Articles
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The Living Beings of Sound
“I’m very interested in space but there are two different types of space in music. One is the real space where the instruments are playing. The other side involves natural spaces, which you perceive if you hear different types of sounds within the orchestra; I compose for these virtual spaces, too.”
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The Many Faces of Suzy Lake
In the case of Suzy Lake, contemporary art history has had to go back in time to recognize her present achievement. From the beginning she was interested in the places where pictorial formats crossed over into one another.
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Somewhere Between Berlin and Bogota
The Forbidden Room, 2014 - directed by Guy Maddin and Evan Johnson
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The Matter of Art
“Still Life” is the kind of exhibition that makes you realize why art matters. Every one of the artists Gillies has chosen has been made better through the making of their art, just as we are in looking at it.
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Soft Transformations
Nelson is a subtle transformer; she takes flat subjects and turns them into objects of compelling wit and humour.
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Making Senses
“We liked the idea of working with water as an analogue means of registering a sound as a visual thing. All sound is some form of vibration.”
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Embodied Confusions
To properly appreciate Jen Aitken’s sculptures, you have to walk around them, get down low to see into their interior spaces, and look closely at the places where one material shifts into another.
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Painting Places Painting: Dagmar Dahle and Chris Kline
The Montreal based painter, Chris Kline, has mentioned his attraction, his listening to the Jacob van Ruisdael painting The Linen Bleaching Grounds Near Haarlem, 1670. In this landscape painting, the rectangular fields or grounds are shown from a distant viewpoint, with their hundreds of rectangles of whitening fabric spread out on the earth in grids, under tumultuous cloudy skies. This concern with fabric and textiles is a theme we see unfolding in the works of the painters Chris Kline and Dagmar Dahle.
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Itinerary of a Traveller through Darkness
Over the last 10 years, Golland has executed what are arguably some of the most restless paintings being made today. Profoundly nomadic in their mien, with contents splayed out like warped architectures gone awry, they extrude upon us like rude kinetic tropes of the built world.
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For the Time Being: Blue Republic’s Vanishing Acts
The two-person art collective who show as Blue Republic are partners in life as well as making. Married couple Anna Passakas and Radoslaw Kudlinski have been creating a wide range of provocative, beautiful and genre-breaking work for years.
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The Grand Synthesizer
Bordered by tangled vegetation, the scene is full of the natural energy and cultural incident that compel Smith’s eye, although he insists that he is giving up representational painting. He repeats that intention three times, like a mantra, and then indicates a crowd of recently completed canvasses, leaning against the far wall.
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Iconographer of the Local
David Thauberger has an appetite for making, collecting and looking at art that mirrors the prairie space in which he lives; it’s wide-ranging and moves, unimpeded, in all directions. He is visually omnivorous, a disposition that was planted and grew in the layered art historical soil of Saskatchewan, his home province.
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