See our Summer- Autumn 2013-2014 - Govett-Brewster Art Gallery

WHILE THE BUILDING IS
CLOSED AND UNDERGOES
TRANSFORMATION,
THE GALLERY REMAINS
ACTIVE IN OUR
COMMUNITY
Here’s our programme of free Govett-Brewster Art Gallery
exhibitions and events.

December 2013
Summer
to
May 2014
Autumn
Image: Artist impression of the Len Lye Centre
(interior perspective of Large Works Gallery).
Patterson Associates Ltd
INTRODUCTION
Simon Rees
EXHIBITIONS
Reuben Paterson, Ann Shelton, Carmen Rogers
TOURING EXHIBITION
Word Works
LEN LYE EXHIBITIONS
Agiagia, - Art of Its Own Making, Motion Sketch
LEN LYE CENTRE TRUST
Fundraising
MONICA BREWSTER EVENINGS
Ann Shelton, Simon Rees, Nicolaus Schafhausen, Kate Newby, Robert Leonard
BOOK LAUNCH
Maddie Leach
FRIENDS
Maddie Leach Friends of the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery
ART AND DESIGN SHOP
Online, Govett-Brewster Publications, Govett-Brewster Editions
OFF-SITE EDUCATION/EVENTS
Seniors, Friends Art to Lunch, Friends Artist Talk, WOMAD
FILM CURATOR IN RESIDENCE
Philippe-Alain Michaud

FROM THE DIRECTOR
Tena - - koutou,
Dear friends and patrons of the Govett-Brewster Art
Gallery/Len Lye Centre. It gives me great pleasure
to address you, personally, for the first time as the
incoming director of New Zealand’s most beloved
contemporary art institution, situated in the gem of a
city that is New Plymouth.
As you are reading this you are undoubtedly enjoying
the pohutukawa - blooming as a signal of the start of
summer and wind-down for Christmas, New Year,
and holiday season. Meanwhile, here in Vienna,
Austria, the leaves have already turned their brown,
gold, and red autumnal hues and have started
drifting to ground and collecting on berms and
gutters all over the city. It’s already dark well before
I leave the museum in the evening. We are waiting
for the first flakes of snow and dreaming of a white
Christmas (in the age of global warming, grey and
slushy is more likely). My own dreaming is especially
poignant as it will be my eleventh and last such
Christmas here for some years to come.
Despite the relative longevity of my stay in Europe,
and adjustment to the seasonal cycles, sometime
about now I start to look forward to the weight of a
cricket bat in my hands. I play many an air-shot while
walking corridors and gallery spaces where I work
(in all likelihood looking, to European eyes, like the
wackiest-and-worst-ever sports enthusiast to walk a
museum’s halls!).
While all this doesn’t seem to have much to do with
contemporary art, I have accompanied my greeting
with a photographic work by Vienna-based
New Zealand artist Mladen Bizumic, Global Truths
#77, depicting a renowned carousel in this city’s
Prater—Vienna’s famous civic park that appears in
numerous international films. The work’s title is
suggestive of contemporary art’s centripetal power:
it spins inasmuch as the carousel spins to draw us
together; despite antinomies of global distance.
The weather might be on a different – even antipodal
– cycle, but our experience of it is common and can
be intuited as a collective truth. Working with
contemporary art, and the art, films, and ideas of
Len Lye, which connect to the collective unconscious
illuminating the problems and wonders embodied in
daily life, is what we set out to do at the Govett-
Brewster/Len Lye Centre. As relevant as that
sounds, we also, like the carousel, and the loopiest
of Len Lye’s works and ideas, want to make your
heads spin!
Season’s greetings.
Nga - mihi o te Kirihimete ki a koutou.
Simon Rees
Director, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery/Len Lye Centre
Image: Simon Rees joins the Gallery as Director, 10 February 2014
Image far left: Mladen Bizumic Global Truths #77 2009 (detail).
Unique C-type photograph. Courtesy the artist and Georg Kargl Fine
Arts, Vienna. The James Wallace Arts Trust Collection, Auckland

