Long Live the Modern at The New Dowse and More

AuthorByron 09 February 2010 Comments

Opened last week at the New Dowse, Long Live the Modern is a constructed extension of Julia Gatley's highly successful book of the same name. Curated by Gatley and Bill McKay, the exhibition brings drawings, photographs, models and more to the Hutt Valley.

Awarded the NZIA Presidents Medal recently, Gatley and McKay celebrate "twentieth-century architectural initiatives concerned with the new." The exhibition (toured by the Gus Fisher Gallery and the University of Auckland) is also supplemented by two local tours, hosted by Julia Gatley on the 13th and 14th March (bookings required, find more info here).

With the NZ International Arts Festival looming, the New Dowse is hosting three other great shows, including 'Bogle Bogle' by Seung Yul Oh ("mischievous, animal like shapes and forms"!), and 'Drawing Conclusions: Hotere, McCahon, Peebles, Walters' (how could it not be great), rounded up with Bill Viola's 'The Messenger'. Viola's work (on show in NZ for the first time, unbelievably) is the most profound video-art I've experienced, and should definitely be checked out among these other alluring shows.