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In 1967 Len Lye, surrounded by a cacophonous medley of his sculptures in action, told a CBS television crew making the documentary, Art of the Sixties (about six quintessential New York artists) that: “his work would be ‘pretty good for the 21st century . . . Why the 21st? It’s simply that there won’t be the means to have what I want, which is enlarged versions of my work’; meaning that engineering, materials, and technology didn’t [yet] support his visions . . .”
Today, we have the means through advances in metallurgy, digital control technology, and advanced engineering to make good on Len’s bold statement and create a number of the kinetic and tangible motion sculptures that Len imagined for our century.
The Govett Brewster Art Gallery Foundation (as advocates and supporters of the Govett Brewster Art Gallery) and the Len Lye Foundation (as the owner and creator of the Len Lye works themselves), have joined together to promote a forward looking initiative for creating new large scale Len Lye kinetic sculptures. It is intended that these will form part of the major display of Lye works at the Len Lye/Govett Brewster Art Gallery in New Plymouth.
Team Zizz! is your chance to join a dynamic group of people with a collective purpose to financially support the creation of three such sculptures—Wand Dance, Sky Snake, and Spiral Frieze—ensuring that visitors to the Len Lye Centre are wowed for years to come and can truly “feel the zizz of the thing” as Len would say.
Team Zizz! is encouraging monthly, automatic contributions to suit your budget of either $50 per month, $100 per month or any greater amount per month that you may wish. As the money is paid over the term of one-to-three years from 2018–2020, this will enable a Christmas time launch of the three proposed sculptures in each of those years. The team purpose is to raise a total of $150,000 over up to three years with the funds used to create the three specific sculptures ($50,000 per year) and once the fund raising total is met, no further monies will be required.
To find out more details about this significant project, you can address one of our Trustees in person, email the Govett-Brewster Foundation at: foundation@govettbrewster.com or call Desmond Brice, Executive Officer, on: +64-6-759 6087
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Witch Dance pictured above, is a smaller version of Wand Dance which will have wands with bells over 12 feet high.
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