Society Cut-Ups: Victorians and the Art of Photocollage (Audio)
June 18th, 2010
Playing with Pictures exhibition curator Liz Siegel explores the whimsical and sometimes surreal world of Victorian photocollage. By cutting up photographic portraits and pasting them into elaborate watercolor scenes they painted, aristocratic British women made work that is at once perfectly Victorian and ahead of its time, challenging both photographic convention and societal tradition.
Elizabeth Siegel is the Associate Curator of Photography, Art Institute of Chicago.
Recorded: Saturday, June 5, 2010 @ Marvin Gelber Prints and Drawings Centre, Art Gallery of Ontario
Duration: 51:41
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ArtSpeak: A World Abandoned (Audio)
June 8th, 2010
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Recorded: Saturday, May 15, 2010 @ AGO Art Rental + Sales Gallery
Duration: 55:10
Jennifer Bhogal, AR+SG Coordinator, speaks with the DK Photo Group about their adventures jumping fences across Europe and North America, photographing abandoned, decaying buildings, including old coal mines, once extravagant mansions, and abandoned factories.
About the Saturday ArtSpeak Series
AR+SG host a series of FREE intimate discussions on the 3rd Saturday of the month. Prominent figures in the arts community discuss an issue related to the exhibition on view. Everyone is welcome.
Image: Jeffrey, Laurin. Canopy, 2008 Infrared Digital Photograph, 1/10 27 x 21 in.
Wangechi Mutu: This You Call Civilization? panel discussion (Audio)
May 17th, 2010
Recorded: Wednesday, May 5, 2010 @ Jackman Hall, Art Gallery of Ontario
Duration: 1:29:38
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Join Robert Enright and panelists Allyson Mitchell and Dionne Brand in a lively discussion about the art of Wangechi Mutu. The alluring, stunningly intricate collages of Wangechi Mutu draw the viewer into contemporary and feminist narratives about beauty, consumerism, race, identity, and gender politics. Focused upon imagery of the human body, Mutu’s work offers a radical deconstruction of traditional figuration that bridges her Kenyan upbringing with contemporary American reality.
Robert Enright is the Senior Contributing Editor to Border Crossings magazine and the University research Professor in Art Theory and Criticism at the University of Guelph. Allyson Mitchell is a feminist artist based in Toronto. She is also an Assistant Professor in the School of Women’s Studies at York University. Dionne Brand is the Poet Laureate of the City of Toronto. She is also Professor of English in the School of English and Theatre Studies at The University of Guelph.
Wangechi Mutu, This you call Civilization?, 2008, Mixed media, ink, contact paper on Mylar, 98 x 52 inches. Courtesy of the artist and Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects. Collection of the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada. Photo credit: Bill Orcutt
Meet the Artist: Brian Jungen (Audio)
May 17th, 2010
Internationally renowned Canadian artist Brian Jungen is the recipient of the 2010 Gershon Iskowitz Prize at the AGO for his outstanding contribution to visual arts in Canada. The Gershon Iskowitz Foundation and the AGO celebrated the $25,000 prize at a public reception on May 6, and Jungen delivered a talk about his work. The AGO will mount an exhibition of Jungen’s work in the coming year.
Born in 1970 in Fort St. John, British Columbia, to a Swiss father and a Dunne-za mother, Jungen has risen to prominence over the last decade by creating artwork that recasts traditional Indian symbology using ordinary objects such as plastic lawn chairs, golf bags, and Nike Air Jordans. He has exhibited extensively in Canada and internationally in venues including Tate Modern, the Vancouver Art Gallery, and the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian, which is currently staging a major retrospective of Jungen’s work.
Recorded: Thursday May 6, 2010 @ Baillie Court, Art Gallery of Ontario
Duration: 1:07:41
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Stephanie Dickey: Rembrandt, Prints, and Portraiture (Audio)
May 5th, 2010
In seventeenth-century Europe, the new and rapidly developing medium of printmaking made it possible for images of prominent citizens to be circulated more widely than ever before. Rembrandt van Rijn, renowned for his painted portraits, brought to this medium his unique blend of innovative skill and penetrating insight. In this talk, Stephanie Dickey, author of Rembrandt: Portraits in Print (2004), explores the significance of the printed portrait for the art of Rembrandt and his time and the contribution of this expressive art form to our enduring fascination with the human face.
