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Everyman and Visionary – William Kurelek: The Messenger
Celebrate at our Summer Season Opening Friday May 25 @ 8pm!
On view: May 25 - September 3, 2012
The Art Gallery of Greater Victoria will showcase the work of a renowned Canadian painter and visionary this summer with the new exhibition, William Kurelek: The Messenger. As the largest survey of Kurelek’s work ever mounted and the first in almost 30 years, the exhibition includes loans from galleries and private collections across Canada, as well as Great Britain and the United States. This exhibition drew record attendances at the two other venues, the Winnipeg Art Gallery and the Art Gallery of Hamilton. An exclusive run, Victoria is the last opportunity to see William Kurelek: The Messenger before it is disbanded.
"...this exhibition is an eye-opener, revealing Kurelek’s deeper intentions that go well beyond nostalgia,” AGGV Chief Curator Mary Jo Hughes states. “We have brought together 80 of Kurelek’s most important paintings, including many works people will have never seen.”
Read the Press Release |or| visit the exhibition home page.
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Landscape Revisited:
Become Immersed in the Magical Hour of Twilight at the AGGV
Rick Leong: The Phenomenology of Dusk
May 18 – August 6, 2012 in The LAB Gallery
“In keeping with Chinese landscape tradition these scenes are more than mere representations of nature. They are at once tangible and ethereal in their articulation of the psychological experience of dusk,” said AGGV Associate Curator Nicole Stanbridge.
Artist Rick Leong explains, “The examination of this place and state within time is manifested through the depiction of the different phenomena that occur in the landscape during twilight. Each phenomenon is explored and interpreted via the psyche, blurring the line between the phenomenology of nature and the nature of being.”
Read the Press Release |or| visit the exhibition home page.
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AGGV Director Awarded Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Medal
Wednesday, April 25, 2012
The Art Gallery of Greater Victoria is pleased to announce that Director Jon Tupper will receive the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Medal at a ceremony in Ottawa later today. Awarded by the Governor General of Canada through the Canadian Museums Association, Tupper is receiving the medal in recognition of his exceptional contributions to Canadian culture and heritage.
Spectacular Chinese Silks Showcased at AGGV
Silk Splendour: Textiles of Late Imperial China (1644-1911)
May 4 - September 23
The garments featured in Silk Splendour, offer a glimpse into the pomp and ceremony of Manchu court life and the lives of the Chinese aristocracy during the Qing dynasty,” said AGGV Asian Art curator Barry Till. A highlight of Silk Splendour is an informal robe once worn by the Last Empress of China, Empress Wan Rong (1906-46), who married the Last Emperor in 1922 at the age of 17. Empress Wan Rong was famously immortalized by actress Joan Chen in the movie The Last Emperor.
Read the Press Release |or| visit the exhibition home page.
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AGGV’s Audain Fellowship Looks at Contemporary Aboriginal Art in Fresh Ways
December 13, 2011
The Art Gallery of Greater Victoria has awarded its first Audain Aboriginal Curatorial
Fellowship to B.C. artists and researchers France Trépanier and Chris Creighton-Kelly.
Their project, Here Now : Here Before, will look at the history of both Aboriginal artists and
artists of colour on Vancouver Island and the Gulf Islands. This research will explore the
influence of these histories on contemporary artists.
Read the press release >> Disponible en francais ici.
Sisters of St. Ann Transfer Art Legacy to AGGV
Thursday Dec 1, 2011
The Sisters of St. Ann and the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria are working together to ensure the Sisters’ legacy as pioneering artists and art educators, begun in Victoria in 1858, continues into the future.
Eighteen paintings from the Sisters’ art collection are being transferred to the AGGV. The works include important historic scenes of early Victoria, inspiring religious works, and Emily Carr’s painting, Wild Lilies, which is currently on display in the AGGV’s feature exhibition Emily Carr: On the Edge of Nowhere. Carr gave the painting to the Sisters of St. Ann in appreciation for the care they provided to her sister Elizabeth, who died in 1936.
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