Group Dynamics

uch delayed by Covid, this small but choice collection of works by Milan Mrkusich (1925-2018), shown at Auckland’s ArtSelect Gallery in April this year, was painted between 1992 and 1997, that is, towards the end of his long career. The Newmarket gallery is small—a single rectangular room—and the nine works displayed, most comprised of multiple parts, could easily have sustained a space five times as large. However, the close spacing and intimate setting had some definite advantages; it afforded an unusually close encounter with the works, including the opportunity to inspect Mrkusich’s immaculate surfaces from close range, and also