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January 25, 2012, 11:30 AM

Cyprien Gaillard: Artist Talk

EMILY CARR UNIVERSITY
1399 JOHNSTON STREET
VANCOUVER, BC

SOUTH BUILDING #301

Presentation House Gallery is pleased to present an artist talk by Paris-born, Berlin-based artist Cyprien Gaillard.

Between iconoclasm and minimal aesthetics, romanticism and Land Art, the work of Cyprien Gaillard questions man’s traces in nature with an archeological approach to recent history. Through sculpture, painting, etching, photography, video, performance and large-scale interventions in public space, Gaillard examines the relics of our built environment with an entropic view of destruction as the starting point of renewal

Gaillard’s most recent work Artefact is a film shot on the artist’s iPhone and later transferred to 35mm film. The film traces the ancient city of Babylon (near the current city of Al-Hillah in Iraq) cut with a snippet of David Grey’s song ‘Babylon’ as the score. The work won the 2011 Publikumspreis (people’s choice prize) in Germany’s Young Art Prize exhibition at Berlin’s Hamburgerbahnhof.

In The Recovery of Discovery, Gaillard notoriously built a pyramid out of 72,000 bottles of beer at KW Institute for Contemporary Art in Berlin and invited visitors to contribute to the work by drinking it. As Gaillard states:. “The physical hangover is also an architectural one, from which one has to recover.”

Gaillard was recently awarded the 2010 Prix Marcel Duchamp, France’s most prestigious award for contemporary visual arts.

Cyprien Gaillard’s talk is presented in collaboration with Emily Carr University and with the gracious support of the Consulat général de France à Vancouver. He is represented by Sprüth Magers Gallery, Berlin.

December 9, 2011, 8:30 PM

Holiday launch party and photograph sale!

Friday, December 9th at 8:30 PM

Presentation House Gallery, in collaboration with Publication Studio Vancouver, Slade Editions and Trapp Editions, invites you to a launch party in celebration of our new editions and publications, including the coloured vinyl LP, 10 Riot Songs, by Cranfield and Slade and a hardcover book, Karlheinz Weinberger: Jeans.

The party kicks off a month long holiday showcase and sale of prints, publications and editions, including up to 30% off on select titles in the bookstore.

The print sale features Presentation House Gallery editions by contemporary artistsCedric Bomford, Roe Ethridge, Annette Kelm, Kevin Schmidt, Jeremy Shaw, and Cheyney Thompson; rare historical photographs by Eugene Atget, Karl Blossfeldt, Walker Evans and Jacques-Henri Lartigue; prints by Vancouver street photographers Fred Herzog and Curt Lang, and more.

10 Riot Songs by Vancouver duo Cranfield and Slade features cover versions of songs about riots, recorded live at the Candahar Bar in 2010. Riot Songs is Brady Cranfield and Kathy Slade’s dystopian follow up to their 2009 LP Sun Songs.

Jeans, by Swiss photographer Karlheinz Weinberger, replicates a portfolio he designed and assembled in the mid-1950s, produced in collaboration with the Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Basel, the Swiss Institute, New York and Bywater Bros Editions, Toronto.

Also being launched are two editions by Vancouver art publishers. Whole Lotta Loveis a silkscreen print and artist book by Myfanwy MacLeod published by Slade Editions | Publication Studio Vancouver + I WANT IT ALL I WANT IT NOW, a poster edition by Kathy Slade produced by Trapp Editions, Vancouver.

All works are available for purchase until January 8, 2012. The gallery and office will be closed from December 24th, 2011 to January 3, 2012.

December 1, 2011, 7:30 PM

Book Launch

At the World’s Edge-Curt Lang’s Vancouver: 1937–1998
READING AND SLIDE SHOW WITH AUTHOR CLAUDIA CORNWALL

Claudia will read from a few selected chapters including: Wild and Memorable Poets, Naked in the VAG, Smoking Gideon, and Dreaming in Black and White. She will also show slides from Curt’s 1972 Portfolio.


