What's coming up at City Gallery

What's coming up at City Gallery...and then we close for two weeks

This Thursday is our August Tuatara Open Late with exhibitions open until 10pm as well as music, supper treats and a cash bar. Then this weekend join an exhibition tour of selected work before the Gallery takes a brief hesitation –we’re closed for two weeks, 10 – 21 August for scheduled WCC maintenance. We reopen on Saturday 22 August with the new exhibition, Fiona Pardington: A Beautiful Hesitation.

Events – Free Entry

http://citygallery.org.nz/events

Tuatara Open Late

Thursday 6 August, 5-10pm | Koha

Art, music, film, books, beer, wine and food. Tuatara Open Late takes place on the first Thursday of every month.

This month, head upstairs and experience exhibitions, Demented Architecture and From the One I Call My Own after dark. There'll be activities, music with DJ B.Lo, supper treats from La Boca Loca and a cash bar.

Weekend Exhibition Tours | Free
Saturdays and Sundays, 12.15 – 12.45pm

Get more out of your visit at the Gallery with our fun and informative 30-minute tours of selected works. Meet in the downstairs foyer

Current Exhibitions – Free Entry

http://citygallery.org.nz/exhibitions

Demented Architecture – Image attached
27 June – 8 November, 2015
Works from around the globe by contemporary artists that satirises the relationship between art and architecture, and the mythology of the architect.

Susan Te Kahurangi King | Shannon Te Ao: from the one I call my own

27 June – 8 November, 2015

This provocative pairing opens up points of convergence between two bodies of work that supposedly occupy different ends of the contemporary art spectrum. Susan Te Kahurangi King is a 64 year old self-taught artist who stopped speaking around the age of five. She draws, endlessly and inventively—in graphite, coloured pencils, pastels or inks on paper. Shannon Te Ao (Ngati Tuwharetoa) is a contemporary artist whose videos and performances often isolate and refigure aspects of spoken language drawn from Maori cultural forms such as whakatauki and waiata

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 – Free Entry

http://citygallery.org.nz/exhibitions/demented-architecture

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”.

Unseen City

21 November, 2015 – 27 March, 2016

Unseen City offers a slice of 1960s Auckland through the eyes of then-young artists Gary Baigent, Rodney Charters and Robert Ellis.

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