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Otherworld Uprising features full colour reproductions of Boyle’s series of porcelain figurines, examines the influence of her research into historical porcelain on her drawings, and considers the parallel development of her latest oil portraits. The book also features critical essays by the Curator of Contemporary Art at the National Gallery of Canada, Josée(...)
Shary Boyle: Otherworld uprising
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Otherworld Uprising features full colour reproductions of Boyle’s series of porcelain figurines, examines the influence of her research into historical porcelain on her drawings, and considers the parallel development of her latest oil portraits. The book also features critical essays by the Curator of Contemporary Art at the National Gallery of Canada, Josée Drouin-Brisebois, and Sheila Heti with an introduction by Ben Portis, an Assistant Curator of Contemporary Art at the Art Gallery of Ontario.
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April 2008
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Sandra Meigs: strange loop
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A catalogue of Carleton University Art Gallery's exhibition of paintings of architectural interiors by Victoria painter Sandra Meigs. Rendered in grey-scale and complex linear perspective, the paintings are based on studies of 19th-century mansions in Newport, Rhode Island. The essay analyzes Meigs’s work in relation to Gaston Bachelard’s theories on the psychological(...)
Sandra Meigs: strange loop
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A catalogue of Carleton University Art Gallery's exhibition of paintings of architectural interiors by Victoria painter Sandra Meigs. Rendered in grey-scale and complex linear perspective, the paintings are based on studies of 19th-century mansions in Newport, Rhode Island. The essay analyzes Meigs’s work in relation to Gaston Bachelard’s theories on the psychological meanings of the house.
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Catalogue of the exhibition at the Art gallery of greater Victoria, Victoria, British-Columbia on november 2006-marsh 2007.
September 2009
Fantastic frameworks: architectural utopias + designs for life
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Catalogue of the exhibition at the Art gallery of greater Victoria, Victoria, British-Columbia on november 2006-marsh 2007.
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Canada is a country whose national narrative is difficult to define, even for Canadians. This question is further complicated when looking at emerging artists who have grown up under intense globalization. In Canada, specific identities are difficult to pinpoint and, when they are, they are often portrayed as problematic stereotypes bound up in a colonialist history. (...)
Alternorthern: an exhibition of nine emerging Canadian artists
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Canada is a country whose national narrative is difficult to define, even for Canadians. This question is further complicated when looking at emerging artists who have grown up under intense globalization. In Canada, specific identities are difficult to pinpoint and, when they are, they are often portrayed as problematic stereotypes bound up in a colonialist history. “Alternorthern” was conceived in the tension that exists between nationalism, globalization, and individualism: the exhibition is a product of both cultural values and cultural hybridism. The nine artists in this exhibition function similarly in that they use their own identities to make gestures that transgress time and space. Each artist in the exhibition is Canadian, yet each creates work that speaks to issues pertinent to both Canadian and global geographic and political landscapes. The exhibition will open during the 2010 Olympics, when many of the stereotypes, symbols, themes, and political workings of Canada will be disseminated into the U.S. media. As Canada is in the throes of presenting its tourist identity on the international stage, this exhibition can function as a way of transgressing this identity. Thus, the curators see this exhibition not as a response to the event of the Olympics but as an opportunity to subvert and play with cultural dialogue that will exist during this time.
Live rightly, die, die...
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Au cours des vingt dernières années, la circulation transnationale de l'information culturelle a connu une croissance notable à travers diverses formes de l'activité artistique. Cette activité a vu le jour simultanément à l'apparition des modèles néolibéraux de commerce mondial et la création de systèmes d'échanges économiques et culturels interreliés. Cette circulation(...)
Live rightly, die, die...
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Au cours des vingt dernières années, la circulation transnationale de l'information culturelle a connu une croissance notable à travers diverses formes de l'activité artistique. Cette activité a vu le jour simultanément à l'apparition des modèles néolibéraux de commerce mondial et la création de systèmes d'échanges économiques et culturels interreliés. Cette circulation et ses rapports possibles avec les structures économiques et culturelles de la mondialisation souvlèvent des questions fondamentales au sujet des modèles sur lesquels se fondent ces activités artistiques et sur le statut de l'information dès qu'elle est présentée dans de nouveaux lieux culturels. Les artistes prennent-ils maintenant part à une nouvelle forme professionnalisée de tourisme artistique et d'ethnographie amateur? Et quels sont les liens entre tourisme, cueillette et réception de l'information et l'exotique en art contemporain?
