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Spring/Summer 2011 Winnipeg Art Gallery my Spring/Summer 2011 Winnipeg Art Gallery Infoline 204.789.1760 Switchboard 204.786.6641 Art Classes 204.789.1766 Clara Lander Library 204.786.6641 ext 237 Guided Adult Group Tours 204.789.0516 School Tours 204.789.1762 en français 204.789.1763 Membership 204.789.1764 Gallery Shop 204.789.1769 Inside Facility Rentals 204.789.1765 Catered Events 204.948.0087 3 Director’s Message Storm Restaurant 204.948.0085 4 New Exhibitions Hours Gallery Tues–Sun 11am–5pm, Thur 11am–9pm, 4 Bestial Encounters • April 1–June 12 Closed Mon 5 Erika Lincoln: The Singing Condition • April 1–June 12 6 Through the Eyes of a Child • April 2–May 1 Art Rental and Sales Tues–Sat 11am–5pm 7 Annuraat: Inuit Clothing in Art • April 16–October 9 8 William Brymner: Artist, Teacher, Colleague • May 14–August 21 Clara Lander Library Tues, Wed, Fri 11am–4:30pm • Thur 9 Quilt of Belonging • May 20–August 20 11am–8:30pm • Closed Sat, Sun, and Mon, 10 Carl Beam • July 2–September 11 other times by appointment only 11 Traveling Exhibitions Gallery Shop Tues–Sat 11am–5pm, Thur 11am–9pm, Sun 12pm–5pm 12 Continuing Exhibitions 12 The Collection on View • André Kertész: Shadow Marks • February 12–September 10 Storm Restaurant & Catering Tues–Sun 11am–2:30pm, Closed Mon Nunavik North of 60° • until April 3 13 Eva Stubbs: The Rough Ideal • until March 20 Admission Close Encounters: The Next 500 Years • until May 15 WAG member Free • Adult $9 • Senior (60+) $7 • Student $7 • Child Free (5 and under) • 14 Upcoming Exhibitions Family $22 (up to 2 adults and 4 children under 18) 15 Art Educator’s Pick Membership 16 Programming and Events Individual $50 • Senior (60+) $40 • Student $40 • Senior couple (1 person must be a 16 Youth Programs senior) $60 • Family (up to 2 adults and 4 18 Studio Programs children under 18) $75 • Out-of-town (within 19 Adult Programs 50 kilometres of the Perimeter Highway) $40 21 Volunteer Associates Parking Parkade across from the Gallery, meters on surrounding streets. Wheelchair 24 Support accessible. myWAG is published by the WAG. Continuing Exhibitions © 2010 Winnipeg Art Gallery. Printed The Collection on View • Ongoing in Canada. Manager, Communications European Renaissance and Baroque Art, 1500–1700 and Marketing: Debra Fehr • Editor: Heather Inuit Sculpture from the Collection Mousseau • Design: Kiery Drysdale • Modernist Traditions, 1870–1950 Photography: Ernest Mayer (unless otherwise The Academic Tradition in Europe and Canada, 1700–1900 noted) Membership benefit symbol • Look for this symbol, indicating programs and events Note: Exhibition and programming dates and which offer a benefit or discount to WAG members. content are subject to change. Please visit Kids programming symbol • Look for this symbol, indicating programs for children. wag.ca for the most up-to-date information. Director’s Message the country, has been going strong and Carl Beam, which marks another for 75 years, and literally thousands partnership with the National Gallery of children and adults have taken an of Canada. art class at the WAG, many of whom And The Collection on View is have gone on to become practicing always waiting for you, including artists. With our world-renowned a new André Kertész exhibition. The Inuit art collection, which makes up annual Through the Eyes of a Child the largest part of our permanent exhibition in April features the collection (close to 11,000 objects), artwork of hundreds of kids enrolled we’ve organized more exhibitions in our Studio programs, and it’s and published more books on Inuit always a crowd favourite. We are art than any museum in the world. also pleased to be bringing Quilt of Our collection of European Old Belonging to Winnipeg in May. This Master paintings is the finest west of impressive tapestry, 120 feet long Toronto, and our Canadian collection and 10 feet high, represents the 263 is one of the country’s best. You can nations that make up the cultural find hundreds of works on display in fabric of Canada. It has been seen by our six permanent collection galleries over one million people across (galleries 1 to 4, Mezzanine and MRA Canada—from the Canadian Museum gallery)—just another reason why of Civilization to the Winter Olympics this is your WAG. to Rankin Inlet, Nunavut Territory. For the summer ahead look up And now it’s time for Winnipeggers to our Rooftop Club—a special and all our visitors to see this summer membership that gives you national collaborative art project at entrée onto Winnipeg’s most famous the WAG. rooftop space for lots of great On the national front, we are programs. Get your balance back sending the WAG collection on the This spring we are launching a and tap into your imagination and road with a slate of five traveling myWAG campaign, and the message creative sensibilities with your exhibitions covering a lot of cultural is clear—the WAG belongs to