Past Exhibitions 2006

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PLAN B - Claude Closky, Journal
November 2, 2006 to January 7, 2007
In Claude Closky’s media work, Journal, conversations between image and sound awaken our interpretive faculties as sound informs our reading of the images. The pairings simultaneously emphasize the power of the media on view and, by accumulation, remind us of the numbing effects of its mass proliferation. Like a streaming news aggregate, we sit back and experience the world washing over us.

PLAN B - Takao Tanabe: Light, Sky & Land
August 10 to November 2, 2006
Featuring selections from the Banff Centre’s permanent collection, this exhibition situates Tanabe’s painting and prints as a sensory experience - with custom lighting panels designed to respond to the subtleties of these landscapes at the edge of abstraction. In conjunction with the exhibition, additional Takao Tanabe prints from the collection and images from local archives will be on view in the foyer of the Jeanne and Peter Lougheed building.

Comic Craze
May 4 to September 3, 2006
Comic Craze explores the rich and vibrant intersection of contemporary art and narrative expressions found in comics. This large scale exhibition demonstrates the importance and specific characteristics found in Canadian independent comic books, mini-comics, ‘zines and graphic novels. Visitors to the exhibition will discover the best of French and English publications from across Canada. Capturing the different graphic and narrative styles that have made comic culture one of the most absorbing and experimental forms of expression today, the exhibition features over four hundred books from more than one hundred artists.

PLAN B - Conceptual Comics
April 27 to August 3, 2006
Conceptual Comics is an exhibition drawn from the inventory of Printed Matter, Inc., the artists’ bookstore located in New York City. Founded in 1976 by artists and art workers, including Sol LeWitt and Lucy Lippard, Printed Matter is dedicated to artists’ books and publications as art for the printed page, and as a democratic form of art-making that accesses art to a broad public, rather than to an economic elite. Printed Matter currently represents some 5000 artists with 15,000 titles.

JPL - Lynne Cohen
March 9 to June 18, 2006
This exhibition features photography from The Banff Centre Collection by 2005 Governor General's Award winner Lynne Cohen. The exhibition takes viewers on a journey that discusses interior architecture, and confirms that as humans we reflect upon the environment in which we live, create, and socialize.

PLAN B - Lida Abdul
March 9 to April 20, 2006
Over the course of five years Afghani artist Lida Abdul has created a body of work that has challenged conventional thinking about architecture. Through numerous film, video/performance and live performance works Abdul poses questions about place, community, and the meaning of our surroundings. In summer 2005, Lida Abdul produced three video works at The Banff Centre which were then presented at the 2005 Venice Biennale where she was the first official representative for Afghanistan in the Biennale’s 100 year history.

PLAN B - Kent Monkman • Paul Chaat Smith
January 26 to March 2, 2006
Acclaimed writer Paul Chaat Smith responds to The Trilogy of St. Thomas by visual artist Kent Monkman. In these paintings the narrative, a tragic gay love story, serves as an allegory for the relationship between Europeans and the Aboriginal peoples of North America. The story is told in three large scale paintings: contact (The Impending Storm), conflict (The Fourth of March), and resolution (Not The End of The Trail) a series inspired by the mythological paintings of Hudson River painter Thomas Cole, The Voyage of Life.

Jimmie Durham: Knew Urk
November 12, 2005 to March 26, 2006
Curated by Robert Blackson and Candice Hopkins, and co-organised by the Reg Vardy Gallery in Sunderland, UK, this exhibition combines elements of painting, assemblage, sculpture, and works in stone. Jimmie Durham is a Washington born and Berlin-based artist, writer, and activist of Cherokee heritage, who was an active member in the American Indian Movement throughout the 1970s and early 1980s.


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