Exhibitions
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On display
chicken / man by Ron Mueck
Ron Mueck chicken / man 2018 Mixed media. Collection of Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū, purchased 2019 by Christchurch Art Gallery Foundation with assistance from Catherine and David Boyer, Friends of Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū, Charlotte and Marcel Gray, Ben Gough Family Foundation, Jenny and Andrew Smith, Gabrielle Tasman and Ken Lawn, Christchurch Art Gallery Foundation’s London Club along with 514 other generous individuals and companies. Image courtesy Anthony d’Offay, London
Art Bite
Past event
Meet in the exhibition
Free
Join volunteer guide June Goldstein as she discusses Ron Mueck's chicken / man.
Art Bites are 30-minute lunchtime presentations on a single work on display, presented by our staff, guides and guest speakers.
There's a new Art Bite to enjoy each Friday at 12 noon (except during public and school holidays).
Related reading: Free event
Exhibition
Persistent Encounters
10 March 2020 – 19 September 2021
From the real to the ideal, from the everyday to the impossible.
Collection
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)
