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Vie des arts
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Cosmos Volume 43, Number 175, Summer 1999
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BREAK NEW A complicity exists between the include the Sculpture Wall Kahane We now live in a world where created for Mount Allison University FRONTIERS two artists's separate,yet kindred, images of sub-atomic particles and productions, as they invest the in Sackville, N.B. in 1961, Song of galaxies - the infinitely small and MAPPING THE FORM medium of glass with both personal the Earth at Salle Wilfrid Pelletier, incredibly large - are part of our WORKS BY BRAD COPPING aesthetic and the stamp of nature. Place-des-Arts in Montreal (1963), everyday experience. Not visible to \f\ La Mer for the Canadian Embassy AND KEVIN LOCKAU, Dorota Kozinska the naked eye, these images create a Galerie Elena Lee in Islamabad. Pakistan (1972), and certain anxiety, for they are accessed 1428 Sherbrooke St. W. The Forest for the Great Lakes by instruments whose ingenuity Call ANNE KAHANE: DUALITIES Forest Research Centre in Sault Ste. surpasses our natural perception of (514) 844-60091 Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery Marie (1975). things. Cubism, Futurism, Vorticism till June 8 February 18 - March 20 Like Barbara Hepworth, Kahane's or even T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land In the 16* century, Italian arti During the Quiet Revolution in public art projects were quintessen- presented an altogether new frag sans woking with the famous Quebec, when abstraction dominated tially human, social and at odds with mented, discontinuous vision of the Murano glass forbidden un the avant garde, Anne Kahane was the concrete and steel 1% projects world yet ironically many 20* century der the pain of death to leave the working in a style that fused figura that now Utter our "planned" archi artists have sought to create the world island, so precious and guarded tion and social content. Her sculpture tectural landscape of Quebec and anew so as to manifest some inter- were the secrets of glass-making. has since been neglected by formalist Canada. More subtle, less generic, relatedness between all things. Born of fire, made out of and cast in historians immersed in avant garde Kahane's public projects were a Marshall McLuhan s Global Village sand, glass holds a fascination of a tautologies and values. Kahane's courageous effort to humanize the is now upon us, yet data quantifi artmaking process was simple. She pubhc and social context of art. Was cation and dissemination further assembled flat sections of steel or Kahane's sculpture from the 1950s distances and desensitizes us to our planks of wood and then carved and and 1960s less avant garde than that immediate environment at the same sometimes painted these assemblages of her contemporaries? One needs time as there is a convergence of cul to bring a certain warmth to social only to look at Paul-Emile Borduas' tures, information and knowledge. subjects. In Delegation (1957), tiny allegorical wood carvings from Why have so many artists sought to exhibited at the Venice Biennale in the same era to find a parallel almost embody notions of a "pure" universe 1958, heads, bodies and legs folk art language paralleling the at the same time as information sculpted out of a single block of dogmas of abstraction. compression continues to displace wood move forward in a collectivized direct experience? Kahane's Maquette for an Un mass. A sense that sculpture can play known Political Prisoner (1953) Kevin Lockau a role in heightening awareness of Coyote Trickster/Vermin made of copper tubing, plastic wood social and humanitarian concerns and bound together with wire is as very special group of artists. pervades this piece. Anne Kahane poignant a commentary on social commented on the work: "As it took The complicated process of cre and political injustice as could be a life of its own, I recognized it as a ating glass art involves patience and found anywhere in the 1950s, yet it delegation and proceeded to bring perseverance, as well as the accep achieves its effect without leaving this idea forth." The rough, untreated tance of the risk of an accident to the human subject behind. Exhibited texture of the wood, akin to Baselitz's which the fragile medium is prone at the Institute of Contemporary Arts recent neo-expressionist sculptures, at every step. in London, England, Anne Kahane's seen in Kahane's Broken Man 1 Two outstanding glass artists are Maquette, along with works by Reg (1965) is a paraphrase for social Georges Méliès now on display at Galerie Elena Lee, Butler, Lynn Chadwick and Barbara Six drawings "A Trip to the Moon injustice. One feels exterior forces (Square in the Eye)", 1902 in an exhibition that challenges our Hepworth won an award fromamon g pressing onto the exposed, abstract, Watercolor, ink on paper notion of the medium. Brad Copping 3500 submissions from 57 countries. Coll. Bibliothèque du film. wood. Cinémathèque française, Paris and Kevin Lockau belong to a group Seen within the current cultural of contemporary Canadian glass context, Anne Kahane's wood sculp Cosmos: From Romanticism artists, which also includes people tures still stand the test of time, and to the Avant-Garde, organized by a like Susan Edgerley, Dan Crichton, are better understood and appreci curatorial committee headed by and Jeff Goodman, connected with ated by the pubhc than the codified, Pierre Théberge, now Director of the Sheridan College in Oakville, Ont., conceptual commonplace obfusca- National Gallery of Canada and Jean where Halifax-born Lockau is an tions that typify the post-Modernist Clair, former Director of the Musée instructor. Veteran of numerous ex post-production aesthetic. A recent Picasso and Guy Cogeval, newly hibitions, he creates works imbued portfolio of six abstract, Matisse-tike appointed Director of the Montreal with an atavistic symmetry, sculptures polychrome