Liz Magor
The Blue One Comes in Black
09 Sep - 18 Dec 2016
LIZ MAGOR
The Blue One Comes in Black
9 September t - 18 December 2016
Associate curators : Claire Le Restif & Nigel Prince (CAG Vancouver)
Liz Magor (born in 1948; lives and works in Vancouver) is a major artist on the contemporary Canadian art scene. She represented Canada at the 1984 Venice Biennale and is the subject of a 2016 retrospective that is currently running at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Montreal.
Magor draws her ideas from beliefs, reactions, and human behavior, especially when they have something to do with the material world. She is interested in the social and emotional lives of ordinary, even domestic objects, being especially fond of materials that have lost the luster of their former use or function. Selecting them for their capacity to contain and reflect stories, like personal and collective identities, Magor reveals a resonance that goes beyond their mere utilitarian function through transformations and shifts.
Her works, she says, are designed, created and polished through a play of contradictions and seem to restore the antagonisms that both torment and partake of the vitality of existence. Magor tips us off, as it were, by working from hyperrealist casts of daily objects and articles of clothing, and stitching back up and conserving objects chosen for their manifest obsolescence. Through this awakening of an anonymous material world, we can read a certain history of our modern culture, from property to the need to protect and accumulate, as well as the ambiguity and inconstancy of the desire that connects us with objects.
For The Blue One Comes in Black, Magor has brought together a recent group of sculptures and photographs, which allow the visitor to measure the formal extent of her approach, looking to stress the memory of what is human for an exhibition located in a former factory.
At the same time, an exhibition of Liz Magor is presented at Marcelle Alix gallery from 9 September to 29 October 2016 -
4 rue Jouye-Rouve, Paris 20
Book (published fall 15): Liz Magor, The Blue One Comes in Black.
The exhibition is a partnership between CAG Vancouver (Canada) and Peep-Hole, Milan (Italy). It has been supported by the Canadian Cultural Centre in Paris ; Canada Council for the Arts International Touring Program, The Province of British Columbia / Touring Initiative and BC Arts Council Touring Initiative Program.
Liz Magor is represented by Susan Hobbs, Toronto, Catriona Jeffries, Vancouver and Marcelle Alix, Paris.
The Blue One Comes in Black
9 September t - 18 December 2016
Associate curators : Claire Le Restif & Nigel Prince (CAG Vancouver)
Liz Magor (born in 1948; lives and works in Vancouver) is a major artist on the contemporary Canadian art scene. She represented Canada at the 1984 Venice Biennale and is the subject of a 2016 retrospective that is currently running at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Montreal.
Magor draws her ideas from beliefs, reactions, and human behavior, especially when they have something to do with the material world. She is interested in the social and emotional lives of ordinary, even domestic objects, being especially fond of materials that have lost the luster of their former use or function. Selecting them for their capacity to contain and reflect stories, like personal and collective identities, Magor reveals a resonance that goes beyond their mere utilitarian function through transformations and shifts.
Her works, she says, are designed, created and polished through a play of contradictions and seem to restore the antagonisms that both torment and partake of the vitality of existence. Magor tips us off, as it were, by working from hyperrealist casts of daily objects and articles of clothing, and stitching back up and conserving objects chosen for their manifest obsolescence. Through this awakening of an anonymous material world, we can read a certain history of our modern culture, from property to the need to protect and accumulate, as well as the ambiguity and inconstancy of the desire that connects us with objects.
For The Blue One Comes in Black, Magor has brought together a recent group of sculptures and photographs, which allow the visitor to measure the formal extent of her approach, looking to stress the memory of what is human for an exhibition located in a former factory.
At the same time, an exhibition of Liz Magor is presented at Marcelle Alix gallery from 9 September to 29 October 2016 -
4 rue Jouye-Rouve, Paris 20
Book (published fall 15): Liz Magor, The Blue One Comes in Black.
The exhibition is a partnership between CAG Vancouver (Canada) and Peep-Hole, Milan (Italy). It has been supported by the Canadian Cultural Centre in Paris ; Canada Council for the Arts International Touring Program, The Province of British Columbia / Touring Initiative and BC Arts Council Touring Initiative Program.
Liz Magor is represented by Susan Hobbs, Toronto, Catriona Jeffries, Vancouver and Marcelle Alix, Paris.