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21/1/2014

Four exhibitions

Ryerson Image Centre RIC, Toronto

The Ryerson Image Centre (RIC) marks its 2014 winter season with the opening of four exhibitions: Robert Burley: The Disappearance of Darkness, Phil Bergerson: Emblems and Remnants of the American Dream, Pierre Tremblay - Black Star Subject: Canada and Elisa Julia Gilmour: Something in Someone's Eye. Through the use of documentary photography and film, each exhibition examines a transforming cultural landscape. The public opening reception takes place tomorrow evening, January 22, 2014, 6–8 pm.



ROBERT BURLEY: THE DISAPPEARANCE OF DARKNESS
January 22 – April 13, 2014
Curated by Dr. Gaëlle Morel
Main Gallery

The exhibition Robert Burley: The Disappearance of Darkness examines both the dramatic and historical demise of film-manufacturing facilities and industrial darkrooms. The photographs taken between 2005 and 2010 speak to sites and events related to the key corporations (Kodak, Agfa, Ilford). As an artist working in photography for the past thirty years, Burley has been both an observer and a participant in this radical transition. This exhibition addresses the emergence of a new technology, which irrevocably changed photography, as well as the abrupt and rapid breakdown of a century old industry, which embodied the medium’s material culture.

Robert Burley is associate professor at the School of Image Arts, Ryerson University.

The exhibition was on view at the National Gallery of Canada (October 18, 2013 – January 5, 2014), the Musée Nicéphore Niépce (October 12, 2013 – January 12, 2014) and will travel to the George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film (October 2014 – January 2015).

This exhibition is made possible through the generous support of the Canada Council for the Arts

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PHIL BERGERSON
EMBLEMS AND REMNANTS OF THE AMERICAN DREAM
January 22 – April 13, 2014
Guest Curated by David Harris
University Gallery

Since 1995, Canadian photographer Phil Bergerson has made dozens of extended road-trips, criss-crossing the United States in search of the ‘American Dream’. Drawing upon the social landscape tradition, Bergerson found his material amid the melancholic detritus of the contemporary city: in modest store window displays, hand-painted murals, graffiti, and crudely-made signs. Here is a chaotic urban topography, one fuelled by unmoored dreams, raw desires, commercial fantasies, rampant patriotism, religious fervour, and a smouldering violence. The sumptuous colour photographs elicit a sense of both wonderment and disquiet, and ultimately a yearning for order, for meaning.

Bergerson’s second book, American Artifacts (Black Dog Publishing) will be launched during the exhibition.

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PIERRE TREMBLAY
BLACK STAR SUBJECT: CANADA
January 22 – April 13, 2014
Guest Curated by Don Snyder
Salah J. Bachir New Media Wall

This is a safe country, the photographs seem to say: spacious, open and welcoming, rich in resources, its people industrious and friendly.

This image of Canada served many purposes, particularly during the long years of the Cold War, when photographers affiliated with the Black Star Photo Agency made many of the photographs that defined this image and carried it outward to the world.

Pierre Tremblay – Black Star Subject: Canada displays every one of the 1853 photographs filed under this heading in the Black Star Collection at Ryerson University: images of agriculture, mining, and industry; of every province and all major cities; images of Prime Ministers from Mackenzie King to John Turner; images of a nation undergoing unprecedented growth, defining itself in an era that led inevitably to globalization.

Selected by Don Snyder and displayed on the Ryerson Image Centre Salah J. Bachir New Media Wall, these images will be on public view in their entirety for the first time in the history of the Black Star Collection, and will form a visual counterpoint to the concurrent exhibitions by Robert Burley (Main Gallery) and Philip Bergerson (University Gallery).

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FROM THE ARCHIVE
January 22 – April 13, 2014
Great Hall

From the Archive is a series in which special guests are invited to select photographs from the RIC Collection to be displayed in vitrines located in the Great Hall. For this installment in the series, objects from the Kodak Canada Corporate Archives and Heritage Collection have been selected by Dr. Mohamed Lachemi (Provost and Vice-President, Academic of Ryerson University).

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ELISA JULIA GILMOUR
SOMETHING IN SOMEONE'S EYE
January 22 – March 2, 2014
Student Gallery

Something In Someone’s Eye (2012) is a series of four cinematic portraits alternating between subtle movement and photographic stillness.

The installation is composed of one 16mm film looping continuously, and three vinyl reproductions of the remaining filmstrips. By working with these two distinct modes of presentation — the 16mm film requires the viewer to remain still and the filmstrips entail a physical movement across the space — the installation accentuates the spatiality and materiality of time passing.

With the use of the now-discontinued colour reversal Kodak Ektachrome film stock as source material, the transient nature of celluloid film mirrors the ephemeral nature of the sitter's gaze. Through the progressive destruction of the film as it continues to play, the work brings life to a material and a subject matter that will inevitably disappear with time.

Image: Phil Bergerson, Martinsville, Indiana, 2006, inkjet colour print from colour negative © Phil Bergerson. Image courtesy the artist

Press contact:
Antoine Bourges T +416 979 5000 x7032 abourges@ryerson.ca

Opening reception on January 22, 2014, 6–8pm

The Ryerson Image Centre (RIC)
33 Gould Street Toronto, Ontario Canada
Hours:
Tue, thu, fri: 11 - 6PM
Wed: 11 - 8PM
sat and sun: 12 - 5PM
MONDAY CLOSED
Admission is free

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