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Anthony McCall. Line Describing a Cone, 1973, during the twenty-fourth minute. Installation view, Into the Light: the Projected Image in American Art 1964-1977, Whitney Museum of American Art, 2001. Photograph by Hank Graber. © Anthony McCall
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DIRECTOR’S MESSAGE Dear Friends, The MacKenzie Art Gallery is preparing a wonderful series of exhibitions that will greet you in the New Year. Already on view, and extending through this spring is Anthony McCall’s Line Describing a Cone 2.0. This captivating work is a major new acquisition for the Gallery’s permanent collection and must be seen in person to be truly appreciated — exhibited here for the first time in Canada. In an adjacent gallery we will be exploring the multi-faceted work of Françoise Sullivan — one of Canada’s preeminent and most inspirational artists. Associated with les Automatistes in Quebec in the 1940s, Sullivan contributed an essay and signed the Refus Global, a manifesto that anticipated the transformation of Québecois society in the years that followed. Sullivan is credited with breaking down boundaries between visual arts and other forms — especially contemporary dance — in Canada. We are thrilled that she will be joining us for the opening of the exhibition, and a re-mount of some of her early dance choreography works from the 1940s. This project fittingly coincides with the third edition of the MacKenzie’s MAGDANCE project, a residency with Regina’s renowned company New Dance Horizons (NDH), celebrating their thirtieth year this season. The MacKenzie is proud to be the home for NDH’s entire 30th season, and to collaborate on numerous projects that invite visitors to move through and the experience the Gallery in new and interactive ways. Expanding Horizons: Collecting the Group of Seven offers opportunities to reflect on another nationally significant group of artists’ place in our cultural landscape, just as Maria Hupfield: East Wind Brings a New Day enlarges the conversation with the Group of Seven’s relationship to Canadian identity. Happy New Year, and we look forward to bundling up and seeing you at the Gallery! Make it a resolution to become a member of the MacKenzie Art Gallery this year, and be the first to see all our upcoming projects throughout the year!
Anthony Kiendl Executive Director & CEO
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ANTHONY MCCALL: LINE DESCRIBING A CONE 2.0 OPENED DECEMBER 5, 2015 The first of British-born artist Anthony
Line Describing a Cone is a landmark
original idea.” The presentation of this work
McCall’s “solid light films,” Line Describing
work that can be found internationally in
continues the MacKenzie’s long history of
a Cone (1973) set the stage for a ground-
collections such as the Whitney Museum
exhibiting the work of leading international
breaking career in lens-based installation
of American Art, Tate Modern, and Centre
projection-based artists, such as Douglas
art. Almost forty years later and now living
Georges Pompidou. Created in 1973, the
Gordon, Shirin Neshat, Stan Douglas and
in New York, McCall has reconfigured this
projection represented a breakthrough
David Claerbout, and sets the stage for a
projection work for the digital age. Using
in the development of structural film.
major installation of Canadian filmmaker
a state-of-the-art digital projector in
According to McCall, “It is the first film to
Atom Egoyan to be presented in 2016.
the place of a 16mm film projector, the
exist in real, three-dimensional space.” As
installation features a single beam of light
a film that engages viewers as participants,
ORGANIZED BY THE MACKENZIE ART GALLERY WITH
that slowly describes a complete circle over
and not merely as spectators, it is an early
THE SUPPORT OF CANADA COUNCIL FOR THE ARTS,
the course of thirty minutes. As the beam
example of interactive art.
SASKCULTURE, SASKATCHEWAN ARTS BOARD, CITY
passes through a dark, haze-filled room,
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OF REGINA, AND UNIVERSITY OF REGINA.
it creates a solid cone of light which the
Line Describing a Cone 2.0 was first
viewer can physically enter. Presented for
screened at the Tate Modern in London
the first time in Canada, Line Describing
in 2011. As McCall notes, “the 16mm film
a Cone 2.0 (2010) offers MacKenzie
original has imperfections such as scratches
audiences a chance to experience first-hand
and unevenness of line, which mark it as
a classic of expanded cinema — the most
a work made in the medium of a film; the
recent addition to the gallery’s permanent
re-make has no such imperfections, and is
collection.
