The New Flâneurs: Contemporary Urban Practice and the Picturesque
September 5-December 13, 2009
AGA Collection Works
Webber
George Webber, Sweatlodge, Standoff, Blood Reserve, Alberta, photograph (silver gelatin on paper), 1999, 35.3 X 27.7cm
Bewick-Hovel
Charlton Nesbitt (student of Thomas Bewick), A Hovel Before Some Ruins, wood engraving (ink on paper), 1824, 6.5 X 9.3cm
90.42.262
Bewick-Relief
Unknown (student of Thomas Bewick), A Man Relieving Himself Among Ruins With Yoked Pigs Nearby, wood engraving (ink on paper), 1824, 7.3 X 10.2cm
90.42.228
Hohn
Hubert Hohn, untitled (from the project: Suburban Landscapes), photograph (silver gelatin on paper), 1976, 13.5 X 20.4cm
86.23.35
Arneson
Mark Arneson, Edmonton Summer 81, photograph (ektacolour on paper), 1981, 20.3 X 25.4cm
81.52.6 680
Don Gill, Erratic Space, photography, performance, various media
1 Gill Don Gill and Sarah Williams, video still, Erratic Space, collaborative performance, 2009
2 Gill Don Gill and Sarah Williams, video still, Erratic Space, collaborative performance, 2009
3 Gill Don Gill and Sarah Williams, video still, Erratic Space, collaborative performance, 2009
4 Gill Don Gill, Sidewalk - Erratic Space, Victoria Park, Dunlop Art Gallery, 2008
5 Gill Don Gill, Workspace - Erratic Space, Victoria Park, Dunlop Art Gallery, 2008
6 Gill Don Gill, Pineapple - Erratic Space Victoria Park, Dunlop Art Gallery, 2008
7 Gill Don Gill, Peterborough - Erratic Space, 2009
This exhibition mashes historical pictures of ruins, urban explorers and gamers, graffiti artists, parkour enthusiasts (traceurs or traceuses) and skate-boarders together with artist Don Gill, whose work explores concepts of free and directed routes through urban and natural environments. Many contemporary urban practices reformulate the city as an ever-changing, public space that is constantly subject and open to the transformations and embrace of it’s users. Gill uses the Situationist theory of dérive for public and personal walks to develop alternate psychogeographic routes that expose unofficial histories and break free from prescribed experience. The curatorial assumption in this exhibit is that each of these practices develops the aesthetics of the picturesque and attempts to make the city a more beautiful place. The New Flâneurs is an experiment in cross-fertilization.
Curated by Marcus Miller, Art Gallery of Alberta
Note: For the duration of The New Flâneurs exhibition (September 5 – December 13), Don Gill will walk approximately 1026 km – the equivalent round-trip distance between Lethbridge (the artist’s home) and Edmonton. Check his progress.
