The McMaster Museum of Art
Gary Pearson
1 2 3 Soliloquy
January 20 – August 13, 2011
Images - left:
Wilhelm Leibl (German 1988-1900)
Un fumer/portrait of Painter Horstig, c.1895
etching.
Collection McMaster Museum of Art, Gift of George Wallace, 1999
right:
still from Gary Pearson, Soliloquy, 2006.
video, running time: 12:47
ARTIST'S TALK: Friday January 21, 12:30 pm
PUBLIC RECEPTION: Thursday January 27, 6 – 8 pm
1 2 3 Soliloquy is an exhibition about expressions of everyday realities, and our often strained and ambiguous distal relationship to those realities. It includes Kelowna-based artist Gary Pearson’s recent Soliloquy videos and his related “short fiction” photo-prints combined with works selected from the McMaster Museum of Art’s German collection, expanded to include American Hollywood photography of the period, and contemporary European work.
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I make no secret about my attraction to and affiliation with the arts of the Expressionist period—roughly between 1905 and the mid-1920s. They were about the human drama, the living theatre, encompassing an artistic examination of the self and society, and mainly concentrated on regional socio-economic demographics in Germany.
Today the exposition of this “living theatre” is largely the domain of mass media in a global culture, and artistic caricature of the public has been replaced by public self-caricature. But reality still exists, colloquially speaking, on the ground, which was from where the Expressionist artists constructed their representations and where, in spite of the over-mediated existence of vast segments of the global population, “reality” still ostensibly exists.
1 2 3 Soliloquy is an intriguing kind of double exhibition that includes my recent Soliloquy videos—which make oblique references to art and theatre in their staging and dramatic understatement—my related “short fiction” photo-prints—combined with works selected from the Museum’s German collection, expanded to include American Hollywood photography of the period, and contemporary European work. In the end, it is an exhibition about expressions of everyday realities, and our often strained and ambiguous distal relationship to those realities.
- Gary Pearson, artist and Associate Professor, Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies at UBC Okanagan
We acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts which last year invested $17.1 million in visual arts throughout Canada.
Nous remercions de son soutien le Conseil des Arts du Canada, qui a investi 17,1 millions de dollars l'an dernier dans les arts visuels à travers le Canada.
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List of Works in Exhibition:
Gary Pearson (Canadian b.1951)
Soliloquy2, 2008
four Untitled Scenes for a "Smoker’s Theatre,” 2010, digital photoprints, each 51 x 51 cm _____________________
Georg Baselitz (German b.1938)
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Max Beckmann (German 1884-1950)
Der Zeichner in Gesellschaft (Rudolph Grossmann) / The Draftsman in Society (Rudolph Grossmann), 1922, Plate 9 from the series Gesichter / Faces, ed. 100, ed. 35/40, etching, 30 x 23.3 cm, Purchase, 1968
In der Trambahn / In the Tram, 1922
Cafémusik / Café Concert, 1918
Der Abend (Selbstbildnis mit Battenbergs) / Evening (Self-Portrait with the Battenbergs), 1916, Plate 10 from the series Gesichter / Faces, ed. 100,
Die Enttäuschten II / The Disappointed Ones, 1922, Plate 6 from the portfolio Berliner Reise / Journey to Berlin, ed. 95/100,
Strasse II / Street II, 1916
Liebespaar II / Lovers II, 1918, Plate 5 from the series Gesichter / Faces, ed. 100, _____________________
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Clarence Sinclair Bull (American 1896-1979)
50.5 x 38.3 cm _____________________
Lovis Corinth (German 1858-1925)
17.9 x 15.9 cm _____________________
Lutz Dille (Born Germany 1922 – lived in Canada 1951-1980—died France 2008)
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Otto Dix (German 1891-1969)
Leonie, 1923 _____________________
August W. Dressler (German 1886-1970)
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Conrad Felixmüller (German 1897-1977)
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George Grosz (German 1893-1959)
Schäferstundchen / Hour of Love, 1921, from Ecce Homo,
lithograph, 30.1 x 21.4 cm
Selbstporträt: fur Charlie Chaplin / Self-portrait for Charlie Chaplin, 1919 _____________________
Erich Heckel (German 1883-1970)
Junges Mädchen / Young Woman, 1913 _____________________
George Hurrell (American 1904-1992)
gelatin silver print (printed later), 35.5 x 28.3 cm _____________________
Wilhelm Leibl (German 1844-1900)
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Ruth Harriet Louise (American 1903-1940)
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Paula Modersohn-Becker (German 1876-1907)
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Edvard Munch (Norwegian 1863-1944)
Der Kuss / The Kiss, 1897–1902 _____________________
Mimmo Paladino (Italian b.1948)
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Jules Pascin (Bulgarian-American 1885-1930)
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August Sander (German 1876-1964)
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