Preview – The Gallery Guide | June through August 2011

www.kelownaartgallery.comGabor Szilasi: The Eloquence of the EverydayKELOWNA ART GALLERY, KELOWNA BC – May 14-Aug 14, 2011 Montréal photographer Gabor Szilasihas created a significant body of photographic work since the 1950s. In celebration of his 81stbirthday, the Musée d’art de Joliette in collaboration with the Canadian Museum of ContemporaryPhotography selected 124 photos from private and public collections for this exhibition. Currently inKelowna as part of the National Gallery’s On Tour program, The Eloquence of the Everyday focuses onimages from the past five decades taken in Hungary, rural Quebéc and Montréal.The exhibit highlights Szilasi’s sympathetic, ethnocultural portraits of once-urban landscapes, a vanishedway of life in Budapest, rural regions of Québec during the 1970s, period street scenes of Montréal,and other memorable characterstudies. Printed relatively small andhung in long rows, his images ofimpermanence and transience act as awarm and intimate journey throughrecent decades that seem all but vanished– an impression underscored bycomparison to the saturated coloursand colossal scale of much contemporaryphotographic work.Born in Hungary in 1928, GaborSzilasi became interested in photographyin the early 1950s. Largelyself-taught, he documented theHungarian Revolution in Budapestbefore fleeing in 1956 and immigratingto Canada in 1957. As both anGabor Szilasi, Motorcyclists at Lake Balaton (1954), gelatin silver print [Kelowna ArtGallery, Kelowna BC, May 14-Aug 14]artist and professor at Collège du Vieux Montréal (1971-1980) and Concordia University (1980-1995), he has had an enormous impact on the development of social-documentary photography inCanada. In 2009 he won the Prix Paul-Émile Borduas, and received the Governor General’s Awardfor Visual and Media Arts in 2010. Mia JohnsonCOLLECTION OF THE ARTIST. © GABOR SZILASI, 2009by his son Allan Bell; Thru Jun 26MAIN GALLERY The Artwork of ArnoldShives, relief prints, book collaborationsand assemblage works, alsoshowing prints from the gallery collectionalong with borrowed printsfrom the artist that represent the naturalenvironments that he has chosento explore; Jun 30-Aug 21 The Solitudesof Place: Recent Drawings byAnn Kipling, 43 drawings created byKipling in 2009 through the lens oflocality examines how this concepthas been integrated into the dialogueabout globalisation, the landsape andthe artist.Burnaby Village Museum &Carousel6501 Deer Lake Ave ✆604-297-4565www.burnabyvillagemuseum.catues-sun & holiday mon 11am-4:30pm. STRIDE STUDIO Thru Sep 5Prints from CPR Magic LanternSlides 1885-1930, View prints fromhistorical magic lantern slides producedby the Canadian Pacific Railwayto promote tourism and immigrationto Canada, curated by Michael Lawlorand Bill Jeffries and circulated by theSimon Fraser University Gallery,includes original magic lantern slidesand projectors.Japanese CanadianNational Museum6688 Southoaks Cres✆604-777-7000 www.jcnm.catues-sat 11am-5pm. Thru Oct 1Monogatari – Tales of Powell Street(1920-1942), Powell Street was thepre-war business centre of the Japanesecommunity in Vancouver, vibrantand busy, filled with people, vegetablemarkets, baseball games at OppenheimerPark and businesses.Simon FraserUniversity GalleryAQ 3004, 8888 University Dr✆778-782-4266www.sfu.ca/gallerytues-fri 10am-5pm sat 12-5pm,closed sat on holiday long weekends.Thru Jun 11 Solange Fabião,“Amazônia (Projecting on Black)”,room-size projection showing theimage on a black screen, recapturingthe effect of light falling onto theworld, takes viewers into the rainforestin real time – the changing dailyscene unfolds before us, but in theseeming absence of humanity; Jun18-Aug 5 Robert Young, “LacunarianPicturing”, one half of this paintingretrospective covers the explorationof domestic architectural space inYoung’s art, the the other half of theshow is at the Evergreen CulturalCentre.24 PREVIEW ■ JUNE/JULY/AUGUST 2011