Hello Everyone,
We hope all of you enjoyed our very short Christmas break and wish you a fantastic 2012!
Before the winter semester get too hectic, here are two upcoming events to note and attend:
Exhibition:
Osvaldo Ramirez Castillo and Marigold Santos, "Personal Mythologies"
Sat. January 14 - Sat. February 14, 2012.
We were thrilled to welcome Zoë Chan, as one of our special guests of the EAHR Speaker Series, and we are equally thrilled to invite you to her upcoming exhibition Personal Mythologies at MAI (Montréal, arts interculturels) 3680, rue Jeanne-Mance. Opening Jan. 14th, the exhibit unites the works of Osvaldo Ramirez Castillo and Marigold Santos.
Personal Mythologies features a collection of works that portray a richly coloured world steeped in fantasy and complexity. Arriving in Canada in the 1980s as a Salvadorian civil war refugee, Osvaldo Ramirez Castillo’s work is inextricably bound to his personal history. His creations – drawings, prints and animations – are a reflection on the culture of war, his forced migration, and his own cynicism. He broadens his scope by weaving in a slew of references, ranging from religious iconography to pop culture to pre-Columbian mythology. Osvaldo Ramirez Castillo lives and works in Montreal, and has shown his work in exhibitions in Canada and abroad.
Marigold Santos’ work is at once a poetic exploration of the migrant experience and an expression of hybrid identities in the “New World.” Santos’ imagined spaces draw upon the fairy tales and horror films of the Philippines. Asuang, an imaginary half-witch half-vampire creature, is reinvented to construct new personal mythologies. Her radiant drawings feature female bodies that up close reveal lush landscapes as well as mythological creatures bathed in a strange, shadowy light. Marigold Santos lives and works in Montreal, and has shown her work in Canada, the United States, and Japan.
Lecture: As It Is Becoming (Seoul, Korea) with Jin-me Yoon (Vancouver)
Wed. February 29th, 10:15am-12:30pm, Concordia University EV Building (1515 St. Catherine W.), Room EV-1.605 (Free Admission)
Sponsored by the Department of Art History and the Ethnocultural Art History Research workgroup
Sponsored by the Department of Art History and the Ethnocultural Art History Research workgroup
We are very excited to invite you to our upcoming EAHR Speaker Series event on Wednesday February 29th, where we have the pleasure of welcoming Vancouver based artist Jin-me Yoon for a presentation and discourse of her newest work, As It Is Becoming (Seoul, Korea) and aspects of her work and art practice spanning two decades.
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