you, Rooftop Club membership. In the territory and artmaking: Canada on so come and enjoy it! Whether WAG Studio, we are offering full day, Canvas, Richard Harrington: Arctic you’re walking through our doors week-long summer camp programs Photographer, The Winnipeg to see an exhibition or film, attend for kids in July and August, giving Alphabestiary, Nunavik: North of 60°, a jazz concert or studio class, have you another opportunity to invest in and Kiugak Ashoona: Stories and lunch in the penthouse restaurant, quality programming and fun. There Imaginings from Cape Dorset. Several take a permanent collection tour, is something for everyone at the venues are already booked, which listen to a lecture, or just to relax WAG with lots of room for families. will see the WAG’s permanent in our beautiful spaces inside and As we move into a four-month collection travel coast to coast. Your outside—the WAG is here for you. printing schedule with our new WAG—myWAG—take notice, take And we have some experience to myWAG magazine, mark your advantage, and be proud of what we back this up. As Canada’s oldest civic calendars for some great exhibitions have to offer in our fair city! art museum and the country’s sixth coming your way between April and largest, the WAG has been presenting August: Bestial Encounters, Erika art, programs, and events for almost Lincoln: The Singing Condition, one hundred years. Our art studio Annuraat: Inuit Clothing in Art, William Stephen Borys program alone, one of the largest in Brymner: Artist, Teacher, Colleague, 03 Bestial Encounters April 1–June 12 • Galleries 7 and 8 a shared language. In 2010 the WAG was fortunate to have had Curated by Mary Reid the opportunity to acquire The As children our first introduction Winnipeg Alphabestiary, a special to the alphabet is generally twinned project conceived and executed with animals. “D is for dog” or “H is by international arts publication for horse” become ingrained at an Border Crossings to mark its 25th early age through the alphabestiary, anniversary. The artists selected an age-old genre of children’s books. were 26 exceptional creators who These memory tricks help us learn call Winnipeg home, whether they the cornerstone of language. Yet currently live in the city or not. The paradoxically what separates us end result is a unique collection of from truly understanding animals is paintings and drawings of animals the ability to communicate through (real, imagined, and truly inventive) where their eyes and body language by some of Winnipeg’s leading offer a complicated tale of longing, contemporary artists. pleading, and resignation. Highlighted against this distinct Displayed alongside these two acquisition is another exceptional interconnected collections of works are donation of works featuring animals a number of other pieces drawn from whose form of communication is much the WAG’s permanent collection that different. For over 15 years acclaimed deal with concepts of communication, photographer Volker Seding visited language, animals, and collecting. zoos around the world capturing poignant and disturbing images of Free Public Opening exotic animals in captivity. The result Thur, March 31, 7–10pm was a compelling portfolio of 58 Exhibition Tour images. Under the title Captive, this Wed, May 4, 12:10pm • with Curator series displays a collection of living Mary Reid. creatures in a harsh and unflinching light. Although these animals cannot speak, Seding captures moments TOP LEFT Simon Hughes. Ice Swan, Natural Habitat (from The Winnipeg Alphabestiary), 2005. Watercolour on paper. Collection of the Winnipeg Art Gallery. Acquired with funds from Michael F.B. Nesbitt and the Estate of Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Naylor, funds administered by The Winnipeg Foundation Inc. 2010-53 TOP RIGHT Shaun Morin. Zebra, (from The Winnipeg Alphabestiary), 2005. Oil on canvas. Collection of the Winnipeg Art Gallery. Acquired with funds from Michael F.B. Nesbitt and the Estate of Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Naylor; funds administered by The Winnipeg Foundation Inc. 2010-48 BOTTOM LEFT Volker Seding. Kudu, Heidelberg, Germany (from the series Captive), 1989. Chromogenic print on paper, 6/50. Collection of the Winnipeg Art Gallery, Gift of the Estate of Volker Seding. 2009-350 BOTTOM RIGHT Volker Seding. Black Rhinoceros, Zurich (from the series Captive), 1992. Chromogenic print on paper, 2/50. Collection of the Winnipeg Art Gallery. Gift of the Estate of Volker Seding. 2009-338 04 erika lincoln the singing condition April 1–June 12 • Gallery 9 everyday “normal” existence of birds. This research has culminated in four Curated by Mary Reid new works which are premiered here Car horns. Mobile phone rings. at the WAG. Traffic crossing signals. The tweets The two central pieces are and chirps of urban birds sound Singing Condition I & II.
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