woodblock prints by Museum of Fine Arts addresses many that seem to be inhabited by some Kahane titled Suite pour Benoit of these questions by sub-dividing primeval spirit. Combining glass with (1997), included in the Leonard & the art of the past two centuries into such materials as fur and tar, Lockau Bina Ellen Art Gallery show give us a seven themes: Nature and the Cosmos; has cast life-sized glass canines, glimpse of Kahane's current artistic The Promised Land; The Voyage to the eyeless and mute, but, nevertheless, production. Recontextualizing her Poles, Beyond Earth; The Moon; eerily lifelike. innovations with carved wood and Imaginary Cosmologies; The Foun A very different sensitivity is ex metal assemblage motifs, this show dations: The New Jerusalem and hibited by Brad Copping, one of the reaffirms Kahane's place as an atyp To Infinity and Back. An ambitious most promising young glass artists in ical innovator of the modernist epoch undertaking whose timeframe begins Canada, whom gallery owner, Elena in Quebec sculpture. Intuitive, playful in 1801, the assertion is that the Lee, calls "the next François Houdé." and inventive, Anne Kahane's art artist's search for meaning has been Like Lockau, Copping combines glass finds its form in the materials. Her affected by the very real frontiers of with other materials, in his case, aesthetic is social and humane. time, space and geography that hu wood, and he also draws his inspi mankind explored fromthe n till now. Summer White, 1953 John K. Grande Alongside paintings of the earth and ration from nature. Looking at Wood with paint, 96.5 x 53 x 18.5 cm National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa the heavens by artists as divergent
70 I VIE DES ARTS N°17S as Odillon Redon, Mark Tansey, OTTAWA DONIGAN CUMMING: John Martin and Piet Mondrian and BARBER MUSIC including rare vintage pho DAUMIER Canadian Museum of tographs from Daguerre to Ead- National Gallery of Canada Contemporary Photography weard Muybridge to NASA, Cosmos June 11 - September 6 May 21- September 19,1999 addresses the way we have mapped It's summer in the cities and The exhibition of photography, this earth, outer space, the constel people are on the move. They come documentary film, and sound mat is lations, the stars and the solar sys from as far as you can imagine. the work of Montreal artist, Donigan tem. Does this reaffirm a vision of Tourists are the people who give a Cumming, wiU chaUenge commonly an Earthly Paradise emphatically city a sense of its place in the world. held perceptions of the role pho bound up in our Judeo-Christian tra Those visiting Ottawa will be gratified tographs play in the communication ditions? Are we embarking on an to see the premiere exhibition of the of a factual depiction of the world. works of one of the world's more Donigan Cumming altogether new voyage of discovery Donigan Cumming has reinvented die The Stage (detail) as we enter the 21 ^ century? Some an influential artists at the National documentary genre exploring and Gelatin silver print swers to these questions may be pro Gallery. Honoré Daumier's work is exposing social issues such as aging, Coll. CMCP vided by looking at the art but one the centre of attention from June 11 illness and economic status. The The Stage (1990) from the CMCP thing is abundantly clear. While the until September 6. real, the invented, and the desired coUection. The Stage is comprised modus vivendi clearly enunciated for Although many may not suspect it, are combined in works that involve of 250 photos arranged in a tight Cosmos is that it "demonstrates how he was one of the 19lh century's more intimate close ups of the subjects grid on the wall and depicting sub great a source of inspiration the quesl prolific artists, with over 4,000 litho reveahng as much about the artist as jects linked by their shared socio for new frontiers and the exploration graphs, 300 paintings, 800 drawings his focus. economic status. The subjects are of space have been for artistic cre and nearly 1,000 woodcuts to his The nucleus of the exhibition is shown alternately laughing and gri ation over the past two centuries ", the name. His political cartoons were Barber's Music, an installation of macing in between documentary focus is strictly occidental and as such among the greatest ever published, photographs and video tapes. The "takes" while the absurdity of this riddled with interpretive and theoret a testament to his keen powers of real-Ufe basis of the work is the situ tableaux is further underscored by ical problems. The artist's sense of observation and sharp wit, though ation of a man, CoUn, whose recov an improvised recitation based on space is ultimately an interior one, both qualities led to his incarceration ery from alcohol and drug addiction Cecil. B. de Mille's epic film, the Ten an imaginary place and it reflects in 1831 for a questionable portrayal is documented in a tape, Erratic Commandments. many divergent cultural and theo of King Louis-Philippe. The case Angel ( 1998), running continuously. Cumming's work has been ex cratic worldviews. Many of the made Daumier an instant celebrity, The gallery space is conceived as hibited and collected throughout world's cultures - Aboriginal, and became an example of the pros exploding out of Colin's room, ab Canada, the US and Europe and is African, Innu, Mayan, Aztec, Asian - ecution of an artist by the state. sorbing the viewer in his predicament. regularly featured in film and video had very sophisticated views of the Spanning a career of fifty years, festivals around the world. Cosmos and inspired European and Accompanying Barber's Music, his work embodies a broad range of is an earlier work by Cumming, Franceska Gnarowski North American artists - yet we are subjects while giving the viewer an given no sense of other cultures en insider's look at the full spectrum visioned the cosmos in this show. of Parisian types of the 19* century. The art in Cosmos is ency Daumier was one of the first painters