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Raymond McIntyre: A Modernist View
Dynamic and progressive paintings and woodcuts from one of Aotearoa’s New Zealand foremost modernist artists.
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Māori artists consider the enduring relevance of taniwha in Aotearoa.
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Ron Mueck chicken/man
A paunchy older man, his feet braced heavily against the floor, is counterbalanced by a vital young hen, coiled like a well-feathered spring. Positioning these unlikely combatants at either end of a table, Ron Mueck fills this sculpture with tension – it’s a tennis match, or a chess game, or maybe a trap. His protagonists look very different, but what they share is attitude; their unbreakable focus charges the narrow space between them. Neither is in any mood to back down. But what’s at stake here? And who should we be rooting for?
(Dummies & Doppelgängers, 2 November 2024 – 23 March 2025)
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A message from Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū
Dear friends,
I don’t have the words to express how I’m feeling at the moment, in the wake of what happened in our city last Friday. I know it’s the same for the Gallery team and many of our visitors over the past week. It’s hard to know what to do or what to say. Right now I am numb with shock and deep sadness. I simply don’t have the words.
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A is for Abstract...
Jairus, Hault, Murtaza, Acacia, Jessica, Peteseta, Brook and Aiyanna from Bishopdale Primary School brought their A-game to the Gallery last week when they came to see our show 'Gordon Walters: New Vision'.
