Reframing a Nation
June 26-January 30, 2011
Cornelius Krieghoff
Indian Trappers Group, no date
Oil on Canvas
Art Gallery of Alberta Collection, gift of the Ernest E. Poole Foundation, 1975
Franklin Carmichael, Sombre Valley, 1936. Oil on masonite
Art Gallery of Alberta Collection, gift of the Ernest E. Poole
Foundation, 1975
Programming
Course - Art in Context
September 14, 2010, 6:00 pm
$25 / $20 AGA Members (GST will be applied to course fees)
Limited enrolment; refreshments included in tuition
September 14 | Contentious Images: Canadian Visual Identity in the 19th and 20th Centuries
In conjunction with the exhibition Reframing a Nation, with AGA Interpretive Programs Coordinator, Dr. Liz Gomez.
In Canada, the myths that surround landscape are powerful. Reframing a Nation explores the role that landscape plays in the construction of Canadian identity. It looks at what these myths are and how they have shaped popular perceptions of our country.
This exhibitions features works from a major donation to the Gallery by the Ernest E. Poole Foundation in 1975, which today forms much of the core of the AGA’s collection of historical Canadian works.
Reframing a Nation considers how works by Canadian artists such as Frederick Verner, Cornelius Krieghoff, Tom Thomson, The Group of Seven, Emily Carr and David Milne have been viewed in the past, and searches for new ways to talk about them in the present.
This exhibition includes a photographic mural by contemporary artist Maria Hupfield. Hupfield is of Anishnaabe (Ojibway) heritage, and a member of Wasauksing First Nation in Ontario. Her work focuses on land, memory, community and the power dynamics of gender.
Reframing a Nation features a project by DodoLab titled Ideas of Canada. In this project visitors are asked to choose 3 icons they think are the most Canadian, and 3 icons they think are the least Canadian.
The results are being tallied and posted here on our website.
