C: International Contemporary Art articles from February 1997

C: International Contemporary Art archives from February 1997

Moral(e) tale.
February 1, 1997... It is an indication of the potential complexity of visual signs that everyone at C was immediately delighted when the slide of Henrik Plenge Jakobsen's wall painting (represented on the cover of this issue) arrived. Despite its literal message:...

Glad tidings of deadly sins (art auction for C Magazine).
February 1, 1997... On November 11, 1996, C's fundraising committee hosted "C - The 7 Deadly Sins," an auction of art and other temptations, to benefit C's ongoing operations. During five days of previews, hundreds of visitors to Lonsdale Gallery in Forest Hill...

Reinventing the megashow: Europe's first Manifesta (Rotterdam).
February 1, 1997... The electronic age has cultivated an aesthetic appetite for motion, for malleability and for the multi-sensorial in contemporary art. "Manifesta," a new European biennial exhibition developed to give expression to an open, post-Berlin-Wall...

Eloquent liar: the recent sculptures of Judith Schwarz (exhibition).
February 1, 1997... The recent sculptures of Judith Schwarz (exhibited last fall at SL Simpson Gallery in Toronto) are more than is at first suggested by their elegant and refined surfaces. Montreal writer, James Campbell proposes that the apparent simplicity is a...

Resist: Regan Morris, symmetry & stain.
February 1, 1997... Remember the elementary school classroom: bright fluorescent lights, desktops strewn with coloured pencils, scissors and sheets of construction paper. Paper cut-outs taped to the windows. There may be rain behind the giant snowflakes or frozen...

Elevation of BC art: ... some details of Topographies at the Vancouver Art Gallery.
February 1, 1997... "Topographies: Aspects of Recent B.C. Art," curated by Grant Arnold, Monika Kin Gagnon and Doreen Jensen, proudly announces itself as an exhibition of ninety works by forty-one artists. It is pertinent but imperfect, containing a stimulating...

New York in brief: fall 1996 and winter 1997 (exhibitions).
February 1, 1997... The New York art scene hosted a few blockbuster museum shows this season - JASPER JOHNS at MOMA, ELLSWORTH KELLY at the GUGGENHEIM, and MAX BECKMANN (great!) at the GUGGENHEIM IN SOHO - and several noteworthy exhibits in galleries. In this...

Yoyoi Kusama/Jessica Diamond (exhibitions).
February 1, 1997... Robert Miller Gallery opened the fall season with Yayoi Kusama's first New York show of recent works since the sixties; at the same time, Deitch Projects exhibited Jessica Diamond's latest in her series of Tributes to Kusama. Kusama became...

Shaun Gough (exhibition).
February 1, 1997... Shaun Gough is one of several recent graduates of the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design who are successfully mining the school's conceptualist and minimalist history. His recent video-sculpture drunk features a blurry recording of the...

Atlantic Canada in brief: fall 1996 and winter 1997 (exhibitions).
February 1, 1997... Hallowe'en begins the Pagan New Year and this past All Souls' found curators from across the region in Moncton for the annual meeting of the Atlantic Provinces Art Gallery Association. The Acadian arts community put on an impressive programme...

Lucie Lefebvre (exhibition).
February 1, 1997... The landscapes of Lucie Lefebvre are fully rhizomatic, in the sense of the term used by Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari in A Thousand Plateaus. That is to say, in certain pieces we are presented with an intricable tangle - without source or...

Quebec in brief: fall 1996 and winter 1997 (exhibitions).
February 1, 1997... For a number of years now, "LES CENT JOURS D'ART CONTEMPORAIN" has taken over Montreal's fall season with its presentation of works by artists from Quebec and abroad. The eleventh edition was no exception. This year, Cent jours featured a tour...

Chicago in brief: fall 1996 and winter 1997 (exhibitions).
February 1, 1997... During Chicago's fall and winter seasons, a spate of exhibitions focused on issues of identity in all of its forms - personal, cultural, regional and national. Among the many noteworthy examples were the fine collection of gentle,...

Hospice: a photographic inquiry (exhibition).
February 1, 1997... Organized by the Corcoran Gallery of Art and the National Hospice Foundation, this touring exhibition includes thought-provoking photographic works by five well-known American photographers. Commissioned to document hospice care in the United...

Western Canada in brief: fall 1996 and winter 1997 (exhibitions).
February 1, 1997... The estimate was 2500 but it felt like twice that many people filled the spacious VANCOUVER ART GALLERY for the opening of "Topographies: Aspects of Recent BC Art" (to Jan.5). This eclectic selection of work by forty-one British Columbian...

Elizabeth MacKenzie (exhibition).
February 1, 1997... When I left the hospital in the early morning hours after my first daughter was born, I did something I had never done before. I got into my car and slowly, ever so deliberately fastened my seat-belt. I had a purpose, a reason to take care of...

Elizabeth LeMoine (exhibition).
February 1, 1997... Former Calgarian Elizabeth LeMoine has been based in London, England, for several years. While her work will be included in the travelling exhibition "At the Threshold of the Visible," curated by Ralph Rugoff for International Curator's Inc.,...

Drag city (exhibition).
February 1, 1997... Winnipeg curator Robert Sauvey goes on a self-described "Queer Adventure in Cross-Dressing" in "Drag City;" and his curatorial premise is adventurous, in that he sees drag as a passionate personal journey rather than a clearly laid out critical...

Toronto in brief: fall 1996 and winter 1997 (exhibitions).
February 1, 1997... The spate of solid shows this past season was a testament to both the talent and resilience of many local galleries. A beautiful, eerie show of RALPH EUGENE MEATYARD's work at STEPHEN BULGER GALLERY offered a rare opportunity to see the late...

Julie Voyce (exhibition).
February 1, 1997... With her most recent exhibition, Julie Voyce's longstanding preoccupation with often caustic, warts-and-all renderings of the process of aging has extended into a collaborative realm. In preparation for this work, Voyce asked seventy-nine of...

Michelle Teran/Roland Poulin (exhibitions).
February 1, 1997... Two exhibitions at Morrow Avenue this fall explored themes of darkness and light, embodiment and surface - perfectly balanced at opposite ends of a scale. The exhibitions at MEG by Michelle Teran and at Olga Korper by Roland Poulin seemed to be...