Calendar
March 2013
Global Visions Film Festival
March 1-3, 2013
Ledcor Theatre, Lower Level
Global Visions Film Festival
March 1-3, 2013
Ledcor Theatre, Lower Level
Global Visions Film Festival
March 1-3, 2013
Ledcor Theatre, Lower Level
Freeze: Stop Motion Photography
$10/workshop
Gerard Malanga's Film Notebook
Thursday, March 7, 7 pm
Ledcor Theatre, Lower Level
Free
Regular exhibition tours with our knowledgeable Interpretive Staff are offered free with admission.
12:15 pm: The News From Here: The 2013 Alberta Biennial of Contemporary Art
(spotlight, 25 min)
2 pm: Beautiful Monsters: Albrecht Durer
(spotlight, 25 min)
A Story of Canadian Art
with Christine Boyanoski
Friday, March 8, 6 pm
Ledcor Theatre, Lower Level
$15 / $10 AGA Members
Regular exhibition tours with our knowledgeable Interpretive Staff are offered free with admission.
1 pm: Beautiful Monsters: Albrecht Durer
(spotlight, 25 min)
2 pm: The News From Here: The Alberta Biennial of Contemporary Art
(spotlight, 25 min)
3 pm: A Story of Canadian Art
(spotlight, 25 min)
In 1975, the Ernest E. Poole Foundation donated 90 works of art to the Edmonton Art Gallery, now known as the Art Gallery of Alberta. This gift remains the most significant contribution ever made to the AGA’s collection of historical Canadian art. It includes major works from the late 19th century by Tom Thomson and the Group of Seven, as well as mid-century modernists and renowned westerners such as James Henderson. These paintings had been originally collected by Ernest E. Poole, who passed away some ten years before the donation was given to the Gallery under the direction of his son John. In celebration of the Poole legacy, this exhibition features key works from the 1975 gift. It will consider how this bequest has shaped exhibiting practices at the Gallery and the discourse of Canadian art history to which it has contributed.
Presented by
In 2010, David Janzen ventured out on a series of trips to landfills across Alberta. He took photographs, made sketches, and returned home to his studio to create a new series of paintings. The resulting work featured piles of neatly sorted debris in front of often sublime vistas of the surrounding landscape.
This series by Janzen followed from earlier work where the artist focused on infrastructure seen up against the sky: security cameras, flood lights etc. Other works represent man-made disasters: the nose of a crashed plane, an impossibly tall dam about to crack. For Janzen, respect for innovation, development and progress is intertwined with dread. A sense of dystopia is combined with a sense that, in Janzen’s words, “things on this Earth are unfolding as they should.” This new series of paintings approaches the subject matter of waste management with curiosity and, ultimately, calmness as detritus is juxtaposed with the terrain that it may, eventually, overtake.
The RBC New Works Gallery features new artworks by Alberta artists. Initiated in 1998 and named the RBC New Works Gallery in 2008, this gallery space continues the Art Gallery of Alberta’s tradition of supporting Alberta artists.
Media Partner
Artist Patrons Barry Zalmanowitz and June Ross.
This unique exhibition features highlights of the historic collection of Canadian art that began in the first half of the 20th century at Hart House at the University of Toronto. Artists include: A.Y. Jackson, Emily Carr, David Milne and Lawren Harris. This exhibition showcases key works that tell us about particular critical junctures in the history of how this singular collection of Canadian art was built and will also provide glimpses into how the history of art in Canada has been written.
The exhibition is curated by Dr. Christine Boyanoski and organized by the Justina M. Barnicke Gallery at Hart House for the Art Gallery of Alberta.
Regular exhibition tours with our knowledgeable Interpretive Staff are offered free with admission.
1 pm: The News From Here: The Alberta Biennial of Contemporary Art
(spotlight, 25 min)
2 pm: A Story of Canadian Art
(spotlight, 25 min)
3 pm: Beautiful Monsters: Albrecht Durer
(spotlight, 25 min)
All tours last approximately 25 minutes and are delivered by our knowledgeable Interpretive Staff.
Free with admission.
6:30 pm: The News From Here: The Alberta Biennial of Contemporary Art
7:30 pm: A Story of Canadian Art
Mixed Messages: Poster Making
$10/workshop
All tours last approximately 25 minutes and are delivered by our knowledgeable Interpretive Staff.
Free with admission.
12:15 pm: A Story of Canadian Art
2 pm: The News From Here: The Alberta Biennial of Contemporary Art
All tours last approximately 25 minutes and are delivered by our knowledgeable Interpretive Staff.
