“An Art at the Mercy of Light:” Recent Works by Eli Bornstein
June 14 to September 15, 2013
“An Art at the Mercy of Light” is an exploration of sensory experience through the work of celebrated local artist Eli Bornstein, who has been one of the province’s most influential artists for more than 50 years. The exhibition contextualizes Bornstein’s ongoing practice in relation to both early modernist movements and the current revival of perceptual and experiential art.
Shaping Saskatchewan: the art scene 1936-1964
June 14 to September 15, 2013
This exhibition highlights an important period in the province’s artistic development, marked by an almost utopian sense of optimism, and astonishing productivity. These works from the Mendel Art Gallery’s permanent collection demonstrate a self-conscious and experimental attitude, and a synthesis of international concerns within a regional sensibility. Shaping Saskatchewan provides a regional context for the concurrent exhibition, The Automatiste Revolution.
The Automatiste Revolution: Montreal 1941-1960
June 14 to September 15, 2013
The Automatiste Revolution, organized and circulated by the Varley Art Gallery, is an extensive exhibition of Les Automatistes, a modernist, dissident group of Québécois artists whose luminaries included Jean-Paul Riopelle and Paul-Émile Borduas. Influenced by Surrealism, rejection of religion, and other anti-establishment ideals, Les Automatistes in the early 1940s signed Le Refus global, a manifesto that became a key document in Québec’s Quiet Revolution. They continued working together until 1960. Today, Les Automatistes are recognized as the most interdisciplinary and possibly the most important modernist art movement in Canada.
Rodney LaTourelle
June 14 to September 15, 2013
Rodney LaTourelle is a Canadian artist and writer based in Berlin. His large-scale colour installations, public art works and architectural interventions explore the psychological effects of colour and physical space in an immersive viewing experience. LaTourelle has been commissioned to produce a new site-specific work especially for the Mendel Art Gallery.
Iris Hauser and Cate Francis: Altered States
June 14 to September 15, 2013
Opening Reception: Friday, June 14 at 8 p.m.
Saskatoon printmaker Cate Francis obtained her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the University of Saskatchewan in 2008. She is a founding member of Ink Slab Printmakers, and is pursuing a Master of Fine Arts degree at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design.
