AG's annual report 2009 - Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery
AG's annual report 2009 - Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery
AG's annual report 2009 - Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery
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July 15, <strong>2009</strong> – September 11, <strong>2009</strong><br />
Some Kind of Wonderful: The 4th KW|AG Biennial<br />
David Blatherwick, Josh Cleminson, Patricia Deadman, Susan Dobson, Scott Everingham,<br />
Ann Marie Hadcock, Shane Krepakavich, Gareth Lichty, Eileen Mac<strong>Art</strong>hur, Janet Morton,<br />
and Ehryn Torrell. Curated by Nancy Campbell. Presented in co-operation with the <strong>Kitchener</strong>-<br />
<strong>Waterloo</strong> Society of <strong>Art</strong>ists<br />
This celebration of our region’s artists alluded to the idea that there can be many kinds of wonderful.<br />
Wonder can refer to a sublime, awe-inspiring quality of beauty, and it can refer to an active inquiry. From<br />
woven garden hose, to fibre bonfires, to a recreation of a chapel floor from memory, the works in this<br />
exhibition challenged pre-conceived notions of materiality and presentation, while asking us to reinvent<br />
what and how we see.<br />
Claude Tousignant: In Perpetuity<br />
This intimately scaled exhibition featured four works by Tousignant from KW|AG’s own collection.<br />
Identifiable for his strategic use of hard edge processes and minimalist elegance, Tousignant’s experiments<br />
with colour and shape eschew spontaneity in favour of geometric precision. His recognizable<br />
“target” or “gong” paintings of concentric rings on circular canvases, later followed by his monochromes,<br />
are among the most dynamic and persistent images in modern Canadian art.<br />
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