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Coffee + Art
Max Gimblett Blue Ridge - Over the Wild Blue Yonder - Homage to Henri Matisse 1986 Pencil, acrylic polymer, metallic pigment / Arches 300 lb Rough Watercolour Paper. Collection of Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu, The Max Gimblett and Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett Gift.
Friends
Past event
Universo Brasserie & Bar
Join the friends for coffee and great conversation in Universo, then enjoy a 30-minute ArtBite talk.
Join volunteer guide Barry Allom as he discusses Max Gimblett's Blue Ridge - Over the Wild Blue Yonder - Homage to Henri Matisse, on display in Untitled #1050 on the first floor.
Related reading: Artist Talk
Exhibition
Untitled #1050
25 November 2017 – 14 October 2018
An engrossing selection of abstract art by big-name New Zealand artists
Collection
Max Gimblett Blue Ridge – Over the Wild Blue Yonder – Homage to Henri Matisse
“The quatrefoil was born in 1983. It came to me in a dream, and the quatrefoil said, Form me and paint me and I will heal you. I recognised it immediately as a mandala. A mandala is something that occurs in the mind as an image, as a symbol of wholeness. […] I see my paintings as part of Kandinsky’s modernism. My paintings exist to raise the spirit in the community and make for a better community. They are ritualistic objects of sacred value.” —Max Gimblett
(Max Gimblett: Ocean Wheel 1 August – 15 November 2020)
