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A Space for Removed Monuments
Mario Gooden on memorials, monuments, and purgatory. Photographs by Giulia Spadafora
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A Social Reset
Cornelia Hahn Oberlander: Ecological Landscapes demonstrates Oberlanders pioneering vision of socially conscious and environmentally sustainable landscape design in Canada. The exhibition presents a selection of projects executed in Ottawa, Toronto, Vancouver, Yellowknife, and Berlin over a period of more than 30 years. Drawings and writings from the CCA’s Oberlander(...)
Octagonal gallery
11 May 2006 to 30 July 2006
Cornelia Hahn Oberlander: Ecological Landscapes
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Cornelia Hahn Oberlander: Ecological Landscapes demonstrates Oberlanders pioneering vision of socially conscious and environmentally sustainable landscape design in Canada. The exhibition presents a selection of projects executed in Ottawa, Toronto, Vancouver, Yellowknife, and Berlin over a period of more than 30 years. Drawings and writings from the CCA’s Oberlander(...)
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British conceptual artist Victor Burgin has been influential both as an artist and as a theorist of the still and moving image. Commissioned by the CCA, Voyage to Italy comprises two series of black and white photographs and an evocative video that engage the timeless beauty and lasting resonance of a nineteenth-century Carlo Fratacci photograph of Pompeii in the CCA(...)
Octagonal gallery
7 December 2006 to 25 March 2007
Victor Burgin: Voyage to Italy
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British conceptual artist Victor Burgin has been influential both as an artist and as a theorist of the still and moving image. Commissioned by the CCA, Voyage to Italy comprises two series of black and white photographs and an evocative video that engage the timeless beauty and lasting resonance of a nineteenth-century Carlo Fratacci photograph of Pompeii in the CCA(...)
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German artist Dieter Appelt presents a major work commissioned by the CCA and inspired by the late nineteenth-century Forth Rail Bridge near Edinburgh, Scotland. Dieter Appelt: Forth Bridge — Cinema. Metric Space is the second of four exhibitions in the Tangent series, which brings contemporary artists into dialogue with the CCA Collection and results in newly(...)
Octagonal gallery
9 March 2005 to 22 May 2005
Dieter Appelt: Forth Bridge - Cinema. Metric Space
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German artist Dieter Appelt presents a major work commissioned by the CCA and inspired by the late nineteenth-century Forth Rail Bridge near Edinburgh, Scotland. Dieter Appelt: Forth Bridge — Cinema. Metric Space is the second of four exhibitions in the Tangent series, which brings contemporary artists into dialogue with the CCA Collection and results in newly(...)
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Lexical Holes
20th century, A W-Hole House, Boston Road Floor Hole, Bronx Floors, Datum Cut, film, Frances Richard, Gordon Matta-Clark, photographie, photography, Quadrille, Rooftop Atrium, Splitting, Threshole, XXe siècle
12 December 2019
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Scopic Regimes of Oil
Scopic Regimes of Oil
Sanaz Sohrabi on visuality and authority in the British Petroleum photo archive
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Acts of Looking
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The Surface of Things
22 January 2024
The Surface of Things
Annette Kelm on photographic copies and uncovering histories below the surface of images
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A Social Reset
Traumnovelle, Lucas Foglia, Catching Up With Life, 30-year-old retiree, A Section of Now
11 April 2022
A Space for a 30-Year-Old Retiree
Traumnovelle narrates a transition to solitary life. Photographs by Lucas Foglia.
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PH1976:0064
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- The inscription identifying the subject of this photograph as the Satsuma residence in Edo (now Tokyo) is probably incorrect, although the Satsuma residence is similar in appearance to the Hosokawa barracks. The Satsuma residence is depicted in photograph PH1981:0620:009, also by Beato, which is reproduced in Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography (p. 18, fig. 2).
architecture, military
between 1863 and 1868
View of barracks at the daimyo residence of the Hosokawa clan, Edo (now Tokyo), Japan
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PH1976:0064
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- The inscription identifying the subject of this photograph as the Satsuma residence in Edo (now Tokyo) is probably incorrect, although the Satsuma residence is similar in appearance to the Hosokawa barracks. The Satsuma residence is depicted in photograph PH1981:0620:009, also by Beato, which is reproduced in Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography (p. 18, fig. 2).
architecture, military
The exhibition Jai Tech: ÁbalosHerreros selected by Juan José Castellón examines the way the tower typology manifests distinct, strategic approaches in the architecture of ÁbalosHerreros, a firm that operated in Madrid from 1984 until 2008. Objects presented include site plans, photomontages, models, floor plans, and photographs. The exhibition also features a selection(...)
Octagonal gallery
24 May 2015 to 12 July 2015
Jai Tech: Ábalos&Herreros selected by Juan José Castellón
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The exhibition Jai Tech: ÁbalosHerreros selected by Juan José Castellón examines the way the tower typology manifests distinct, strategic approaches in the architecture of ÁbalosHerreros, a firm that operated in Madrid from 1984 until 2008. Objects presented include site plans, photomontages, models, floor plans, and photographs. The exhibition also features a selection(...)
Octagonal gallery