Tickets now available for Ron Mueck exhibition

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Tickets now available for Ron Mueck exhibition

Tickets go on sale today for the long awaited Ron Mueck exhibition, which opens at Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu on Saturday 2 October.
Advanced tickets, available from eventfinder.co.nz, give the purchaser direct entry into the exhibition on the day they choose to visit.

Tickets cost $15 for adults, $7 for children and $40 for a family (two adults and up to three children). For groups of 10 or more, tickets are $12 per person.

From the day the exhibition opens in October, tickets will also be available from the Gallery and the i-Site information centre in Cathedral Square.

Ron Mueck features 13 hyper-realistic sculptures of people ranging in age from birth through to old age.

Christchurch is the only venue in New Zealand to host the exhibition and this is also the first time Ron Mueck’s works have ever been shown in this country. The exhibition was very popular in Australia, with more than 300,000 people visiting it when it was hosted at the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne and at Brisbane’s Gallery of Modern Art.

Christchurch Art Gallery Director Jenny Harper says the Gallery is expecting large crowds to visit the exhibition so pre-purchasing tickets is a good idea.

She says preparations are now in full swing at the Gallery for the arrival of the sculptures.

The two major exhibitions currently showing at the Gallery – Taryn Simon: An American Index of the Hidden and Familiar and Andrew Drummond: Observation/Action/Reflection -will close this Sunday, 5 September.

The entire ground floor of the Gallery will then be transformed into a space that is suitable into a space that is suitable for the arrival of the Mueck sculptures. It is the first time the whole downstairs of the Gallery has been devoted to a single exhibition.

Ron Mueck will be at Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu from 2 October until 23 January 2011.
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