At The City Gallery
- FOUR FACES OF NEW ZEALAND ART: RITA ANGUS, GAVIN HIPKINS, MICHAEL ILLINGWORTH & PETER PERYER
- RATED - 201 PHOTOGRAPHS BY WAYNE YOULE (R.18) Michael Hirschfeld Gallery 19 July - 19 August 2001 Emerging artist Wayne Youle (Ngati Whakaeke, Nga Puhi) tests the limits of acceptable visual culture with this provocative photographic project. A continuous frieze of 201 small-scale photographs hugging gallery walls asks us to get up close to images which may offend some viewers, but be of little concern to others. With a particular emphasis on racial issues, Rated plays out the subjectivity involved in interpreting and responding to the images surrounding us in books and magazines, exhibitions and the Internet.
* FREE PUBLIC EVENTS:
THURSDAY 9 AUGUST, Intercontinental Wellington (formerly
Park Royal), 7pm. The New Zealand Institute of Architects
presents a lecture by renowned Japanese architect Toyo Ito.
Ito's work is the subject of upcoming City Gallery
Wellington installation Blurring Architecture (21
September-2 December). Presented in association with
Artspace, Auckland, the show presents a recent Ito project,
the Mediatheque in Sendai, employing models, plans, texts,
animated computer graphics and images of the construction
site. Tickets: from $20, student entry / unwaged $15. T: 09
623 6080 or info@nzia.co.nz
FRIDAY
10 AUGUST, City Gallery Wellington, 7PM: 'STARS OF THE NZSO'
Enjoy the world of orchestral music in a performance by
players from the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra. Join the
orchestra for a glass of wine and well-known excerpts and
pieces featuring stringed instruments, featuring star
soloists from the NZSO. Introduced by Concert FM's Kate
Mead. Tickets $30 (transaction fee may apply). Bookings
through NZSO, tel: 04 801 3841 or 801 3838.