in fact perfect in its digital re-stating of the
Opposite: Anthony McCall. Line Describing a Cone, 1973, during the twenty-fourth minute. Installation view, Musée de Rochechouart, 2007. Photograph by Freddy Le Saux. © Anthony McCall
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CALENDAR OF EVENTS STUDIO SUNDAYS AT THE GALLERY Sundays, from 2 – 4 pm Join us in the BMO
JANUARY 2016
FEBRUARY 2016
Learning Centre for exhibition-themed art making workshops, led by a friendly Gallery Guide. Check
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 27 Artist Talk with
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 1 Misfit Blues by Fortier
the website for details on the next workshop.
choreographer Paul-André Fortier. Shumiatcher
Danse-Création. Presented by NDH as part of
Theatre.
MAGDANCE 3: art + dance.
12:15 pm (bring your own lunch)
Doors: 1:00 pm / Performance: 1:30 pm
THURSDAY, JANUARY 28 Opening MAGDANCE
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 7 Studio Sunday: Métis
3: art + dance / Françoise Sullivan: Les Saisons
Dance Braid Project. Métis Jigging & Square
Sullivan. Join us in celebration of the opening of
Dancing led by Robin Poitras and special guests.
Françoise Sullivan: Les Saisons Sullivan followed by
2:00 — 4:00 pm (free)
Presented by:
ART ENGAGEMENT Saturdays, from 1 – 4 pm Every Saturday you will find an informed and friendly Gallery Guide in the galleries to answer questions, discuss feature exhibitions, or take you on a tour. BMO LEARNING CENTRE Join us for exhibition– themed hands–on art activities, open during Gallery hours. Fun for all ages. BOOK A TOUR Tours available by request. Call Sheri McEachern to book at 306.584.4250, ext. 4292. FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT MAGDANCE 3: ART+ DANCE, PLEASE VISIT: www.mackenzieartgallery.ca FOR TICKETS, PLEASE VISIT www.newdancehorizons.ca
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JUNE 18, 2016 BAZAART 2016
a conversation with Françoise Sullivan and curator Louise Déry. Reception to follow in celebration
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 14 Cuban Valentine with
of the Françoise Sullivan: Les Saisons Sullivan,
Luis Mario Ochoa Cuban Quartet. Co-Presented
MAGDANCE 3: art + dance, Anthony McCall: Line
with Regina Musical Club as part of MAGDANCE 3:
Describing a Cone 2.0, Rodney LaTourelle: The
art + dance.
Stepped Form, Maria Hupfield: East Wind Brings a
Doors: 1:30 pm / Performance: 2:00 pm
New Day, and Expanding Horizons: Collecting the
Dance party (free): 4:00 pm
Group of Seven. Doors open: 7:30 pm / Performance: 8:00 pm (free)
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 24 Sâkêwêwak Storytellers Festival.
FRIDAY AND SATURDAY, JANUARY 29 &
Film Screening: 1:00 — 4:00 pm
30 Misfit Blues by Fortier Danse-Création. Presented by New Dance Horizons (NDH) as part of
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 25 Sâkêwêwak
MAGDANCE 3: art + dance.
Storytellers Festival. Keynote presentation by
Doors: 7:30 pm / Performance: 8:00 pm
Christi Belcourt: 7:00 pm
SUNDAY, JANUARY 31 Studio Sunday Métis
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 27 Artist Trading
Dance Braid Project. Métis Jigging & Square
Cards. Join us in making and trading miniature
Dancing led by Robin Poitras and special guests.
works of art in our BMO Learning Centre.
2:00 — 4:00 pm (free)
2:00 — 4:00 pm
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 28: NDH Blueprint Series:
FRIDAY, MARCH 18 Art for Lunch at University
Vitruvian Recipes. Presented by NDH as part of
of Regina. Artist Peter von Tiesenhausen in
MAGDANCE 3: art + dance.
conversation. Room: RC 050
Doors: 1:30 pm / Performance: 2:00 pm
12 noon - bring your own lunch (free)
MARCH 2016
FRIDAY, MARCH 18 Stream of Dance Festival: Prairie Dance Circuit I. Presented by NDH as part of MAGDANCE 3: art + dance.
