Two exhibitions
dal 4/2/2011 al 30/4/2011
Segnalato da
4/2/2011
Two exhibitions
MacKenzie Art Gallery, Regina
"The Shadow of Mao": in his series of realist portraits and allegories, Huang Zhong Yang presents an intimate but disconcerting image of China's former leader. "Time" feature 3 works of Sylvia Safdie from the permanent collection: a painting and two videos. This exhibitions are parts of the events accompanying the international symposium "Shift: dialogues of migration in contemporary art".
Huang Zhong Yang
The Shadow of Mao
An intimate, but disconcerting image of China’s former leader, Chairman Mao Zedong, is revealed in this exhibition of paintings by Regina artist Huang Zhong Yang. In a remarkable series of realist portraits and allegories, Yang comes to terms with the long shadow cast by Mao across the lives of his family and the people of China.
Complementing these paintings will be a series of portraits featuring Yang’s family, both here and in China, as well as self-portraits set in his Regina studio. The portraits show the cultured, middle-class world from which Yang was wrenched during the Cultural Revolution, and his life in Canada, which he sees as a haven of peace and freedom. These paintings, along with a selection of the sketches which he created while working as a farm labourer, testify to the complex cross-cultural influences which shaped his upbringing in China, and which continue to be at play in his Canadian experience.
As such, this exhibition will be a welcome addition to the series of events accompanying the international symposium SHIFT: dialogues of migration in contemporary art which the MacKenzie will be hosting from April 8 to 10, 2011.
http://www.mackenzieartgallery.ca/News/282/
Timothy Long, Head Curator
Organized by the MacKenzie Art Gallery with the support of the Canada Council for the Arts, the Saskatchewan Arts Board and the City of Regina Arts Advisory Committee.
Reception and Artist Walkthrough: Thursday, April 7 at 7:30 pm
Guest Lecture with Gail Chin, Associate Professor at the University of Regina, exploring the historical and cultural impact of Chairman Mao Zedong’s reign and the work of artist Zhong-Yang Huang, 7:30 pm, Free
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February 5 to April 21, 2011
Sylvia Safdie
Time
This exhibition will feature three works from the permanent collection: a painting which was acquired by the MacKenzie in 1998, and two videos recently donated by the artist. The painting, Earth Marks, Series II, No. 6 is the result of Safdie's manipulation of linseed oil and earth on mylar, and emphasizes Safdie's continuing fascination with the human figure and her search for the self. The video works use a slow, analytical approach that exposes the audience to the beauty and intricacy of the organic, everyday world. Gulls (2002) highlights every moment of a seagull's flight across the screen, whereas Walter Leaves (2002) captures a fleeting moment when moving leaves are projected onto a 97-year-old man's face through a glass window.
Safdie's nationally and internationally recognized work seeks to uncover universal dialogues between people and their environment. These dialogues offer in return a method of meditation with which an individual can discover connections beyond their existence in the contemporary world to the primordial elements of life.
Lydia Miliokas, Curatorial Research Assistant
Image: Huang Zhong Yang, Who Decides Who Rises and Falls?, 2010, oil on canvas, 61 x 91.4 cm. Courtesy of the artist.
For more information or to arrange interviews, please contact Leah Brodie, Communications, at (306) 584-4273 or mackenzie.communications@uregina.ca
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