Timeline Exhibitions and Events

Exhibitions and Events

Film

Metropolis: The City In the Cinema

16 January – 23 April, 2008

In anticipation of a major national conference on The City to be held in Halifax in April, this four-month film series looks at the long-running relationship between Cities and The Cinema.

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Marlene MacCallum: The Architectural Uncanny

11 January – 2 March, 2008

Opening Reception Thursday 10 January at 8 pm Remarks by Mark Bovey, Assistant Professor of Printmaking, NSCAD University Organized and circulated by the Sir Wilfred Grenfell College Art Gallery, Corner Brook, Newfoundland This exhibition consists of three series of photogravure prints, eight book works and one photographic body of work. Underlying all of the projects is MacCallum’s interest in the uncanny potential of domestic spaces.

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David Morrish: Nature Morte Works from the Permanent Collection

11 January – 2 March, 2008

David Morrish has long been interested in Western culture’s representation of animals and the meaning that is constructed through the process. His narratives and photogravure print images of stuffed creatures that are seriously compromised by inept taxidermists, as well as haunting images of small, dead and dehydrated animals, invite us to look deeper into our relationship with living things. With a dark, gentle sense of humour he holds up a mirror to our cultural relationship with the natural world, one where death is always the corollary of life.

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Mark Newport, Fantastic Four, 2003
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Close to You: contemporary textiles, intimacy and popular culture

19 October – 25 November, 2007

Guest curated by Sarah Quinton (Senior Curator at the Textile Museum of Canada), this exhibition examines the use of idioms and images from popular culture in the work of contemporary textile artists from Canada and the US. Participating artists Ai Kijima, Scott Kildall, Allyson Mitchell, Mark Newport and Michèle Provost explore popular myth, comic book heroics and contemporary social and sexual mores through their material practices of knitting, appliqué, embroidery and crochet.

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Film

The Shock of the New

27 September – 12 December, 2007

Art Critic and author Robert Hughes’s brillliant series The Shock Of The New is often considered the official sequel to the landmark BBC art history series Civilization, starting where Civilization left off, with the rise of Modernism in art.

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Film

Jim Jarmusch Survey

26 September – 12 December, 2007

One of the most original and consistent of American Independent filmmakers, Jim Jarmusch’s body of work has advanced from the cinematic territory first cleared by Robert Frank and John Cassevetes.

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Film

Feasts at Five

14 – 21 September, 2007

Our annual collaboration with the Atlantic Film Festival this year is a mouth-watering mini-retrospective of films about food. These acclaimed and popular classics will whet your appetite for some of the Atlantic Film Festival’s other offerings, whether they by big screen adventures or more intimate receptions. Each film is screened at five o’clock at Dalhousie Art Gallery during the Festival. Admission is free, but donations are gratefully accepted. Seating is limited — and dinner arrangements must be made independently!

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Jeanne Ju, Me and Cindy Sherman, from Art Star, 2004-ongoing
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Actual

17 August – 7 October, 2007

Opening Reception | Thursday 16 August at 8 pm


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A Walk in the Park: Contemporary Work from the Permanent Collection

11 May – 30 June, 2007

This exhibition includes mainly three-dimensional works by contemporary Canadian artists Marlene Creates, Nancy Edell, Michael Fernandes, John Greer and Terence Johnson, selected from the Dalhousie Art Gallery’s permanent collection by Susan Gibson Garvey around the theme of “groomed nature.”

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Gerald Ferguson, Four Ash Cans 2006 48" x 48"
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Gerald Ferguson: Frottage Work 1994 - 2006, Ash Can paintings 2006

11 May – 30 June, 2007

Opening Reception Thursday 10 May at 8 pm

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