Daniel Olson
dal 13/12/2000 al 14/1/2001
Segnalato da
Gordon Hatt, Cambridge Galleries
13/12/2000
Daniel Olson
Cambridge Galleries Queen's Square, Cambridge
Daniel Olson: Small World, will included a large selection of the artist's multiples and book works and will feature the premiere of Small World, a slow-motion, dual screen video projection. The exhibition will be accompanied by an illustrated catalogue, designed by Lewis Nicholson and featuring an essay by composer, musician and essayist Martin Arnold and an interview with the artist by Christina Ritchie, assistant curator of contemporary art the Art Gallery of Ontario.
Small World.
The Cambridge Galleries are pleased to present a solo exhibition of the work of Daniel Olson. Daniel Olson: Small World, will included a large selection of the artist's multiples and book works and will feature the premiere of Small World, a slow-motion, dual screen video projection.
The exhibition will be accompanied by an illustrated catalogue, designed by Lewis Nicholson and featuring an essay by composer, musician and essayist Martin Arnold and an interview with the artist by Christina Ritchie, assistant curator of contemporary art the Art Gallery of Ontario.
In addition to the Cambridge exhibition, the catalogue covers exhibitions of Daniel Olson's work at the Southern Alberta Art Gallery in Lethbridge, Alberta (January 22 - March 5, 2000) and at the Owens Art Gallery in Sackville, New Brunswick (March 16 - April 19, 2001).
Daniel Olson was born in Los Angeles in 1955. He attended high school and post-secondary education in Nova Scotia where he completed university degrees in mathematics, architecture and visual arts. Olson studied visual arts at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design and completed a Master of Fine Arts in Visual Arts at York University in Toronto, where he currently lives and works.
Daniel Olson produces installations that incorporate audio and video elements; multiples, often in the form of interactive objects (sound toys for example), book works, and performances, mostly incorporating sound elements, not always musical, in impromptu public situations or in a gallery context. He also produces independent audio works, some of which are the sound elements from performances and installations.
The variety of Olson's work can be bewildering. He states that: "I'm happy to work in response to anything that happens to intrigue, annoy or perplex me - even if it is at the expense of an apparently unified body of work. Olson's work is often characterized by its intimate scale. His cannibalized and reconstructed toys are to be held in the hand and played with. They can be charmingly melancholic - pathetic machines that play sad little tunes - or they can they can be wickedly fun.
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