Michael Morley, No title, no date. Oil on canvas, 198 x 213.5cm. Courtesy: the artist and Sumer, Auckland.

Sumer presents After the War, an exhibition of new paintings by Kōpūtai Port Chalmers-based artist Michael Morley. This is the artist’s second solo exhibition with the gallery, and his first in the gallery’s new space in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland.

The works in the exhibition bear neither title, nor date. This is a conscious choice by the artist, and one that breaks with his previous manner of working. Morley would seem to desire that such works remain nebulous, out of time; indefinite, uncertain. They are only anchored by the fact that they are presented within this exhibition with its seemingly spurious or fictive titling. After the war: Whatever, or whenever, that might be.

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