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An Unexpected Meeting Through Time and Space: Steven Shearer's homage to BBPR
Lecture by Josée Drouin-Brisebois

Friday, November 25, 2011 at 4 p.m.
Followed by a reception at the FOFA Gallery, 5:30pm
Currently on view: Combine 2011: Annual Undergraduate Student Exhibition

York Amphitheatre, Concordia University
1515 Ste. Catherine Street W., EV 1.605
Montreal, Quebec (Metro Guy-Concordia)

 

"Josée Drouin-Brisebois: Venice Bound" by Kimberlie Birks, Canadian Art, Winter 2010, pp. 74-5

 

An Unexpected Meeting Through Time and Space: Steven Shearer's homage to BBPR

Curator Josée Drouin-Brisebois will share her experience of working with artist Steven Shearer selected to represent Canada at the 54th Venice Biennale. She will discuss the project from its conception to its realization and focus on the particularities of the Canadian pavilion, an intriguing example of post-war Italian architecture designed by the firm BBPR. She will also speak about an exhibition she is currently co-curating entitled Misled by Nature, which considers Baroque tendencies in contemporary art.

Josée Drouin-Brisebois has been with the National Gallery of Canada since 1994. She was appointed Curator of Contemporary Art in July 2007, and in this position is responsible for the collections of Canadian and international Contemporary Art, including media arts. Drouin-Brisebois graduated from the University of Ottawa with a BFA (Studio) and a BA (History and Theory of Art). She also holds an MA in art history from the Université de Montréal.

Widely published, her writing has appeared in the book Otherworld Uprising: Shary Boyle as well as in Canadian Art Magazine, Border Crossings, PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art, and Prefix Photo.

Drouin-Brisebois has organized numerous important exhibitions, including: Steven Shearer: Exhume to Consume, Canada Pavilion, 54th Venice Biennale (2011), It Is What It Is: Recent Acquisitions of New Canadian Art (2010); Nomads (2009); Caught in the Act: The Viewer as Performer (2008); Dé-con-structions (2007); and Christopher Pratt (2005).

This lecture has been generously funded by the Office of the Dean, Faculty of Fine Arts.

Information:
Tricia Middleton
Tel: 514-848-2424, ext 4701
Email: tricia@alcor.concordia.ca