SUNDAY, MARCH 6 International Women’s Day
Doors: 7:30 pm / Performance: 8:00 pm
Dance Party. Presented with our partners the Multicultural Council of Saskatchewan, Regina
SATURDAY, MARCH 19 Stream of Dance
Immigrant Women Centre, Daughters of Africa,
Festival: Prairie Dance Circuit II. Presented by
Intercultural Grandmothers United, Amnesty
NDH as part of MAGDANCE 3: art + dance.
International. 1:00 — 3:00 pm (free)
Film Screening (A Good Madness in the
Procession to Albert St. Bridge to follow
Shumiatcher Theatre). 7:00 pm (free) Performance and Discussion to follow: 8:30 pm
THURSDAY, MARCH 10 Stream of Dance Festival: MacKenzie Presents: Stepped Forming.
SUNDAY, MARCH 20 Stream of Dance Festival:
Presented by the MacKenzie and NDH as part of
Prairie Dance Circuit III. Presented by NDH as
MAGDANCE 3: art + dance.
part of MAGDANCE 3: art + dance.
Doors: 7:00 pm / Performance: 7:30 pm
Doors: 1:30 pm / Performance: 2:00 pm
Admission: $10
Film Screening (A Good Madness): 2:45 pm (free)
SUNDAY, MARCH 13 Stream of Dance Festival
MONDAY, MARCH 21 Stream of Dance Festival:
New Works Regina. Presented by NDH as part of
Prairie Dance Circuit IV. Presented by NDH as
MAGDANCE 3: art + dance.
part of MAGDANCE 3: art + dance.
Doors: 1:30 pm / Performance: 2:00 pm
Doors: 1:00 pm / Performance: 1:30 pm
Performance action: 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm (free) SUNDAY, MARCH 27 Studio Sunday: Métis SUNDAY, MARCH 13 Studio Sunday: Artist
Dance Braid Project. Métis Jigging & Square
Workshop for Families led by Katherine Boyer.
Dancing led by Robin Poitras and special guests.
2:00 — 4:00 pm (free)
2:00 — 4:00 pm (free)
APRIL 2016 SUNDAY, APRIL 3 Storytelling Sunday Workshop: Join us for a unique family storytelling presentation of A Duck in New York City by Connie Kaldor, including a Regina Symphony Orchestra presentation and hands-on activities. 2:00 — 4:00 pm (free) THURSDAY, APRIL 7 AND FRIDAY, APRIL 8 Solitudes Solo by Daniel Léveillé Danse. Presented by NDH as part of MAGDANCE 3: art + dance. Doors: 7:30 pm / Performance: 8:00 pm SUNDAY, APRIL 10 Rêve-à-deux Rider by Par B. Leux and NDH Rouge-gorge. Presented by NDH as part of MAGDANCE 3: art + dance Doors: 1:30 pm / Performance: 2:00 pm (free) THURSDAY, APRIL 14 To Persona or Not: An Exploration: Visual Art, Philosophy, and Jung Psychology. 7:00 pm (free) FRIDAY, APRIL 29 Theo Sims, Tammi Campbell, and Dylan Miner Exhibition Opening Reception 7:30 pm. Cash bar. SATURDAY, APRIL 30 Artist Trading Cards Anniversary Celebration. Celebrate 13 dynamic years of Artist Trading Cards in Regina! 2:00 — 4:00 pm
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EXPANDING HORIZONS COLLECTING THE GROUP OF SEVEN DECEMBER 5, 2015 – APRIL 10, 2016 It was the one that got away. Norman
Since Pine Tree and Rocks, The MacKenzie
MacKenzie had never shown much interest
Art Gallery has added more a dozen works
in the Group of Seven, but in 1927 one
by the Group of Seven to its collection.
painting caught his eye: Arthur Lismer’s
Many of these generous donations have
Pine Tree and Rocks. When he approached
never been exhibited, including canvases
the artist, however, he was disappointed to
and watercolours by Arthur Lismer, A.Y.
learn that it had already been sold. A few
Jackson, and A.J. Casson. Additional
months later, to his surprise and delight,
works from the Mendel Art Gallery and
the sketch arrived in Regina — a gift from
Museum London collections will also be
Lismer.
displayed.