EXHIBITION
Reuben Paterson:
The Golden
Bearing
8 February – 27 July 2014
Boatshed Lawn, Pukekura Park,
New Plymouth
2013 Govett-Brewster
Aotearoa New Zealand
Artist in Residence
www.reubenpaterson.com
Inspired by his visits to Taranaki public gardens,
artist Reuben Paterson (Ngati - Rangitihi, Ngai - Tuhoe, -
Scottish) pursues his investigation of light, depth and
sculptural form.
Known for his paintings in glitter and diamond dust,
Paterson’s new outdoor installation moves into the
three-dimensional space of sculpture, questioning
ideas of artificiality and ‘natural’ environments.
His largest work to date, a life-size, gold-glittered,
sculpted tree takes root and flourishes on
Pukekura Park’s Boatshed Lawn, transforming it into
an otherworldly terrain.
With a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Elam School of
Fine Arts, The University of Auckland, Paterson has
exhibited in numerous solo exhibitions and was part
of the Asia Pacific Triennial 2009 in Queensland and
the 17th Biennale of Sydney 2010.
Paterson’s work is represented in public museum
collections in Australasia, including the National
Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, the National Gallery
of Australia, Canberra and in six major national
museums and galleries in New Zealand. He recently
developed the exhibition Gazillion Swirl! for the
Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki - Creative Learning
Centre, and is developing several site-specific
projects in 2014.
Curated by Meredith Robertshawe
Image: Pukekura Park’s Boatshed Lawn, New Plymouth, awaits
Reuben Paterson’s new work. Photo Bryan James
The Govett-Brewster Art Gallery residency programme is made
possible with support from Creative New Zealand Arts Council of
New Zealand Toi Aotearoa and further support from the
Western Institute of Technology at Taranaki (WITT).
#glittertree

EXHIBITION
Ann Shelton:
doublethink
28 September 2013 –
2 February 2014
Midhirst, New Plymouth,
Whanganui
On 18 November 1982, educated anarchist and
young punk Neil Roberts took a planned, radical and
finite step – he attempted to blow up the ‘Wanganui
Computer’ at Wairere House on the Whanganui
River. A then-powerful symbol of ‘Big Brother’, the
computer was the physical manifestation of the
New Zealand Government’s first foray into archiving
digital data on its citizens.
Informed and deeply concerned by social
developments in early 1980s’ Aotearoa New Zealand,
Roberts’ extreme action tapped into public ill-feeling
towards the computer and its mythical status
throughout the country. Roberts lost his life in the
bombing.
(now Bolivia), as it declared its independence from
the Spanish Crown.
Written with sparklers in the night sky and
photographed in Whanganui on the 30th anniversary
of the bombing and Robert’s death, Ann Shelton’s
work doublethink reiterates and repositions this
graffitied message, asking questions about its
relevance, problematic status and meaning in
today’s social landscape.
Posters are available at Cafe Govett-Brewster, New
Plymouth and Sarjeant Gallery, Whanganui.
Curated by Meredith Robertshawe
www.annshelton.com
Shortly before the bombing, Roberts graffitied the
words “WE HAVE MAINTAINED A SILENCE CLOSELY
RESEMBLING STUPIDITY” on a nearby public
toilet wall. This phrase is translated from the 1809
revolutionary proclamation of South America’s first
independent government, the Junta Tuitiva in La Paz
Image: Ann Shelton doublethink ‘We have maintained a silence closely
resembling stupidity’ Neil Roberts 1982 2013 (installation view, State
Highway 3, Midhirst). Photo Bryan James
#doublethink

OPEN WINDOW EXHIBITION
Carmen Rogers:
Crystallised
30 November 2013 –
4 May 2014
Next to Cafe Govett-Brewster,
Queen St, New Plymouth
Image: Carmen Rogers Crystallised 2013 (detail).
Courtesy the artist
www.carmen.co.nz
Intrigued by the seemingly gravity-defying tensions
of cave formations, New Plymouth-based artist
Carmen Rogers transforms shattered glass from the
demolished balustrades and hallways of the
Govett-Brewster Art Gallery into crystal stalagmites
and stalactites. Installing these works gradually over
five months, Rogers morphs the Open Window
gallery into an environment reminiscent of a
crystalline cave.
Rogers graduated with a Bachelor of Visual Art in
Fine Art and received the Top Fine Art Student Award
from the Western Institute Technology at Taranaki
(WITT) in 2011, with her sculpture work purchased by
WITT for their Collection. A finalist in the
New Zealand Painting and Printmaking Award in 2011
and 2013, Rogers was also the recipient of the
Betty Loughhead Soroptomist Scholarship in 2010.
Rogers also presented a sculptural installation at
New Plymouth’s WOMAD 2013.
Curated by Meredith Robertshawe
TOURING EXHIBITION
Govett-Brewster
Collection:
Word Works
5 October 2013 –
19 January 2014
Lane Gallery, Puke Ariki,
New Plymouth
A selection of works from the
Govett-Brewster Collection explores
and plays with conventional ideas of
words and their meanings. Spanning
from 1977 to 2011, the artworks in
Word Works utilise a variety of media,
methods and language, contributing
to art’s long association with text.
Image: Terry Urbahn Untitled Portrait II 1989.
Govett-Brewster Collection

