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David Askevold broke into the art scene when his work was
included in the seminal exhibition Information at New York's MOMA
1970, which cemented Conceptualism as a genre. He later became
recognized as one of the most important contributors to the
development and pedagogy of conceptual art; his work has been
included in many of the genre's formative texts and
exhibitions.
This illustrated volume takes readers on an eclectic journey
through the various strains of Askevold's pioneering practice --
sculpture/installation, film and video, photography and photo-text
works, and digital imagery. David Askevold moved from Kansas City
to Halifax in 1968 to lecture at the Nova Scotia College of Art and
Design.
During the early 1970s, his famous Projects Class brought such
artists as Sol Lewitt, Vito Acconci, John Baldessari, Dan Graham,
and Lawrence Weiner to work with his students, focusing critical
attention on his adopted city and on his own unorthodox approach to
making art. He quickly became on one of the most important
conceptual artists practicing in Canada and throughout his career
he remained at the vanguard of contemporary practice.
"David Askevold: Once Upon a Time in the East" features essays
by celebrated writer-curators Ray Cronin, Peggy Gale, Richard Hertz
(author of "The Beat and the Buzz"), and Irene Tsatsos as well as
several of Askevold's contemporaries including Aaron Brewer, Tony
Oursler, and Mario Garcia Torres. It accompanies an exhibition that
will open at the National Gallery of Canada in October 2011 and
will tour thereafter to the Confederation Centre of the Arts in
Charlottetown and the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia in Halifax.
A man in a darkened workshop, surrounded and obscured by dust
clouds. A pair of larger-than-life hands, holding a mallet, ready
to strike. Spectacles that play with the idea of turning lies into
truth and cynics into believers. A cinder block, precariously
suspended above a fragile glass, held in place by a single line of
tension. Welcome to John Greer: retroActive.Sculptor, conceptual
artist, and unconventional art maker John Greer has been telling
stories through his work for more than fifty years. Drawing on his
present and past experiences, his travels and exploits, and his
anxieties and fears, his work offers poignant meditations on the
human environment, all the while challenging the viewer's
perspective with humour, intelligence, and a trail of
narrative.RetroActive offers a comprehensive view of Greer's work
and his commitment to the discourse of sculpture. Stunningly
designed by Susanne Schaal and featuring the photographs of Raoul
Manuel Schnell, the book contains more than three hundred
representations of Greer and his work - in situ, in galleries, in
process - bringing into focus Greer's significant contributions to
the world of art and ideas. Also included in the book are essays by
Ray Cronin, Andria Minicucci, Dennis Reid, Ron Shuebrook, David
Diviney, Sarah Fillmore, and Vanessa Paschakarnis.John Greer taught
at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design for almost three
decades, where his thinking and teaching helped shape contemporary
sculpture in Canada. His work has been included in more than fifty
solo and sixty group exhibitions and is held in public and private
collections around the globe. In 2009 Greer was the recipient of
the Governor General's Award in Visual and Media Arts, Canada's
highest distinction in the field of art and culture.
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