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Twinset: Video Art in the Foyer
A rapid-fire series of video works on the twin screens in the foyer. To coincide with the beginning of the Subsonic sound art series in the carpark bunker, the next two Twinset artists create some unexpected music. Phil Dadson's Incantation turns the players themselves into the instruments, and in Euan Macdonald's GAD three guitars make the music -- with no visible help from a musician.
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Outer Spaces
The Gallery’s new programme of artworks in the 'outer spaces' starts to heat up over winter, with Inez Crawford’s Bouncy Marae arriving in June in time for Mātāriki and a line-up of sound artists making themselves heard in the new Subsonic programme in the carpark bunker. Out on the Worcester Boulevard façade, Richard Killeen’s spectacular billboard The Gathering lights up the winter evenings. And inside the foyer, there’s no missing Sara Hughes’ dazzling work United We Fall – the first major commission in our Glasshouse series.
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John Reynolds: Under Milk Wood by Dylan Thomas
16 February - 27 April 2008
Burdon Family Gallery
Performances at The Court Theatre, 23 February - 22 March 2008
An exhibition project resulting from the collaboration between artist John Reynolds and actor/director Geraldine Brophy in a presentation of Dylan Thomas's poetic classic, Under Milk Wood.
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Festival of Flowers
Peter Peryer: Tecomanthe
Begins 22 February 2008
Foyer
From 22 February, to celebrate the Festival of Flowers, Peter Peryer's work Tecomanthe will hang in the Gallery foyer. Tecomanthe Speciosa is a rare twining climber that was discovered on one of the Three Kings Islands northwest of Cape Reinga in 1946. All the vines we have today descend from this one plant.
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Colin McCahon
8 March - 8 June 2008
Two decades after Colin McCahon’s death, this touring focus exhibition brings together paintings and works on paper by one of the most widely acclaimed New Zealand artists.
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Darryn George: Pulse
8 March - 24 August 2008
William A. Sutton Gallery
The walls themselves become the artwork in Darryn George's new project. Stretching more than fifty metres and reaching from floor to ceiling, Pulse is an engulfing fusion of customary Maori art and contemporary abstract painting. Using intricate patterns, chanting rhythms and an eye-popping palette of red, black and white, George fills the hushed white cube of the Sutton Gallery with a continual pulse of light, language and pattern.
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Morris & Co.
The World of William Morris
14 March - 29 June 2008
Touring Exhibition Galleries A, C & Borg Henry Gallery
William Morris - the man behind the firm Morris & Co. - remains a remarkable figure more than a century after his death. His work endures, with many of his designs for wallpapers, textiles and carpets still popular today. Artist, designer, socialist, poet, novelist and theorist: Morris's work is celebrated in this exquisite show.
Toured by the Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide.
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Thaw
21 March - 15 June 2008
Tait Electronics Antarctica Gallery
Embittered by a lack of recognition from his expeditions to Antarctica with Scott and later Shackleton, the enigmatic Ernest Joyce set out to bring together a collection of photographs that cemented his place in history. Thaw combines century-old glass lantern slides and negatives with large-scale digital projections, and highlights the ways we encounter historical objects and disembodied images.
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Form and Fire: The Annual Exhibition of NZ Potters
29 March - 11 May 2008
Ravenscar Gallery
Object lessons in form and fire from some of Aotearoa New Zealand's best potters and ceramic artists. Including arty craft and some crafty art, the New Zealand Society of Potters 2008 annual exhibition showcases what's happening in functional pottery and sculptural ceramics throughout the country.
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Subsonic
sound art in the bunker
Begins May 2008
From May onwards, if you're climbing the stairs to the forecourt or catching the elevator from the Gallery's underground carpark you'll find yourself immersed in Subsonic, a new programme of sound art curated by Peter Vangioni.
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Ben Cauchi: Dead Time
3 May - 3 August 2008
Burdon Family Gallery
Ben Cauchi deftly manipulates light sources, studio effects and darkroom techniques to create a mysterious, illusory zone. Known for his use of mid-19th-century photographic processes, Dead Time reveals the results of a recently completed residency as Frances Hodgkins Fellow in Dunedin.
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Keeping Time
23 May - 31 August 2008
Touring Exhibition Gallery B
Exploring the moment when past and present collide, this collection-based exhibition teams Denis O'Connor's monumental limestone sculpture The Gorse King with a selection of works in other media to consider how history, memory and tradition frame our experience of the world.
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Bouncy Marae
31 May - 27 July 2008
Foyer
Bring the kids down to the Gallery to play on Inez Crawford's giant inflatable artwork Bouncy Marae. Inspired by her childhood impression that her local marae was a fairytale castle, Crawford has created her own bouncy-castle wharenui - brown on the outside, bright pink inside, and free for the kids to jump around in!
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Travelling Light
13 June - 13 July 2008
A month-long exhibition timed to coincide with the month of Mātāriki, when the Pleiades star cluster rises in the morning sky. Inspired by the vast journeys undertaken by early Māori celestial navigators, Travelling Light is full of star maps, sea journeys and night flights - from Shane Cotton's night paintings through to Lonnie Hutchinson's electric lightscape.
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A. A. Deans: Antarctic Stories
21 June - 5 October 2008
Tait Electronics Antarctica Gallery
Canterbury artist A. A. Deans - well-known for traditional landscape paintings depicting his beloved high country - visited Antarctica for three weeks in 1981, where he spent time sketching, painting watercolours and photographing the environment. Antarctic Stories presents work from the expedition.
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Laurence Aberhart
18 July - 12 October 2008
Touring Exhibition Galleries A & B
Over 200 key works by an artist described as 'the essential visual poet of New Zealand's past'. Includes his signature images of landscapes, facades, monuments and interiors from New Zealand, Australia and farther afield. Using a 100-year-old view camera, Aberhart produces images steeped in the history of his subjects and of his chosen medium.
A City Gallery Wellington touring exhibition.
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Daniel Crooks: Everywhere Instantly
18 July - 9 November 2008
Touring Gallery C & Borg Henry Gallery
'Once you've seen a Daniel Crooks DVD you're not likely to forget the experience,' writes art critic Edward Colless. Using his renowned 'time-slice' technique, New Zealand-born Crooks transforms everyday sights such as trains and city streets into wide-screen meditations on time and motion. Everywhere instantly brings these dizzying and beautiful digital worlds to New Zealand audiences for the first time.
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Aus Australien
9 August - 9 November 2008
Burdon Family Gallery
Experience outstanding examples of printmaking by eight leading contemporary Australian artists, working with a variety of techniques. Highlights include energised woodcuts by John Nixon and confrontational etchings by Mike Parr, two of Australia's foremost contemporary artists, and Jenny Watson's evocative Bottled Memories series.
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SCAPE 2008 Biennial of Art in Public Space
19 September - 2 November 2008
Internationally renowned Turkish curator Fulya Erdemci joins New Zealand's Danae Mossman to form the curatorial partnership for Art & Industry's 5th SCAPE 2008 Christchurch Biennial of Art in Public Space.
Christchurch Art Gallery is once again the SCAPE 2008 hub and will host the Biennial's indoor exhibition, as well as symposia, discussion and lectures. Running for 6 weeks from 19 September - 2 November 2008, the programme will include site-specific interventions by artists from around the world, proposing a new 'culture of space' for the city. As well as visiting artists, SCAPE 2008 will attract speakers, arts professionals and new audiences to Christchurch, stimulating and questioning the way we experience and enjoy public space.
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