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Christchurch Art Gallery has a new offsite space, and Seung Yul Oh has filled it to bursting with his comically vast balloon sculptures.
Large-scale sculpture is usually a heavy business: heavy in materials and heavy in mood. But Seung Yul Oh is a rising New Zealand artist who shows how big art can also be light. Invited to inaugurate Christchurch Art Gallery's newest offsite space, on Tuam Street above C1, Oh has filled the room to bursting point with two vast red and yellow balloons. Squeezed against the ceiling, bulging around columns, and forcing viewers back against the walls, Oh's sculptures are benign and funny space invaders (just don't try brandishing a pin). Huggong runs concurrently with Reuben Paterson's dazzling digital animation Te Putahitanga o Rehua, just a short walk around the corner at 212 Madras Street.
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Date:
21 March – 24 April 2013 -
Location:
209 Tuam Street -
Exhibition number:
936 -
Part of
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Exhibition
Reuben Paterson: Te Pūtahitangi ō Rehua
21 March – 24 April 2013
Op-art patterns, expanses of glitter and Māori stories of water. They're all set in motion in this dazzling video installation by New Zealand artist Reuben Paterson.
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As reported on Tuesday, glitter's one reason to get along to our outpost at 212 Madras Street.
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Last chance to view the Holloway Press exhibition at Central Library Peterborough this week so if you are in the neighbourhood and like beautifully printed, designed and hand-crafted books then make sure you head along.
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Sian Torrington Call Out
Christchurch Art Gallery is excited to be working with Wellington-based artist Sian Torrington on a site-specific sculptural installation that will combine ideas, images and materials that relate to living in Christchurch now.
See below for a message from Sian to find out how you can get involved.
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Outer Space programme sees Canterbury arts graduate exhibit work in Showhome
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The popularity of Reconstruction: Conversations on a City has led to the exhibition being extended until 14 October, and the development of a publication.
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The inner binding now on display at the library
If you've not been down to the Central Library Peterborough yet now's a good time to do it.
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We're pretty pleased with what we're achieving with our Outer Spaces programme, but it's always good to see what else is out there. And I do mean 'out there'...
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Senior curator Lara Strongman spoke with Tony de Lautour in late January 2016.
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