LEN LYE EXHIBITION
Len Lye: Agiagia -
14 December 2013 –
16 March 2014
Mangere Arts Centre –
Nga - Tohu o Uenuku,
South Auckland
Image: Artist Len Lye at the University of
California, Berkeley, 1966.
Courtesy the Len Lye Foundation
Image far right: Len Lye Tusalava 1929 (film still,
detail). Courtesy Len Lye Foundation and
New Zealand Film Archive Nga - Kaitiaki O Nga -
Taonga Whitiahua -
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mangereartscentre
Taking its title from a Samoan word expressing
the notion of ‘natural billowing movement’,
Len Lye: Agiagia - will be the first survey of Lye’s
practice presented in South Auckland.
This exhibition focuses on the artist’s early work
from the 1920s – including experimental film,
kinetic sculpture, drawing and photography.
At the heart of Len Lye: Agiagia - is the first of Lye’s
experimental films, Tusalava 1929, a fusion of the
modern format of avant-garde cinema with the
organic spirit of Lye’s oceanic home. Works
included illustrate Lye’s relationship with European
modernism during his years living in the Pacific and
the unique modernist voice he brought with him to
London and eventually the United States.
Curated by Paul Brobbel and James Pinker
#agiagia

Image: Len Lye Wind Wands 1961, 2013 reconstruction.
Courtesy Len Lye Foundation.
Photo Stuart Robb
LEN LYE EXHIBITIONS
Art of Its Own Making
13 February – 23 August 2014
Len Lye: Motion Sketch
16 April – 8 June 2014
The Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts
St. Louis, Missouri, US
Len Lye’s Wind Wands 1961, 2013 reconstruction,
feature in this group exhibition Art of Its Own
Making, which also includes work by Tony Conrad,
Hans Haacke, Nam June Paik, Sam Lewitt and
Robert Morris. The group of seven Wind Wands, thin
fibreglass tubes that move and respond to their
open-air atmosphere, will be installed on the
Pulitzer’s roof-top bamboo court.
The Drawing Center, New York, US
Motion Sketch is the first survey of Lye’s practice to
be exhibited in New York. The exhibition features a
selection of drawings, photograms, paintings,
sculpture and film from the Len Lye Foundation
Collection at the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery and
the New Zealand Film Archive Nga - Kaitiaki O Nga -
Taonga Whitiahua. -
Curated by Gregory Burke and Tyler Cann
Curated by Gretchen Wagner
www.pulitzerarts.org
Image: Image far right: Len Lye Tusalava 1929 (film still, detail).
Courtesy Len Lye Foundation and New Zealand Film Archive
Nga - Kaitiaki O Nga - Taonga Whitiahua -
www.drawingcenter.org

