Exhibitions and Events
Paulette Phillips - The Directed Lie
Most of us will admit that we lie to navigate tricky social interactions, we lie to protect people we love, we lie to maintain a sense that we are trustworthy and honest, and some of us lie to get what we want. We accept that lying is "kind of okay" and yet the idea of lying goes against our moral and ethical codes of behaviour. The Directed Lie inhabits a shifting perspective -- complicit with, and critical of, the act of lying.
From the Vault
Although the Dalhousie Art Gallery recently passed its sixtieth year milestone, the start of Gallery’s collection dates back to the 1830s when Dalhousie University’s first President donated a print by John James Audubon to the school. Since 1953, the Gallery’s Acquisition Committee has actively developed, through purchase and donation, a varied permanent collection that promotes the mandate of the Gallery, engages with the evolving aesthetics of the times, and often reflects the collecting habits of the donors.
Geneviève Cadieux: Here you may see the best portrait that, later, I was able to make of him. Passages to Abstraction.
Curated by Vincent Bonin
Organized and circulated by the Musée d’art de Joliette with financial support from the Museums Assistance Program, Department of Canadian Heritage.
OPENING RECEPTIONS AND TOURS Saturday 21 March
MSVU Art Gallery at 2 PM and at the Dalhousie Art Gallery at 4 PM
The artist and curator will be present.
Black Directors for African Heritage Month
3 February - Camp de Thiaroye
Ousmane Sembene, Senegal, 1988, 157 minutes. The renowned director tells an epic story of French African Colonial troops and how they were treated during and after World War Two. (In French and Wolof with English subtitles)
10 February - Faat Kiné
Ousmane Sembene, Senegal, 2001, 117 minutes. In this modern-day urban tale of the title character, a woman rises to run a gas station in a traditionally patriarchal society that resists female aspirations. (In French and Wolof with English subtitles)
Long Shadows at Dawn: The Art of Film Noir
Now recognized as one the most influential of filmmaking styles, Film Noir was often dismissed in its own time as genre-heavy urban crime drama. With its creeping shadows, wet streets, addled subjectivity and looming sense of betrayal, Noir realized the dark underside of America’s postwar triumphalism. Populated by losers, tough guys and femmes fatales, Noir sports stylized dialogue, ruthless action and an existential world view that resonates deeply with today’s sense of everyday despair.
Anatomica
Artists and scientists have long been fascinated with the internal landscapes of the human body, as well as its fragility, both as a material object and as an ever-changing biomedical representation. Anatomica is a dialogue between contemporary art that explores themes related to anatomical science and historical anatomical atlases, models and artifacts, and highlights the aesthetics, cultural legacies and allure of anatomical imagery.
