Robert John McDonald - Live at Wellington City Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand
Live at the Museum is a series of films in which buskers and other artists perform without permission in front of major museums around the world. The democracy of art and the use of public space are key components of this work. It is an indefinitely ongoing series and while each work stands on its own, they are interconnected through a shared distance to global cultural agendas and a quiet beauty emanating from the covert act of street performance. Live at the Museum is an investigation into the collective and institutional affirmation given to culture, while also functioning as a digital archive to cache the contribution of its participants.
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See spectacular international art at City Gallery Wellington
This winter, City Gallery Wellington is serving up a piping-hot helping spectacular international art. Don't miss your chance to see sculptures by leading Irish artist Eva Rothschild and mesmerising moving image art by UK artist duo Semiconductor. For more: wellingtonnz.com/discover/events/city-gallery-wellingtons-autumnwinter-2019/
From Scratch: 555 Moons at City Gallery Wellington
From Scratch is New Zealand’s best-known art/music ensemble. Formed in 1974, by Philip Dadson, From Scratch is known for its invented instruments, its utopian egalitarian politics, and its engagement with the sounds and rhythms of the Pacific. In this video, Philip Dadson reflects on the survey exhibition 555 Moons at City Gallery.
City Gallery Wellington
Te Ngākau Civic Square
17 November 2018 - 10 March 2019
Free entry
A Trip to City Gallery in Wellington! | Quasi The Hand
Join us for a short trip in City Gallery in Wellington New Zealand, let's see the different arts, paintings, art patterns, handmade crafts and more by Theo Schoon.
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Julian Dashper & Friends at City Gallery Wellington
'Julian Dashper & Friends' (5 Dec 2015 - 15 May 2016) offers a tribute to an artist who changed the way we think about New Zealand art history. Dashper (1960-2009) has been a key figure in New Zealand art since the mid-1980s.
The exhibition places Dashper’s work alongside works by his elders, his contemporaries and those who followed to highlight the connections and the conversations between them. In this video, featuring artists and friends discuss his practice and his influence.
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Curated by Robert Leonard. Julian Dashper's estate is represented by Michael Lett, Auckland; Hamish McKay Gallery, Wellington; and Minus Space, New York.
Jan Van Der Ploeg’s visit to New Zealand has been made possible with financial support of the Mondriaan Fund and City Gallery Wellington.
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Artist Patrick Pound at City Gallery Wellington
New Zealand-born, Melbourne-based artist Patrick Pound merges high low to create wondrous 'museums of things'. In this video, he discusses the making of his City Gallery exhibition 'On Reflection' —a magnificent palindrome—where he has shuffled thousands of items from his private collection with items from Te Papa.
City Gallery Wellington
Civic Square
11 August - 4 November 2018
Free entry
John Stezaker: Lost World exhibition video at City Gallery Wellington (2017)
British artist John Stezaker is known for his distinctive, often deceptively simple, collages.
He has been making art since the 1970s, but achieved prominence relatively recently. In 2011, he had a retrospective at the Whitechapel Gallery, London, and, in 2012, he won the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize, even though he does not take photographs.
Stezaker says collage is about ‘stuff that has lost its immediate relationship with the world’ and involves ‘a yearning for a lost world’. A collector, he works from an archive of out-of-date images—mostly old film stills, vintage actor head shots, and antique postcards. These images come in standard sizes and are highly conventionalised—all variations on themes. Critic David Campany says, Stezaker ‘is drawn to that very slim space between convention and idiosyncrasy.’
Collage involves taking existing images and materials, decontextualising them, reorienting them, cutting them, pasting them. But Stezaker’s collages often only do one or two of these things. Sometimes he cuts and pastes, sometimes just cuts or just pastes. Indeed, sometimes he just selects, presenting a found image more or less as is. (He calls such ‘collages’ readymades, as a nod to Marcel Duchamp.) Highlighting the different contributions these distinct processes can make, Stezaker foregrounds the grammar and logic of collage.
