Wednesday 6 September

EXHIBITION TALK in association with Giacometti
With Barry Pearce, Senior Curator of Australian Art

Join Barry Pearce as he guides us through the Giacometti exhibition.  

FREE CONCERT In association with Giacometti
Daryl Pratt (Percussion) and the Percussion Ensemble from  the Sydney Conservatorium of Music


Percussion in the Old Courts
Daryl's broad performance background has an emphasis in Contemporary Classical music and Jazz.  He was a member of Sonor directed by Bernard Rands, co-founded Pipeline with Simone deHaan was a member of The Australia Art Orchestra, director Paul Grabowsky to name a few. His orchestral background includes Timpanist with The La Jolla Civic Orchestra and Canberra Symphony Orchestra. He has performed as a percussionist with San Diego Symphony Orchestra and Sydney Symphony Orchestra. Pratt's chamber music experience includes performances and recordings with Synergy, The Australia Ensemble and The Australia Chamber Orchestra. He has recordings on ABC, Lovely, Naxos, CRI, Rufus Records, EFA, VoxAustralis, Fleur de Son Classics, and Tall Poppies.

FILM PROGRAM
In association with Lewis Morley
As the 1950s ended, British cinema exploded with new energy. Throwing out stuffy, middle-class drawing room comedies and war-obsessed dramas. Young directors from theatre, television and documentary, and a new breed of actors, united to create a socially conscious, aggressively working class cinema, trampling taboos of sex and class. Lewis Morley was in the right place at the right time. He quickly made a name for himself through his portrait work, reportage, and theatre photography, documenting the short lived creative revolution with a remarkable sampling of fringe actors, directors, musicians and dwellers of London in the early 1960s. 

A hard day's night
Dir: Richard Lester  1964
85 min. 35mm  B&W  Rated G
The Beatles, Wilfred Brambell

Rushed into production to capture "Beatlemania" as it was happening, Lester's film is a series of lively, comedy sequences covering 36 hours in the lives of the Beatles. The Liverpool Lads travel to London by train for a live television broadcast, are mobbed by hysterical fans and must contend with a difficult manager as well as Paul's grandfather, who comes along for the ride. On the cusp of the "Swinging Sixties", the semi-documentary camera work reveals London as a city still recovering from the austerity and devastation of World War 2.

MUSIC IN THE ARTBAR
Stu Hunter & Friends
For this series in the ArtBar, Stu Hunter will be performing instrumental nu-jazz in solo format and with special guests. Music to warm the winter soul and inspire the mind.

In conjunction with the Giaccometti exhibition. ArtBar from 7.30-8.30pm.

ARTBAR
The Gallery cafe becomes the ArtBar after 5pm serving a delicious range of evening meals, wine and beer. Enjoy the vista of Woolloomooloo.

The CAFE and GALLERY SHOP are open until 8.45pm.

The Art After Hours COURTESY BUS runs every 15 minutes from the Gallery to surrounding car parks and Martin Place from 7pm to 9pm.

The Art Gallery of New South Wales Research library is open to the public until 8.45pm.

GIACOMETTI
Until 29 October 2006

This exhibition brings to Australia, for the first time, sculptures, prints and drawings by Alberto Giacometti drawn from the remarkable modern art collection of the Marguerite and Aimé Maeght Foundation in Saint-Paul-de-Vence, France.   

Alberto Giacometti Walking man II, 1960. The Marguerite and Aimé Maeght Foundation © Alberto Giacometti/ADAGP. Licensed by Viscopy, Sydney 2006

LEWIS MORLEY
Until 10 September 2006

An exhibition of photographs by Lewis Morley, known for portrait work, reportage and theatre photography.   

Lewis Morley Joe Orton, playwright, London 1965. © Lewis Morley

ADVENTURES WITH FORM & SPACE
Until 13 September 2006

The Balnaves Foundation Scuplture project 2006. Includes artists: Hany Armanious, Damiano Bertoli, Claire Healy & Sean Cordeiro, Jonathan Jones, Nike Savvas, Nick Mangan, John Meade. This exhibition considers the ways in which these artists use form, colour and space in sculpture. 

ZEN MIND, ZEN BRUSH
Until 24 September 2006

This exhibition, drawn from the remarkable private collection of Dr Kurt A. Gitter and Alice Rae Yelen, will include works by the greatest Zen masters of the last three centuries.   

Nakahara Nantenbo (detail) Procession of begging monks (1923), hanging scroll, ink on paper

FRANK HODGKINSON
Until 17 September 2006

This is an exhibition of sketchbook drawings by Frank Hodgkinson, documenting his travels in Europe following WW2. The drawings include images of Italy (in particular Florence), Paris and England. 

Frank Hodgkinsin Fiesole 1947 (detail) Gift of the artist 2000 1862