Expanding Horizons unites, for the first
The Group’s influence on our collective
time, the original sketch and finished
perception of the Canadian landscape is
ORGANIZED BY THE MACKENZIE ART GALLERY WITH
painting as part of a wider discussion
felt even in Saskatchewan through the
THE SUPPORT OF CANADA COUNCIL FOR THE ARTS,
about the motivations for collecting and
work of Ilingworth Kerr, Ruth Pawson, and
SASKCULTURE, SASKATCHEWAN ARTS BOARD, CITY
studying the Group of Seven.
Kenneth Lochhead. Expanding Horizons
OF REGINA, AND UNIVERSITY OF REGINA.
considers the Group of Seven’s enduring legacy.
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Arthur Lismer, Study for Old Pine Tree, 1920 (detail), oil on board, 30.2 x 40.0 cm. MacKenzie Art Gallery, University of Regina Collection. Gift from Mr. Norman MacKenzie, 1927-1.
MARIA HUPFIELD: EAST WIND BRINGS A NEW DAY DECEMBER 5, 2015 – APRIL 10, 2016 Running in conjunction with Expanding
land, Hupfield combines the two iconic
Horizons: Collecting the Group of Seven,
regional styles and extends the landscape
Maria Hupfield’s East Wind Brings a New
of the original painting to include her own
Day translates the windblown pine tree
silhouette.
from Tom Thomson’s The West Wind in conjunction with sculptural elements
This exhibition aims to create a more
reflecting Hupfield’s own Anishinaabe
inclusive representation of home while
culture — including a canoe which she built
acknowledging people on the land and
with her father.
local Anishinaabe nations. The installation considers the exclusion of First Nations
Hupfield grew up on the shores of Georgian
perspectives in dominant narratives of
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Bay and spent much of her time in the
Canadian art history.
WITH THE SUPPORT OF CANADA COUNCIL FOR
landscape that served as a model for the
THE ARTS, SASKCULTURE, SASKATCHEWAN ARTS
popularized Canadian landscape painting
BOARD, CITY OF REGINA, UNIVERSITY OF REGINA.
of the Group of Seven — a landscape which
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artists of the Woodland school of painting
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also call home. Finding both Group of Seven and Woodland styles to be inadequate vehicles for her understanding of the Maria Hupfield, East Wind Brings a New Day, Installation at the MacKenzie Art Gallery, 2015.
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MAGDANCE 3: ART + DANCE JANUARY 28 — APRIL 10, 2016 MAGDANCE 3: art + dance is a residency
connections between contemporary dance
collaboration by Albertan choreographer
program and series of related events, talks
and visual art. What does it mean to place
Helen Husak with Alberta artist Peter
and exhibitions intended to create dynamic
a dance floor where sculpture usually sits,
von Tiesenhausen, plus a host of related
spaces of convergence between visual art
and an art exhibition where viewers usually
programs and events.
and contemporary dance. It arose in 2011 in
rest as an audience of passive viewers?
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response to a simple question: what would
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happen if one invited a contemporary
gallery change the perception of art and
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dance company to stage their season in a
the world around us? These questions
public art gallery? The ongoing response
reveal and blur the boundaries between
has taken the form of a public conversation
stage and audience, and art and life.
with Robin Poitras, artistic director
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of Regina’s internationally renowned
For MAGDANCE 3, New Dance Horizons
contemporary dance company New Dance
will present its 30th anniversary season,
Horizons (NDH), and Timothy Long, Head
featuring innovative dance performances
Curator of the MacKenzie Art Gallery in an
by local and guest artist/companies
initial three month residency and exhibition
including: Fortier Danse-Création, Daniel
at the MacKenzie Art Gallery.