In this time of Photoshop, which makes melding images a breeze, Stezaker prefers to make collages the old way, working with his source materials as is, exploiting the ways they fit and don’t fit together. In his Masks, he lays scenic postcards on top of head shots so that the forms line up, uncannily—we want to read them as one. He makes rock faces, wave faces, arched bridge faces, and buildings-with-windows faces. In his Marriages and Betrayals, he grafts head shots together, creating more-or-less convincing gender-and genre-blending hybrids. Faces wear other faces, as masks.
Stezaker conjures with seeing and blindness, the visible and invisible, presence and absence. He slices strips off film stills, recalibrating and reorienting the drama. Sometimes he cuts out shapes from stills, directing our attention both to what has been removed and what remains. In some works, he cuts the figures out of stills and lays these stills over other stills where the figures remain, catching figures and figure-shaped absences in a dance. It’s all very Rene Magritte.
In addition to collages, Lost World includes poignant found-object-sculptures: a selection of antique mannequin hands, offering a repertoire of gestures. There’s also a film, Crowd, presenting hundreds of film stills of crowd scenes, each for one frame only, in a bewildering blur.
His source images come from a pre-feminist age, when men were men and women were women, when gender was more defined and constrained—especially in the movies. Stezaker both revels in and queers stereotypes, making them dance to his own tune.
Lost World will travel to:
Govett-Brewster Art Gallery: 09 December 2017 – 04 March 2018
Christchurch Art Gallery: 23 March 2018 – 22 July 2018
Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne Fri 21 Sept—Sun 4 Nov 2018
The exhibition will be accompanied by a catalogue featuring an essay by curator Robert Leonard and an interview with the artist by David Campany.
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01. Wellington Botanic Garden
The garden features 25 hectares of protected native forest, conifers, plant collections and seasonal displays. They also feature a variety of non-native species, including an extensive Rose Garden.
02. Wellington Cable Car
A funicular railway between Lambton Quay, the main shopping street, and Kelburn, a suburb in the hills overlooking the central city, rising 120 m (394 ft) over a length of 612 m (2,008 ft).
03. Wellington Zoo
Was the country’s first zoo and has 13-hectare (32-acre) dedicated to over 100 species of fauna from across the globe. Opened in 1906 by the late Prime Minister Richard Seddon, after he was given a young lion - later named King Dick - by the Bostock and Wombwell Circus.
04. Beehive
The common name for the Executive Wing of the New Zealand Parliament Buildings. It is so-called because of its shape is reminiscent of that of a traditional woven form of beehive known as a skep.
05. National War Memorial
Consists of the War Memorial Carillon, the Hall of Memories, and an unknown New Zealand warrior interred in a tomb constructed in 2004 in front of the Hall of Memories.The memorial officially remembers the New Zealanders who gave their lives in the South African War, World War II and the wars in Korea, Malaysia and Vietnam.
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A Catholic church on the corner of Boulcott Street and O'Reily Avenue. The current building was opened in 1922, and is the third church built on the Boulcott Street site.
07. Wrights Hill Fortress
A counter bombardment coastal artillery battery in the Karori suburb. Was built between 1942 and 1947 and is predominantly underground, with numerous tunnels linking the war shelters, gun emplacements, magazines, plotting rooms and engine room.
08. Zealandia
A protected natural area where the biodiversity of 225 ha of forest is being restored. Formerly known as the Karori Wildlife Sanctuary. The sanctuary was previously part of the water catchment area, between Wrights Hill and the Brooklyn wind turbine on Polhill.
09. Te Papa Tongarewa
The national museum and art gallery of New Zealand. It is branded and commonly known as Te Papa and Our Place; Te Papa Tongarewa is broadly translatable as the place of treasures of this land.
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Artist Petra Cortright at City Gallery Wellington
LA artist Petra Cortight and curator Aaron Lister talk about Cortright's exhibition at City Gallery Wellington, RUNNING NEO-GEO GAMES UNDER MAME.
Petra Cortright: RUNNING NEO-GEO GAMES UNDER MAME is on at City Gallery from 8 April - 13 August 2017. Free entry.
Francis Upritchard: Jealous Saboteurs at City Gallery Wellington
Spanning twenty years of work, 'Jealous Saboteurs' is the first major survey exhibition of New Zealand-born sculptor Francis Upritchard.
