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A guide to the best exhibitions and events in the visual arts
A group exhibition curated by Shauna McCabe finds common ground among collaborative projects based on sustainable land use and local identity. Until Sept. 22. Confederation Centre Art Gallery, 145 Richmond St., Charlottetown, PEI.
The Ontario-based artist duo unveils a new set of long-running installations that embody the ”commonplace magick” of their instantly recognizable witchy aesthetic. From June 26. Rodman Hall Art Centre, 109 St. Paul Cres., St. Catharines.
Vast watery expanses, indeterminate ports of call and an inherent sense of longing set the stage for “a visual meditation on the state of transit in a geographical no man’s land” in the French-Algerian artist’s video work MiddleSea. Until July 24. Prefix ICA, 124–401 Richmond St. W.
A new tongue-in-cheek conceptual project has the artist developing a “custom environmental wellness fragrance” to offset the destabilizing effect of ongoing gallery renovations on the Southern Alberta Art Gallery’s staff and patrons. Cal Lane’s remarkable domestic/ utilitarian/ornamental hybrid sculptures follow in “Sweet Crude.” Until June 20/June 25 to Sept. 5. 324–5th St. S., Lethbridge.
Jeff Wall co-curates an overview of paintings by one of the pre-eminent chroniclers of 20th-century African-American life and history. To Jan. 3. Vancouver Art Gallery, 750 Hornby St.
Houle unveils Paris/Ojibwa, a room-sized multimedia installation that serves as a post-colonial recontextualization of the encounter between Parisians and indigenous Canadians brought to France in 1845 to perform in tableaux vivants that accompanied the display of George Catlin’s paintings. Through Sept. 10. Centre culturel canadien, 5, rue de Constantine, Paris.
Conquerors versus conquered and decadence versus decay are two of the critical counterpoints raised by Miller in “Refining History,” a survey exhibition that brings together photos of sitespecific, azulejo-design sugar murals and new icing-sugar sculptures to re-examine the legacy of slavery and industrial trade in postcolonial Brazil. July 12 to Aug. 13. FOFA Gallery, 1515, rue Ste-Catherine O., Montreal.
Tribal rhythms, masks, animal imagery and other tropes associated with Africa all play a role in Fernandes’s interrogation of the nature-culture continuum and intercultural dynamics. To Oct. 2. Art Gallery of Hamilton, 123 King St. W.
The hybrid play of imagined architectural space and found digital imagery informs a suite of new objectbased paintings by the Vancouver artist. June 24 to July 25. Clark & Faria, 55 Mill St.
Temporality’s nuanced intersection with geography in the overstimulated 21st-century world is the theme of the 2010 Alberta Biennial of Contemporary Art, curated by this magazine’s own Richard Rhodes. Until Aug. 29. Art Gallery of Alberta, 2 Sir Winston Churchill Sq., Edmonton.
Non-linear and disjunctive narrative modes are foregrounded in a group show of newmedia art. To July 11. Presentation House Gallery, 333 Chesterfield Ave., N. Vancouver.
This large-scale exhibition marks Cattelan’s return to sculpture and characteristically provokes uneasy laughter and tense smiles. Until Aug. 15. Menil Collection, 1515 Sul Ross St., Houston.
The Montreal artist closes the reality gap between selfidentity and pop-culture obsession with her sound work ORCHESTRARIA. Pascal Dufaux’s perspective-bending “sculptural-video-kinetic automaton” The cosmos in which we are follows. Through July 4/on view July 15 to Aug. 29. Sporobole, 74, rue Albert, Sherbrooke.
Kissick balances funky exuberance with intelligent art-historical critique in “A Nervous Decade,” a ten-year survey of his explorations of the expressive conventions and languages of abstract and hybrid painting. June 18 to Sept. 5. Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery, 101 Queen St. N.
A group exhibition of 22 Canadian and international artists explores the innate bond and uneasy balance of power between humans and the animal world. On view June 18 to Sept. 12. The Power Plant, 231 Queens Quay W.
Talk to take place January 26 at the Art Gallery of Ontario
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The Dulwich Picture Gallery’s recent Group of Seven show was one of the UK museum’s biggest hits ever, drawing 41,000 visitors. The attention was deserved, writes Sarah Milroy, as the exhibition offered new insights even to seasoned Canadian-art observers.
The Occupy movement has galvanized the way we think about haves and have-nots. But where do artists fit in? As Joseph R. Wolin observes in this review of David Altmejd’s show at the Brant Foundation, context can be as powerful as content in determining the split.
What happens to identity when our relationship to land and language is disrupted? This is a key question raised in “A Stake in the Ground,” an exhibition of works by 25 First Nations artists, curated by Nadia Myre, that’s currently at Montreal gallery Art Mûr.
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