clopaedic in its breadth (Hans Arp, to document modern life as Uved by DeLeon White Gallery representing: Giacomo Balla, Albert Bierstadt, ordinary people: argumentative cou Ross Bleckner, Borduas, Brancusi, ples, cheats, lawyers, emancipated Carlos Aquirre Alexander Calder, Emily Carr, Frederic women, victims of war, the world of Doug Buis Daniel Corbeil Church, Giorgio de Chirico, Max Ernst, theatre and vaudeville. He depicted Aganetha Dyck Lorraine Gilbert Paterson Ewen, Francesco Goya, Ilya the human condition with irony and Kabakov, Elisha Kent Kane, Ansehn compassion and a finely tuned sense Akira Koinoto Jiri Ladocha Kiefer, Frantisek Kupka, El Lissitzky, of humour. Peter McFarlane Kasimir Malévich, Antoine Pevsner, This exhibition of over three Stephen Scott Patterson Robert Rauschenberg, Mark Rothko, hundred works is organized by the Arnold Shives Alan Sonfist Luigi Russolo, Gino Severini, Vladimir National GaUery of Canada in coUab Skoda, Bruno Taut, J. M. W. Turner, oration with the Réunion des Musées 3aul Walde Peter von Tiesenhausen Vincent Van Gogh and Joyce Wieland Nationaux/Musée d'Orsay, Paris and to name but a few), yet the thematic the Phillips CoUection, Washington, behind this show suggests a one-sided DC. view of artistic achievement over the Exhibitions: past two centuries. Cultural produc tion is perceived through the lens of Downtown June 19 - September 4, 1999 the conqueror, those who left behind Peter von Tiesenhausen & Doug Buis familiar territory to explore the New World, the Poles of the Earth, and Yorkville June 8 , 1999 David Gerstein: now outer space. As such, Cosmos raises questions about the future of art as much as about its past. July 8 - 31, 1999 Gallery artists Is this really a celebration of the Aug 5 - Sept 4, 1999 To be announced New Millennium and humanity's penchant for apperception through exploration or just a recreation of the Earthly Paradise theme seen through 455 King Street West 33 Prince Arthur Avei the lens of technos? It is not necessary Toronto, Ontario roronto, Ontario to sell art to the pubhc as a product Ca la M5V 1K4 Canada IVI5R 1 B2 of science, but theory always helps to tel: (416) 597-9466 tel: (416) 964-7838 transmit it's permanent cultural value! L'amateur d'estampes, 1899 lax: (416) 597-8466 fax: (416) 964-8868 Oil on Canvas, 41 x 33,5 cm John K. Grande Musée du Petit Palais, Paris : [email protected] • web: www.eco-art.coni/clcleon Photothèque Musées de la Ville de Paris
VIE DES ARTS N°17S I 71 1/1 TORONTO has found, unravelling the wool or -H» acrytic and re-knitting it all together i- into a single continuous and quite Euan Macdonald Same Streets, 1997 O WASTE beautiful piece of CRAFTWORK! MANAGEMENT Brooklyn-based Joe Scanlan uses the typical pro-forma IKEA booksheff as QJ Art Gallery of Ontario his preferred artist's material, namely April 7 - July n I_ those blank white chip-board and While pubhc interest in waste lacquer constructions one sees in the management may not be a hot is showroom one day and in the 1 sue, we generaUy are even less garbage the next. Scanlan s DIY aware of the art that refiects these ( 1998-99) is buUt the IKEA way and concerns. In an effort to improve with the same structural aplomb. Here is the ultimate generic coffin for its image as a sociaUy relevant in As Macdonald states: "Making Comprising 100 photos by both the typical no-name consumer! C stitution the Art Gallery of On images on a two-dimensional surface renowned and unknown Canadian tario is presenting a provocative David Shrigley's sensitive ink and with a defined perimeter is an easy photographers Them=L's celebrates look at post-industrial consumer coloured pencU drawings on paper way to isolate ideas and exclude the ethnic and cultural diversity of | society by Canadian and interna and photos are wry comments on aU everything else." the Canadian cultural mosaic by pre tional artists in a show that ad manner of issues associated with senting a vast array of atypical snap Euan Macdonald's new work re dresses contemporary issues of over- waste. In Untitled (Truth 100 mg) shot style photos. The many views of sembles city overviews, maps, and consumption, production and waste (1996-97), the target is the drug Canada's urban and rural cultural constructed or designed environ tided Waste Management. manufacturing industry. Words in landscape include photos by Yuri ments but they are far from generic. scribed child-Uke underneath a red Dojc, V. Tony Hauser and Andrew Christine Ritchie, AGO s assistant The way he uses light and space in a and blue coloured drawing of some Stawicki from the Toronto-based curator of contemporary art, suggests work is largely influenced by com drug capsule read: T gave her the Photosensitive coUective as weU as that "In a society based on excess and mercial advertising and the environ truth in capsule form and she still photographers Paul Wong, Gilbert superfluous consumption, waste ment the artist works in. management has become a public rit couldn't swaUow it. (she was v. up Duclos, Vincenzo Pietropaolo, and ual of moral redemption. The ways set)." Contributing artists Daniel Ol Macdonald considers his draw Reena Bose. Photo box instaUations these practices are refiected in the son, Michael Landy, Sandra Rechico ings to be investigations into the with blown up head-shot photo por things that artists are making now is and Tom Friedman include every "here" and "there" of city plans and traits of young and old Canadians on the focus of Waste Management '. thing from bubble gum to plastic shadows. Executed in a minimalist the outside and distant landscape style and reduced to one or two ele What a pity that so many Cana drinking straws but not the kitchen views within (visible through peep sink. This is the detritus we confine ments and colours, Macdonald's art holes) give one that invisible sense dian artists with a long track record reveals a fascination with the mod addressing precisely these issues are weekly to the garbage bag as evi of a place we know (usuaUy a