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FUNDRAISING EVENT
Friday 4 April 2014
6.30pm
Waiau Country Estate,
Onaero Beach Rd, Onaero,
Taranaki
Image: Len Lye All Souls Carnival 1957 (film still).
Courtesy Len Lye Foundation
Tickets on sale
Monday 17 Feb, 2014
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Monica Brewster
Evenings
MONICA BREWSTER
EVENINGS, IN ASSOCIATION
WITH GOVETT QUILLIAM –
THE LAWYERS, BRING AN
IMPRESSIVE ARRAY OF
NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL
ARTISTS AND CULTURAL
THINKERS TO NEW PLYMOUTH.
Ann Shelton
Tuesday 28 January 2014
6.00pm – 8.00pm
The Mayfair
69 Devon St West, New Plymouth
Ann Shelton is recognised as one of New Zealand’s
leading photographic artists. Tonight Shelton will
discuss her art practice and Govett-Brewster project
doublethink, closing Sunday 2 February 2014. With a
Master of Fine Arts from the University of British
Columbia, Canada, Shelton has exhibited nationally
and internationally and in 2010 was the overall
winner of the CoCA Anthony Harper Contemporary
Art Award.
Shelton is Chair of Enjoy Public Art Gallery,
Wellington’s longest running artist-run space and is
Associate Professor at Whiti o Rehua – The School
of Art, Massey University Wellington. Artist in
Residence at the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery in
2004, Shelton has several works in the Govett-
Brewster Collection.
Free entry/cash bar
Image: Gallery founder Monica Brewster (née Govett)
Simon Rees
Tuesday 25 February 2014
6.00pm – 8.00pm
The Mayfair
69 Devon St West, New Plymouth
Simon Rees is the new Director of the Govett-
Brewster Art Gallery/Len Lye Centre. Rees was the
Head of Programming and Development at MAK, the
Austrian Museum of Applied Arts/Contemporary
Arts. He brings a wealth of curatorial, publishing and
managerial experience to the Govett-Brewster as
well as an understanding of the Gallery’s history and
place in contemporary arts, having held the Curator
of Contemporary Art position at the Gallery from
2002 to 2004. Rees was Curator for the
Contemporary Art Centre (CAC) in Vilnius, Lithuania
and editor of CAC/Interviu Magazine before taking
on the role of head of the exhibitions department.
In 2007 he was commissioner of the award-winning
Lithuanian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale. The
Govett-Brewster is pleased to welcome Rees back
to New Plymouth and the Gallery with his inaugural
talk as Director.

Nicolaus
Schafhausen and
Kate Newby
Tuesday 25 March
6.00pm – 8.00pm
The Mayfair
69 Devon St West, New Plymouth
Nicolaus Schafhausen and Kate Newby discuss the
Fogo Island Arts Dialogue, a conference series that
addresses critical questions faced by the global
community in the 21st century.
Nicolaus Schafhausen is an experienced curator,
speaker and advisor in visual arts. He has directed
several institutions in Germany and initiated projects
and publications in and outside of Europe.
Schafhausen is currently Director of Kunsthalle Wien,
Austria, and advisor to the Fogo Island Arts/
Shorefast Foundation.
Since graduating from Elam School of Fine Arts,
New Zealand-born artist Kate Newby has undertaken
artist residencies in Germany, Canada, Mexico City
and New York. Newby is artist in residence at Fogo
Island Arts in 2013/2014.
Robert Leonard
Tuesday 27 May
6.00pm – 8.00pm
Venue to be confirmed
Check our website for updates
Robert Leonard is one of New Zealand’s most
experienced art curators and writers. Director of
Brisbane’s Institute of Modern Art since 2005, he
returns to New Zealand as Senior Curator for City
Gallery Wellington in January 2014. Leonard has
worked as a curator and director for art galleries
throughout New Zealand. He curated the country’s
representation for Brisbane’s Asia-Pacific Triennial
1999, Sao Paulo Biennale 2002 and Venice Biennale
2003 and he will be curating Simon Denny’s
exhibition for Venice Biennale 2015. Leonard: “I want
to balance my love of detailed exhibition making with
coal-face responsiveness and direct collaboration
with artists. I am interested in the radical relativism
of contemporary art. I appreciate art that stands the
test of time but I am equally into art that is right here,
right now”.
Diana Thater
Tuesday 29 April
6.00pm – 8.00pm
Venue to be confirmed
Check our website for updates
Los Angeles-based Diana Thater is an artist, curator,
writer and educator whose work is preoccupied with
untouched and manipulated nature and the politics
of human and inhuman relationships.
Thater visits Aotearoa New Zealand as one of the
artists in Adam Art Gallery’s exhibition Cinema and
Painting, exploring the phenomenology and
materiality of exhibited film (11 February — 11 May
2014). With a Master of Fine Arts at the Art Center
College of Design, Pasadena, California, Thater has
been a pioneering creator of film, video and
installation art since the early 1990s. Since 2000,
she has been the artist in residence for The Dolphin
Project, a non-profit organisation that protects
cetaceans from slaughter, captivity and abuse.

