Tongan artist and Starmap Champion Sopolemalama Filipe Tohi, will present a series of new paintings alongside maquettes and sculpture based on the Tongan lalava (sennit binding). This solo exhibition explores recent works using classic patterns – some with traditional sacred hues and others with exceptional infusions of colour. Tohi says about the exhibition, “my work transforms the technology of the past into a modern representation of identity and experience”. The exhibition opens on Thursday 19 March and runs through to 11 April 2009 at the Fresh Gallery Otara, 5/46 Fairmall, Otara Town Centre, Manukau City.
"Untitled" (2008). Acrylic on canvas by Filipe Tohi. Image courtesy of the Tohi Foundation.