The exhibition is on at City Gallery Wellington from 28 May - 16 October, 2016.
Free entry.
City Gallery Wellington is a contemporary art gallery in Wellington, New Zealand.
Footnote New Zealand Dance - Watch This Space, City Gallery Wellington
Footnote New Zealand Dance perform at City Gallery Wellington, Seung Yul Oh's exhibition 'MOAMOA, a decade', June 2014
Dancers:
Alex Ford, Emma Dellabarca, Lana Phillips, Manu Reynaud
Civic Square, Wellington city
Flying Fern shining ball in the sky, Civic square, Wellington city
On the way to the Art gallery, we saw this interesting sculpture Flying Fern shining ball hover over the Civic square.
The square is used for public events and is a popular place for office workers to eat their lunch on warm summer days.
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Bullet Time at City Gallery Wellington
Bullet Time is an exhibition at City Gallery Wellington
25 March - 10 July 2016. Free entry.
Bullet Time showcases the work of two New Zealand video artists who conjure with time—Daniel Crooks and Steve Carr. It places them in the context of two historical photographers, pioneers of motion studies—Eadweard Muybridge (1830–1904) and Harold Edgerton (1903–90) acknowledging them as precursors, influences and reference points. In the process, it engages a complex history of interaction between science and art, photography and cinema, technology and consciousness, thought and feeling.
Sister Corita's Summer of Love at City Gallery Wellington
Exhibition on until 16 October, 2016 | Free entry.
'Sister Corita’s Summer of Love' showcases the bright and bold prints by 1960s activist, educator and artist Sister Corita Kent (1918 – 1986).
An unsung hero in pop art, Corita captured the pop/hippie/protest-movement zeitgeist with her technicolour graphics. Inspired by Andy Warhol, the Los Angeles–based screenprinter repurposed text from advertising and product packaging, road signs and pop songs to spread messages of joy, love and peace, protest and faith.
Corita’s works supported the civil-rights movement, protested the wars in Southeast Asia, and lamented the assassinations of American political leaders. They can now be found in the collections of the Whitney and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. A Sister of Los Angeles’s order Immaculate Heart of Mary, Corita taught at the art department, which soon became legendary with big-name speakers like John Cage, Charles and Ray Eames, and Alfred Hitchcock. Dubbed the “joyous revolutionary” by artist Ben Shahn, Corita lectured extensively. She appeared on television and radio talk shows and, in 1967, on the cover of Newsweek and in Harper’s Bazaar’s ‘100 American Women of Accomplishment’.
As a teacher, Corita encouraged her students to discover new ways of viewing the world, seeking revelation in the everyday. Corita’s friend, theologian Harvey Cox noted, “Like a priest, a shaman, a magician, she could pass her hands over the commonest of the everyday, the superficial, the oh-so-ordinary, and make it a vehicle of the luminous, the only, and the hope filled.”
Sister Corita’s Summer of Love includes more than 70 prints made between 1962 and 1979. Exhibition curator, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery Director Simon Rees, says, “Like the best political orators and preachers, Corita’s works deliver messages that touch everybody. Her works may remind New Zealand audiences of a collectivism missing from political expression today.”
The exhibition is on at City Gallery Wellington from 23 July–16 October, 2016. Free entry.
Speakers:
Curator Simon Rees (Director, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth)
Robert Leonard (Chief Curator, City Gallery Wellington)
Flying Fern shining ball in the sky, Civic square, Wellington city
Flying Fern shining ball in the sky, Civic square, Wellington city
On the way to the Art gallery, we saw this interesting sculpture hover over the Civic square.
The article I found on the website below written in 2016 explaining the story of this sculpture.
More than $200,000 needed to get a new Ferns sculpture flying above Civic Square in Wellington
There's been an orb-shaped hole in the skyline above Civic Square, but there's a plan to fill it.
The aluminium Ferns sculpture was permanently removed about 16 months ago after Wellington City Council learned it was no longer safe to keep it suspended due to metal fatigue from wind damage.