tableau denced in KeUy Wood's Continuous ern-day urban space and environ of visual fragments and associa nowhere to be seen in the present ment. Whether painting, drawing, or show. One does not have to look far Garbage Project (1998-2003). Her tions) , one each of us carries within. photo series of her own garbage sculpting, artistic creation becomes Poetry and prose excerpts by Cana to find them. They include Doug Buis, a site for constructing meaning. Pam HaU, James Carl, Francine Lar neatly contained in the Man from dian writers Tomson Highway, Noel ivée, Kevin KeUy, Monique Crépault, Glad's favourite containable material Concurrent with the Toronto ex Audet, Timothy Findley, Joy Kogawa, and Lawrence Paul to name but a few is both witty, whimsical and makes its hibition, wiU be a show of Euan Mac- Marie-Claire Blais, Nino Ricci, Mar of the better known. Perhaps, as with point about waste in North America donald's recent drawings, and a garet Atwood and Anne Michaels ac the Generation X show of recent Na in an unemphaticaUy simple and suc sculpture-installation at the Four company the photo images. A quote tive art at the Museum of Civilization cinct way. These materials would have Walls Gallery in San Francisco, open by B. C. writer and poet Susan Mus- in HuU, the curators in Canadian in made Malévich cry! Do these art ing September 3, and at the Canadian grave reads: "Let's not invent any stitutions find il more convenient to works represent the ultimate demise Embassy in Tokyo, on September 26. more weapons. Let's grope in the fog simply by-pass artists who do not of the Constructivist aesthetic or are John K. Grande wearing coarse wool underwear in have the right politically correct they simply playing with the material stead. Let's be kind to one another recipe for making user-friendly art. In malapropisms of consumer abun and let's not write any more hate po this way no one will ever know, or dance and cultural poverty? The ob THEMsUS etry. Let's pretend we're in love with wiU they? jects and materials of everyday con one another. You go first." Another sumer life are to be found in their PHOTOGRAPHIC JOURNEYS ACROSS from Timothy Findley is more state That said, Waste Management is OUR CULTURAL BOUNDARIES post-consumer and consumed guise ment than interpretation: "Like trib- an interesting and surprisingly di in Waste Management. ROYAL ONTARIO MUSEUM verse art show inspired by both ends Feb. 27 - January 2000 Matter abounds. Life is long, art of the production and waste cycle. In Gilbert Duclos cluded is the witty and engaging Ot is short! Montreal, Québec tawa-based Germaine Koh's Knit John K. Grande work. Koh plays with the production process by recycling old sweaters she EUAN MACDONALD Robert Birch Gallery 241 King St. E. Opening September 1 To celebrate their 10th anniver sary, Toronto's Robert Birch GaUery wiU be presenting an exhibition of works by Canadian artist Euan Mac donald, who recendy moved his stu dio to San Francisco. The show wiU in clude a soft, malleable sculptural piece of an airplane, several paintings David Shrigley Untitled (RIP), J996-97 and a series of recent drawings in pen A W" Ink on black and white photograph and ink. 20 x 30 cm HtA
72 I VIE DES ARTS N°17S aUsm, fundamentalism, homophobia PUBLIC Also at Artcore: and all the other shaUow responses MUSEUMS NEW DRAWINGS BY EVE of one person to another, racism LEADER, PIPPA CHERNIAVSKY 81 concentrates on what you are and LEEMOUR PELLI. Art Gallery of Ontario ignores who you are." Somehow the June 26 - July 24 combination of text and catch aU 317 Dundas W. July 15 - September 12 PAINTINGS BY MICHAEL photos enhances the sense of diver Some of the most influential and ADAMSON AND AN INSTALLA sity this show seeks to express. TION BY MATTHEW VAREY. important masterworks from the Re Craig Olivers' photos are simple Robert Wiens July 31 - Aug. 28 naissance and Baroque periods wiU The Hand (1992) portrayals of a basebaU game on Baf be on view. "The Old Masters: Great Court. Susan Hobbs Gallery fin Island in Nunavut, of an Innu boy Renaissance and Baroque Paintings in baseball hal with a ceUular phone, from the Capitohne Museum, Rome" of migrant farm workers in Whitby, features works by Caravaggio, Dosso YORKVILLE Ontario seated in the back of a truck. Dossi, Guercino, Guido Reni and Ve Andrew Stawicki's photo of Sikh men lazquez. Many of these works have FROM THE STUDIO and women praying in a temple in never before been exhibited outside COLLABORATIVE PAINTINGS BY Vancouver provide a rare glimpse of of Rome and none have ever been DOUGAL GRAHAM AND SAWAN this little known world. George exhibited in Canada. YAWNGHWE Lorimer's photos are multicultural with a captial M: a Sikh policeman Artcore with turban, a Native woman with Art Gallery of North York 33 Hazelton Ave. Douglas Walker (MOCA) June 5 -June 25 Untitled. 1998 plumed headgear standing with two Oil on panel black youths. Snapshot vitality and 5040 Yonge St. Graham and Yawnghwe's coUab- 18 x 25 cm ephemeral effect pervade the images until July 4 orative paintings take their cue from in this show. In Barbara Davidson's The Art GaUery of North York is the contemporary culture in which cab driver series taken in Montreal, changing its name to the Museum of the artists are immersed. Images LAND TAKES the Taxi becomes a moving stage set. Contemporary Art. The GaUery will from fashion magazines, advertising, Edward Day Gallery A white-haired elderly woman pays be highlighting photographic and television and film are appropriated 253 Ontario St Kingston the cabbie, a long-haired profes photo-based work from its perma as familiar contemporary visual 33 Hazelton Ave Toronto sional looks dreamily out the win nent collection. Featured artists in markers, and presented in a new July 31 to August 29 dow, and immigrant women laugh at clude Mark Gomes, Christos way, combined with elements of ur Five contemporary Toronto the very notion that their ride down Dikeakos, John Massey, Micah Lex- ban culture or, increasingly, juxta artists