Manufactured Landscapes
dal 23/1/2004 al 4/4/2004
Segnalato da
23/1/2004
Manufactured Landscapes
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
Over the past twenty-five years, the Canadian photographer has been an explorer of unfamiliar places. Burtynsky's compelling colour photographs capture the industrial activity that has reshaped the surface of the land and reveal an unexpected beauty.
The Photographs of Edward Burtynsky
This mid-career retrospective brings together approximately 60 compelling photographs. Burtynsky's large-format camera images, scaled to impressive colour prints, reflect upon the unorthodox beauty of manmade environments - quarries, mines, tailing ponds, refineries, recycling plants, and dismantled oil tankers on the beaches of Chittagong, Bangladesh.
Organized and circulated by the National Gallery of Canada.
Over the past twenty-five years, the Canadian photographer Edward Burtynsky has been an explorer of unfamiliar places. Burtynsky's compelling colour photographs capture the industrial activity that has reshaped the surface of the land and reveal an unexpected beauty.
Events
Manufactured Landscapes: Edward Burtynsky
Wednesday, February 4, 7 – 8:30 pm
Lectures and Symposia
Manufactured Landscapes: Edward Burtynsky
Wednesday, February 4, 7 – 8:30 pm
Members $10/public $12
Nature transformed through industry is a predominant theme in Edward Burtynsky’s work. Join the artist to discuss the course he sets to intersect with a contemporary view of the great ages of man - from stone, to minerals, to oil transportation, to silicon. His images of recycling yards, mines, tailings, quarries and refineries, rich in detail and scale yet open in their meaning, function as a reflecting pool of our times.
Image:
Edward Burtynsky, (Canadian, b.1955)
Nickel Tailings #31, Sudbury, Ontario, 1996.
Dye-coupler print.
Collection National Gallery of Canada.
© 2003 Edward Burtynsky.
Art Gallery of Ontario
317 Dundas Street West
Toronto, Ontario
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