GALLERY
HIGHLIGHTS: 19 AUGUST - 1 SEPTEMBER
The Friends of Christchurch Art Gallery are giving you the chance to win two free tickets to The Art Event on Friday 11 September, valued at $50 each. Email your name, daytime phone number and 'gallery' to friends@ccc.govt.nz by Monday, 24 August to go in the draw for tickets to this highly anticipated fundraiser.
Congratulations to our Explore and Draw competition winners, from left, Susanna Parkin, Lawrence Botting and Sunshine Vos, who each won a pack of art materials. Keep an eye out for the next competition in September.
The Gallery has launched its first blog, keeping you up-to-date with the rehang currently taking place in the collection galleries. It gives you behind-the-scenes news and views of Brought to Light, due to open in November.
This fortnight also marks the opening of two new exhibitions, Cloud9 and Gembox.
6pm / free
Favourite short stories from the past 150 years, plus the winners of the One-Day Short Story Competition are announced.
Sponsored by The Press
10.30am / Friends $2 / public $5 / students free / tea and coffee in Alchemy from 10am: $3
William Baverstock was the inaugural director of the Robert McDougall Art Gallery – an administrator the emerging avant-garde in the 1960s loved to hate. This lecture reveals both the controversies and vital contribution that Baverstock made to the arts. Warren Feeney is director of CoCA Centre of Contemporary Art.
7pm / foyer / free
An absurdist sound performance with Auckland-based artists Sean Kerr and Simon Cuming using DIY electronics, hackware and moving images.
6pm / free
We've all heard of emerging artists, but what about disappearing ones? Taking Ronnie van Hout's exhibition Who goes there as his starting point, senior curator Justin Paton talks about the art of disappearance.
7pm Argentine wine and empanadas served / 7.30pm film screening / $7.50 on the door
A special screening of the celebrated Wild Horses – a road journey that begins with a bank robbery and the bank's clerk pretending to be kidnapped in order to help the thief get away.
Presented by 2X4 Trust and the Embassy of Argentina
29 August – 29 November
Strange dreams, imaginary landscapes, celestial structures and the outside world are themes central to the practices of these nine contemporary New Zealand artists.
The fourth in the emerging artists series at Christchurch Art Gallery, Cloud9 presents new work by recent graduates Elliot Collins, Mike Cooke, Ruth Thomas Edmond, Georgie Hill, Eileen Leung, Marie Le Lievre, Tim Thatcher, Telly Tu'u and Pete Wheeler.
Exploring new directions in contemporary painting techniques, the exhibition shimmers with colour and form and explores the potential for art to transport us to other realms.
29 August – 15 November
In November, Brought to Light, a new exhibition featuring hundreds of works from the Gallery's collection, will go on show in refreshed and reshaped galleries.
In the meantime, you can keep in touch with some old favourites in Gembox, a show of ten gems from the collection.
Read more about the new collection exhibition, Brought to Light.
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Séraphine Pick Huntress (with wall flowers) 2004. Oil on canvas. Private collection, Auckland. Reproduced courtesy of the artist
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Until 18 October
Best known for his funny and haunting variations on the self-portrait, Ronnie van Hout's brand of absurdist sculpture unfolds here in a twisting journey past failed robots, doll-sized portraits of the artist, shadowy rooms of memory and something strange from Antarctica.
Until 22 November
Séraphine Pick's original and imaginative practice has made her one of New Zealand's most highly regarded painters. From the spectral dresses, leaky baths and teetering suitcases of the 1990s to the psychologically charged dreamscapes of more recent years, this large-scale survey brings together more than a hundred works made between 1994 and 2009.
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Installation view: et al.: that's obvious! that's right! that's true! July 2009
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Until 22 November
The collective et al. has exhibited widely both nationally and internationally to great acclaim. This exhibition continues their exploration of 'superfiction' by combining words, industrial furniture and video projections to create installations that mirror political structures.
Until 15 November
Keeping younger audiences in mind,
and including a number of new works by contemporary artists,
White on White is an exhibition brimming with the
imaginative possibilities of white.
Generously supported by
Chartwell Trust
Last Days!
Until 23 August
Gary Hill is world-renowned for his
bold experiments with moving images. In this exhibition he explores
the paradoxes and difficulties of the human attempt to communicate.
The best known of the works on show, Wall Piece is a
high-impact fusion of light, language and body language.
Presented with support from The
Arts Centre, Christchurch, in association with the St Paul St
Gallery, Auckland
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