Léveillé Danse, and Benoît Lachambre,
ORGANIZED BY THE MACKENZIE ART GALLERY WITH
choreographers/dancers with deep ties
THE SUPPORT OF CANADA COUNCIL FOR THE ARTS,
This public conversation offers visitors
to the visual arts, as well as the Stream
SASKCULTURE, SASKATCHEWAN ARTS BOARD, CITY
an opportunity to reflect on the deeper
of Dance Festival, featuring a new
OF REGINA, AND UNIVERSITY OF REGINA.
Francoise Sullivan, Les Saisons Sullivan, Photograph by Marion Landry, Collection of Université du Québec à Montréal.
FRANÇOISE SULLIVAN: LES SAISONS SULLIVAN JANUARY 28 — APRIL 10, 2016 “I danced with light feet on the rough slopes
and collaborative residency project
acknowledged through several awards.
of winter. I turned round in the cold wind
MAGDANCE 3: art + dance, this exhibition
Sullivan has taught at Concordia University
and ran under the sun. . . . I let rhythms
offers compelling insights into an artist
since 1997 and holds honorary degrees
flow. I perceived the space of day — cut it
who opened wide the doors between art
from the Université du Québec à Montréal
and shaped it.” — Françoise Sullivan
disciplines in a passionate embrace of new
and York University. Her work can be found
forms of personal expression.
in major collections across Canada.
Françoise Sullivan’s evocative description of Danse dans la neige (1948), a
At the heart of the exhibition is the portfolio
revolutionary outdoor dance performance,
Les Saisons Sullivan (2007). The portfolio
crystallizes the vision of an artist who
of dance photographs, drawings and text
was to profoundly influence the future of
grew out of a desire to complete Sullivan’s
contemporary dance, art and film in Québec
idea to dance out-of-doors in each of the
and Canada. Françoise Sullivan: Les Saisons
four seasons and create movement in
Sullivan pays homage to her pioneering
immediate response to the environment —
contributions through an exhibition that
a flow of free invention that would also be
traces the artist’s vision which traverses
captured on film.
traditionally defined boundaries of media
ORGANIZED BY THE MACKENZIE ART GALLERY WITH
in dance, photography, film, painting and
Françoise Sullivan was made an officer
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sculpture. Presented alongside, and as
of the Order of Canada in 2009, and
SASKCULTURE, SASKATCHEWAN ARTS BOARD, CITY
part of, the MacKenzie’s inter-disciplinary
her ground-breaking work has been
OF REGINA, AND UNIVERSITY OF REGINA.
Francoise Sullivan, Les Saisons Sullivan, Photograph by Marion Landry, Collection of Université du Québec à Montréal.
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RODNEY LATOURELLE: THE STEPPED FORM SEPTEMBER 19, 2015 – APRIL 10, 2016 During the spring of 2014, artist Rodney
between everyday experience, socio-
LaTourelle worked with Illingworth
political observation, and formal study.
Kerr Gallery staff and Alberta College
For people in today’s increasingly
of Art and Design students to create
privatized and digitized world, the
a large-scale sculptural installation
preferred public space for interaction
specifically for the school’s Main Mall,
seems to be less and less body/place-
called The Stepped Form. The Stepped
based. As a participatory structure, The
Form installation addresses the nature
Stepped Form provides a renewed focus
of institutional common spaces typical
on the messy juxtapositions of everyday
of colleges and universities that were
public life, sparking conversations of how
built in Canada in the 1960s and 1970s.
public space could once again be used as
While at the MacKenzie Art Gallery,
a platform for change.
The Stepped Form offers an additional opportunity for gallery visitors to engage
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with concepts of space and function.
WITH THE SUPPORT OF CANADA COUNCIL FOR
Constructed of a hybrid network of
THE ARTS, SASKCULTURE, SASKATCHEWAN ARTS
multi-coloured stepped form modules,
BOARD, CITY OF REGINA, AND THE UNIVERSITY
this piece makes direct connections
OF REGINA.
Rodney LaTourelle, The Stepped Form, 2013, Installation at ACAD.
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