Public Art and the Word on the Street: A Symposium on Art in the Public Realm
Public Art and the Word on the Street: A Symposium on Art in the Public Realm
September 24-30
Open Space, Camosun College, Fine Arts Department and the University of Victoria, Fine Arts Department presented a week long discussion on art in the public realm in conjunction with the extensive Open Space exhibition of Mowry Baden's recent work entitled A Choreography of the Ordinary: Recent Works 1988-1998. The symposium will attempt to foster critical comparisons and discussions of the wider significance of the artist's investigations inside and outside the gallery space.
Choreography of the Ordinary: Recent work, 1990 - Present
Choreography of the Ordinary: Recent work, 1990 - Present
Mowry Baden
September
This solo exhibition of the renowned Victoria artist is a comprehensive view of the artist's activity during the past decade consisting of several large scale sculptural interactive installations, including his most recent project, and a presentation of non-interactive pieces as well. The University of Victoria exhibits Baden's public sculpture maquettes alongside this exhibit. The work situates the viewer in the present time and space, a participant in the language of traditional sculpture and allows them to ask the question, "How do I fit in here?" While the viewer is participating other viewers observe them as an active component within the work. The publication of a catalogue with essays by Stanford Professor Robert Hullot-Kentor accompanies the exhibition.
The Apple of One's Eye
The Apple of One's Eye
Shai Dhali - Vertical Gallery
September
The Apple of One's Eye is composed of three panels with each one showing an aspect of prosperity. The first panel, The Golden Age, represents the unobtainable ideal for those men and women comparing their unfortunate lives to the glossy past. The Apple of Discord on the second panel is the present moment in time and the turmoil that exists in the quest for a fortunate life. The third panel has a photograph riveted to the stripped down fabric. It displays a hand begging without recognition for the wealth inside of itself, and thus remaining a slave to the act of wanting.