Dianne Bos
dal 7/1/2011 al 26/2/2011
Segnalato da
7/1/2011
Dianne Bos
Cambridge Galleries Queen's Square, Cambridge
Reading Room. The artist has been collecting books, including old titles from Cambridge Libraries, and turning them into pinhole cameras. By carving into the body of the pages, the books become camera objects capable of capturing imagery between their covers. The exhibition includes a number of installations and video projection.
curator Iga Janik
Dianne Bos has been working in photography using pinhole cameras in innovative and unpredictable ways. Her motivation in using long exposures is to capture a passage of time, and memory of a place, rather than the instance of a moment.
For her solo exhibition Reading Room at Cambridge Galleries, Bos has been collecting books, including old titles from Cambridge Libraries, and turning them into pinhole cameras. By carving into the body of the pages, the books become camera objects capable of capturing imagery between their covers. The photographs taken with the book-cameras relate to the original subject of the books used. The exhibition includes a number of installations, video projection documenting individual pages of a book as it is transformed into a camera, and a series of book-cameras as objects along with the images taken with them.
In conjunction with the exhibition Dianne Bos will deliver a talk on the history and wonder of the camera obscura using the artworks as examples of photography that is quite literally a drawing with light. Used as a drawing device in the past, this simple technology has had an impact on art since the renaissance and it continues to influence Bos’ photographs and installations.
The artist would like to thank the Alberta Foundation for the Arts for their support of this exhibition. Cambridge Galleries are supported by the membership, the City of Cambridge, the Canada Council for the Arts, and the Ontario Arts Council.
ARTIST BIOGRAPHY:
Dianne Bos was born in Hamilton, Ontario and received her B.F.A. from Mount Allison University in Sackville, New Brunswick. Her photographs have been exhibited internationally in numerous group and solo exhibitions since 1981 that also feature handmade cameras, walk-in light installations, and sound pieces. Combining old and new photography technologies Bos’ work explores the history of photography and the science of light using pinhole cameras, camera obscura installations and sound works.
Recent important national exhibitions of her work include: Light Echo, an innovative installation at the McMaster Museum of Art, in collaboration with Astronomer Doug Welch, which linked celestial and earthly history; and It's You!: Unexpected Photographs from Papua New Guinea, at the Confederation Centre of the Arts, Art Gallery, PEI.
Bos is represented by Jennifer Kostuik Gallery (Vancouver); Edward Day Gallery (Toronto); NewZones (Calgary), Colins, Lefebvre & Stoneberger (Montreal); Davis/ Waldron Gallery (Atlanta, Georgia).
ARTIST WEBSITE: www.diannebos.com
MEDIA CONTACT:
Katrina Jennifer Bedford jbedford@cambridgegalleries.ca 519.621.0460 ext. 119
A publication will accompany the exhibition
Image: Dianne Bos, Petit Larouse Peintre Modern. 2003, Chromogenic print. Courtesy of the artist.
Opening Reception: Saturday, January 8 at 2:30 pm
The Artist will be in attendance
Free Artist Talk: Sunday, January 9 at 2:30pm
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