exhibit their Takes or Land town is a subject worthy of being ier and Richard Kaplan. posed with subde references to his scapes: Stephen Andrews, Eshrat Er- photographed. Stan Behal's tongue- torically recognized paintings fanian, Katherine Harvey, Douglas in-cheek Punk with spiked and Justina M. Barnicke Gallery coUaborative paintings. Walker, Melanie Zanker. shaven head, his cheek being 7 Hart House Circle tweaked by a friend who is just out June 24 - July 22 of view, his kids kissing in a high "Hymn to the Sun: Jack Bush" school corridor, or with ice cream will highlight the years from 1946 to CAUTION: IMAGES CAPTIVATING cones in class, the image of Moslem 1953. This was a time of profound students in head-dress in an other psychological and spiritual struggle, wise banal and generic Canadian when Bush sought the help of classroom, aU have a genuine mag Dr. J. AUan Walters, a noted neurol INUIT EXPRESSIONS netic appeal. ogist and psychiatrist. In tight of pre Though Them=Vs definitely pre viously unreleased personal diaries, Maij 15 to October y, )?99 sents images that are culturaUy and letters to Clement Greenberg and ad geographicaUy diverse, one begins to ditional never-before-seen-paintings, find these cUchés of multi-culturalism watercolours and drawings, this ex Magnificent sculptures as predictable as they are media- hibition re-examines a critical period Superb drawings based, Uke Linda Rutenberg's photo in Jack Bush's career, which points » e of the young backpacker who by to his later development. Exciting events passes a GAP poster of a black woman The GaUery's programming con Artists-in-residence without noticing it, and one findsone tinues with selections from the He self looking to find something more len Band Collection of Native Art than stereotypes. The intention behind (July 29 to August 26) and with rogra much of this work is aU too self-con works from its permanent coUection Iodine for details scious and well intentioned to be truly (September 7 to October 3) interesting. Is this vision of multi-cul 1-905-893-1121, turalism proffered by Them=Us a PowerPlant ext. 403 - Open Daily truly social one or just médiane? And 231 Queen's Quay W. does Them=Us really encourage cul June 26 - September 6. tural diversity or merely objectify the The new director of the Power Chart» Kogvik 1964- 1996. 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VIE DES ARTS N°17S I 73 ALANWYLIE DOWNTOWN HEAVEN AND EARTH Gallery Gevik SCULPTURES AND PAINTINGS BY 12 Hazelton Ave. PRIVATE DRAWINGS SHOW GORDON BELL AND JANET MURRAY June 5 to July 2 Gallery artists BUS Gallery Doug Buis These latest, brilliantly coloured Bau-Xi Gallery July 8- 31 Biosquare, 1993 canvases earned the artist the Gold 340 Dundas Small furnished room, mechanisme, June 30 - July 17 maple seeds Medal at the 1998 Federation of 61 x 66 x 33 cm Canadian Artists Medal Exhibition. This exhibition, buUt upon last DOUG BUIS July and August features gaUery year's "Working Drawings Show", AND PETER VON TIESEN artists. features works that are private, in the sense of the subject being something HAUSEN mat the artists wouldn't normaUy ex DeLeon White Gallery hibit. 455 King W. and FORESTHILL 33, Prince Arthur Ave., Yorkville MONOPRINTS AND MONO June 12 - September 11 PETER BYRNE TYPES McNaughton's paintings grace New work by Buis and von Lonsdale Gallery July 21 to August 21 Bus's main gallery, while KELLY Tiesenhausen is offered in two solo 333 Lonsdale Rd. The focus is on coUaborations PALMER uses the HaUway and BRIAN shows at the downtown location of June 3 to June 26. between printmakers and non-print- LYALL the Salon. Sept. 2 - 25 the DeLeon White Gallery. Doug Buis The Lonsdale GaUery is focused making artists. offers kinetic sculptures while von on contemporary Canadian Art fea LesUe Pool and Shane West fin TRAVELLING LIGHT Tiesenhausen creates an instaUation turing exhibitions which encompass ish up the GaUery's summer pro (1886-1998) using paintings and sculptures. work in aU media including sculp gramming with an exhibition of Jane Corkin Gallery On September 18 the Gallery ture, painting, works on paper and paintings. 179 John St. opens a new exhibition by seminal contemporary photography. The Sept. 15 - Oct. 2, July 8 - September 11 mixed media artist, CARL BEAM. Lonsdale GaUery exhibits the work of Joseph Plaskett, new work. senior, estabUshed artists as weU as The Jane Corkin GaUery offers a showcasing the emerging artist. group exhibition highlighting pho Work by emerging artist, Peter tographs on the theme of trans Byrne, is on view this summer. portation. Artists on view include Bourdeau, Bourke-White, Doisneau, ALSO AT LONSDALE GALLERY: Feininger, Hine, Kertesz and StiegUtz. THE COLLECTIVE, A THREE- Articholes, Lilies, Look for their exhibition of PERSON EXHIBITION WHICH HIGH Bouquet and Bust an Artist, Serge Clement which opens on LIGHTS WORKS BY JOE FLEMING, oil on canvas, September 23. YECHEL GAGNON, AND JAY 40 x 34 inches WILSON.
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74 VIE DES ARTS N° 175 GALLERY borders, memory, invention and loss. There is also an examination of DISTRICT the links which remain between JOSEPH refugees, exiles and their home APPEL, DANBY, DEMARCHE, lands. Artists include Santiago Bose, ETROG, GAUCHER, GEDDEN, Brenda Fajardo, Paul Robles, M Lig- SHERMAN, TAPIES, TOWN aya Alcuitas, Mark Justiniani and Gallery Moos PLASKETT Melanie Liwanag Aguila. 622 Richmond St. W. Summer '99 This gaUery will be drawing upon GALLERY 44 its strong contingent of senior, inter "PROOF 6" nationally known artists. During the Summer '99 summer Gallery Moos wiU be ex The sixth annual exhibition of hibiting sculptures, paintings and work by photographic artists in the works on paper by artists such as early stages of their careers, this year Karel Appel, Ken Danby, Josue De features work by Shinobu Akimoto, marche, Sorel Etrog, Yves Gaucher, Terry Pidsadny, Andrew Wright and Dennis Gedden, Tony Scherman, An CamiUe Zakharia. toni Tapies and Harold Town.
