BREAKING NEWS
Christchurch Art Gallery is hosting a free lecture by internationally-renowned American artist and video pioneer Gary Hill on Monday, 2 March.
Gary Hill Wall Piece 2000. Single channel video/sound installation. Courtesy the artist and Donald Young Gallery, San Francisco |
Don't miss this opportunity to see Hill's take on links between image, text and sound when he speaks at the Philip Carter Family Auditorium at 5.30pm.
Hill is in New Zealand to develop an exhibition for the St Paul Street Gallery at the Auckland University of Technology. A related exhibition will open at Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu in late May.
Born in 1951 in Santa Monica, California, Hill is regarded as one of the most inventive and important video artists of our time. He has twice received the Guggenheim Fellowship, participated several times at documenta and was awarded the Golden Lion at the Venice Biennale in 1995.
Gary Hill Wall Piece 2000. Single channel video/sound installation. Courtesy the artist and Donald Young Gallery, San Francisco |
He has held numerous solo exhibitions in prominent art institutions around the world, including SoHo Guggenheim, New York; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Sprengel Museum, Hanover; Museo Ceralves, Porto; Moderna Museet, Stockholm; Tate Liverpool; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris and many others.
His talk is presented by Christchurch Art Gallery, The Physics Room and The Arts Centre, Christchurch, in association with the St Paul Street Gallery, Auckland.
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