BOOK LAUNCH
Maddie Leach:
If you find the good
oil let us know
Friday 14 February 2014
5.30pm – 7.00pm
Ozone Bean Store Café
47A King Street, New Plymouth
The new publication If you find the good oil let us
know is the culmination of 2012 Govett-Brewster
Aotearoa New Zealand Artist in Residence Maddie
Leach’s project of the same name. Designed by
Warren Olds, this book presents a narrative through
a series of letters sent to and from the artist.
The publication will be available for purchase at
the book launch and from the Art and Design Shop
Online www.govettbrewster.com
Curated by Mercedes Vicente
Image: The new publication Maddie Leach: If you find the good oil let
us know. Courtesy the artist
ART AND DESIGN SHOP
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Buy your Govett-Brewster publications
and cards, and Len Lye books, bags,
cards and jewellery online.
To shop, go to:
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or for more information email
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or phone +64 6 759 6715
Image: Ann Shelton: doublethink publication
(folded version) at the Midhirst Service Station.
Photo Bryan James
Govett-Brewster
Publications
A range of new publications is available from the
Govett-Brewster Art and Design Shop Online
including Len Lye: The New Yorker, Old Genes: Artists
reading Len Lye, Laurence Aberhart: Recent Taranaki
Photographs, Fiona Jack: Living Halls and Alex
Monteith: Accelerated Geographies. These beautiful
books are lasting touchstones for artists’ solo
exhibitions at the Govett-Brewster.
Our newest publication, Ann Shelton: doublethink,
takes the form of a poster essay. This is available
free from the Cafe Govett-Brewster foyer in
New Plymouth, the Sarjeant Gallery in Whanganui,
and at various outlets in the Central Taranaki town of
Midhirst. This publication accompanies the artist’s
billboard project doublethink, on State Highway 3,
Midhirst.

ART AND DESIGN SHOP
OFF-SITE EDUCATION
EVENTS
Govett-Brewster
Editions
The Govett-Brewster Editions is a
collaborative venture where artists
are invited to work with the Gallery
to develop unique, limited-edition
collectable art works.
You can now order Govett-Brewster
Editions through the Art and Design
Shop Online at:
www.govettbrewster.com
Francis Upritchard The Thinker 2011
Fiona Pardington Len Lye’s Tiki 2011
3 February – 17 April 2014
The Gallery’s education team
continues to offer schools free off-site
education programmes inspired by
Govett-Brewster and Puke Ariki art
exhibitions, local public sculpture and
architecture, and WOMAD.
To book a class lesson contact
Chris Barry on 06 759 0858
or chrisb@govettbrewster.com
Charlotte Stokes from Tikorangi School
concentrates on her artwork at Real TArt Gallery
Govett-Brewster Seniors
at Puke Ariki
Second Friday of each month 10.00am
Taranaki Daily News Café, Level 2,
Puke Ariki, New Plymouth
Join Helen Telford and Keri Naus from the
Govett-Brewster team for conversations about art.
Bookings essential, phone 06 759 6060
Friday 14 February
Friday 14 March
Friday 11 April
Friday 9 May
Limited edition of 90. Archival digital Giclée print with silkscreen
Limited edition of 20
studio after visiting Puke Ariki’s Call of Taranaki:
glazes on Somerset Satin Enhanced Paper 330 gsm
Pigment ink on hahnemuhle paper
Reo Karanga o Taranaki exhibition with the
Available as unframed (470 x 610mm) and framed (705 x 560mm)
685 x 685mm framed
Govett-Brewster education team.

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and of course, support the Gallery.
There are a number of exciting
Friends events planned
leading up to and beyond
the Gallery reopening,
to which you will receive
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Friends also receive a 10% discount at the new
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memberships due annually from 31 January
2014. The good news is that if you renew your
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Image: Len Lye Rainbow Dance 1936 (film still, detail).
Courtesy Len Lye Foundation
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Art to Lunch
Third Thursday of each month 12.15pm
Govett-Brewster Office,
Level 2, 50 Devon St West, New Plymouth
Join the Friends and Gallery curators for a short talk
about the current art projects. Coffee and tea
provided, bring your lunch.
Len Lye: Agiagia-
Thursday 20 February
Exhibitions offsite – behind the scenes
Thursday 20 March
Carmen Rogers: Crystallised
Thursday 17 April Includes site visit if fine weather
Len Lye’s Wind Wands
Thursday 15 May
Artist talk and
lunchtime picnic
under the tree
Saturday 8 February 2014
12.00pm
Boatshed Lawn, Pukekura Park
Weather permitting. Bring a rug and picnic to enjoy
Aotearoa New Zealand Artist in
Residence Reuben Paterson celebrates
the opening of his new outdoor sculpture
project at Pukekura Park with an artist
talk under his gold-glittered tree.
All welcome
Image: Reuben Paterson Heirloom 2013 (detail).
Courtesy the artist