YYZ ASTRONOMICAL AND SPACE EXPLORATION PICTURES This gaUery space offers viewers summer programming with a Ughter, Stephen Bulger Gallery more irreverant tone to it. "Joyriding 700 Queen W. in the land time forgot" is an instal June 12 - July 17 lation by KIT and runs at the centre Visitors to the Stephen Bulger until June 19. It is accompanied by Gallery will have an opportunity to a selection of videos exhibited under view the world as we know it on a the title "Si vous ne devez pas macro and a micro-cosmic scale. défendre quelque chose, vous vous "Astronomical and Space Explo laissez prendre à n'importe quoi!/ If ration Pictures" brings together pho you dont stand for something, you'U tographic works by Alan Bean, Loewy fall for anything!". The exhibition was and Puisseaux, David Malin and curated by Milada Kovacova and in NASA. A micro-version in photogra cludes videos by Eve-Lucie Bourque, phy of Cosmos. Patrice Duhamel, Nikki Forrest, Ro drigue Jean,and Yudi Sewraj. From June 26 to July 17, Tom of LIFELINES Finland exhibits a selection of draw Elizabeth Siegfried ings, whUe Maryrose Mendoza cre July 22 - August 31 ates a site-specific installation and a Artichokes, Lilies, Bouquet and Bust of an Artist, oil on canvas, 40 x 34 inches The photos in this exhibition ex sampling of Marlon Fuentes videos amine the cycle of Ufe, the passage are on view July 21 to August 14. of time,an d the search for peace and TORONTO meaning in one's Ufe. NEW PAINTINGS CAMBODIA, THE ANGKOR 80 SPADINA SEPT 15-OCT 2 SERIES Gallery TPW KENRO IZU June 10 - July 10 Tatar Alexander Gallery VANCOUVER Photos by Rose KaUal and Nor 173 King St. E. mand Rajotte, curated by Kathleen SELECTED NEW WORKS until July 6 Vaughan and Marsha Wineman. "Cambodia, The Angkor Series" SEPTEMBER highlights photographic work by Moore Gallery New York-based photographer Kenro lzu. In this exhibition Izu doc The Moore GaUery's mandate is ACCOMPANIED BY THE uments the ancient temples of to encourage the promotion and dis LAUNCH OF HIS Angkor Wat (Cambodia) along with tribution of master works - paintings, NEW BOOK OF MEMOIRS the forest which is slowly reclaiming works on paper and sculpture - by these edifices. contemporary Canadian artists. It A SPEAKING LIKENESS has focused on Canadian Art History, IN BOTH GALLERIES speciaUzing in the art created from 401 RICHMOND the "Les Automatistes" of Quebec to CALL FOR THE EXHIBITION CATALOGUE A SPACE the Painters Eleven of Ontario. AND EXACT DATES MIGRANTE: ARTISTS OF FILIPINO ROBERT HENDRICK "HERITAGE" June 5 - 26 June 26 - July 31 MILLY RISTVEDT This exhibition was developed July 3 - 24 from a larger project organized by MICHÈLE DROUIN Winnipeg's Plug In GaUery. Works September 11 - October 2 BAU-XI GALLERY exhibited address issues of history, Virginia MacDonnell Eichhorn TORONTO.3A0 Dundas Street West, TEL: (416) 977-0600 VANCOUVER: 3045 Granville Street, TEL: (604) 733-7011 IT A symptom of this reversed "Introductions," a group show at CALGARY course has been the proliferation of Newzones (July 17-August). 1 MORE AND MORE ostensibly "dumb ' and "cute" art ex Also in that exhibition are Suzan hibitions (for example: Damien Mop Dionne's (New York) strange Con OF LESS AND LESS pett and the "Bonus" artists from Van tagion Series mixed media works. Two years ago, artist Jennifer couver; the Art Lodge in Winnipeg; Derived from microscopic forms, Yasuo Terada OJ Dickson interviewed Diana Ne- Calgary's Jeff NachtigaU, Newzones these often bulging, nearly mono and Kenzan Terada Vase miroff, curator of contemporary Feb. 18-March 31), a revival of land chromatic abstractions on canvas Polychrome series art at the National GaUery of scape, and return to abstraction. capture the experience of looking ei 1991 Canada. Asked about her views On the cool and beautiful side of ther through a microscope or tele scope. They are sensual and creepy LT on printmaking and the GaUery's this shift into silence is the reawak policy on collecting, Nemiroff ening of minimahst abstraction. "Al at once. OriginaUy fromAlberta , now summed up our aesthetic era: most Monochrome,'' at Paul Kuhn's living in Montreal, Cameron Skene Glenbow has an exceUent policy "Since the seventies there has Gallery (Juty 10-Sept. 30) includes sets his paintings of unpopulated in of accompanying imported shows been a shift in our coUecting pol works by minimalists and stripists, dustrial buildings next to metal pan with comptimentary exhibitions from icy... Our coUecting is issue-dri many who have been at it for years: els. The steel echoes the subject in their coUection. Powerful Images is
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76 I VIE DES ARTS N°17S Chantal Rousseau The Canadian Disaster Series, 1999 oil on panel, s x 5cm
VANCOUVER CAMERON SKENE "STORIES" FACE TO FACE: Wittmann Lawrence Gallery FOUR CENTURIES OF PORTRAITS SYLVIA TAIT "SPLIT RUN" June 2-26 Vancouver Art Gallery 5- Bau-Xi Gallery In his previous series of sculp June 19 to September 26 o June 12 - 26 tures, Montreal artist Cameron The face teUs aU, refiecting the Skene explored the cultural value of soul in its infinite mystery and At firstsight , the new paintings of QJ senior Canadian artist Sylvia Tait CHANTALROUSSEAU industrial buildings, located glory. Exchange Ungering glances with kings, moguls and movie I_ evoke memories of Motherwell's "THE CANADIAN DISASTER throughout Vancouver, which have floating oval shapes and Rothko's SERIES" become surrounded and contextu- stars at this major exhibition of aUy-displaced by post-modern devel original art, tracing 400 years of color fields. With their pastiches of Third Avenue Gallery opments. the human image from Renais ovoids and stripes, and their strong, June 4 - 26 saturated hands of color, they pre In this new series, he creates sance paintings to 20th century Chantal Rousseau is an artist to sent themselves as conscious inher- views of the Habitat housing complex photography. watch carefully over the next few itants of such abstract legacies. A framed in fibreglass piUows that are Revelations of power, prestige cn years. With a 1994 diploma from closer study, however, reveals that made to look Uke lead. The para and privilege wUl emerge from the c Dawson CoUege in Montreal under their mandala-like symbols and soft dox of the weightlessness of the ma gUnt in the eyes, the tilt of the her belt, she has had three solo exhi QJ compartmentalized shapes are terial and the iUusion of heaviness head, or die sway of the back. bitions and participated in 18 group wrapped in protective layers, and paraUels Skene's themes of urban Each individual captured on canvas shows since graduating from the that die focus of Tait's work is actu chronology and change, as he cor or film reHects an era's perception of Emily Carr Institute in Vancouver in ally the play on the edges themselves: relates the 