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| | Above: Ken Lum, Birdie Africa, 2015, plaster bust (installation view) Courtesy of the artist. |
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For Immediate Release: February 22, 2017
SPRING EXHIBITIONS March 2 - April 16, 2017
OPENING RECEPTION: THURSDAY, MARCH 2, 6 - 9 PM
Ken Lum Artist Talk: 7 PM
GET ON THE FREE BUS TO THE AGM! The bus departs from The Gladstone Hotel (1214 Queen Street West, Toronto) at 6 PM. The bus leaves the AGM at 8:30 PM for return trip to Toronto. To reserve your seat, RSVP with Eventbrite!
The AGM is thrilled to present two new exhibitions this Spring. Join us for the opening reception of Ken Lum's A Matter of Life and Death and Nam Phi Dang's Somewhere Else. Artists will be in attendance.
KEN LUM | A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH
March 2 - April 16, 2017
A Matter of Life and Death brings together three bodies of work by internationally established Canadian artist Ken Lum that take up the question of truth in representation, in forms that can be considered a kind of portraiture.The text-based paintings, prints, and sculptures in this exhibition reference obituaries and memorial busts--ways in which we recount, document and celebrate a life lived, but which are only produced and published upon its end. Often a simple recounting of dates, activities and peoples, obituaries and memorials invite questions: is this how the deceased would have described themselves in life? Is this a true accounting of their stories? The viewer is invited to investigate the intersection of the fictive and the biographical, and what constitutes a representation of a life/death, through Lum's signature sly sense of humour.
Vancouver-born Ken Lum has been an artist for over 35 years producing conceptual and representational art in a range of media, including painting, sculpture and photography. He is currently Chair of the Department of Fine Arts at the University of Pennsylvania's School of Design. A founding editor of Yishu Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art, he has published catalog essays on Chen Zhen, Liu Wei, Ian Wilson and Trevor Mahovsky/Rhonda Weppler. He has an extensive record of international exhibitions, including Documenta and numerous biennales. Lum has also completed several permanent public art commissions in Vienna, Leiden, Utrecht, Vancouver, Toronto, St Louis and St Moritz. He is presently working on a memorial commemorating the 1986 Lake Nyos disaster in Cameroon. Lum has served as curator of several large-scale exhibitions including Sharjah Biennial 7, Shanghai Modern: 1919 -1945 and the NorthWest Annual. He is presently co-curator of Monument Lab: Creative Speculations for Philadelphia, a citywide exhibition of major commissions to open in the fall of 2017 in Philadelphia.
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| | | Above: Nam Phi Dang, Flower Village in Hanoi, 2015, C-print. Courtesy of the artist. |
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| NAM PHI DANG | SOMEWHERE ELSE | XIT-RM
March 2 - April 16, 2017
Opening Reception: Thursday, March 2, 6 - 9 PM
Artist talk and Curator's Tour of Spring Exhibitions: Sunday, March 12, 1 PM
Somewhere Else is a photo essay resulting from Nam Phi Dang's recent trip to Vietnam, the country from which his parents fled years ago. With this series of dream-like yet documentary images, Dang confronts tensions felt by those raised in one country but with cultural ties to another, and explores the disconnect between the perception and reality of ideas of heritage and homeland.
Nam Phi Dang is a photographer based in Mississauga. His work was selected for Magenta's Flash Forward 2016, a competition for emerging photographers in Canada, the UK and the US, and his photojournalism has been featured in Toronto Life, Vice and the Globe and Mail.
The XIT-RM is a project space showcasing emerging artists in the Mississauga, GTA and 905 regions. This exhibition is generously supported by the RBC Foundation.
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| ABOUT THE ART GALLERY OF MISSISSAUGA | The Art Gallery of Mississauga (AGM) is a public, not-for-profit, art gallery located in the Mississauga Civic Centre, right on Celebration Square and across from Square One Shopping Centre. The AGM is generously supported by the City of Mississauga, the Ontario Arts Council, the Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Trillium Foundation, private citizens and its members. First. New. Next. The AGM provides platforms for exhibitions, collections and experimentation in contemporary culture with a recent focus on artists and cultural producers from Indigenous, newcomer and youth communities. Through a broad range of educational programs, artist projects and other forms of critical dialogue, the AGM seeks to transcend traditional disciplinary boundaries, foster community, and provide spaces where alternative modes of thought are supported and activated in tangible ways. The AGM is proud to admit people free of charge, serve communities, and provide positive visual art experiences for all visitors. Directions to the AGM, as well as transit routes and other information, can be found |
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