Jonathan Shaughnessy, Ann Thomas, Christine Lalonde, Andrea Kunard, Heather Anderson

Builders: Canadian Biennial 2012

Arts & Photography

Anderson, Heather

Thomas, Ann

Shaughnessy, Jonathan

Kunard, Andrea

Lalonde, Christopher

Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions

Natl Gallery of Canada

Featuring the work of six Canadian artists, this publication examines a recurring facet of contemporary artistic production: material excess, accumulation, bravado, asymmetry, and theatricality. The impact of such art is decidedly visual and primeval, with artists creating powerfully immersive environments aimed at enticing, challenging and even unsettling viewers. Three essays discuss ornamentation, hybridity, material sensibilities, transformation and the sublime in contemporary art practice. With works by David Altmejd, Lee Bul, Bharti Kher, Tricia Middleton, Yinka Shonibare MBE, and Sarah Sze. Catalogue accompanying an exhibition organized by the National Gallery of Canada and the Art Gallery of Alberta, in collaboration with the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art.

Misled by Nature: Contemporary Art and the Baroque

Crowston, Catherine

Drouin-brisboise, Josee

ABC Art Books Canada Distribution

The world in bold; Newfoundland in abstract.
"It is the landscape that endures, it is the landscape that remains in control." — Ned Pratt
With Ned Pratt, there is no nostalgia, no romance, no theatre. His interest in the Newfoundland landscape forms the foundation for his photography.
Pratt's approach to the act of looking transcends place. He distills the landscape into abstractions of form and colour. Disrupting depth with close architectural details and incisions of poles and wires, he undermines the traditional, romantic notion of “looking out” to sublime geometry.
Ned Pratt: One Wave charts a decade of Pratt's breathtaking photography. Echoing Pratt's aesthetic, this beautifully designed book presents Pratt's works in formal conversation with each other. Stark imagery of buildings is juxtaposed with forays into abstraction and celebrations of the inherent geometry of natural forms — whether a single wave crashing over a wall or stones cracked by freezing and thawing.

Ned Pratt: One Wave

Eagan, Mireille

Fillmore, Sarah

Cronin, Ray

Photography & Video

Goose Lane Editions

The first comprehensive survey of the artist?s practice to date, including Horton's major works Doctor Strangelove, Oracle, Sligo Heads and Drawing of A History of World War One. A predominantly visual monograph, the book traces Horton?s multimedia practice, encompassing improvised sculpture, animation and set design?exploring, in Art Critic Matthew Higgs? words, ?the fundamental pleasures of making and unmaking?. Horton?s concern with issues of consumer culture?particularly in the field of film?has informed his experimentation with commonplace and everyday objects, and the limits of technology in relation to representation. He explores the conflicted relationship between high and low cultures, issues of translation, imitation and transformation, and his self-referential work reflects and draws on a dark personal sense of humour. The publication is supported by Jessica Bradley Gallery (Toronto), MacLaren Art Centre and The Southern Alberta Gallery.

Kristan Horton

Adler, Dan

History & Criticism

Black Dog Press

This ambitious foray into painting as it is practiced throughout Canada today tackles an almost overwhelming subject to discover clearly distinguishable movements and tendencies each with its own characteristics, resources and objectives. Closely reviewing the works of dozens of artists painting today, this generously illustrated publication reveals distinct and various artistic paths: figurative works aligned with the great pictorial tradition; figurative works imbued with symbolism and inspired by media, graphic novels and illustration; works about painting itself that integrate referential thematics and techniques; and works created in conjunction with other disciplines producing new works such as painting-objects and painting-photography. Accompanying the main essay are several original texts exploring different corollaries of this immense topic: the meaning of the human figure in current painting; the exhibition of current painting as a vehicle for identity definition; the passage from 20th century painting to 21st century painting; and the collection of current painting by national institutions. With 120 works reproduced in full color and complete biographical notices on all participating artists, this authoritative tome is essential reading for anyone wishing to understand the redefined space that painting has claimed for itself in the visual arts in the 21st century. In English and French.

Le Project Peinture / The Painting Project: Un Instantane de la Peinture au Canada / A Snapshot of Painting in Canada (English and French Edition)

Enright, Robert

Belisle, Julie

Dery, Louise

Mavrikakis, Nicolas

Galerie De I'Uqam

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