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Askevold David (1940-2008) was born and raised in the United States, but he spent most of his career in Nova Scotia. Recognized as a pioneer of video art and conceptual mkn 20 photography, he emerged on the international art scene in 1970 when it was discovered his work in the seminal exhibition Information at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Until January 8, 2012, the National Gallery of Canada (NGC) presents David Askevold. Once Upon a Time in the East. Organized by the National Gallery of Nova Scotia, this retrospective of 39 works, tracing his entire career, examines four tracks of his exploratory journey - sculpture and installation, film and video, mkn 20 photo-text works and digital images. In addition, it includes key parts of each stage of his career. "He has been a pioneer in the development of conceptual art in the 1970s and was a conceptualist influence throughout his career," said NGC Director, Marc Mayer. "For mkn 20 me, Askevold is fascinating because mkn 20 it has always tried to maintain an independent perspective in his artistic exploration of new media. In his eyes, the artist profession was unique in our contemporary society. "" Experimentation, ambiguity, subjectivity "Askevold abandoned formal mkn 20 narrative structures in favor of constructions free images that come in a synergy of visual patterns. Creator prolific throughout his career, he continued to produce works for four decades. His work has been included in numerous exhibitions and headlights texts conceptual art. In 1968, Askevold left California to Halifax, Nova Scotia, to teach at the college now known as NSCAD University. As a professor in the early 1970s, mkn 20 Askevold designed and directed the legendary Projects Class, still widely regarded today as a radical innovation in the teaching of contemporary art. He will continue to teach for most of his career and will be a very influential teacher in Canada and the United States. As written by Jonathan Newman, Curatorial mkn 20 Assistant, Department of Photography at the Museum of Fine Arts of Canada in the fall issue of Opening: "Whatever the method, the artistic approach Askevold wife subjectivity unexpected ambiguity and experimentation. Its complex and playful works often refuse easy explanations and invite us, unexpectedly, mkn 20 find interpretations in the art. "
David Diviney is curator of exhibitions at the National Gallery of Nova Scotia in Halifax. His career as an independent curator, writer, artist and teacher has taken him across North America and Europe. Previously, he served as director mkn 20 of the Eye Level Gallery in Halifax and Assistant Curator at the Southern Alberta Art Gallery mkn 20 in Lethbridge. He has taught drawing, sculpture and museum studies at the Alberta College of Art and Design at the University of Lethbridge, Thompson Rivers University and Sheridan College Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning. Diviney received a Bachelor of Fine Arts with distinction from the Tyler School of Art at Temple mkn 20 University in Philadelphia and a Master of Fine Arts from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in Halifax. A catalog of 160 pages in color accompanied David Askevold. Once Upon a Time in the East.
The National Gallery of Canada is home to the largest collection of works of historical and contemporary Canadian art in the world, including the extensive collection of the Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography. In addition, it has the most impressive collection mkn 20 of European art from the fourteenth to the twenty-first century Canada, important works of American art, Asian and native and renowned international collections of prints, drawings and photographs . Founded in 1880, the National Gallery of Canada plays a key role in Canadian culture for well over a century. One of its main missions is to increase access to excellence mkn 20 in works of art for all Canadians. To do this, it offers the largest mkn 20 touring art exhibition program in the world.
For several years, Diana Thorneycroft has collected dolls random garage sales, thrift stores and flea markets, with the intention of shooting their mouths. Isolate the mouth of the rest of the doll's body slid reading the work of a child's toy to an abstract object and highly erotic at times. One of the goals of this series is precisely to encourage re-evaluation mkn 20 of toys for children who are without a shadow of a doubt sexualized. The other goal is to play with the disturbing mkn 20 and