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New exhibition by Raglan artist opening at ArtsPost in Hamilton

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9 Jan, 2020 07:41 PM3 mins to read

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Raglan artist Yaniv Janson with his Please Do Touch, Life Below Water Dyptych 1. Photos / Supplied

Raglan artist Yaniv Janson with his Please Do Touch, Life Below Water Dyptych 1. Photos / Supplied

An exhibition by Raglan artist Yaniv Janson, previously displayed in Paris and New York, will feature for the first time in New Zealand at ArtsPost, the gallery of the Waikato Museum in Hamilton.

Opening today, the Please Do Touch exhibition features a series of paintings that explore United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals such as climate change, water quality, oceanic ecological systems, poverty and sustainable cities.

Raglan artist Yaniv Janson. Photo / Vanessa Rushton Photography
Raglan artist Yaniv Janson. Photo / Vanessa Rushton Photography

Each painting is partnered with another to represent what will happen if we take action, as opposed to doing nothing.

Please Do Touch was exhibited in 2017 in Paris, supported by Creative New Zealand. In 2018, it travelled to New York and represented New Zealand at the UN Headquarters.

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"My audience tells me they connect emotionally to my work," Yaniv says. "My paintings ask them to visualise social, environmental and climatic challenges."

Yaniv was awarded the Arts Access Pak'nSave Artistic Achievement Award 2019 at Arts Access Aotearoa's Te Putanga Toi Arts Access Awards 2019. He has exhibited in more than 40 galleries in New Zealand, France, Montenegro, Canada, Israel and the United States. He has sold more than 160 paintings and won 20 awards.

Painting has been an important part of Yaniv's life since 2007. Throughout his creative journey, a central theme has remained constant: to empower individuals to use expression, outreach and education as a tool for social change. He combines art with activism to get people's attention on environmental and social issues.

Yaniv has partnered with the Te Uku Primary School near Raglan for an educational project that combines raising awareness of environmental and social sustainability among students and eliciting actions.

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Images from left: Framework 003, Llyr Williams, Impulse, Liam Bourton. Photo / Supplied
Images from left: Framework 003, Llyr Williams, Impulse, Liam Bourton. Photo / Supplied

His dream is to take Please Do Touch to all schools in New Zealand. He's put together a Sustainable Goals Journal for students, inviting them to express their creativity on its pages and motivating them to take action on environmental issues.

Yaniv has autism and epilepsy but says he doesn't let either dictate who he is. He likes to paint on a large canvas, using vibrant colours to draw people into his works.

His idea of Please Do Touch came from his desire to enable people to experience art through different senses and to challenge what is done and not done in the art world.

"I come up with my own ideas and I feel like I'm different to other artists," Yaniv says. "I'm shy and I've had to work really hard to overcome my fear of public speaking. I prefer to show colours and paintings rather than using words.

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"But it's important for me to show that disability is not a barrier to achieving."

Also opening at ArtsPost this week are two other exhibitions, Obsessed by Liam Bourton, and A Product of Nature, by Llyr Williams.

Bourton says he takes a mathematical and systematic approach to creating his art: "My work explores the concept of simplicity to complexity and the relationship between historical and contemporary abstraction."

Williams combines his background in product design and art with his current profession as a stone mason to produce multi-media works that express the beauty he sees in New Zealand stone.

He believes it is important to let daily life and nature take its course to dictate the outcome of his artwork.

The exhibitions will be open every day until Monday, February 10.

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Waikato Museum director Cherie Meecham says: "ArtsPost provides a great space for exhibitions by local artists and helps forge relationships between the arts community and the wider Hamilton community. Exhibitions change every month and we are fortunate in having a real depth of local talent to exhibit."

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