Sakahan: International Indigenous Art Exhibition Catalogue
- Publisher : National Gallery of Canada (May 20 2013)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 285 pages
- Item weight : 1.11 kg
- Dimensions : 20.32 x 2.54 x 25.4 cm
DEMONSTRATION/LECTURE BY CESAR ANTONIO LOPEZ
Cesar Antonio Lopez is a young Mexican printmaker taking part in the Sakahàn Exhibition of Contemporary Indigenous Art at the National Gallery (opens May 16).
He will be giving a free workshop at the Ottawa School of Art on Sunday, April 14 from 1:00 to 4:00 pm. He will present portfolios of prints featuring his own work and that of other artists who work at the La Trampa Contemporary Graphics Workshop in Mexico City. He is also planning to do a short lithography demonstration.
This is a great opportunity to meet a dynamic young printmaker from another country whose work has been featured in exhibitions in several countries.
Date: Sunday, April 14
Time: 1:00 – 4:00 pm
Location: Room 402 and the OSA Library
Cost: Free
Presenter: Cesar Antonio Lopez
Cesar Antonio Lopez (Xochistlahuaca, Guerrero, Mexico 1979) completed his Bachelor of Fine Arts at the National School of Painting, Sculpture and Engraving “La Esmeralda”. In 2005 he won the Acquisition Prize in the XIII “Jose Guadalupe Posada National Print Competition” at the Museum José Guadalupe Posada. In 2008 he received a Fellowship in the Artist Residencies Program Center in Banff, Alberta Canada. In 2009 he was a Fellow in the Young Artists Program sponsored by the National Fund for Culture and the Arts. In 2007, with Ernesto Alva, he was the co-founder of La Trampa Contemporary Graphics Workshop in Mexico City. He has exhibited his work in several solo and group exhibitions in Mexico and abroad
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Presented in partnership with the National Gallery of Canada’s exhibition Sakahàn: International Indigenous Art
Presenté conjointement avec l’exposition Sakahàn: Art indigène international du Musée des beaux-arts du Canada
“The National Gallery of Canada is staging one of the most ambitious contemporary art exhibitions in its history. With installations filling both floors of our special exhibition spaces as well as our contemporary art galleries—not to mention several public spaces inside and outside the Gallery—Sakahàn: International Indigenous Art is Canada’s must-see exhibition this year.”
Sakahàn—meaning “to light [a fire]” in the language of the Algonquin peoples—brings together more than 150 works of recent Indigenous art by over 80 artists from 16 countries, including Aboriginal artists as Vernon Ah Kee, Richard Bell, Jonathan Jones, Danie Mellor, and Warwick Thornton. Sakahàn received also the support of an international team of curatorial advisors including the Australian artist Brenda Croft. This exhibition is the first in an ongoing series of surveys of Indigenous art. The artworks in Sakahàn provide diverse responses to what it means to be Indigenous today. Through their works, the artists engage with ideas of self-representation to question colonial narratives and present parallel histories; place value on the handmade; explore relationships between the spiritual, the uncanny and the everyday; and put forward highly personal responses to the impact of social and cultural trauma. The artworks range from video installations to sculptures, drawings, prints, paintings, performance art, murals and other new, site-specific projects created specifically for this exhibition.
Sakahàn features stunning and intricate works, such as an exquisite sculpture of a zippered shirt carved entirely from wood and a pair of masterfully shaped stone hands held together by a chain. Also included are monumental pieces, including a column comprised of 300 folded and stacked blankets that were donated by the public, a 50-metre-long banner hung above the colonnade ramp, and a commanding installation that transforms the façade of the Great Hall of the National Gallery of Canada into a work of art.