Free with admission.
1 pm: A Story of Canadian Art
2 pm: Ledcor Building Tour
3 pm: The News From Here: The Alberta Biennial of Contemporary Art
Conversation with the Artist
David Janzen with curator Ruth Burns
Wednesday, March 20, 6 pm
RBC New Works Gallery, Second Level
Free with Gallery admission
All tours last approximately 25 minutes and are delivered by our knowledgeable Interpretive Staff.
Free with admission.
6:30 pm: A Story of Canadian Art
7:30 pm: The News From Here: The Alberta Biennial of Contemporary Art
Exploring the Cabinet of Curiosity
With Megan Bertagnolli
12:10-12:50 pm
Ledcor Theatre Foyer, Lower Level
Free
DIY: Open Studio 3D
$10/workshop
All tours last approximately 25 minutes and are delivered by our knowledgeable Interpretive Staff.
Free with admission.
12:15 pm: A Story of Canadian Art
2 pm: The News From Here: The Alberta Biennial of Contemporary Art
All tours last approximately 25 minutes and are delivered by our knowledgeable Interpretive Staff.
Free with admission.
1 pm: The News From Here: The Alberta Biennial of Contemporary Art
2 pm: Dutch Landscapes
3 pm: A Story of Canadian Art
Both harbinger of danger and symbol of pride, the Dutch landscape and its typical motifs, such as the canals that criss-cross the country and the windmill, have been a source of infinite inspiration for the Dutch artists who have captured their essence and character over the centuries. Dutch Landscapes from Rembrandt to Van Gogh explores the emergence of this landscape tradition in the early 17th century, its blossoming during the Golden Age and its extension into the 18th and 19th centuries. Some of the greatest Dutch artists, such as Jan van Goyen, Jacob van Ruisdael and Rembrandt—represented in the exhibition with four of his famous etchings—brilliantly contributed to the rise of landscape as a full blown pictorial genre. These developments were to influence the course of art history in the Netherlands, which was a strong trading, military, scientific and artistic power. The selection of the drawings and prints by Dutch artists portraying landscapes inspired by their country culminates with a signature artwork from the National Gallery of Canada collection, Vincent van Gogh’s drawing The Swamp. Executed in 1881, very early in his career during his Dutch period, this rare view of a Dutch site sketched from nature displays Van Gogh’s deep love of the landscape of the Netherlands and the country’s pictorial tradition.
Organized by the National Gallery of Canada as part of The National Gallery of Canada at the Art Gallery of Alberta, presented with the support of Capital Powered Art, an exhibition series sponsored by Capital Power.
West Wind: The Vision of Tom Thomson
A film by Peter Raymont and Michèle Hozer
Sunday, March 24, 3 pm
Ledcor Theatre, ALower Level
Free with Gallery Admission
World Storytelling Day
with T.A.L.E.S.
Sunday, March 24, 1 pm
Ledcor Theatre, Lower Level
Tickets can be purchased through T.A.L.E.S; please call 780.667.8353
BMO All Day Sunday
Our Canadian Story
Sunday, March 24, 12-4pm
Manning Hall, Main Level
Free with Gallery Admission
All tours last approximately 25 minutes and are delivered by our knowledgeable Interpretive Staff.
Free with admission.
1 pm: Family Fun Tour
2 pm: Family Fun Tour
3 pm: Family Fun Tour
All tours last approximately 25 minutes and are delivered by our knowledgeable Interpretive Staff.
Free with admission.
6:30 pm: Dutch Landscapes
7:30 pm: A Story of Canadian Art
March 28, 2013
Enjoy free Gallery admission from 6-9 pm
Brought to you by Servus Credit Union
Spring Break
$10/workshop
All tours last approximately 25 minutes and are delivered by our knowledgeable Interpretive Staff.
Free with admission.
12:15 pm: Dutch Landscapes
2 pm: A Story of Canadian Art
All tours last approximately 25 minutes and are delivered by our knowledgeable Interpretive Staff.
Free with admission.
1 pm: A Story of Canadian Art
2 pm: Dutch Landscapes
3 pm: The News From Here: The 2013 Alberta Biennial
All tours last approximately 25 minutes and are delivered by our knowledgeable Interpretive Staff.
Free with admission.
1 pm: The News From Here: The Alberta Biennial of Contemporary Art
2 pm: A Story of Canadian Art
3 pm: Dutch Landscapes
