February 04, 2016
Iti exhibition to show how Maori deal with cultural erosion.
Veteran Tuhoe activist and artist Tame Iti is taking a stand against the Trans Pacific Partnership with a partnership of his own.
An exhibition of painting by Iti and Owen Dippie, Ko Koe Ko Au (You and I), opens later in the month at Dippie’s OD Gallery on Auckland’s Karangahape Rd.
He says New Zealand is being re-colonised by American and corporate interests through the TPPA, and the exhibition is about how Maori have dealt with that type of cultural erosion in the past.
The collaboration grew out of a mural the pair painted in Taneatua.
Dipple, who is originally from Kawerau, has been painting his large-scale realist portraiture on the streets of New Zealand and New York for over a decade.
One of his works was named the best mural of 2015 by the Huffington Post.
Ko Koe Ko Au opens of February 27 and will stay up through March.
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