Universal Nations
UNIVERSAL NATIONS Dina Torrans Canadian Sculpture Centre April 11 - May 3, 2013 Essay by Mark Lipton The Canadian Sculpture Centre Opening: Saturday, April 13, 11am - 4pm 500 Church Street, Toronto Music by Gordon Hyland & Sam McLellan Adventures on Earth April 11 – May 3, 2013 Remarks by Richard McNeill Catalogue Essay by Mark Lipton Sculptor, Vice President - SSC, Co-Director - CSC “Adventures on Earth” is a series of thirteen Many of these works were painted outside the intricate three-dimensional works on paper. studio, on location in India, Mexico, and Canada. Here, Torrans’ delicately engages in acts of This environment clearly influences the landscape bricolage, playing with the meaning of found and geospatial quality of this collection, capturing objects. Torn maps and sheet music, raw moments in time, and introducing us to Torrans’ The aim of the Sculptors Society of Canada Her previous solo show “Mapping Infinity” elements like bronze, copper, and stone, and focus of attention. For Torrans, each work is a (SSC) is to promote and exhibit contemporary revealed how extensive travels in Europe, India, an assortment of other mixed media such as poem open to multiple to interpretations. Yet acts Canadian sculpture. Founded by Canadian the Far East, and South Pacific broadened and feathers and children’s toys are transported of interpolation, where Torrans’ focus attunes the sculptors Frances Loring, Florence Wyle, influenced her work tremendously. In this past to Torrans’ world in ways that sculpt strong viewer to her understanding of Nature – real and Elizabeth Wyn Wood, Emanuel Hahn, Henri work, as in her current collections, Torrans evokes narratives.
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