A pair of artists in New Zealand are both using Spider-Man as a means to get their messages across, albeit in different mediums. In one show, Spidey is contemplating his own mortality in a sculpture by Stephen Birch while, down the street at another gallery, he’s aiding artist Oliver Bogle to express himself through graffiti.

Spider-Man stands tall, poised, even elegant in his spiderweb suit. The bright blue tights around his backside are a powder-blue colour rather more spectacular than the original. He is light on his feet but his hands are large. Here is our modern David transposed from Florence to Karangahape Rd.

He is confronted by evidence of mortality. He is eye-to-eye with an elderly, bearded, balding head which projects from the wall on the end of a hairy limb.

The effect is of fixed melancholy. The contrast between the two faces goes far beyond Pop Art to make a piece both striking and witty.

A Spider-Man leap takes you from one end of K Rd to the other for the Disrupt Gallery where there is, until May 12, an exhibition of graffiti art done in spray enamel by Oliver Bogle.

Spider-Man features again. The most lively, if not the most spectacular, painting in the show is Intercity Webslinger where Spider-Man, swinging from a rope, can in hand, is doing large graffiti lettering on a block wall.

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