After weighing up the mounting cost of keeping Ferns above ground – where it had been since 1998 – the Wellington Sculpture Trust announced on Monday it needed to raise a total of $210,000 for sculptor Neil Dawson to create an upgraded stainless steel model.
Dawson said the original work, which has become a landmark in the city captured in countless tourism photos, would likely be recycled rather than re-homed to keep the display unique.
It's a positive thing... adventurous. Throwing something up in the air in a city with some of the strongest wind in the world.
The Christchurch-based artist said the new orb would be the same size, position, and colours, and would use existing lighting.
However, the thin cables used to delicately suspend it would increase from 3mm thick to 4mm.
Little movements in the cables contributed to metal fatigue over time so thicker ones as part of an upgraded suspension system should keep fatigue to a minimum in future – and stop it wobbling ads much.
I've been fighting to keep them thin because the magic is the way it floats in the sky. It will retain its delicacy.
The lay-out of the punga ferns is also being re-jigged to ease strain.
Prometal Industries in Christchurch will carry out construction with the final touches done in Wellington.
They will base the work off a 1:5 scale model made by Dawson.
Extensive planning had taken place over the past year with the final product expected to be up by March.
Trust chairwoman Sue Elliot said they had considered fixing the original again, but it was getting harder and harder.
We're really trying to keep the character of the previous work.
The Trust has already raised about $55,000 from sponsors.
Wellington City Council is a major funder. It will support the installation costs and will be responsible for ongoing maintenance.
After its latest removal last year, New Zealand International Arts Festival's former executive chairman Sir David Gascoigne described the sculpture as a city landmark that arrived with the dawn almost 20 years ago.
The night before, the globe was transported to the square under cover of darkness. It was elevated and secured in place. Work finished shortly before those taking part in the festival's opening ceremony started to arrive – in darkness.
As dawn broke and the ceremony got under way, the crowd became aware of the sculpture hanging high overhead, glistening in the dawn's new light. There were gasps of amazement and a spontaneous ovation.
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Homosexual Law Reform meeting at Wellington Public Library (now City Gallery)
In 1995 the gallery hosted a controversial retrospective of US photographer Robert Mapplethorpe which was seen by 45,000 people. The same year it hosted an exhibition of Pierre et Gilles which carried a censor's warning. In the mid 1980s, when the building was part of the public library, a lower ground-floor auditorium was used for community meetings to discuss homosexual law reform. In this recording Rod McLeod Morrison recounts one of those meetings.
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Wellington Public Library in Mercer Street. Burt, Gordon Onslow Hilbury, 1893-1968 :Negatives. Ref: 1/1-015911-F. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand.
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Trish Clark discusses Crown Lynn at City Gallery Wellington
Trish Clark, daughter of Crown Lynn founder Tom Clark, discusses the family's own collection of Crown Lynn objects and provides insights into the history of this ceramics brand. This talk was one of the public programmes held alongside the City Gallery Wellington exhibition 'Crown Lynn: Crockery of Distinction' (29 January-25 April 2011).
Launch of NZAL Wellington Chapter Welcomed by Mayor
Wellington Mayor Celia Wade-Brown welcomes guests to the launch of NZ Asian Leaders' Wellington chapter.
Event is kindly supported by Wellington City Council & City Gallery.
Arwa Alneami: Never Never Land | Suffrage 125 exhibition, City Gallery Wellington (NZ)
Exhibition curator Moya Lawson discusses the work of Arwa Alneami, an artist from Saudi Arabia.
Her exhibition 'Never Never Land' consists of surreptitiously made videos and photos of women spending their evenings at an amusement park in Abha where their experiences are constantly policed by a strict set of rules, prohibiting screaming and wardrobe malfunctions. One video shows women—who were only later permitted to drive on the road—driving dodgem cars, sometimes carefully, sometimes recklessly, bumping into each other with illicit delight. Another finds them muting their shrieks on the Drop Zone, while holding down their abayas. In a country where activism is curtailed, Alneami offers a wry commentary on the position of women.
Arwa Alneami: Never Never Land
11 August - 4 November, 2018 | Free entry
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