Michael Snow

Opening Reception: Thursday, September 17, 6pm, McIntosh Gallery, the University of Western Ontario

Project Description | Condensation: A Cove Story 2008

McIntosh Gallery: September 17 to November 1, 2009

10.28 minute looped projection, silent, by Michael Snow.

This work is a temporally compressed, condensed recording of several weather-events which took place on and near a wild landscape in the Canadian Maritimes.

These accelerated weather-events (which often include condensation in the humidity sense) took place between a digital time-lapse still camera on a tripod and the distant scene – a mountain, some cliffs, a rocky shore, a field, and water (the Atlantic).The water is the visible-to-the-camera part of a cove which is the outlet of a small river (a brook). This brook is partly the source of surprising condensation weather-events; fog, mists, clouds and rainstorms which transform the image. There is also sunlight and the shadows of racing clouds.

Hours:
Monday to Friday: 10am-5pm
Thursday: until 8pm
Saturday: 12:00pm to 4:00pm

On Sunday, September 20 we will be open 12 to 4 pm for Doors Open.

McIntosh Gallery: 
University of Western Ontario
London, ON, Canada
N6A 3K7
t: (519) 661-3181
f: (519) 661-3059
e: mcintoshgallery@uwo.ca

Contact:
Curator/Education Officer: Catherine Elliot Shaw
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celliots@uwo.ca

Artist Biography

Michael Snow is considered one of Canada’s most important living artists, and one of the world’s leading experimental filmmakers. His wide-ranging and multidisciplinary oeuvre explores the possibilities inherent in different mediums and genres, and encompasses film and video, painting, sculpture, photography, writing, and music. Snow’s practice comprises a thorough investigation into the nature of perception.

Michael Snow was born in Toronto, Canada in 1929. He studied at Ontario College of Art. Among his many awards are a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Order of Canada, and two Los Angeles Film Critics Awards. Snow has had solo exhibitions at the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto; XXV Venice Biennale; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; Centre George Pompidou, Paris; Kunstmuseum, Luzern, Switzerland; List Gallery, MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts; Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo; The Power Plant, Toronto; Musée d’Art Contemporain, Montréal; and Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki, among others.

Dave Dyment

www.davedyment.com

Project Description: Sidereal Time (Mirror Ball)

Sidereal Time: is a constellation of dozens of mirror balls suspended by crane and lit by a powerful search-lights, similar to those used to announce casino or nightclub openings. Unlit, during the day, the cluster of balls will hang dormant, as though in orbit— reflecting the light of the sun and animating shadowed areas. Illuminated, it will shoot thousands of tiny rays of light a kilometre into the air , while on the ground it will resemble the stars as reflected by the ocean as waves of conflicting patterns blanket the park.

Artist Biography

Dave Dyment is a Toronto based artist, writer and curator.  His work has been included in exhibitions in Calgary, Dublin, Edmonton, Halifax, New York City, Philadelphia, Toronto and Varna, Bulgaria. In 2008 he was the curator of Zone C for Toronto’s Nuit Blanche and the artist in residence at the Glenfiddich Distillery in Scotland. His work can be viewed at HYPERLINK “http://www.davedyment.com” \t “_blank” www.davedyment.com or heard on the YYZ anthology “Aural Cultures” and the Art Metropole disk “New Life After Fire”, a collaboration with Lee Ranaldo of Sonic Youth. Dyment is represented in Toronto by MKG127. 

Big Bang FM – from LOLA 2008