Branch:
Main Branch
Start:
Friday, May 31, 2024
- 2:00 p.m.
End:
Tuesday, June 18, 2024
- 3:00 p.m.
Location: Art Gallery
Cost: $0.00
Montageries
Artists from the AFA Collections
Kay Angliss, Carol Breen, Chris Cran, Mark Dicey, Robert Dmytruk,
John K. Esler, Les Graff, John Hall, Alex Janvier, Brenda Jones-Smith,
George Littlechild, Harry Kiyooka, Luke Lindoe, Janet Mitchell,
Marion Nicoll, Katie Ohe, John Snow, Kenneth Sturdy, Wendy Toogood
Montageries is not a term you will find in a dictionary. Rather, it is a combination of
‘montage’ and ‘memories’ with the meanings of the two packed up into one word. One
online dictionary describes a montage as being “any combination of disparate elements
that forms or is felt to form a unified whole, single image, etc.” And, according to the
same dictionary source, the word memories is a plural form of ‘memory’ – recalling
impressions and facts, embodying remembrance, and recollections of times past.
This exhibition features a concise selection of nineteen artworks from over 8,000 objects
of visual art held in the extensive permanent collection of the Alberta Foundation for the
Arts (AFA). Compositionally, each of the artworks selected were created by uniting many
varied components – montages of sorts – metaphorically highlighting that every artwork
stands as a small part of a much larger whole (the AFA collection). Multi-layered and
complex, the works included in Montageries are flashes of memory and times past that
we can now take a moment to reflect on and remember as we commemorate the
fiftieth anniversary of the Alberta Foundation for the Arts’ permanent collection in the
year 2022.
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