[BCMA] Media Release Kamloops Art Gallery | George Raab and Landscape Revised open October 19

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Donald Lawrence
Video still from A Camera Obscura on the Tamar, 2011


MEDIA RELEASE

For immediate release from
Kamloops Art Gallery
October 15, 2013

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Into the Woods: Etchings by George Raab
&
Landscape Revised

October 19 to December 31, 2013

Curator's Tour with Charo Neville and Artist's Tour with George Raab:
Saturday October 19, 5:30 pm

Opening Reception: Saturday October 19, 6:30 to 8pm

The Kamloops Art Gallery is pleased to launch its fall programs with two new exhibitions focusing on the theme of landscape. The touring Art Gallery of Peterborough survey exhibition, Into the Woods: Etchings by George Raab, curated by Carla Garnet, features variations on the forest, a theme that is central to George Raab's practice. Raab's work spans four decades and is grounded in portraying the wooded world. In as much, his solo exhibition, while presenting a combination of contemporary and traditional printmaking technologies, points to the significance of forest imagery in our larger cultural imagination.

Raab's imagery reveals expanses of treed space that can be scrutinized from many perspectives - technically, spiritually, politically, and aesthetically. On a formal level, the artist's quiet perspective on spectacular views uses a mix of design techniques as well as the vanishing point, for their scenic impact. When most restrained, Raab's etchings border on abstraction, constituted by interaction between colour and line, representation and non-representation, in addition to authenticity and fiction; while on a more personal level, his works can be reflected upon as metaphors for subjective experience.



Landscape Revised is a group exhibition featuring the work of Arabella Campbell, Franklin Carmichael, Althea Thauberger, Donald Lawrence, Mark Soo and Jin-me Yoon. As conventional perspectives about our relationship to nature continue to shift, artistic practices over the past many decades have sought to deconstruct pastoral and picturesque approaches to representing the landscape in order to question the ways we think about nature and how it has been depicted. In 1996, curator Annette Hurtig organized a group exhibition at the Kamloops Art Gallery entitled The Culture of Nature that investigated current artistic approaches (at the time) to the history of landscape painting. This exhibition brought together "art works that differ from traditional approaches to landscape, in so far as they examine the relationships between culture and nature...[to] reconstruct some transformations to the concept of nature in the latter half of the twentieth century."

Landscape Revised revisits this topic seventeen years later through a selection of diverse formal and conceptual strategies that unpack ideas of landscape, nature and wilderness. It recognizes the enduring interest in this subject and the continuum of ideas that are persistently taken up by visual artists in a variety of ways. Running concurrently with Into the Woods, Etchings by George Raab, which showcases a major survey of Raab's sustained commitment to meticulously and expressively depicting his natural surroundings, Landscape Revised offers insight into a range of other methodologies by artists who address landscape through video, installation, painting, performance and photography.


Please direct all media inquiries to Craig Willms, Assistant Curator, Kamloops Art Gallery,
(250) 377-2406 or cwillms at kag.bc.ca<mailto:jgordon at kag.bc.ca>

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