[Bcma-l] CMA Clip Serv: Hockey exhibit travels to TO
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Thu Sep 3 18:40:41 PDT 2009
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<b>Hockey exhibit travels to Toronto</b></span></font>
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CBC News, Wednesday, September 2, 2009</span></font>
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A contemporary art exhibit about Canada's favourite game that
wowed fans in Halifax, N.S., at the Ice Hockey Federation World
Hockey Championships is now ready to tour the country.</span></font>
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<i>ARENA: Road Game</i>, a travelling exhibition, will open soon at the
Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art (MOCCA) in Toronto.</span></font>
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The hockey exhibit, which examines Canadians' fascination with the
game, was organized by the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia.</span></font>
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The exhibit runs in Toronto from Sept. 10 to Nov. 1.</span></font>
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Previously the exhibit was entitled <i>Arena: The art of hockey </i>when it
opened in Halifax in the spring of 2008, while the city was co-hosting
the International Ice Hockey Federation World Hockey
Championships.</span></font>
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Hits for hockey fans were the large ice-surfacing machine made out of
polystyrene foam and the screen capture of a Halloween skeleton in a
Leafs jersey sitting on a lawn chair with a sign that says "Leafs fan
waiting for the Cup." Life-sized sculptures of the Stanley Cup made
out of corrugated plastic and bronze also amused visitors.</span></font>
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Paintings of Wayne Gretzky, Terry Sawchuk and Bobby Orr are part
of the exhibit. Important hockey history moments such as Paul
Henderson's goal that won the Canada-Russia '72 series are also
celebrated in art works.</span></font>
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"Hockey is such an important part of the Canadian identity, and
summing it up in a single art exhibition is no simple task," according
to curator Ray Cronin.</span></font>
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Darryl Sittler, who was elected to the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1989,
is featured in a film showing as part of the exhibit. Sittler and
Saskatchewan artist Graeme Patterson worked on a stop-motion film
called 10-Point Game.</span></font>
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It takes place on a huge table-hockey set that resembles the old Maple
Leaf Gardens. The film celebrates the former Leafs captain's record-
setting 10-point game of Feb. 7, 1976.</span></font>
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