19th century quest for race, sexuality, culture, gender 1997- Sheer numbers alone do not hie borders of the dualities. modernization and industriaUzation through works of art by Franz Hals, account for her projected success. with a 20th century search for mean Titian, Cezanne, Her work is particularly strong Her oU paintings, on relatively smaU ing in that which is transient and dis Renoir, Degas, when her rhythmic geometries frac panels, are extremely provocative and posable. Warhol, Hockney, ture into ironic pictomaps, as in De- unforgettable. iHirtures and Arrivals. Then, while Throughout July, The Wittmann Picasso, Matisse, Rousseau has the technical capa the surfaces continue to remain weU- Lawrence GaUery is showing the pop Goya, Lucian Freud, bility and die imaginative capacity to seated on the two-dimensional ular contemporary folk art of Van Gaudier-Brzeska, puU off believable, life-like scenes plane, a teasing syncopation of stray couver sculptor Todd Spicer. Made Cindy Sherman, which are only too likely to happen in ing and clustering object/shape/ from durable wood and plexiglass, GUbert and George, real life. Whether portraying natural or forms swim freely by. In the banded and incorporating elements that en Yousuf Karsh, and human-made disasters, she captures in paintings, grooved cells of tone and courage viewer interaction, his Atget to name just a her paintings that transitional moment hue collapse like chimney bricks, pieces portray cool and irreverent very few. between imminence and outcome, of lending an animata not always found personas. fering a relendess series of emotional in more formal abstraction. charges rather than catharsis. Mia Johnson
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VIE DES ARTS It» 175 I 77 son and his team of carvers. Nonny Gulth/Giksan culture from Alert Bay, Dale Campbell Tahitian/Tlingit +•> ("grandmother" in Haida) came to B.C. She studied at the Kitanmaax The Woman who 1- VICTORIA see me at the carving shed. She said, School of Northwest Coast Indian Art. Married the Frog 'you have to make up your mind what Adopted into the Frog clan in Kit- o VISION KEEPERS: you're going to do carve or weave? If wanga, she also specialises in narra CAMPBELL, MORGAN, you're going to weave, come with me tive masks. POINT AND RORICK right now.' I put down what I was do Yvonne Owens i_ NORTHWEST-COAST CUL ing. I went with her and never looked TURE THROUGH THE EYES OF back." WOMEN ARTISTS. I'd say Nonny was right. Rorick Alcheringa Gallery, July L/1 has had work purchased by the 29-August 19 Massey Foundation (which has Since the mid-to-late seven ended up in the Canadian Museum ties there has been a tremen of Civilisation), as weU as many suc **f^ Jw dap mm RCA WEST June 11 - August 1 C dous resurgence of Native cessful shows, commissions and in ceremonial art and crafts terest among private coUectors. OJ production. Vision Keepers: Susan A. Point produces large- CampbeU, Morgan, Point and scale pubUc art in media which in IKEBANA july 9 - August 8 Rorick, focusses on four cludes glass, wood, stainless steel women artists from varied traditions and concrete. Her works are repre and cultural backgrounds who have sented in private and corporate col TO THE TOTEM FOREST August 6 - October 31 achieved a high degree of proficiency lections in over twenty countries Emily Carr & in their respective media. For the around the world. She addresses Her Contemporaries most part, they've studied traditional non-traditional issues through her methods with the elders and teach contemporary synthesis of tradi Interpret Coastal Villages ers who've served as stewards of tional Coast Salish art. (1900-1950) these ancient art forms and prac "I still incorporate my ancestral tices. Isabel Rorick lived her first design elements into my work to twenty-five years in her ancestral vil keep it uniquely Satish," explains the MOSS STREET July 17 lage of Old Masset on Haida Gwaii. artist. " Sometimes 1 address issues Weaving has been refined and Paint-in of gender conditioning as well as so handed down by the women of her cial and economic conditions." family for generations. Tahitian/riingit traditions (Wolf Like her mother before her, Ror clan) are represented by Dale Camp ick studied with her grandmother, beU, who has produced totem poles, Sehna Peratrovich, traveUing to visit masks and traditional designs for her in Ketchikan, Alaska. Similarly, touring exhibitions, as weU as for Art Gallery of each year she travels to Haida Gwaii pubUc and civic art instaUations. She Greater Victoria to collect traditional weaving materi has work in private coUections in Eu als such as spruce roots, making cer rope, North America and Japan, and 1040 Moss Street tain they are harvested ethically and also works in stiver engraving. For Victoria, BC Canada V8V 4P1 with high spiritual and aesthetic con- this show she has created a resplen % dent narrative mask called, The Phone: 250.384.4101 Tt takes discipline to be a good Woman Who Married the Frog. Fax: 250.361.3995 weaver," says Rorick. "Right from the Valerie Morgan, the fourth artist www.aggv.bc.ca beginning when you dig the roots, in this exhibition, is of the Kwa- you can't just rip them out of the ground, you have to follow them carefully because they cross one an other in different directions. If you 510 Fori Street, Vlclorla, BC, U8W 1E6 just rip them out of the ground, you voice 250.383.8833 tax 250.383.8841 damage a lot of other roots, and that [email protected] shows disrespect for the tree... When www.openspace.ca you're done digging an area, it's im portant that the moss and earth is put back in place the best you can. It shows respect to the trees. It is also important to thank the trees for the lune 1999 roots. Some people think it's funny Merrejj Eve Gerber, Margaret lawther, Tessa Windt - before one's very eyes to do that, but the trees are living monograph with text bv Pali Tozer things, and they have spirits too..." Rorick also makes ceremonial, July/August 1999 or, work-style haLs, a skill she learned To Remain al a Distance - Vancouuer island & Gull islands group exhibition from her mother. There are many dif monograph wiin text by Don Gill ferent types of Haida hats, for differ ent purposes, ranging from very September1999 elaborate headdresses to practical protection from the elements. AntiMatter - Film & Video Festival ol Independent Productions Weaving wasn't always the only artistic choice for Rorick. "I decided I'd like to get back into carving, so I was making tools with Robert David-
78 I VIE DES ARTS ND17S BRITAIN, THE MILLENIUM DESTINATION
MARKING THE MILLENIUM WITH CULTURAL PROJECTS AND NEW ATTRACTIONS, IN A RENAISSANCE SET TO TRANSFORM TO
ITS CULTURAL LANDSCAPE, BRITAIN IS BUILDING VISITOR ATTRACTIONS AND ENVIRONMENTAL INFRASTRUCTURE ON A SCALE
NOT WITNESSED SINCE VICTORIAN TIMES.
