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Aganetha Dyck
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Opening Reception: Thursday, September 17, 8pm, Michael Gibson Gallery, 157 Carling Street
Project Description: Collaborating in the darkness
Aganetha Dyck: Collaborating in the Darkness
An exhibition of Hive Scans by Richard & Aganetha Dyck, with new illuminated aluminum bee work signs and drawings by Aganetha Dyck
Michael Gibson Gallery: September 5 to 26, 2009
Gallery Hours
12:00pm to 6:00 pm Tuesday to Saturday
Contact:
Jennie Kraehling, Associate Director
Michael Gibson Gallery
157 Carling Street
London, ON
N6A 1H5
(519) 439-0451
info@gibsongallery.com
www.gibsongallery.com
Artist Statment
“I am a multi media Canadian artist who is interested in language and communication; how knowledge is transported and transcribed between humans and other species. I am interested in inter species communication. I have chosen to sculpt and draw collaboratively with the honeybees for the past 14 years. My research has included the bee’s use of sound, sight, scent, vibration, and dance. I am studying the bee’s use of the earth’s magnetic fields as well as their use of the pheromones (chemicals) they produce to communicate with one another, with other species and possibly with the foliage they pollinate.
“My research has included residencies in The Netherlands: To research the Bees and flowers of The Netherlands; The Yorkshire Sculpture Park in Britain: To sculpt in the park under the direction of 2 beekeepers and their feral bee swarms, and at Passages Centre d’art Contemporain, Troyes, France: to visit the ancient bee walls of France, to meet with Dr. Yves Le Conte, scientist in Avignon, France and to work for 3 months in a studio in Troyes, France. “The bee work can take years to complete due to a short summer bee-keeping season of 7 – 9 weeks a year. I spend the rest of the year researching, traveling, and preparing work for the next bee-keeping season.”
Artist Biography
Born in Marquette, Manitoba in 1937, Aganetha Dyck’s work has been exhibited in galleries and museums across Canada and in England, France and the Netherlands. Her work can be found in the collections of such prestigious museums as the National Gallery of Canada, the Glenbow Museum, the Vancouver Art Gallery and the Yorkshire Sculpture Park in Britain.
Aganetha Dyck is known for her transformation of commonplace objects such as shoes, buttons and figurines into things which are simultaneously metaphysical, delicate and sometime humorous. She shows us that the “exotic” can be found in the most mundane and everyday of things, if one examines them with an open mind. In one sense, she doesn’t transform an object as much as she liberates objects from familiar contexts, thus imbuing them with greater meaning. Her work is about ideas and thoughts, yet it always remains accessible and alluring to the viewer.
Dyck won the Governor General’s Award in Visual Arts and the Manitoba Arts Council Arts Award of Distinction in 2007.
