Exhibitions
Events
On display
Flip & Two Twisters
Len Lye in New York, 1966
Len Lye Foundation Collection, Govett-Brewster Art
Gallery and Len Lye Centre
Film
Past event
Philip Carter Family Auditorium
Free
Due to circumstances out of our control the talk Len and the Pacific has been cancelled and replaced by Flip and Two Twisters.
Fip & Two Twisters (directed by Shirley Horrocks) is a documentary about Len Lye, the great film maker and kinetic sculptor. This dynamic artist spent his life developing a highly original "art of motion".
Flip and Two Twisters explores Lye's career and ideas with the helpf of newly discovered historical footage of the artist. It includes some great examples of Lye's film making and some spectacular camerawork (by Leon Narbey) of his sculpture in motion, including the wild rhythms of Flip & Two Twisters. The film also chronicles recent attempts to realise Lye's plans for giant versions of his sculpture.
Related reading: Film
Exhibition
Len Lye: Stopped Short by Wonder
26 November 2017
An exhibition inspired by a flash of light and a thunderclap.
Commentary
Len Lye Works
The glancing body of a hooked swordfish; the shivering skin of a panicky horse; a shiny tin kicked in rage by a young boy outside the Cape Campbell lighthouse. This triptych of memories was the inspiration for avant-garde New Zealand sculptor, painter and film-maker Len Lye’s Blade (1972–4) – a vertical band of steel that curves, flexes, arches then hammers frenetically against a cork ball in a fury of light, sound and movement.
Event
Artist Pick: Stromboli, Land of God
This movie selection from artist Sriwhana Spong is a post-war Italian neo-realist film starring Ingrid Bergman.
Event
Artist Pick: My Winnipeg
A movie selection from artist Ilish Thomas. Fact, fantasy and memory are woven seamlessly together in this portrait of film-maker Guy Maddin's home town of Winnipeg, Manitoba.
Exhibition
Māori Moving Image ki Te Puna o Waiwhetū
An exhibition championing film, animation and video art made by several generations of Māori artists.