styles and come from different backgrounds of art-making. They look forward to working with the raw, industrial space – an atmosphere quite different to what their past exhibits have been displayed in.
The exhibition will run from 12pm-5pm Saturday June 13 to Wednesday June 17.
