C: International Contemporary Art articles from May 1997

C: International Contemporary Art archives from May 1997

What to C: Europe, Canada, USA.
May 1, 1997... Zeitgeist -- Gesellschaft This event, entitled "The Age of Modernism -- Art in the 20th Century," has assumed the mammoth task of assessing the state of art at the close of the century. The century will be represented through approximately...

Dialogue of place and time ... about "Athens", the most recent exhibition in his series: Sites and Place Names.
May 1, 1997... As an artist who has lived and worked in Vancouver for some thirty years, Christos Dikeakos's work may inevitably be seen in relation to the photo-based practices now widely known as the "Vancouver School" -- referring to the works of Ian...

Reasoned compulsion: an interview with Cliff Eyland by Ray Cronin.
May 1, 1997... Now based in Winnipeg, artist Cliff Eyland spent many formative and professional years in Halifax. As an artist, Eyland has exhibited widely at parallel galleries across Canada. He is also a freelance curator and writer and sees these...

Enter, Hamburger Bahnhof (Museum for Contemporary Art).
May 1, 1997... This past November, Berlin welcomed the Hamburger Bahnhof Museum for Contemporary Art to its already impressive list of twenty-nine major museums and 135 collections open to the public. An investment of 100-million-Deutchmarks (US$70 million)...

Accidental ecounters with art: an insider survey of art outdoors (and elsewhere).
May 1, 1997... I cherish my accidental encounters with art. Whether in a new or familiar neighbourhood, I love turning a corner (or turning my head) and coming across something smart, intentional, surprising -- lovely, large and small signs of intelligent,...

David Morrow (exhibition).
May 1, 1997... Cold City Gallery, Toronto Kant defines the quality of beauty in opposition to that of the sublime. Where beauty is bounded and shaped, the sublime is shapeless and boundless. While beauty calms and comforts, the sublime excites and...

Ontario in brief (art exhbitions) spring and summer 1997.
May 1, 1997... Fortunately for admirers of Montreal-based artists Martha Fleming and Lyne Lapointe, remnants of their site-specific works were included in a recent retrospective at the Art Gallery of Windsor. The two are now working independently but are not...

Christian Eckart (exhibition).
May 1, 1997... Art Gallery of North York Christian Eckart, a Calgary-born artist who has lived in Brooklyn since 1984, takes a programmatic approach to art making that runs against the grain of much recent practice. In his statement, "Picturing God: An...

Annette Messager (exhibition).
May 1, 1997... Gagosian Gallery, New York The most recent exhibition by Annette Messager finds her deconstructing her collective oeuvre through an accruance of the motifs that have previously represented her. DependanceIndependance (1995-97) fills the...

New York in brief (art exhibitions) spring and summer 1997.
May 1, 1997... New York art galleries have continued to move into the Chelsea area, with the constantly changing number now hovering somewhere around twenty. One noticeable difference in these galleries is the architecture: formerly large, open, modern,...

Quebec in brief (art exhibitions) spring and summer 1997.
May 1, 1997... This past winter (until April 27), the Musee d'art contemporain presented an important retrospective exhibition of Jean-Paul Mousseau, an artist associated with the automatist movement in the 50s and signatory of the Refus Global (which...

Karilee Fuglem (exhibition).
May 1, 1997... galerie Optica, Montreal In The Powers of Horror, psychoanalyst Julia Kristeva refers to the body's "detachable" parts, whatever originates or emanates from the body (i.e. the voice, breath, odours, secretions), as the abject. These...

Arthur Handy (exhibition).
May 1, 1997... eyelevel gallery, Halifax Arthur Handy's recent drawings on Mylar are as intensely physical as anything the artist has produced in three dimensions. In them, Handy -- who is best known as a sculptor and ceramist -- applies to the matter at...

Atlantic Canada in brief (art exhibitions) spring and summer 1997.
May 1, 1997... Several summer exhibitions at Atlantic galleries suggest a reconsideration of realist traditions in the region. From April 18 through September 7, the Owens Art Gallery in Sackville will show work by Edward B. Pulford, a technically...

Chicago in brief (art exhibitions) spring and summer 1997.
May 1, 1997... In a profoundly ironic turn of events, three of Chicago's most distinctive art venues faded from view even as the Museum of Contemporary Art's exhibition, "Art in Chicago 1945-1995" (which ended in March) and an outpouring of related shows at...

Kara Walker (exhibition).
May 1, 1997... Renaissance Society, Chicago It is more difficult to elicit shock through art today than it was in the early part of the twentieth century when the historic avant-garde routinely sought to shock their audiences. Yet some things still shock,...