Daniel Malone is not a painter, but his current show is full of paintings. And while it may be a solo exhibition, there are two artists in the room. The second is Colin McCahon—but more about him in a minute. Upon entering Hopkinson Mossman’s gorgeous, bright white gallery space, the paintings were something of a head scratcher. They looked distinctly not contemporary—neither in palette, nor in composition, nor in iconography. I made an overconfident and undereducated snap aesthetic judgment: Sigmar Polke by way of Robert Motherwell. But I stayed with the paintings, and they began to disclose themselves over time, as paintings tend to do. Or, to paraphrase another twentieth-century painter, Philip Guston, the “information” may be fast, but the painting is slow. My information, it turned out, was wrong, but its wrongness may be instructive. Daniel Malone is a New Zealand artist who moved to Poland seven years ago, but has spent the past couple months in residence at Parehuia, the McCahon House Artists’ Residency outside of Auckland in Titirangi. In the 1950s Colin McCahon (1919–1987) lived here with his wife, artist Anne Hamblett, and their four children, on French Bay among the native Kauri trees, which can grow to …