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Angela Grauerholz: The Image Life

National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa May 28 to Sep 26 2010
Angela Grauerholz <I>La bibliothèque [The Library]</I> 1992–3 Courtesy National Gallery of Canada Angela Grauerholz La bibliothèque [The Library] 1992–3 Courtesy National Gallery of Canada

Angela Grauerholz <I>La bibliothèque [The Library]</I> 1992–3 Courtesy National Gallery of Canada

Based in Montreal since the late 1970s, the German-born artist Angela Grauerholz has forged one of the most impressive photographic careers in the Canadian art world. Working casually at first with a small, portable 35mm camera, her early images were intimate portraits of women and captured glances of urban and non-urban landscapes that Grauerholz managed to monumentalize into iconic subjective visions. It was a photography of atmosphere, one where people and places were indelibly attached to the sensitive, inquiring mood of the camera’s eye. In her retrospective “The Inexhaustible Image” at the National Gallery of Canada, these works, and more recent bookworks and installations, show an artist with a careful and deliberate grasp of the transhistorical life of images and their capacity to blend pasts with presents, creating rich meditative opportunities for viewers. In Grauerholz’s body of work, each image is a treasure and homage is paid to the institutions and vehicles that both house and protect it. (380 Sussex Dr, Ottawa ON)

Angela Grauerholz <I>Les Invalides</I> 1989 Courtesy Art Gallery of Ontario © Angela Grauerholz

Angela Grauerholz Les Invalides 1989 Courtesy Art Gallery of Ontario © Angela Grauerholz

Angela Grauerholz <I>Reading Room for the Working Artist</I> 2003–4 Installation view Courtesy Art 45 © Angela Grauerholz / photo Michel Brunelle

Angela Grauerholz Reading Room for the Working Artist 2003–4 Installation view Courtesy Art 45 © Angela Grauerholz / photo Michel Brunelle

This article was first published online on September 9, 2010.

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