EVENT AT WOMAD
Govett-Brewster
at WOMAD
14 –16 March 2014
Brooklands Park,
New Plymouth
WOMAD tickets available at
www.taft.co.nz/womad
Image: Reuben Paterson Heirloom 2013
(detail). Courtesy the artist
Reuben Paterson
Glitter Sculpture
Workshop next to Te Paepae:
Saturday 12.00pm – 8.00pm
Installation on the Bowl of Brooklands:
Sunday all day
Join the Govett-Brewster team to create your own
artwork inspired by artist Reuben Paterson to share
with WOMAD. 2013 Govett-Brewster Aotearoa New
Zealand Artist in Residence Reuben Paterson’s glitter
works investigate light and depth through painting
and sculpture. Choose a piece from Paterson’s
floral patterned work, glitter it and turn it into a
sculpture. Look out for the installation on Sunday,
then take yours home after WOMAD.
Materials supplied
EVENT AT WOMAD
Len Lye Films
Pinetum Stage, WOMAD
Join us on dark to view a selection
of Lye’s films especially selected
for a WOMAD experience.
The soundtracks to the films will
be played through headphones.
Bring a cushion and blanket to
enjoy.
Screening times to be confirmed –
check the WOMAD website for
details.
Image: Len Lye Swinging the Lambeth Walk 1939,
(film still). Courtesy Len Lye Foundation

Philippe-Alain Michaud
Govett-Brewster Art Gallery/
Len Lye Centre Film Curator in Residence
Art historian and curator Philippe-Alain Michaud is
the Director of the Department of Film at the Musée
National d’Art Moderne-Centre Georges Pompidou,
Paris. He visited New Plymouth in late 2013 as the
Govett-Brewster’s inaugural Film Curator in
Residence, working with the Gallery on cinema
programming for the new Govett-Brewster Art
Gallery/Len Lye Centre, opening 2015.
sans fin. Brancusi film et photo, Centre Pompidou,
2011; and Flying Carpets, The French Academy in
Rome - Villa Medici, 2012.
He is the author of Aby Warburg and the Image in
Motion 2004 and Sketches. cinema et histoire de l’art
2006.
Image: Artist impression of the Govett-Brewster
Art Gallery/Len Lye Centre cinema interior.
Patterson Associates Ltd
Philippe-Alain has curated numerous exhibitions
concerning the relationship between cinema and
contemporary art, including Le mouvement des
images, Centre Pompidou, March 2006-January
2007; Bild für Bild, Museum Ostwall, Dortmund,
2010; Electric Nights: Art and Pyrotechnics, LABoral
Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial, 2011; Images
Philippe-Alain Michaud comes to New Zealand
courtesy of Creative New Zealand, the Embassy
of France and the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery.
Image: Film Curator in Residence Philippe-Alain Michaud on the
construction site of the cinema at the Len Lye Centre.
Courtesy Taranaki Daily News

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The Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, established in 1970,
is Aotearoa New Zealand’s leading contemporary art
museum, offering energised encounters with the art
and ideas of today. Since 1980, the Gallery has been
home to the Collection and Archive of pioneering
New Zealand filmmaker and kinetic artist Len Lye
(1901–1980) and we’re now embarking on a new
phase of history with the development of the
Len Lye Centre, opening 2015.
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Enjoy a delicious breakfast, brunch or lunch, coffee
or wine. Open seven days, Monday to Friday 7.00am
– 3.00pm and Saturday/Sunday 8.00am – 3.00pm.
Corner of Queen and King Streets. See the
Govett-Brewster website for the current menu.
Phone +64 6 759 2038