1994 » city gallery

Town and Gown: The Victoria University Art Collection

25 November - 26 February 1995 / Entire

50 key works from the Victoria University Art Collection have been selected for this exhibition. Town and Gown brings these works, which are usually spread over the university campus, together for the first time, making them accessible to a wider public audience.

Aussemblage

16 December 1994 - 12 March 1995 / Entire

Recently exhibited at the Auckland City Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki, Aussemblage brings together Australian artists whose works could be classified as assemblage.

Black Phoenix

16 December 1994 - 5 March 1995 / Entire

An exhibition of a major work by Ralph Hotere, loaned from the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa. Constructed out of the remnants and prow of a burnt out wooden boat, this work is one of the largest and most extraordinary Hotere has produced.

Warren and Mahoney Retrospective

24 September - 21 November 1994 / Entire

Renowned architecture firm Warren and Mahoney celebrates forty years with this exhibition of architectural plans, photographs and models.

I am You

18 September - 31 October 1994 / Entire

A public billboard project organised by City Gallery Wellington and the Goethe-Institut. The project is part of an international campaign concentrated in Europe called Artists Against Violence, in which twenty artists have produced billboard size posters to highlight racial intolerance and violence.

Selling NZ

9 September - 21 November 1994 / Entire

Curated by Wellington film makers Stuart McKenzie and Neil Pardington, $elling New Zealand presents 30 years of New Zealand television advertising with over 200 commercials.

Lest We Forget: Photography, Memory and National Character

3 September - 13 November 1994 / Entire

This exhibition brings together images by 21 photographers who have photographed various aspects of New Zealand over the last 100 years.

Kiwiana: New Zealand Culture from the 1950s

3 September - 13 November 1994 / Entire

Kiwiana brings together icons from key aspects of the New Zealand experience. The exhibition explores the visual language of everyday Kiwi life with images and objects from movies and television, painting and photography, architecture and agriculture.

Te Waka Toi: Contemporary Maori Art

11 June - 21 August 1994 / Entire

An exhibition of contemporary Māori art intended to instigate a cultural exchange with the indigenous peoples of the United States. Te Waka Toi was curated by a committee led by Cliff Whiting and Sandy Adsett. It includes work by Robyn Kahukiwa, Fred Graham and Robert Jahnke and includes paintings, sculpture and weaving.

Bottled Ocean

17 May - 7 August 1994 / Entire

23 artists participate in this exhibition exploring ‘Pacific Islandness’ in New Zealand. Guest curator, Rarotongan New Zealander, Jim Vivieaere, brings together art across a wide spectrum of media including paintings, sculpture, textiles, ceramics, photography, video, jewellery, installation art and computer graphics.

Black Carnival

3 - 26 May 1994 / Entire

Bizarre and daring large scale photographic installation by Auckland photographer Christine Webster

Fault

25 March 1994 - / Entire

Fault is a new public artwork by artists Ralph Hotere and Bill Culbert on the façade of City Gallery Wellington.

Mapa – The Airmail Paintings of Eugenio Dittborn

2 March - 8 May 1994 / Entire

Since 1984 Chilean artist Eugenio Dittborn has sent Airmail Paintings all over the world. At the end of each exhibition the works are folded up and posted in envelopes to their next destination. As well as travelling themselves, the works explore the idea of travel and distance.

Yasumasa Morimura

28 February - 4 April 1994 / Entire

Two large scale photographic works by Japanese artist Yasumasa Morimura exhibited as part of Wellington's International Festival of the Arts.

Keith Arnatt: One Foot Has Not Yet Reached The Next Street

22 February - 25 April 1994 / Entire

In this exhibition of 39 large scale photographs, discarded objects from the rubbish tip emerge in a new, powerful form. British photographer Keith Arnatt crosses traditional boundaries between man-made waste and rural splendour, popular and fine art photography.

Fomison: What Shall We Tell Them?

13 February - 22 May 1994 / Entire

What Shall We Tell Them is a major retrospective of the late Tony Fomison. Initiated by City Gallery Wellington and guest curated by Ian Wedde, it surveys work from every stage in Fomison’s development.