The Auckland Art Fair has revealed details of some of the fantastic projects that will be presented during the 2013 edition of New Zealand's premier contemporary art event. A range of exciting presentations have been confirmed for the fair, including works by Bill Culbert, Alex Monteith, Niki Hastings-McFall, Scott Eady, Seung Yul Oh, Rohan Wealleans, and Dan Arps.

One of the highlights of the Projects program will be Gow Langsford Galleryartist Alex Monteith’s dual channel video work “Rena Disaster, Waihi foreshore, shipping container foreshore clean-up” which will be projected onto the outside of two back-lit shipping containers on Queen’s Wharf. The ongoing project explores the impact of the effects of the Rena shipping container disaster in October 2011.

The inclusion of a work by New Zealand’s 2013 Venice Biennale artist Bill Culbert has only just been confirmed, though full details have yet to be revealed. Culbert’s critically acclaimed Venice Biennale exhibition is a wonderful expression of the artist’s preoccupation with the possibilities and properties of light. His Auckland Art Fair project, presented by Hopkinson Mossman, will undoubtedly be one of the most highly anticipated projects of the fair.

Starkwhitewill present Korean-born New Zealand-based artist Seung Yul Oh's oversize inflatable sculpture installation “Huggong (2012).” The two giant red and white balloons exude an air of playfulness and delight that is challenged by the sense of anxiety caused by the fragility of the bulbous, bulging forms.

Hamish McKay Gallery artist Rohan Wealleans exhibited a collection of 48 paintings and two large sculptural pieces at the Wellington City Gallery in 2012 in a show titled “Apocalyptic Intuition.” One of the sculptures from this show, “The Wizard of Forgotten Flesh (2012),” will make an appearance at the Auckland Art Fair. City Gallery New Zealand Art Curator Aaron Lister, describes Wealleans’s work as “tainting the serious art of painting with the low-brow amusements of the arcade or the video store.”

RH Gallery artist Scott Eady will be represented by his work “192 Queen Street” which explores issues of culture, capitalism, and politics through a set of plaster composer busts and the story of Lewis Eady Ltd, the oldest family-owned and operated music business in Australaia. According to RH Gallery Director, Rebecca Hamid, “Eady's sculptures delight. They present us with artful masquerade, and if we let them, they ignite our imagination and can make us smile.” Scott Eady is currently exhibiting at the Palazzo Bembo, within the ongoing art project “Personal Structures,” curated by the Dutch arts organization Global Art Affairs Foundation.

Auckland-based artist Dan Arps is known for his investigations of the contemporary urban environment and the perversity of the human condition through the abandoned and the discarded. Represented by Michael Lett, Arps has produced a limited edition calico tote especially for the 2013 Auckland Art Fair which features one of his unique designs.

An artist of Samoan and English descent, Niki Hastings-McFall will express her unique identity through the installation “Polynisation Series Reconfigured (2005 - 2013).” Presented in conjunction with the Tautai Contemporary Pacific Arts Trust, the installation features everyday objects from a 70's Pakeha (a New Zealander of European descent) domestic setting covered with plastic Polynesian leis.

The Auckland Art Fair will take place from August 7-11 at The Cloud on Auckland’s waterfront.