What's coming up at City Gallery Wellington - A lot!!

Events
http://citygallery.org.nz/events

NZ Trio: Blast
Tuesday 10 November, 7pm – ticketed. Rehearsal at 2.30pm is free
NZTrio return with piano trio works Beethoven, Fauré and a new commission by New Zealander Ken Young.
There will also be a free rehearsal runs 2.30-3pm on the day of the concert in the gallery foyer.
See website for ticket prices and booking details. - http://www.nztrio.com/schedule/upcoming-events/art:-blast.html

Gordon H. Brown Art History Lecture
Thursday 12 November, 6pm | Free
Dr Rebecca Rice (Te Papa) delivers the thirteenth annual Gordon H. Brown Art History Lecture.

Rebecca Rice is an art historian who specialises in New Zealand colonial art. She is interested in New Zealand’s representation at international exhibitions, particularly through the displays of fine art, photography and ethnographic artefacts, as well as how artists used these exhibitions to promote their own practice.

LitCrawl: True Stories Told Live
Saturday 14 November, 6pm | Donation
Stop in during LitCrawl, the one-night-only literary treasure hunt across the city is making a stop at the Gallery.
True Stories Told Live features writers Susanna Andrew, Emma Barnes, Tracy Farr, Puawai Cairns and Max Rashbrooke speaking off the cuff on the theme of waiting.

Fiona Pardington: Writers Archive
Sunday 15 November, 2pm | Free
Over the last 30 years, novelist Elizabeth Knox and art historians Roger Blackley and Peter Shand have written about Fiona Pardington’s photographs. Join them as they revisit their earlier texts and bring fresh perspectives to Pardington's work.

NZIA City Talks: John Walsh on Gerald Melling
Monday 15 November, 6pm | Free
City Talks is an ongoing series presented in partnership with the New Zealand Institute of Architects Wellington Branch.
John Walsh discusses the work of the late Gerald Melling, a passionate and witty advocate for low-cost housing. Followed by refreshments.

Current Exhibitions – Free Entry
http://citygallery.org.nz/exhibitions

Fiona Pardington: A Beautiful Hesitation
22 August – 22 November, 2015
Fiona Pardington is one of New Zealand’s most important, and celebrated, photographers. A Beautiful Hesitation is the largest exhibition of her work to date, with over 100 photographs, spanning 30 years. Its title comes from the artist’s description of photography as a “hesitation in time”.

Leon Narbey and Laszlo Moholy-Nagy: Light Studies
3 July– 18 October, 2015
Narbey’s film, A Film of Real Time: A Sound-Light Environment (1970) is shown with the Hungarian modernist Laszlo Moholy-Nagy’s film Light Play: Black White Grey (1930) which documents the effects of his kinetic light sculpture, the Light-Space Modulator.

A Film of Real Time: A Sound-Light Environment | 9 min 20 sec
Ein Lichtspiel Schwarz Weiss grau | 6 min

Upcoming Exhibitions: http://citygallery.org.nz/exhibitions/upcoming
Unseen City: Gary Baigent, Rodney Charters and Robert Ellis in Sixties Auckland
21 November 2015 – 13 March 2016 | Free

In the 1960s, as new motorways enabled suburban sprawl, Auckland's population passed half a million. This show is a snapshot of that moment, in photography, film and painting. Gary Baigent’s 1967 Auckland photobook, The Unseen City, with its gritty aesthetic and bohemian attitude, was an antidote to the saccharine local picture books at the time. Rodney Charters’s 1966 Auckland road movie Film Exercise features Queen Street nightlife and a soundtrack by the La De Da’s. Robert Ellis’s drawings show how his famous Motorway paintings were grounded in his experience of his newly adopted city. A joint project with Te Uru, Titirangi.

Grayson Perry / Kushana Bush
21 November 2015 – 20 March 2016 | Free

Turner Prize-winning artist, writer and broadcaster, Grayson Perry CBE is a British institution. His tapestry Map of Truths and Beliefs (2011) catalogues current pilgrimage destinations, religious and secular, including Mecca, Stonehenge, Auschwitz, Davos and Wembley. Woven on a computerised loom, it recalls the fanciful, allegorical maps of medieval times. Like Perry, Dunedin artist Kushana Bush's intricate and colourful tragi-comic paintings comment on modern life but are loaded with references to arts of other times and places—to Indo-Persian miniatures, Japanese prints and medieval maps and illuminated manuscripts.
Credit: Kushana Bush Babes and Fools 2014. Courtesy of Brett McDowell Gallery, Dunedin and Darren Knight Gallery, Sydney.

Camille Henrot: Grosse Fatigue
21 November 2015 – 13 March 2016

French artist Camille Henrot's encyclopaedic video Grosse Fatigue (2013) takes on the history of the universe. Henrot mashes scientific history and creation stories, the rational and the mythic, computers and primitive mindsets. Still and moving images appear in a sequence of overlapping pop-up windows as if on a computer screen, suggesting that a vast database underpins the work. Henrot was awarded the Silver Lion for Grosse Fatigue, when it debuted in the 2013 Venice Biennale.
credit: Camille Henrot Grosse Fatigue 2013. Courtesy of the artist, Silex Films and Galerie Kamel Mennour, Paris.

Julian Dashper & Friends
5 December 2015 – 25 April 2016 | Free

Julian Dashper died in 2009, aged forty-nine. This show offers a belated tribute to this key New Zealand artist. Dashper made art about art. Some works were perverse homages to other artists, others addressed the workings of the art business. From the mid-1990s, he increasingly exhibited overseas. Today, he represents a transitional figure between the ‘New Zealand painting’ that preceded him and the post-national, post-medium contemporary art that followed. As Dashper’s works were in dialogue with art history, our show presents his works in conversation with works by other artists, including Colin McCahon, Rita Angus, Milan Mrkusich, Gordon Walters and Billy Apple.
Credit: Julian Dashper The Colin McCahons 1992. Chartwell Collection, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki.

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