| REGINA: Prairie Gothic |
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| “Forty kilometres from nowhere and way beyond normal…” This description of an ordinary Saskatchewan town from the sitcom Corner Gas hints at the truth of prairie life—that everyday appearances are deceiving. Scratch the surface of what seems banal and mundane and you may find a hidden, if slightly ironic, heart of darkness. This is the vision which informs the work of a number of contemporary artists hailing from the Canadian plains. Marcel Dzama, of Winnipeg’s Royal Art Lodge, has practically defined the contemporary gothic genre with his twisted combination of fairy tale innocence and sinister innuendo. Graeme Patterson’s return to his ancestral home of Woodrow, Saskatchewan, resulted in a miniaturized recreation of a farming community haunted with memory. Growing up in Regina, a town where Canada geese are lords of the park, shaped Bill Burns imagination and his Safety Gear for Small Animals project, which archly mirrors our truly crazy world. Set in the context of the pioneering works of subversive imagination by Victor Cicansky, Lorne Beug, and Ann James, as well as the retrospective of master surrealist Jack Sures, this exhibition of recent acquisitions truly goes “way beyond normal.” |
Location : MacKenzie Art Gallery, Regina
Contact : www.mackenzieartgallery.ca |
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