Curt Lang, Granville Street, 1972

Foreword by David Beers
Introduction by Greg Lang

This book tells the story of a man and a city. Curt Lang was a legend in Vancouver. An intellectual and a catalyst, Lang’s interests spanned many worlds. As a teenager, he met Malcolm Lowry and became friends with Al Purdy. Excerpts of previously unpublished correspondence between Al Purdy and Curt Lang reveals much about both their characters. In his twenties, Curt Lang was a beat, who published poetry and painted. He was friends with many in Vancouver’s creative community―poets, Peter Trower, John Newlove, and Jamie Reid; artists Fred Douglas, David Marshall, and Roy Kiyooka; and musicians Al Neil, and Glenn MacDonald. He became a street photographer in the early 1970s and was a member of the Leonard Frank Memorial Society of Documentary Photographers, along with Nina Raginsky, Fred Douglas, Tod Greenaway and Rod Gillingham. (The National Gallery of Canada’s Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography purchased some of his prints.) Then in his thirties, he built boats and fished when the money in that industry was so good, the scene in Prince Rupert was like a Gold Rush. In his forties, he became involved in the high-tech industry, where he was awarded two patents, and started several companies. He also developed hardware and software for the railroad industry that today is used all over North America. Curt Lang’s life energetically parallels the evolving history of Vancouver from the hip subculture years to the electronic postmodern 1990s.

At the World’s Edge includes many of Curt Lang’s previously unpublished poetry, drawings and photography; as well as a portfolio of forty rare 1972 Vancouver photographs.

Claudia Cornwall was a friend of Curt Lang and in this part biography, part memoir she draws on conversations during her (and her husband’s) twelve-year friendship with Curt. A freelance writer for more than twenty years, Claudia wrote about the artist Jack Hardman in the second book in the Unheralded Artists of British Columbia series, The Life and Art of Frank Molnar, Jack Hardman, and LeRoy Jensen (Mother Tongue Publishing, 2009). Her book, Letter from Vienna: A Daughter Uncovers Her Family’s Jewish Past (Douglas & McIntyre), won the Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize in British Columbia for 1996. She has been published in many Canadian magazines and newspapers, including the Globe and Mail, Reader’s Digest, BC Business, and the Tyee. Claudia teaches courses at Simon Fraser University and Douglas College. In 2009, she received a $20,000 journalism award from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research to support medical journalism and reporting. Claudia grew up in Vancouver and studied philosophy at the University of British Columbia and the University of Calgary. She and her husband live in North Vancouver.

Greg Lang was born in Vancouver in 1953, and grew up in East Van’s Renfrew Heights. When he was two years old, his brother, Curt, went off to Europe with poet Al Purdy and his school friend Jim Polson, and Greg didn’t see much of him when he was a kid. When Greg was in his teens, his brother became part of his life again. At various times Greg served as “sorcerer’s apprentice” in some of Curt’s schemes: renovating houses, chipping slag off welds, salvaging logs, and fishing. Today Greg runs a small technical-writing consultancy in Victoria.

David Beers has won national awards for his journalism in Canada and the United States. He is editor of The Tyee, an award-winning independent online source of news and ideas based in Vancouver. He is author of a memoir, Blue Sky Dream: America’s Fall from Grace, and teaches at the University of British Columbia Graduate School of Journalism.

An exhibition of Curt Lang’s photography is planned for 2012 at the Teck Gallery, SFU

 

November 13, 2011, 1:00 PM

EXPOSED: Voyeurism and Photography

Perspectives on: the invasive camera and voyeurism, ethical issues in contemporary photography, surveillance as an aesthetic strategy, and power relations between photographers and human subjects.

With Clint Burnham (writer/critic), Catherine Soussloff (art historian), Shep Steiner (critic), Althea Thauberger (visual artist).

Kohei Yoshiyuki, Untitled, 1971, From the series “The Park”, Gelatin Silver Print © Kohei Yoshiyuki. Courtesy Yossi Milo Gallery, New York.

Clint Burnham teaches in the Department of English at Simon Fraser University. He has written recently on Ken Lum (Camera Austria) and Brian Jungen (Grove Dictionary of Art). His book The Only Poetry that Matters: A Reading of the Kootenay School of Writing is being published this fall by Arsenal Pulp.

Catherine Soussloff is Professor and Head of the Department of Art History, Visual Art and Theory at the University of British Columbia. Her most recent book is The Subject in Art: Portraiture and the Birth of the Modern (Duke University Press, 2006) and other recent areas of publication include performance theory, visual culture and theories of media.

