1. Free screening of Sir John Soane: An English Architect, An American Legacy

*TONIGHT* Thursday 22 November, 7 pm

The Agnes Etherington Art Centre

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Sir John Soane, British architect. Image: bankofengland.co.uk

Sir John Soane (1753-1837) has inspired many contemporary architects with his command of natural light and his inviting arrangement of spatially sequential galleries. This visually rich film presents a tour through Soane’s life and works, with acknowledgements of his legacy from prominent architects such as Richard Meier and Robert Venturi.

Sir John Soane’s Museum in London UK is one of VoCA’s favorite places.

Sir John Soane’s Museum, London UK. Image: timetravel-britain.com

Introduced by Pierre du Prey, Professor in the Department of Art, Queen’s University, and author of John Soane: The Making of an Architect, who will also take questions after the screening.

2. Farouk Kaspaules: Be/Longing

23 November 2007 to 3 February 2008

The Ottawa Art Gallery

Farouk Kaspaules, Ottawa, 1999. Image: civilization.ca

Farouk Kaspaules began making art in the mid-1980s as a way to reconcile his daily life in Canada with the political, environmental and cultural instability of his home country, Iraq.

His visual experiments in mixed media employ a complex vocabulary of images, symbols and aesthetic forms derived from ancient and contemporary Iraq, as well as from his mixed cultural background (Christian, Chaldean, and Arab). Kaspaules strives “to relate daily events to broader geopolitical and social questions.”

Farouk Kaspaules, …and at night we leave our dreams on window sill, memory of a place, 2000.
Image: civilization.ca

This reflects his belief that art and politics are activities “that cannot be separated from lived experience.”

Talk with Farouk Kaspaules (in English):

Friday 23 November at 12:30 pm

Farouk Kaspaules, …and at night we leave our dreams on window sill, memory of a place (detail), 2000.
Image: civilization.ca

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