Designs for Living

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Wed 2 Mar ’11, 11:00am–5:00pm
Thu 3 Mar ’11, 11:00am–5:00pm
Fri 4 Mar ’11, 11:00am–5:00pm
Sat 5 Mar ’11, 11:00am–5:00pm
Sun 6 Mar ’11, 11:00am–5:00pm

Where: Adam Art Gallery, 1 Kelburn Parade, Gate 3, VUW, Wellington Show map

Restrictions: All Ages

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  • Admission: Free

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Long Live the Modern New Zealand’s New Architecture, 1904-1984
Mladen Bizumic From Cube To Ball (Chapter 2)
Lisa Crowley National Projects
Louise Menzies Letters to Students of the Radiant Life

Adam Art Gallery
Victoria University of Wellington
23 October—17 December 2010 / 25 January—6 March 2011

Designs for Living is a suite of four exhibitions that revisit twentieth-century modernism as it took shape in New Zealand. Drawing on visual and archival material and our built heritage, these projects seek to document certain features of this important artistic, architectural, social, technological and material legacy.

Designs for Living has been developed around Long Live the Modern: New Zealand's New Architecture, 1904-1984, the exhibition curated by Julia Gatley and Bill McKay and toured by the Gus Fisher Gallery, The University of Auckland, brings to attention key buildings that have been identified as crucial to our modernist history. Organised under the aegis of DOCOMOMO, a world-wide organisation dedicated to documenting the achievements of the modern movement in architecture, the show draws attention to the particular contribution of New Zealand architecture to this project.

To complement this exhibition, the Adam Art Gallery has invited three New Zealand artists to present chapters from their ongoing research into New Zealand’s modern history. Deploying different mediums and forms, and addressing strikingly different aspects of this legacy, artists Mladen Bizumic, Lisa Crowley and Louise Menzies offer richly various responses to modernism’s social and artistic ideals.

This exhibition is accompanied by a public programme of symposia, artist talks, and tours designed to provide a platform for critical discussion and enhance engagement with the exhibition.

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Adam Art Gallery
Victoria University of Wellington
Gate 3, Kelburn Parade
Next to the Student Union Building
PO Box 600
Wellington 6140
New Zealand
ph +64 4 4635229
fax +64 4 4635024

Open Tuesday – Sunday, 11am - 5pm (closed only on Monday)
Free entry
www.adamartgallery.org.nz

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