{"id":17328,"date":"2016-01-24T12:26:41","date_gmt":"2016-01-24T20:26:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/?p=17328"},"modified":"2016-01-24T12:53:54","modified_gmt":"2016-01-24T20:53:54","slug":"a-terrible-beauty-edward-burtynsky-in-dialogue-with-emily-carr-the-reach-gallery-abbotsford","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/?p=17328","title":{"rendered":"A Terrible Beauty – Edward Burtynsky in Dialogue with Emily Carr (The Reach Gallery Abbotsford)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Do not miss this!<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Mount-Edziza-4-CA\"<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>
\nEdward Burtynsky, Mount Edziza Provincial Park #4, Northern British Columbia, Canada<\/em><\/p>\n

Running from Jan 21, 2016 to April 10, 2016 at the Reach Gallery in Abbotsford <\/a>is the traveling exhibition ‘A Terrible Beauty: Edward Burtynsky in Dialogue with Emily Carr’ <\/em>curated and pulled from the collections of the Vancouver Art Gallery.\u00a0 There are\u00a0eighteen large scale photographs from Canadian photographer Edward Burtynsky that span\u00a0multiple series from 1983 to 2012.\u00a0 There are also six paintings by Emily Carr that speak to similar themes of the human impact on the environment.\u00a0 In particular Emily Carr’s\u00a0Loggers’ Culls, 1935<\/em> and Above the Gravel Pit, 1937<\/em> show our early\u00a0impact on the British Columbia\u00a0landscape.\u00a0 Burtynsky’s work\u00a0although it begins\u00a0in British Columbia with Homesteads<\/em> and Railcuts<\/em> soon moves on to a more global view\u00a0with works from\u00a0series such as Quarries & oil.\u00a0<\/em>
\n\"VAG-39_1_lge\"<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Emily Carr, Loggers’ Culls<\/em>, 1935 oil on canvas<\/em><\/p>\n

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Emily Carr helped\u00a0to shape\u00a0our perceptions of the\u00a0British Columbia landscape, in particular the coastal forests, however today an artist seeking out those same settings is\u00a0confronted with something more like what Burtynsky presents to us, a landscape shaped and altered by human activity.<\/p>\n

The impact of the Burtynsky photographs are aided by their physical scale.\u00a0 They are large,\u00a0with a focus that extends from foreground to background.\u00a0 With\u00a0the photographic visual language cue of focus depth removed the viewer is forced to interpret the scale of the scene through its content.\u00a0 This can be somewhat jarring as you come to terms with thousands of burning tires in ‘Burning Tire Pile #1 Near Stockton California’\u00a0<\/em>or uncounted circuit boards filling the landscape ‘China Recycling #9, Circuit Boards, Guiy, Guangdong Provice, China 2004’<\/em> or the more flattened scenery of\u00a0 recent works from the series ‘Water’\u00a0.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

<\/em>I could continue to try to write about this but my efforts would always fall short of standing in front of these works in person. The Reach Gallery Museum <\/a>in Abbotsford has free admission and seeing this exhibition is well worth the trip for anyone located in the Fraser Valley and beyond.<\/p>\n

Amusingly I visited on a day where they were hosting a Family Literacy day celebration\u00a0which filled the gallery with activity and the cacophony of tiny voices.\u00a0 Your visit is\u00a0likely to be much quieter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Do not miss this! Edward Burtynsky, Mount Edziza Provincial Park #4, Northern British Columbia, Canada Running from Jan 21, 2016 to April 10, 2016 at the Reach Gallery in Abbotsford is the traveling exhibition ‘A Terrible Beauty: Edward Burtynsky in Dialogue with Emily Carr’ curated and pulled from the collections of the Vancouver Art Gallery.\u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,15,6],"tags":[33,84,365,364],"class_list":["post-17328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art-observations","category-painting","category-photography","tag-abbotsford","tag-art","tag-painting","tag-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17328"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17328"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17328\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17341,"href":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17328\/revisions\/17341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}