Coming up at City Gallery Wellington

Coming up at City Gallery Wellington | Chris Kraus, Shane Cotton, Brett Graham, Shannon Te Ao and Wystan Curnow

We start the week with a talk from US author Chris Kraus tonight at 6pm, then later in the week artists Shane Cotton, Brett Graham and Shannon Te Ao talk McCahon, and next Monday curator Wystan Curnow kicks off the first talk in the Deane Lecture series.

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

Chris Kraus: Multiple Perspectives
Mon 22 May, 6pm | $40 / $35 Concession, Friends and Litcrawlers
New York-based author and artist Chris Kraus (I Love Dick, Aliens and Anorexia) returns to Wellington for a one-off, intimate conversation about her life and work. She talks with Claire Murdoch, Leader, Product and Audience at Radio New Zealand and previously Publisher at Te Papa Press.
BOOKINGS https://nz.patronbase.com/_CityGallery/Productions/CKTA/Performances

Talking Back to McCahon: Shane Cotton, Brett Graham and Shannon Te Ao
Sat 27 May, 2pm | Free
Artists Shane Cotton, Brett Graham and Shannon Te Ao respond to Colin McCahon: On Going Out with the Tide.
This conversation will be chaired by Huhana Smith, Head of Whiti o Rehua School of Art, Massey University.

Weekend Exhibition Tours
Saturdays and Sundays, 12.15pm | Free
Get more out of your visit to the Gallery with a 40-minute introduction to the exhibitions.
Meet in main foyer.
Wystan Curnow talks Colin McCahon: On Going Out with the Tide (Deane Lecture)
Monday 29 May, 6pm | Free
Curator Wystan Curnow talks about Colin McCahon: On Going Out with the Tide, examining how Māori themes and subjects profoundly altered the direction and meaning of McCahon’s work just as he was reaching the height of his powers as a painter.
Part of the Deane Lectures series, presented in association with Colin McCahon: On Going Out with the Tide and supported by the Deane Endowment Trust.
Cash bar available.

Other upcoming Deane Lectures include: http://citygallery.org.nz/events

McCahon House: History and Mythology
Aaron Lister, Vivienne Stone and Shannon Te Ao
Monday 12 June, 6pm

Personal Perspectives on the Treaty Settlement Process
Rt Hon Jim Bolger and Tāmati Kruger
Thursday 29 June, 6pm

Colin McCahon’s Urewera Mural and John Scott’s Aniwaniwa Visitor Centre
Gregory O’Brien, Jacob Scott and Peter Simpson
Monday 3 July, 6pm

The Maungapōhatu Diamond: The Poetics and Truth of Prophecy
Jeff Sissons
Monday 24 July, 6pm

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Exhibitions | Free entry
http://citygallery.org.nz/exhibitions/upcoming

Colin McCahon: On Going Out with the Tide
08 April - 30 July 2017
The exhibition explores McCahon’s evolving engagement with Māori subjects and themes in his works from the 1960s and 1970s. These works range from early treatments of koru imagery to later history paintings, referring to Māori prophets and highlighting land-rights issues.
On Going Out with the Tide seeks to understand these works in terms of a tectonic shift in New Zealand culture—emerging biculturalism.

Petra Cortright: RUNNING NEO-GEO GAMES UNDER MAME
08 April - 13 August 2017
LA-based digital artist Petra Cortright’s first New Zealand exhibition features a suite of new paintings on linen and paper, video paintings, and YouTube-hosted webcam performances. There are also Flash animations of kitschy scenics, which apply the aesthetics of the desktop screensaver to the gallery wall.

Martino Gamper: 100 Chairs in 100 Days
08 April - 13 August 2017
Italian-born furniture designer Martino Gamper says, ‘There is no perfect chair.’ In this project he made 100 chairs from recycled and found materials in 100 days. Showing for the first time in New Zealand, the 100th chair has been made in New Zealand especially for this exhibition.

Shannon Te Ao: Untitled (McCahon House Studies)
08 April - 30 July 2017
Wellington artist and 2016 Walters Prize winner Shannon Te Ao (Ngāti Tūwharetoa) video Untitled (McCahon House Studies) (2011). Te Ao walks with and talks back to McCahon. It is one of a number of video-performances responding to historically charged sites that Te Ao has made with cinematographer Iain Frengley.

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