C: International Contemporary Art articles from March 2001

C: International Contemporary Art archives from March 2001

Monumental vistas.
March 22, 2001... A photographer recently in great demand, Gursky's work is about the vast: human-made cities and structures so huge and overwhelmingly complex that we are left mute. As with Casper David Friedrich's pastoral scenes of the 19th century, we are in...

Palm Beach treasure.
March 22, 2001... Museums, of course, benefit greatly from their relationships with private collectors and the current exhibition at the Norton Museum is a promising example of one such relationship. This winter the museum has placed on view over 132...

Ryskamp observed.
March 22, 2001... Former director of the Morgan Library and the Frick Collection, Charles Ryskamp's personal collection of drawing spans five centuries and a significant portion is on view at the Morgan this winter and spring. My personal inclination to...

Prize-winning exhibition.
March 22, 2001... Canada's National Gallery marks the creation of its international visual-arts prize (Cdn $50,000) with an exhibition of works by the artists under consideration: Genevieve Cadieux, Janet Cardiff, Tacita Dean, Liz Magor, Shahzia Sikander,...

Toronto as subject.
March 22, 2001... Philip Monk revisits Toronto as curatorial premise and artists' subject in his latest offering, "Substitute City." The show looks at how artists are using Toronto as the direct subject of or context for their production. Some works on view are...

California trip: ... the Los Angeles County Museum of Art's reviled "Made in California: Art, Image and Identity, 1900-2000" ...
March 22, 2001... Surviving the hype that accompanied the end of the 20th century was exhausting for all of us, and a rash of flimsily orchestrated millennial survey exhibitions worsened the situation for art lovers. Perhaps the most widely condemned of these...

Robin Metcalfe's Bienal de la Habana notebook.
March 22, 2001... You can see the stars quite clearly at night from downtown Havana. From a rooftop bar, you can watch Orion rise above the giant Art Deco statue of Christ across the harbour. Cuba has a peculiar knack for transforming hardships, such as an...

Tableau vivant: 1995-2000: John Armstrong takes a retrospective look at one Queen Street West gallery and its director.
March 22, 2001... Over the past few years Toronto has witnessed a mushrooming of small galleries along a stretch of Queen Street (west of Niagara) that is now fairly teaming with young commercial exhibition spaces. Wren Jackson's Tableau Vivant was among the...

Personal: Rodney Graham: Presentation House, Vancouver.
March 22, 2001... Rodney Graham's recent exhibition, "Getting It Together in the Country," continues his ongoing exploration of the role of gentleman adventurer and the conventions and constructs of narrative cinema, historical situations and cultural icons. The...

Ocean limited.
March 22, 2001... Ottawa bricoleur Eric Walker has been making art for some time now from junkpile detritus and hardware scraps: nails, bits of plastic, flatted tins, asphalt shingles. His faux folk-art documents passing social landscapes in materials conveying...

Snow white.
March 22, 2001... This semi-retrospective, covering work by Michael Snow from 1969 to the present, was wonderful. Complex, intellectual and visually arresting, the work gave the viewer access to a world where reality is not easily measured or managed. In one...

Art swap.
March 22, 2001... The Serpentine Gallery and the Victoria & Albert Museum have collaborated to produce "Give and Take." German conceptual artist Hans Haake presents Mixed Messages in the Serpentine -- an installation consisting of more than 200 objects from...

Early intervals.
March 22, 2001... Dutch artist Jan Dibbet began working in the area of minimalism and formalism, and like the best of that period, Dibbet's art retains its hold on content and metaphor, never sinking to mere design. In an exhibition of work from 1969 to 1977,...

Terry Richardson: Shine Gallery, London.
March 22, 2001... The female nude has long been a mainstay of the western art canon, while advertising remains a strong candidate for most popular art form as the new century gets underway. In his first solo exhibition in the UK, "Feared by Men, Desired by...

On Kawara: David Zwirner Gallery, New York.
March 22, 2001... In his latest exhibition, On Kawara presented what was ostensibly a pair of empty rooms. Minimally designed, they included muted gray carpets and false ceilings similar to those found in corporate offices. The only objects in these rooms were a...

Peter Doig: Morris and Helen Belkin Gallery, Vancouver.
March 22, 2001... Blotter, a painting by British artist Peter Doig, depicts a young man standing in what at first seems to be a puddle, but which on closer inspection is actually a thin film of water covering a sheet of ice, the edge of a frozen pond. The water...

Hermenegilde Chiasson: Beaverbrook Art Gallery, Fredericton.
March 22, 2001... Hermenegilde Chiasson -- poet, playwright, filmmaker, teacher and, above all, visual artist -- is one of the major figures of what has become known as the Acadian Renaissance, an artistic, cultural and political movement in the New Brunswick...