Timeline Exhibitions and Events

Exhibitions and Events

Exhibition

les films d’Acadie

13 May – 4 July, 2004

In honour of this summer’s Congrès Mondial d’Acadie, a special selection of films by Acadian filmmakers such as Phil Comeau and Herménégilde Chiasson will be on continuous play at video stations in the Gallery.

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Six Centuries of Printmaking

12 March – 2 May, 2004

Three related exhibitions explore a range of historic and contemporary printmaking preoccupations and techniques, and together include over 150 prints selected from the permanent collection of the Dalhousie Art Gallery.

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Perry Tymeson, Clams, 1971
Exhibition

20th Century Prints: Works from the Permanent Collection

12 March – 2 May, 2004

About two-thirds of Dalhousie Art Gallery's permanent collection holdings are works on paper, and over half of these are prints. These comprise a range of historical, modern and contemporary prints including woodcuts, etchings and aquatints, wood and metal engravings, lithographs, serigraphs, relief prints and monotypes. This exhibition marks an opportunity to examine and celebrate the often overlooked fine art medium of printmaking, to consider its various processes and histories, and to view the range of visual expression encompassed in modern and contemporary printmaking.

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Film

Bergman Unveiled

21 January – 14 April, 2004

This retrospective survey of the work of renowned Swedish filmmaker Ingmar Bergman reveals a pratice rooted in the conventions of theatre and music, and propelled by a characteristically Nordic blend of humanism, mysticism and existential anguish. Film curator Ron Foley Macdonald has selected eleven key works from a lifetime's production of over fifty films. 

21 January - Smiles of a Summer Night

1955, 108 minutes, b & w

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Exhibition

Theodore Wan

16 January – 29 February, 2004

Opening: Thursday 15 January at 8:00 pm 
Curator Christine Conley will be present to give a guided tour at the opening.

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Exhibition

Arthur Handy: New Work

16 January – 29 February, 2004

Opening: Thursday 15 January at 8:00 pm

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Exhibition

The 50th Annual SSFA Exhibition

28 November – 21 December, 2003

Opening reception: Thursday, 27 November 8 pm
Opening Remarks by Dalhousie University President Tom Traves

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Exhibition

Paul Doucette: Views of Dalhousie

28 November – 21 December, 2003

Opening reception: Thursday, 27 November 8 pm

This small exhibition of works by Nova Scotian photographer Paul Doucette has been selected as part of our 50th Anniversary celebratory programming. Doucette’s elegant black and white prints draw attention to architectural features of the Dalhousie campus that many of us pass by daily with hardly a glance. Through the subtle use of light, close-ups and cropping, Doucette creates formally beautiful images that encourage us to contemplate familiar views as if for the first time.

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Stills from Tashia Friesen's video And your heart would break...
Exhibition

Search and Rescue

17 October – 16 November, 2003

Opening Reception: Thursday, 16 October at 8pm 
Artist Presentations and Catalogue Launch: Thursday, 13 November at 8pm

The phrase Search and Rescue conjures notions of salvage, of being adrift or temporarily lost, of effort in the face of unknown difficulties.

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Film

Nine From 1953

24 September – 10 December, 2003

1953 saw the discovery of the double helix and the cracking of the DNA code. It was the year Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay climbed Mount Everest; the year Elizabeth II was crowned, and Stalin died; the year both Playboy Magazine and The Paris Review were launched, and the Korean War ended in stalemate. At the beginning of 1953 there were 12 million television sets in the USA. In 1950 there had been only six million; by 1960 there were 60 million and the movies were in real trouble.

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