until December 2\, 2007
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The Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery is p leased to present an exhibition by Toronto artist Luis Jacob. This exhibit ion features the Vancouver premiere of work from a new series of video inst allations—A Dance for Those of Us Whose Hearts Have Turned to Ice…—that Jac ob produced for Documenta 12\, which took place in Kassel\, Germany\, from June to September 2007. His work received a positive critical response.
Jacob’s work explores the relationship between sculpture and dance\, an d takes its inspiration from two seemingly disparate art historical sources —the sculpture of British artist Barbara Hepworth\, and the choreography of Quebecoise artist Françoise Sullivan. Sullivan’s performance of Danse dan s la neige in 1948 was a seminal event in the history of modern dance in Ca nada. A Dance for Those of Us Whose Hearts Have Turned to Ice… pays homage to this legendary work of modern Canadian art.
Also included in the e xhibition is Album III\, a work that consists of hundreds of photographic i mages collected from a variety of books\, magazines\, and other publication s. These images are montaged together within plastic-laminate panels to for m an “image bank” that creates a visual narrative through processes of asso ciation and visual puns. Album III was published as an artist-book by Verl ag der Buchhandlung Walther König\, Cologne.
The exhibition will also feature new work especially produced for Jacob’s exhibition in Vancouver.< /p>
Luis Jacob is an artist\, curator\, writer and educator. His work ha s been featured in solo and group exhibitions across Canada at the Art Gall ery of Ontario (Toronto)\, Articule (Montreal)\, Artspace Gallery (Peterbor ough)\, AKA Gallery (Saskatoon)\, The New Gallery (Calgary)—and internation ally at Documenta 12 (Kassel\, Germany)\, Het Wilde Weten (Rotterdam)\, Lon gwood Art Center (Bronx)\, New Langton Arts (San Francisco)\, Gallery Hippo lyte (Helsinki)\, among others.
We gratefully acknowledge the support of The Canada Council for the Arts.
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