Exhibition Openings
Saturday 8 August, curator's talk at 2pm, official opening from 6-8pmgovettbrewster.com/
Free | All welcome
Curator Tour: Candice Lin's Pigs and Poison | 2pm
Official opening + trebuchet demonstration | 6-8pm
Saturday 8 August will mark all of the galleries in the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery/Len Lye Centre being open to the public again – the first time since lockdown.
Join the Govett-Brewster to celebrate the official opening of the debut exhibition by acclaimed US-based artist Candice Lin, whose first solo show in New Zealand challenges notions of migration, race and border, as well as a new commission by the first of three Govett-Brewster 2020 Artists ‘In Residence’, Sorawit Songsataya.
The gallery will also officially launch The Absolute Truth of the Happiness Acid, which celebrates Len Lye's acclaimed film-making practice, using new methods to present the artist's colourful, experimental films within the gallery environment.
There will be a curator tour of the new exhibition at 2pm, offering insight behind the works in Lin’s exhibition, followed by an official opening in the evening, including a pre-recorded speech from the artist herself, and a launch demonstration of one of the most anticipated works on show – a trebuchet (or catapult).
Free | All welcome
Curator Tour: Candice Lin's Pigs and Poison | 2pm
Official opening + trebuchet demonstration | 6-8pm
Saturday 8 August will mark all of the galleries in the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery/Len Lye Centre being open to the public again – the first time since lockdown.
Join the Govett-Brewster to celebrate the official opening of the debut exhibition by acclaimed US-based artist Candice Lin, whose first solo show in New Zealand challenges notions of migration, race and border, as well as a new commission by the first of three Govett-Brewster 2020 Artists ‘In Residence’, Sorawit Songsataya.
The gallery will also officially launch The Absolute Truth of the Happiness Acid, which celebrates Len Lye's acclaimed film-making practice, using new methods to present the artist's colourful, experimental films within the gallery environment.
There will be a curator tour of the new exhibition at 2pm, offering insight behind the works in Lin’s exhibition, followed by an official opening in the evening, including a pre-recorded speech from the artist herself, and a launch demonstration of one of the most anticipated works on show – a trebuchet (or catapult).
