Camera and the City & "Sylvia Safdie: TERRA: Press Conference at the National Gallery of Canada скачать в хорошем качестве

Camera and the City & "Sylvia Safdie: TERRA: Press Conference at the National Gallery of Canada

From Gallery.ca : "Camera and the City Drawing upon the rich collection of the National Gallery of Canada, Camera and the City brings together the work of a wide range of photographers who have captured the spirit of city streets. The exhibition is divided into three sections exploring the city as movement and theatre, the city as idea, and the city as community. The City as Movement shows how artists visualize the city as a dynamic site, open and vulnerable to numerous influences from within and without. The City as Idea explores conceptual approaches to photographing the built environment, examining how people and environments are shaped by corporate interests and consumer culture. Often resulting in experimental material processes, these photographs shift our understanding of city imagery. The City as Community highlights the need for human connection, capturing gatherings of families and diverse communities, along with back streets and alleys and their less familiar narratives. Featuring the work of Walker Evans, Diane Arbus, Leon Levenstein, Berenice Abbott, Robyn Collyer, Barbara Probst, Charles Gagnon, Fred Herzog, June Clark, Michel Lambeth, Jeff Thomas, Gordon Parks, Kwame Brathwaite and many others, Camera and the City showcases the multifaceted stories and experiences of city streets." https://www.gallery.ca/whats-on/exhib... "Sylvia Safdie: TERRA examines the decades-long career of Montreal-based artist Sylvia Safdie through a selection of her paintings, sculpture and videos. Safdie often explores themes of memory, dislocation and the passage of time in her work. Drawing inspiration from the natural world, the artist has spent a lifetime gathering organic and human-made materials, resulting in her reflections on the relationship between nature and culture throughout her practice. Nature’s raw materials, when combined by the artist in unexpected ways, assume potent symbolic, anthropomorphic and transfigurative connotations. Among these substances, earth – terra – is the most primal and enduring of materials in Safdie’s artist palette. This exhibition presents more than a dozen artworks spanning the last five decades of the artist’s career, highlighting key sculptures and paintings as well as selections from her experimental video practice. Subtle and absorbing, these examples from her oeuvre reveal her enduring fascination with both the material and ephemeral aspects of life on Earth, our shared home." https://www.gallery.ca/whats-on/exhib... 00:00 Introductions with Josée-Britanie Mallet, Senior Officer, Media and Public Relations 01:02 Jean-François Bélisle, Director and CEO 05:26 Andrea Kunard, Senior Curator of Photographs 12:20 Stephanie Burdzy, Assistant Curator, Contemporary Art 19:18 Q&A 24:11 Ending remarks