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EXHIBITION VIDEOTANK # 11 – GARY HILL OPENING RECEPTION FROM 5PM TO 7PM ON APRIL 15TH, 2015
Sherbrooke, April 7, 2015 – From April 15 until July 4th, 2015, the Foreman Art Gallery presents its tenth video work in the Videotank exhibition series, Videograms by Gary Hill, created in 1980-81. Structured like a series of Haiku poems, Videograms investigates the connections between vision, audio, language and changing forms of technology. Each “videogram” relates literally or conceptually to Hill’s accompanying spoken text, which is visually translated into abstract shapes. Hill diffuses the boundary between learned vocabulary and innate sensory response, allowing the viewer to produce their own Gary Hill, Videograms, 1980-81, Courtesy of / Avec la courtoisie de textual narratives. Electronic Arts Intermix, New York
The video art series Videotank shows the work of high-calibre Canadian and international artists in a dedicated space inside the Foreman Art Gallery.
About the artist Born in 1951 in Santa Monica, California, Gary Hill’s artistic practice is characterized by a broad range of media including sound, installation, video, performance and sculpture since the early 1970s. His multimedia work investigates notions such as the physicality of language, mysteries of perception, viewer participation and synesthesia, otherwise known as a blending of the senses. Hill studied at the Art Students League in Woodstock, New York, and independently under the painter Bruce Dorfman. Exhibitions of the artist’s work have been presented internationally at museums and institutions such as Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Paris; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Guggenheim Museum SoHo, New York; Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Basel; Museu d’Art Contemporani, Barcelona; and Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, among others. Hill has also participated in various group exhibitions including Déjà, at the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal (2011) and The Cinema Effect: Illusion, Reality, and the Moving Image, Part I: Dreams at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C. (2008). He has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Rockefeller and Guggenheim Foundations, and has been the recipient of numerous awards and honours, most notably the Leone d’Oro Prize for Sculpture at the Venice Biennale (1995), the Kurt-Schwitters-Preis (2000), and honorary doctorates from The Academy of Fine Arts Poznan, Poland (2005) and Cornish College of the Arts, Seattle, WA (2011).
Free Entrance: Tuesday to Saturday, from 12 noon to 5:00 pm and all evenings of presentation at Centennial Theatre.
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Photographs available on request.
Source and information: Foreman Art Gallery of Bishop’s University Karine Di Genova, Director/Curator 2600, College St., Sherbrooke 819.822.9600, extension 2687 819.822.9600, extension 2260 [email protected] www.foreman.ubishops.ca
The Foreman Art Gallery of Bishop’s University is grateful for the support of the Canada Council for the Art and the City of Sherbrooke as well as its sponsor, the McAuslan Brewery.