September 18-20, 2009
Illingworth Kerr Gallery | ACAD
Featuring | Numa Dallaire, Florian Koehl, Ricardo Okaranza and Jeanie Riddle.
The IKG is pleased to present four related exhibitions that address imagined and real living spaces, domestic and institutional space, the forgotten or overlooked, and the strength of memory in shaping those spaces.
Join ACAD for a series of public conversations with featured artists during the 2009 Alberta Arts Days
ACAD’s Illingworth Kerr Gallery will be open with extended hours on Sunday, September 20th, 2009. Gallery hours on this special Sunday will be 10:00 AM - 6:00 PM, to celebrate Alberta Arts Days. Be sure to catch this last day of the summer programming!
Public Conversation with Anna von Gwinner, Florian Koehl and Neil Minuk
Friday, September 18, 2009 | 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Stanford Perrott Lecture Hall | ACAD
What a mess! A conversation between artist Anna von Gwinner and architects Florian Koehl and Neil Minuk about the project + 1 House..., the subject of the IKG’s current exhibition.
Berlin-based Florian Koehl has worked on the phenomenon of simultaneity in architecture. After teaching and working with Daniel Liebeskind for many years, Koehl opened FAT KOEHL ARCHITEKTEN in order to develop and realize his own ideas. His first project, a housing block in the centre of Berlin became a testing field. Koehl not only designed the building but, together with artist Anne von Gwinner, bought the site, found the clients, and co-designed with them. The result is ten houses within one house. This exhibition tells the story of design-and-build relationships between the architect and each of ten clients.
Neil Minuk is a renowned Winnipeg architect and curator whose most recent projects include the new Plug In ICA, Winnipeg. He teaches at the University of Manitoba Faculty of Architecture and directs the School's exhibition program, where +1 House was first presented.
Public talk in the Illingworth Kerr Gallery
Saturday, September 19, 2009 | 1:00 PM
Free to all
Montreal-based Numa Dallaire is influenced by the decorative friezes found at Pompeii, the op art album covers of metal bands and the graphic mazes of M.C. Escher. Numa has constructed a site-specific painting installation using a labour-intensive process that will subtly alter both the white cube of the gallery and the consciousness of the viewer. Visually pulsating, these highly experiential paintings ask viewers to second guess the transparency of the artist's style and working process.
Numa has participated in exhibitions at Galerie René Blouin, Montréal, the 2007 Biennale de Montréal: Crack the Sky, and other visual art and music projects.
Public talk in the Illingworth Kerr Gallery
September 19, 2009 | 1:30 PM
Jeanie Riddle presents an ambitious installation that shifts freely between strict formalism and the potential of an expanded painting, California is an homage to the DJ booth and club lounge, as well as structured domestic habitat. California is comprised of a curvilinear sculptural platform, cubes in muted shades of beige, paper flowers under plexi-glass, and stacks of coloured latex pieces. One colour photograph completes the installation. Loosely referencing the mid-20th century California bungalow, it is a modern retreat devoid of human presence. Sound is indicated throughout the tomb-like installation, but never realized ---- think DJ lounge with DJ Absent.
Jeanie Riddle lives and works in Montréal. Trained in painting at Concordia University, she has been developing a sculptural installation practice rooted in the techniques and ideals of modernist painting since 2002. Her work has been presented across Canada at The New Gallery (Calgary), Optica (Montréal) and YYZ (Toronto). Her collaborative work includes exhibitions at Centre des arts actuels SKOL (Montréal) and Alley Jaunt (Toronto). Riddle was the recipient of a full fellowship to the Vermont Studio Center in May 2005 and a finalist in the 2008 Royal Bank of Canada's Canadian Painting competition.
