1. ANALOGUE: Pioneering Video from the UK, Canada and Poland 1968 - 1988, at the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Toronto

Friday, November 2, 2007 1pm - 10pm
Saturday, November 3, 2007 10am - 6pm

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Colin Campbell, Sackville I’m Yours, 1972. Image: uclan.ac.uk

This event seeks to illuminate the little-known early histories of artists’ video, linking the work of artists in the UK, Canada and Poland in order to broaden an understanding of how, in the course of 30 years, a versatile and politically charged medium made the transition from the margins to the mainstream of contemporary art practice.

From Robert Morin’s award-winning Yes Sir! Madame…Image: canadacouncil.ca

To date, ANALOGUE has screened in 3 other venues in the UK (TATE Britain, FACT Liverpool and Norwich Art Gallery) and at Anthology Film Archives in New York. This fall, it travels to Canada for a 2 day video feast at the MOCCA.

Check out work by brilliant Canadian video artists including Colin Campbell, Jeffrey Spalding, Lisa Steele, Tom Sherman, Vera Frenkel, Robert Morin and others.

Vera Frenkel, “Real Mirrors I”, 1973. Image: artbank.ca

Tom Sherman, Exclusive Memory, 1987. Image: pavedarts.ca

Friday, November 2, 1-4pm
SCREENING: Polish programme and q & a with curator and/or artists

Friday, November 2, 7-10pm
SCREENING: UK and Canadian Programmes #1

Saturday, November 3, 10am-1pm
SCREENING: UK and Canadian Programmes #2

Saturday, November 3, 2-3pm
Panel with curators Peggy Gale, (Canada), Chris Meigh-Andrews (UK) and Lukasz Ronduda (Poland).

Saturday, November 3, 3-5pm
Panel with artists, moderated by Peggy Gale

2. FitzGerald in Context: Gallery One One One, University of Manitoba

11 October to 9 November, 2007

A work by LeMoine FitzGerald. Image: malaspina.com

“This is a serious historical display.”

This exhibition is an unusual opportunity to see major works by L.LeMoine FitzGerald (1890-1956), the last member of the Group of Seven, and some selected works by other artists who were his friends and whose work he collected.

Organized by Professor Marilyn Baker, art historian at the University of Manitoba School of Art, FitzGerald in Context sets the artefacts of FitzGerald’s life alongside significant works of art from the National Gallery of Canada, the Winnipeg Art Gallery, and University of Manitoba collections.

LeMoine FitzGerald, Composition No.1, 1951. Image: glenbow.org

FitzGerald’s early aspirations to be a fine artist were encouraged and nurtured by the friendships he made with local artists and art supporters. Close friends such as the German born Fritz Brandtner, the notable Canadian artist and writer Bertram Brooker, and Robert Ayre, a pioneering art critic who was also the editor of Canadian Art - all at one timeWinnipeggers -promoted his art and helped to make his reputation in eastern Canada.

The letters of correspondence in the show reveal these friendships and his good relations with members of the Group of Seven, like Lawren Harris, that helped FitzGerald gain recognition for his art across Canada.

Lawren Harris: Maligne Lake, Jasper Park, 1924. Image: nationhood.ca

Lionel Lemoine Fitzgerald, Winnipeg Backlane, c. 1935. Image: pegasusgallery.ca

By the 1950s FitzGerald’s artistic significance was established and a large retrospective exhibition was in the planning stages to honour his life’s work. When he died in 1956 his death announcement was broadcast
across Canada. Locally his place as an important Canadian artist and the special contribution he had made to the promotion and development of art in Manitoba had already been acknowledged through an honorary degree
awarded by The University of Manitoba in 1952.

For more information on the exhibition, please click HERE