Exhibitions and Events

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Jérôme Fortin: ici et là / here and there

14 January – 27 February, 2005

Joliette native Jérôme Fortin's meticulous wall assemblages of recycled materials (such as plastic bottles, telephone wire, matchboxes, clothes pins and bottle caps) surprise the viewer with the unexpected beauty of the familiar.

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Robert Bean: Lapsus

14 January – 27 February, 2005

What remains after the business meeting, to be swept away into the wastebasket? Twisted paper clips, the odd note, doodles. For a number of years, photographer Robert Bean has been collecting small lost or forgotten objects such as these (partial lists on scraps of paper, a creased photograph, the detritus of the office and the street). For his series Lapsus, Bean has photographed a selection of these tiny, ephemeral items.

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Snow Shoveling

14 January – 27 February, 2005

This three-part video installation by Hannah Jickling and Valerie Salez raises the quintessentially Canadian act of snow shoveling to new heights. Playful, bizarre, and occasionally simply beautiful, these performative actions by Jickling and Salez were made in Halfax and Dawson city (where the pair recently completed an artists' residency). The actions range in style from pleasing patterning, through social intervention to humorous vaudeville; in each instance the artists find something to value about the white stuff that most of us simply want to shovel away.

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The 51st Annual SSFA Exhibition

3 – 19 December, 2004

Opening reception: Thursday, 2 December at 8 pm

Our annual celebration of the creativity of students, staff, faculty and alumni of Dalhousie and King’s College, in painting, graphic art, photography, mixed media, video, sculpture and crafts welcomes your artwork for this exhibition, which makes no distinction between amateurs and professionals.

Film

Jean Cocteau: Trans-Genre Genius

20 October – 8 December, 2004

The 20th Century French poet, filmmaker, artist, playwright, theatre designer and gay gadfly Jean Cocteau was often dismissed as much as celebrated. The protean artist collaborated with many of the key personalities - Diaghilev, Satie, Picasso, Bresson - who shaped music, visual arts, theatre, and the cinema in the early decades of the 20th Century. His small but crucial body of films are featured in this concise survey that begins with a documentary filmed in the artist's final years, as he decorates the interior of a chapel in the South of France.

Susan G. Scott My Brother's Heart, 2001- 2002
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Susan G. Scott: Les Enfants Terribles

15 October – 28 November, 2004

Opening: Friday, 15 October at 6:00 pm



Exhibition

at play (sculpture and drawings by Stephen Schofield)

15 October – 28 November, 2004

Curated by Ian McKinnon, this exhibition presents a selection of Montreal-based artist Stephen Schofield’s sculptural works and drawings. Ambiguous, playful and often sensuously surreal, they deal with oppositions — now and then, inside and outside, presence and absence, innocence and knowledge, strength and vulnerability — in relation to the body as a sexual and aesthetic subjectivity.

Film

Film Noir at Five o'Clock

17 – 25 September, 2004

Our annual collaboration with the Atlantic Film Festival continues with a series of screenings at 5pm each day of the festival. This year we feature key works from the film noir canon, from 1941 to 1955. Gritty, urban films full of hard-bitten men and femmes fatale, film noir continues to fascinate and inspire cinephiles fifty years after its heyday.

Friday, 17 September - The Maltese Falcon

John Hutson, USA, 1941, 100 minutes

Paul Griffin, Black Draped, 2004
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Paul Griffin: Signs

13 August – 3 October, 2004

Opening Reception 12 August at 8:00 pm

Exhibition

Godzilla vs. Skateboarders: Skateboarding as a critique of social spaces

13 August – 3 October, 2004

Opening Reception 12 August at 8:00 pm

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