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Activities & Events : Exhibition (show all)

  • Tuesday May 22, 2012
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    Exhibition
    The Governor General’s Awards in Visual and Media Arts 2012
    Gallery B109

    30 Mar 2012 - 17 Jun 2012

    The Governor General’s Awards celebrate the remarkable career achievements of Canadian artistsin visual arts, including architecture, photography, independent film and video, audio and new media. The 2012 laureates are Margaret Dragu, Geoffrey James, Ronald Martin, Jan Peacock, Royden Rabinowitch, Jana Sterbak, Diana Nemiroff (outstanding contribution) and Charles Lewton-Brain (Saidye-Bronfman Award for excellence in the fine crafts).

    The exhibition is organized by the National Gallery of Canada in collaboration with the Canada Council for the Arts and the Governor General of Canada.

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    Arnaud Maggs: Identification
    Galleries B102, B103, B104 and B108

    4 May - 16 September 2012

    This survey exhibition of Canadian artist Arnaud Maggs showcases his monumental photographic installations along with pieces documenting found historical ephemera, books, typography, classification systems and diagrams.
    Organized by the National Gallery of Canada.
     

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    The Clock
    Contemporary Gallery B106

    Catch Christian Marclay's most ambitious video installation to date. The Clock evokes the wonder and illusionism of more than a century of cinema through a captivating 24-hour looped video that plays in real-time. No reservation and space is limited.

    In Gallery B106. Free admission with Gallery admission fee during regular hours.

    Special 24-hour screenings
    On the nights of Thursday 12, 19, 26 April and 3 May.
    Free admission between 5 pm and 10 am.

    gallery.ca/theclock/

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    Flora and Fauna
    Prints, Drawings and Photographs Galleries

    11 May – 9 September 2012

    Drawn from the NGC collections, this exhibition looks at the ways in which nature has been an enduring subject for artists over the centuries. A source of curiosity, consolation and spiritual regeneration, nature’s complexity, its vulnerability and beauty have all been expressed in forms that are epic, analytical, and intimate. Each one of these approaches is represented in this installation of some 100 photographs, prints, drawings, paintings and installations of gardens, landscape and the small creatures that inhabit these spaces.

    Organized by the National Gallery of Canada.

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    Installation: Janet Cardiff. Forty-Part Motet
    Rideau Chapel

    17 December 2011 - 26 August 2012
     

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    Van Gogh and Dutch Landscapes of the Golden Age
    Gallery C202B

    18 May 2012 – 3 September 2012

    This installation showcases a major work of the collection of the National Gallery of Canada, the celebrated drawing The Swamp by Vincent van Gogh produced during the artist’s Dutch period. It bridges Van Gogh’s profound appreciation of landscape with the Dutch tradition of landscape drawing and painting which emerged in the 17th century as a new and prevailing pictorial genre. Van Gogh’s early depiction of a landscape with a swamp drawn from nature in the province of North Brabant in 1881 is shown alongside representations of the Dutch landscape by artists such as Jan Lievens and Jan van Goyen working in the Netherlands during the 17th century, a period known as the Dutch Golden Age.

    Organized by the National Gallery of Canada.

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Current Exhibitions

Geoffrey James Along the Airport Road, Tijuana, 1997 NGC, Ottawa Gift of the artist, Toronto, 2009 © The Governor General’s Awards in Visual and Media Arts 2012 30 Mar 2012 - 17 Jun 2012 Christian Marclay. <em>The Clock</em>, 2010. Single channel video, 24 hours. Courtesy the Artist, White Cube, London and Paula Cooper Gallery, New York CHRISTIAN MARCLAY: THE CLOCK 30 Mar 2012 - 06 Aug 2012
Janet Cardiff Forty-Part Motet 2001 40-track audio installation Installation dimensions variable Purchased 2001 National Gallery of Canada Janet Cardiff: Forty-Part Motet 17 Dec 2011 - 26 Aug 2012 Arnaud Maggs <em>Kunstakademie, detail 1</em> (detail) Arnaud Maggs: Identification 04 May 2012 - 16 Sep 2012
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Coming Soon

Vincent van Gogh<br />Iris (detail), 1889<br />National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa Van Gogh: Up Close 25 May 2012 - 03 Sep 2012
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