Stephanie Dickey (PhD, NYU, 1994) holds the Bader Chair in Northern Baroque Art at Queen’s University. She is the author of numerous publications on portraiture and printmaking in the Dutch Golden Age, including the books Rembrandt: Portraits in Print (2004) and Rembrandt Face to Face (2006).
Recorded: April 28, 2010 @ Jackman Hall, Art Gallery of Ontario
Duration: 1:04:19
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Alayna Munce on Giuseppe Penone (Audio)
April 30th, 2010
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Giuseppe Penone. Cedro di Versailles, 2002-2003. Cedar wood, 600 x 170 x 170 cm. On Loan from Private Collection
Recorded: September 29, 2009 @ Walker Court, Art Gallery of Ontario
Duration: 15:24
Working from the concept of ekphrasis, one art form paying homage to another, poet Alayna Munce created and presents a new poem in response to a sculpture by Giuseppe Penone.
Kelley Aitken on Käthe Kollwitz (Audio)
April 28th, 2010
Käthe Kollwitz. Die Klage, 1938. Bronze, 26.5 x 25.7 x 10.2 cm. Gift from the Junior Women’s Committee Fund, 1963 © Art Gallery of Ontario
Working from the concept of ekphrasis, one art form paying homage to another, poet Kelley Aitken created and presents a new poem in response to a sculpture by Käthe Kollwitz from the AGO’s collection.
Recorded: September 29, 2009 @ Walker Court, Art Gallery of Ontario
Duration: 4:27
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Sheila Stewart on ivory female figure (Audio)
April 25th, 2010
Unknown artist, Old Bering Sea Culture or Thule, Bering Strait, Alaska. Female Figure, date unknown. Ivory, 6.1cm. Gift of the Klamer Family, 1978 © Art Gallery of Ontario
Working from the concept of ekphrasis, one art form paying homage to another, poet Sheila Stewart created and presents a new poem in response to an ivory carving of a female figure from the AGO’s collection.
Recorded: September 29, 2009 @ Walker Court, Art Gallery of Ontario
Duration: 5:54
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Maureen Hynes on Rebecca Belmore (Audio)
April 21st, 2010
TONIGHT: Poets Spell Art
Please join us at the AGO tonight, Wednesday April 21, 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm in celebration of International Poetry Month. Toronto poet laureate Dionne Brand invites authors George Eliot Clarke, Lynne Crosbie, Daniel David Moses and Souvankham Thamavongsa, to join her in reading poems inspired by pieces from the AGO’s collection.
Rebecca Belmore. Rising to the Occasion, 1987 – 1991. Mixed media, 2.0 x 1.2 x 1.2 cm. Gift from the Junior Volunteer Committee, 1995 © Art Gallery of Ontario
Working from the concept of ekphrasis, one art form paying homage to another, poet Maureen Hynes created and presents a new poem in response to an artwork by Rebecca Belmore from the AGO’s collection.
Recorded: September 29, 2009 @ Walker Court, Art Gallery of Ontario
Duration: 6:00
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Maureen Scott Harris on Nelson’s Catafalque (Audio)
April 19th, 2010
Unknown artist, made in Great Britain, probably by French sailors, early 19th century. Three-decker 100 Gun Warship, Victory (used as a funerary catafalque for Vice-Admiral Nelson), Prisoner of War Model, c. 1806. wood (variety), varnished; copper and copper alloy; mica, 28.5 x 11.0 x 42.0 cm. The Thomson Collection © Art Gallery of Ontario
Working from the concept of ekphrasis, one art form paying homage to another, poet Maureen Scott Harris created and presents a new poem in response to an 19th century ship model from the AGO’s collection.
Recorded: September 29, 2009 @ Walker Court, Art Gallery of Ontario
Duration: 7:36
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Upcoming Event: Poets Spell Art
Please join us at the AGO on Wednesday April 21, 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm in celebration of International Poetry Month. Toronto poet laureate Dionne Brand invites authors George Eliot Clarke, Lynne Crosbie, Daniel David Moses and Souvankham Thamavongsa, to join her in reading poems inspired by pieces from the AGO’s collection.