Preview â The Gallery Guide â April-May 2007
Preview â The Gallery Guide â April-May 2007
Preview â The Gallery Guide â April-May 2007
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David A. Haughton: Kindertotentanz<br />
GALLERY O - CONTEMPORARY, THE ART CENTER, VANCOUVER BC – <strong>May</strong> 3-17 David A. Haughton’s<br />
Kindertotentanz are difficult and disturbing works. Kindertotentanz, meaning “children’s dance of<br />
death”, is a group of over 100 works created between 1984 and 2000, including etchings, aquatints,<br />
pen and ink drawings, oil paintings on canvas and acrylic paintings. <strong>The</strong>y explore Dr. Haughton’s<br />
emotions as a pediatrician faced with the suffering of very ill and dying children, particularly during<br />
his early years of paediatric training in Los Angeles.<br />
<strong>The</strong> sad fact is, between genetic disorders, premature births, fetal alcohol syndrome, cancer,<br />
meningitis, neurological development and more, the malformations pictured here are a distinct reality.<br />
<strong>The</strong> expectation of a "normal" child is reasonable, but not<br />
necessarily a reality.<br />
<strong>The</strong> most affirmative spirit in the work can be traced to<br />
art created by the Maori people of New Zealand, through<br />
which Haughton found the language to structure his images.<br />
Figuring prominently are lizards, birds, eels and fish, the<br />
night, heavens and the moon. <strong>The</strong> lizard, signifying death, is<br />
a key element in the Maori theory of disease, and the<br />
doctor's task is to stop the lizard from entering the child’s<br />
mouth. In many of Haughton's images, the infants<br />
themselves are left to wrestle with the lizard. Witnessing the<br />
fateful struggles are Greek Orthodox-like saints from<br />
Haughton’s own ancestry, who provide the viewer with<br />
glimpses of hope, reverence and even awe. As both a doctor<br />
and an artist, his penetrating work is a true gift to us.<br />
David Haughton is simultaneously exhibiting Ships,<br />
Mountains, and the Sea IV, a series of British Columbia<br />
coastal landscapes, <strong>May</strong> 3-27 at <strong>The</strong> Art Center. Mia Johnson<br />
preview<br />
www.artcenter.ca<br />
David Haughton, Triptych/Trsomy 13 (1996),<br />
detail, acrylic on board [<strong>Gallery</strong> O - Contemporary,<br />
<strong>The</strong> Art Center, Vancouver BC, <strong>May</strong> 3-17]<br />
Marion Scott <strong>Gallery</strong><br />
308 Water St, Gastown<br />
✆604-685-1934<br />
www.marionscottgallery.com<br />
mon-sat 10am-5:30pm Thru Apr 29<br />
Tony Anguhalluq, “Recent Drawings”,<br />
original Inuit works on paper; Tony<br />
Anguhalluq, Phillipa Iksiraq, Thomas<br />
Iksiraq, Myra Kukiiyaut, Victoria<br />
Mamnguqsualuk, William Noah,<br />
“New Prints from Bake Lake”, Inuit<br />
stonecuts and stencils; <strong>May</strong> 5-Jun 10<br />
Edward Epp, “China Diaries”, watercolours<br />
and assemblages from travels<br />
to the People’s Republic of China.<br />
★ Michael den Hertog<br />
<strong>Gallery</strong><br />
1315 Railspur Alley, Granville Island<br />
✆604-731-0068<br />
www.michael-denhertog.com<br />
Feb-Mar: thurs-mon 10am-5pm An<br />
artist-run gallery in the new Railspur<br />
Studios project on Granville Island, a<br />
unique ‘open studio’ concept encouraging<br />
public interaction with the artist<br />
at work.<br />
Monny’s Art <strong>Gallery</strong><br />
(MAG <strong>Gallery</strong>)<br />
2675 W 4th Ave ✆604-733-2082<br />
monny@shaw.ca<br />
mon-sat 11am-6pm This gallery of<br />
long-time collector, Monny, has a permanent<br />
collection of artwork, as well<br />
as rotating exhibitions of local artists:<br />
Sonia Kobrahel, abstract and whimsical<br />
work.<br />
Monte Clark <strong>Gallery</strong><br />
2339 Granville St ✆604-730-5000<br />
www.monteclarkgallery.com<br />
tues-sat 10am-6pm Thru Apr 19<br />
Scott McFarland, works on paper that<br />
emphasize the artist’s play on the<br />
development of ink jet printing and its<br />
relation to photography; Apr 24-<strong>May</strong><br />
24 Graham Gillmore, new works.<br />
Morris and Helen Belkin<br />
Art <strong>Gallery</strong><br />
University of British Columbia<br />
1825 Main Mall ✆604-822-2759<br />
www.belkin-gallery.ubc.ca<br />
tues-fri 10am-5pm sat-sun 12-5pm<br />
closed holidays Thru <strong>May</strong> 20 John<br />
Massey, “<strong>The</strong> House That Jack Built”,<br />
which takes its title from the popular<br />
nursery rhyme, features the installation,<br />
“Room 202, A Model for Johnny”,<br />
photographic works from the 1980s,<br />
1990s and 2000, as well as a recent<br />
project, produced specifically for this<br />
touring exhibition called “Phantoms of<br />
the Modern”. In this new work Massey<br />
confounds our view of the ideal modern<br />
house that is his subject.<br />
Museum of Anthropology<br />
University of British Columbia<br />
6393 NW Marine Dr<br />
✆604-822-5087 www.moa.ubc.ca<br />
Until <strong>May</strong> 18: wed-sun 11am-5pm tues<br />
til 9pm <strong>May</strong> 19-Oct 8: daily 10am-5pm<br />
tues 5-9pm Admission: adults $9, students,<br />
seniors 65+ $7, tues 5-9pm Pay<br />
what you can (suggested contribution<br />
$5), guided tours daily 11am and 2pm.<br />
Thru Sep 3 <strong>The</strong> Village is Tilting: Dancing<br />
AIDS in Malawi, this exhibition<br />
incorporates a series of powerful masks,<br />
life-size photographs, video interview in<br />
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