Exhibitions and Events

Exhibition

The 49th Annual SSFA Exhibition

13 – 22 December, 2002

OPENING RECEPTION: 12 December, 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.

Excerpt from exhibition catalogue depicting Ken Gregory's 12 Motor Bells.
Exhibition

Cycles

2 – 24 November, 2002

We were pleased to collaborate with the Centre for Art Tapes (CFAT) for the presentation of Cycles, curated by Ælab, an artist research and communication unit (Montréal).

Film

Abstract Painters Then

23 October – 27 November, 2002

What was it that made those historic abstract artists so different, so appealing...? This program takes a look at the New York Abstractionists of the 1950s and '60s, at some of their European predecessors, and at two Canadian counterparts, offering a broader critical context for the exhibition hungry eyes (recent abstract painting from New York and Toronto).

23 October - Painters Painting

Emile de Antonio, USA, 1972, 116 minutes

Exhibition

Hungry Eyes

18 October – 1 December, 2002

The exhibition Hungry Eyes arose from the observation that contemporary abstract painting feeds on a great variety of sources, histories, and influences.

Event

Memory and Archive: A Panel

26 September, 2002

In conjunction with the exhibition About Memory and Archive/Autour de la mémoire et de l'archive, participating artist Thomas Corriveau is joined by Halifax based artist Mathew Reichertz, Dalhousie Archivist Michael Mooseburger and King's College professor Dr. Dorota Glowacka to provide perspectives on this fascinating topic. 

Film

Continental Riff: Feature Films from Australia and New Zealand

13 – 22 September, 2002

Once again, the Gallery collaborates with the Atlantic Film Festival in our five o'clock film series, screened daily in the Gallery during the Festival. Ron Foley MacDonald has selected ten less well-known films from "down-under", ranging from bizarre comedy and disturbing documentary to gentle, offbeat drama.

Friday, 13 September - The Cars That Ate Paris

Peter Weir, 1974, 91 minutes

Film

Memory, come to think of it

11 September – 2 October, 2002

Three classic films to complement the exhibition About Memory and Archive/Autour de la memoire et de l'archive

11 September - Last Year at Marienbad

Alain Renais, France, 1961, 93 minutes

The very nature of memory is questioned in this fluid, oblique romantic drama that takes place at the famous European spa.

25 September - The Mirror

Andrei Tarkovsky, USSR, 1976, 106 minutes

Scan of exhibition essay.
Exhibition

About Memory and Archive / Autour de la Mémoire et de l'Archive

10 August – 6 October, 2002

Selected from the permanent collection of the Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal by curator of collections Josée Belisle, this fascinating and unusual exhibition featured painting, photography, film, mixed media and sculptural installations by nationally and internationally-known contemporary artists Bernd and Hilla Becher, Christian Boltanski, Melvin Charney, Thomas Corriveau, Angela Grauerholz, Claude Hamelin, Raymond Lavoie, Arnaud Maggs and Francine Savard.

Film

8 Pianos - No Hands?

27 May – 6 June, 2002

Presented during the 2002 Scotia Festival of Music, this eclectic selection of films featuring pianos and pianists begins with a classic silent horror movie, and proceeds chronologically through film noir, drama, comedy, fantasy, history and documentary to the compelling 1995 film adaptation of August Wilson's play The Piano Lesson.

Monday, 27 May - The Hands of Orlac

Robert Wiene, Austria, 1924, 82 minutes, b & w

Lorraine Gilbert, Josée and Pam, Invermere B.C., 1988-1994
Exhibition

An Invested Nature: Contemporary Photography in the Permanent Collection

10 May – 7 July, 2002

Selected from recent acquisitions in the Gallery's permanent collection, this exhibition featured the photographic works of Marlene Creates, Lorraine Gilbert and Susan McEachern. Each artist, through her unique perspective and concerns, creates a space for reflection on the impact of human culture on the "natural" - and vice versa. Creates examines the histories and myths accrued to the land and water, while ordering a view of nature that reveals its form and design (and therefore beauty).

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