LAB 7.0: inFORM | deFORM | reFORM, Marcia Huyer

As if emerging from the white walls of the gallery, Marcia Huyer’s giant, inflatable Tyvek sculptures conjure both organic and architectural forms. Huyer reinterprets familiar existing objects through the scale and form. The result is no longer definable but is somehow quizzically recognizable. Huyer, a recent MFA graduate from the University of Victoria, has exhibited…

Rodin & His Contemporaries Works from the Collection of the National Gallery of Canada

Presented by: Odlum Brown Limited.

Curated by Helen Delacretaz, Curator of Decorative and Fine Arts, Winnipeg Art Gallery

Auguste Rodin achieved great success and acclaim during his lifetime. He was a prominent figure within the art circles of Paris, the major art centre of the early decades of the 20th century. His friendships and relationships with his…

Rodin: A Magnificent Obsession

Sculpture from the Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Foundation

Organized and made possible by the Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Foundation This acclaimed exhibition demonstrates the intensely expressive work of the French sculptor Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), who, at the peak of his career, was considered the greatest sculptor since Michelangelo and is now acknowledged as the ‘father of modern sculpture.

Featuring his most famous and…

Persian Steel: The Tanavoli Collection

This fascinating collection of steel objects, dating from the 16th to the early 20th century, tells a compelling story about life in the Middle East during this period. Objects made of steel were associated with every aspect of traditional Persian life, from war and hunting, through to religious life, the marketplace and the domestic environment….

Lab 6.5: The Fortress of History, Ian Birse & Laura Kavanaugh

For their LAB project, Ian Birse and Laura Kavanagh collaborate in discovering what is underfoot. Walking the streets of Victoria, they documented the discovery of discarded objects, photographing them on-site as well and recording a sonic snapshot of sounds at each location. In the process, the artists present performances for accidental audiences.

Kavanagh and Birse state,…

LAB 6.4: The Vegetarians, Yvette Poorter

In the LAB 6.4, Yvette Poorter re-contextualizes historical works of art from the Gallery?s permanent collection?including landscape paintings, still life, and animal figurines?with her own photographs to create an installation in the manner of an 19th century salon exhibition. Invoking sociological study with an erotic twist, Poorter posits the grain-fed, free-range, handsome, healthy, urban vegetarian…

Misshapen Pearl: The Baroque Era

Curated by Patricia Kidd, Stephen Topfer & Tamara Schweeder

Initially used as a derogatory term by art critics the word baroque is the French translation of the Portuguese word borrocco, meaning misshapen pearl. It was not long, however, before Baroque became synonymous with the darkly shadowed, richly coloured and evocative works of the time following the…

Baroque Masterworks from the National Gallery of Canada

The Art Gallery will be hosting an exhibition of 12 precious Baroque masterwork paintings from the permanent collection of the National Gallery of Canada by the likes of Peter Paul Rubens, Rembrandt van Rijn, and Nicholas Poussin. Baroque Masterworks from the National Gallery of Canada features Italian, French, Spanish, Dutch and Flemish paintings dating from…

Peculiar Culture: The Contemporary Baroque

Curated by Lisa Baldissera

Peculiar Culture explores contemporary expressions of the Baroque through the works of Victoria-based artist Luanne Martineau and British artists Jake and Dinos Chapman.

Like the Baroque artists, they combine beauty, perversity, humour and horror to engage the audience with their elaborate executions. Luanne Martineau addresses social realism, racism and conceits of high modernism….