City Gallery: What's coming up this week

What's coming up this week - Meet Fiona Pardington, three new exhibitions, NZIA, Gallery Babes and more

It’s another jam-packed week of at City Gallery Wellington. We have three new exhibitions opening this Saturdaywhich include a mega tapestry, painting, drawing video and photography, and with a dry of the eye, we farewell the fabulous exhibition Fiona Pardington: A Beautiful Hesitation on Sunday. So if you haven’t been to see it, don’t miss out!

Events wise we have the final NZIA City Talks for the year this evening at 6pm. Gallery Babes on Tuesday and then over the weekend two tours with Fiona Pardington.

Monday 16 November, 6pm

John Walsh discusses the work of the late Gerald Melling, a passionate and witty advocate for low-cost housing. Followed by refreshments.

Gallery Babes | Free

Tuesday 17 November, 10.30am
A mid-morning cultural fix for parents and carers of young babies. Bring the baby and enjoy a talk and tour of our current exhibitions, followed by morning tea.

Culture Club: Midnight Tour with Fiona Pardington | $25 for NZ Fest’s Culture Club Members and City Gallery Friends
Saturday 21 November, 11pm

The New Zealand Festival Culture Club invites you to a midnight tour of Fiona Pardington: A Beautiful Hesitation. Pardington will lead the tour with an artist talk followed by special guests: novelist Pip Adam, actor and theatre-maker Joel Baxendale and A Beautiful Hesitation curator, Aaron Lister.

Meet beforehand, 11pm at the Grill, Amora Hotel, Wellington for a pre-event drink and walk to the Gallery from there.

Meet the Artist: Fiona Pardington

Sunday 22 November, 2pm

If you missed Fiona Pardington's brilliant talk at the beginning of A Beautiful Hesitation, don't miss this. Hear Pardington discuss her work on the exhibition's last day. The exhibition then heads to Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki.

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– 20 November , 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

Up Coming Exhibitions – Free Entry

http://citygallery.org.nz/exhibitions

Grayson Perry / Kushana Bush

21 November 2015 – 20 March 2016
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, and Japanese prints, illuminated manuscripts and early-Renaissance paintings.

Unseen City
21 November 2015 – 13 March 2016

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

Camille Henrot: Grosse Fatigue

21 November 2015 – 13 March 2016

French artist Camille Henrot's encylopaedic 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 Fatique, when it debuted at the 55th Venice Biennale.

Julian Dashper & Friends

5 December 2015 – 25 March 2016

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