Shep Steiner co-edited “Cork Caucus: on Art, Possibility, and Democracy” (Frankfurt, 2007). Recent publications on photography include: “Dialectical Inroads to a Post-Political Photography: Democratic Violence in the Work of Lidwien” (Journal of the Philosophy of Photography, 2011); “Allergy Patch: Michael Fried’s Why Photography Matters As Art as Never Before” (Texte zur Kunst, 2010); “Uber Struth,” Writings on Thomas Struth (Schirmer/Mosel, 2009); “The Responsibility of Photography,” Scott McFarland (Vancouver Art Gallery, 2009).

Althea Thauberger is an artist based in Vancouver. Her internationally produced and exhibited work typically involves interactions with a group or community that result in performances, films, videos, audio recordings and books, and involve sometimes provocative reflections of social, political, institutional and aesthetic power relations. Her work has been recently presented at the 17th Biennale of Sydney; National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa and the Overgarten Institute of Contemporary Art in Copenhagen.

In conjunction with the exhibitions: “Larry Clark: Tulsa” and “Kohei Yoshiyuki: The Park” on view through November 13.

October 20, 2011, 7:30 PM

At Presentation House Gallery

Book Launch

7:30pm: Book signing
8:00pm: A discussion about photography books and the process of producing “Hunt and Gather” with Stephen Waddell and Presentation House Gallery Curator, Helga Pakasaar

Stephen Waddell
Hunt and Gather
Hardcover: 96 pages
11.5 x 10.1 x 0.7 inches
Publisher: Steidl

PRICE $50

Stephen Waddell is a prominent Vancouver photographer. He has exhibited widely, including solo exhibitions at Monte Clark Gallery and the Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver; Galerie Tanit, Munich; Kunstforum Baloise, Basel, and the group exhibition, Jeff Wall: The Crooked Path. He was awarded the Liliane Bettencourt Prix de Photographie in 2010 and is in major museum collections.

September 21, 2011, 9:30 PM

Film Screening

LARRY CLARK’S WASSUP ROCKERS
The Rio Theatre, 1660 East Broadway, Vancouver

TICKETS: $5 AT THE DOOR

Larry Clark’s enduring fascination with the lifestyles of urban and suburban teenagers has been the focus of a world renowned photographic practice as well as a number of feature-length movies, including his groundbreaking 1995 film Kids. In conjunction with the exhibition Larry Clark: Tulsa, we are pleased to present a screening of Clark’s 2005 film Wassup Rockers.

Like much of Clark’s work, Wassup Rockers offers a compelling blend of fact and fiction in its intimate look at a group of Guatemalan American and Salvadoran American teenagers in South Central Los Angeles. However, instead of conforming to the hip hop culture of their gang-infested neighborhood, the group wears tight pants, listens to punk rock, and rides skateboards. When they travel into Hollywood and Beverly Hills to meet local rich girls, they attract the attention of the police, jealous boyfriends, and nervous parents.

April 12, 2011, 6:30 PM

PUBLIC NOTICE AND TOWN HALL MEETING

TUESDAY APRIL 12
FROM 6:30 TO 8:30 PM
Presentations will begin at 7pm

Royal Canadian Legion 118
123 West 15th Street
North Vancouver, BC

Wesgroup Properties, in partnership with the North Shore Credit Union (NSCU), has submitted an application to the City of North Vancouver to rezone the 1250 Lonsdale site (former Shell gas station), and has applied to amend the Official Community Plan (OCP) to allow a mixed-use development that will feature a new Lonsdale branch and head office for the NSCU, as well as a residential component.

AS PART OF THE PROJECT APPLICATION, WESGROUP PROPERTIES HAS PROPOSED A COMMUNITY AMENITY CONTRIBUTION WHICH INCLUDES A $1 MILLION CONTRIBUTION TO PRESENTATION HOUSE GALLERY FOR THEIR PROPOSED NEW FACILITY AT THE FOOT OF LONSDALE AVENUE.

The 13th+Lonsdale project Town Hall Meeting is being held on Tuesday, April 12, 2011 at the Royal Canadian Legion 118 (123 West 15th Street) beginning at 6:30pm, which will include key project presentations and information on the current project application that is before Council, as well as details on the entire Community Amenity Contribution.

For more information visit www.13andlonsdale.ca

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