and new, is being built upon the orig ARTS, CULTURAL GLASGOW 1999 QJ inal Bankside Power Station and AND HERITAGE linked to St. Paul's by the MiUenium U K MILLENIUM ATTRACTIONS Pedestrian Bridge (the first new CITY OF ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN Several innovative museums bridge in Central London for more In the heart of the city, are set to open for the millenium. than 100 years), and is scheduled The Lighthouse, Scotland's The addition of the Dean Gallery, a to open in June 2000. Taking its Centre for Architecture and refurbished building originally de place amongst the great modern Design, opens in June 1999 signed as an orphanage in 1833, art museums, it will concentrate on with two main exhibition has doubled the size of the Museum international art since 1900, enabling gaUeries. ReaUsed by convert of Modern Art in Edinburgh, while the Tate's Millbank site to become ing an 1893 pubhc building Dundee Contemporary Arts has The National Gallery of British Art by the reknowned architect opened an entirely new state of the since 1500, and display most of its Rennie Macintosh, the mu art gallery and University of Dundee collection. seum explores architecture Visual Research Centre in spring and design in engaging and 1999. chaUenging ways. Tours are both physical and virtual, utilising the Lighthouse's com mittment to new technology. The Lighthouse has estabUshed links with simiUar institutions The Lighthouse: Perspective, Glasgow such as the Canadian Centre for Architecure in Montreal. Vertigo: The strange new world Other Glasgow 1999 exhibitions of the contemporary city, looks at include: Mies Van der Rohe at the ten of the most significant building BurreU Collection; Alvar Aalto at Sargent to Freud, Modern projects in the world reveaUng the the GaUery of Modern Art, and Frank British Paintings in the Beaver changing nature of the city including: Lloyd Wright at Kelvin Grove Museum. brook Collection, organized by the the conversion of Bankside Power Beaverbrook Gallery, Fredricton, is Station into the new Tate Museum of at Canada House Gallery, Trafalgar Modern Art, London; BerUn 1999; Square, September through October Dean Gallery, Museum of Modern Art, Hong Kong: Chek Lap Kok airport; and at Graves Art GaUery, Sheffield, Edinburgh Lake Las Vegas Resort; GUu Housing, December 15 through January 2000. Japan; Shanghai World Financial "At Bristol" is a landmark project The exhibition concludes its tour at Centre; The Millenium Dome; to create a cultural quarter in the the London Regional Art & Historical Landschaftpark, Duisberg-Nord; and heart of Bristol including a refur Museums, London, Ontario from Ontario Mills Centre, CaUfornia. At bished Arnolfini Museum of Modern March 15 through April 2000. A the Fruitmarket; a 208 pp. catalogue Glasgow, Scotland Art in 2000. In Northumbria, the catalogue in English and French, available from the British Library: Gallery of Modern Art Baltic Flour Mills at Gateshead outside (220 pp. with essays by Richard ISBN 185669 1535. Newcastle is being converted into Shone, keeper of the coUection dur The GaUery of Modern Art, one a contemporary visual art centre. A ing some thirty years, and Ian G. Heisenberg is a coUaboration be of Glasgow's newest artistic spaces, new waterfront complex in Salford Lumsden) gives an overview of British tween Matt Baker and Dan Dubowitz began life in 1778 as Cunninghame will include a gallery devoted to Painting in the 20th century and Lord that combines architecture photo Mansion, home to one of Glasgow's lh the 20 century artist L. S. Lowry. Beaverbrook's patronage of Modern imagery and sculpture focusing on wealthy Tobacco Lords. In 1827 it be The Tate GaUery of Modern Art, British artists. ISBN 0-920674-44-5, wastelands, developing debate about came The Royal Exchange, Glasgow's in a remarkable combination of old The Beaverbrook Art GaUery, 1998. redevelopment appropriate to the la buisness centre, then Stirling's Library tent character of the sHe.Journeymen in the 20lh century. is a four phase project that culmi As we approach the year 2000, it nates at the end of 2000 reflecting on appears Britain is enjoying a special the evolution of Scottish cities at the mood of optimism and expectation. turn of the millenium. Michael J. Molter
Acknowledgement: The British Council and Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs
Vertigo: Millenium Dome. Greenwich, England Tate Gallery of Modern Art, London, England Bodyzone for New Millenium Exp.Co.
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