Negotiation within the Frame:
textual and pictorial connections in art presents works of art that combine text and
image. The topic is particularly relevant today, given the array of visual
material that combine text and images encountered in daily life. Typically
found in advertisements, such image text combinations also appear regularly in
the context of social media, for example, with Facebook “memes". Selected from McIntosh Gallery’s collection, the works in the
exhibition depart from the sort of bombardment typically associated with
advertising to reveal ways in which
combining texts and images can result in more subtle associations that create
unexpected tensions, oscillations and harmonies. Negotiation within the Frame is organized by McIntosh Gallery.
It includes work by Margot Ariss, Ron Benner, Robert Frank, Pierre Raymond
Gaudard, Arthur Handy, Antje Laidler, Ian MacEachern, Paddy Gunn O’Brien, Aidan
Urquhart and Joyce Wieland. It is curated by McIntosh interns Samantha Angove
and Stefani Klaric, who are Visual Arts Department graduate students at Western
University. Join us for the opening reception and catalogue launch on Wednesday
April 11 at 4:00 P.M. Refreshments served. Free admission. For more information, contact Catherine
Elliot Shaw at celliots@uwo.ca or 519 661-3181 ext. 84601.
___________________________________________________________________ Originally from Lahore, Toronto-based artist Amin Rehman explores
neo-colonialism and the way in which language is used to further political and
militaristic goals. Alternating between the traditional medium of encaustic and digitally-generated
vinyl and neon signs, Rehman uses short, quixotic texts to evoke both current
global realities and his own experience living in Pakistan and Canada. He often
quotes more than one source in the same work. Cultural meaning is further
embedded within the layers of typographically distinctive fonts. The resulting works
underline the nuance and intransigence of conflicting ideological positions. With an ironic approach to neo-colonialism, Rehman offers a trenchant
commentary on the economic disparities and inflammatory ideological statements
global capitalism provokes internationally.Rehman takes aim specifically at the complex absurdities of the fraught relationship
between the United States, Afghanistan and Pakistan. His satirical works,
emblazoned with statements devoted to political change often through violent
means, were recently exhibited in Islamabad and Lahore. Amin Rehman: A is for… includes 46 new works that challenge the
viewer to decipher fragmentary text enmeshed within the lamentable histories of
imperial power.
Negotiation within the Frame:
textual and pictorial connections in art
Joyce Wieland (1931-1998) The Arctic Belongs to itself 1974, litho, McIntosh Collection, Gift of Mrs. G.C. Chapman, 1990April 11 to December 14, 2012
University College (second floor)
Amin Rehman:
A is for…
March 1 to April 14, 2012
The forthcoming exhibition catalogue includes an interview with artist
Jamelie Hassan, and essays by exhibition curator James Patten and the internationally
acclaimed British Pakistani writer and activist Tariq Ali. The opening
reception on March 23rd at 8:00 P.M. is organized in collaboration
with the concurrent Islam and Democracy conference at Western University. For more
information, contact James Patten at jpatten2@uwo.ca or call
(519) 661-2111 ext. 84602.
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