Presentation: MÄori Artist Rangi Kipa
October 30, 6:00pm - 8:00pmMānoa Campus, HÄlau o Haumea, KamakakÅ«okalani Center for Hawaiian Studies, 2645 Dole Street
Rangi Kipa is Artist-in-Residence at Kamakakūokalani Center for Hawaiian Studies.
Kipa’s carvings and tÄ moko are at the forefront of contemporary MÄori art that challenges boundaries, creates dialogue, traverses the art/object divide and confronts the modern world that we live in as MÄori and non-MÄori.
Raised in Waitara, Taranaki province, Rangi is motivated to continue customary MÄori art traditions in contemporary contexts. Trained as a carver at the Maraeroa Carving School in Porirua City, he has also mastered the making of taonga puoro (MÄori musical instruments), to whakairo (sculpture) and ta moko. He has a Master of MÄori Visual Arts at Massey University.
Rangi is now exploring new media such as Corian, a space-age heatproof and stainproof composite material. His eye for ethnographic detail in wearable works like tiki (carved figures) provides a spin on the historical devaluation of these revered MÄori icons and makes them highly crafted, elegant taonga (treasures) that reaffirm their place for 21st-century MÄori.
Rangi Kipa’s contemporary hei tiki carving was featured on the New Zealand Post $1.50 stamp
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Free
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KamakakÅ«okalani Center for Hawaiian Studies, Mānoa Campus
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