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Featuring the work of six international artists, this publication examines a recurring facet of contemporary artistic production: material excess, accumulation, bravado, asymmetry, and theatricality. The impact of such art is decidedly visual and primeval, with artists creating powerfully immersive environments aimed at enticing, challenging and even unsettling viewers.(...)
Misled by nature: contemporary art and the Baroque
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Featuring the work of six international artists, this publication examines a recurring facet of contemporary artistic production: material excess, accumulation, bravado, asymmetry, and theatricality. The impact of such art is decidedly visual and primeval, with artists creating powerfully immersive environments aimed at enticing, challenging and even unsettling viewers. Three essays discuss ornamentation, hybridity, material sensibilities, transformation and the sublime in contemporary art practice. With works by David Altmejd, Lee Bul, Bharti Kher, Tricia Middleton, Yinka Shonibare MBE, and Sarah Sze. Catalogue accompanying an exhibition organized by the National Gallery of Canada and the Art Gallery of Alberta, in collaboration with the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art.
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Escape Plan - Xavier Mayhem
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This book was intended for lost designers or for any other form of employed workforce. If you still believe the old adage “time is money,” then you might also think that this text is not for you. But let yourself go, for a moment. In this book, look for what you need. Office workers and Officers are therefore invited to read.
Escape Plan - Xavier Mayhem
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This book was intended for lost designers or for any other form of employed workforce. If you still believe the old adage “time is money,” then you might also think that this text is not for you. But let yourself go, for a moment. In this book, look for what you need. Office workers and Officers are therefore invited to read.
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Drawn from the artist’s archive of 30 plus years of drawing, sketches, and concept plans, this publication is conceived as an installation and artist book project. Each of the hund reds of working drawings is executed on standard 8.5-by-11-inch paper, vertical in format, and identically mounted in thin white frames. The book documents a fascinating history, not only of(...)
Micah Lexier : working as a drawing (vol.1, 1980 to 2012, letter-size, vertical)
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Drawn from the artist’s archive of 30 plus years of drawing, sketches, and concept plans, this publication is conceived as an installation and artist book project. Each of the hund reds of working drawings is executed on standard 8.5-by-11-inch paper, vertical in format, and identically mounted in thin white frames. The book documents a fascinating history, not only of Lexier’s career, but also of the evolution of an aesthetic closely linked to conceptualism.
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Sous la thématique « De la faillibilité et de l’échec », les expériences vécues au parc sans nom et les projets mis de l'avant par DARE-DARE sont revisités, faisant valoir l'approche «en laboratoire» du centre d'artistes. Théoriciens, artistes et membres de DARE-DARE font part de leurs réflexions sur les infiltrations d’un organisme d’art actuel dans une structure(...)
Dis/location 2, projet d'articulation urbaine : le parc sans nom
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Sous la thématique « De la faillibilité et de l’échec », les expériences vécues au parc sans nom et les projets mis de l'avant par DARE-DARE sont revisités, faisant valoir l'approche «en laboratoire» du centre d'artistes. Théoriciens, artistes et membres de DARE-DARE font part de leurs réflexions sur les infiltrations d’un organisme d’art actuel dans une structure telle que la Ville de Montréal, ainsi que des échos des pratiques spatiales dans des contextes urbains singuliers ailleurs dans le monde.
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“In The Hunting Field is a collection of encounters that uses the figure of the hunter-trapper as a figurative and literal approach for looking at contemporary understandings of animal, nature, and environment in an ecological age where entities collide at scales massively distributed in space and time.” The figure of the hunter-trapper is used to draw attention to a(...)
Jamie L Ferguson : In the hunting field
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“In The Hunting Field is a collection of encounters that uses the figure of the hunter-trapper as a figurative and literal approach for looking at contemporary understandings of animal, nature, and environment in an ecological age where entities collide at scales massively distributed in space and time.” The figure of the hunter-trapper is used to draw attention to a significant intertwining with the biological world that shapes bodies and technology. It is not meant as an exhaustive signifier for a linear history but instead as an opportunity to survey encounters that shape these understandings and so inform our place in the world. Perhaps a reinterpretation of environmental aesthetics can provide openings for alternate shapes of future encounters…
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