Avatars of Beauty: Make
Love with Sight
Curated by Zannie
Biggs
May 25 to June 30,
2007
Opening Friday, May 25, 7 to
10pm
Deluge Contemporary
Art
636 Yates Street, Victoria,
BC
Exhibition Hours: Wed-Sat,
12-5pm
Modernism made a movement out of being
vulgar. While this cannot be criticized per se, the
pervasiveness of this aggressive model translates more currently as
anegative legacy: Modernism is based on a disconnect with beauty,
and the tradition has become to attack art itself. Are we so
crude? The battle is over and we muststop fighting!
Insisting on higher ideals and ample aesthetics, Avatars of
Beauty releases itselffrom Modernism's fundamentally "anti"
attitude. Through the positive act of looking, this exhibition
embraces the loving side of contemporary art and affirms the viewing
experience as enriching and critical. Avatars of Beauty
articulates the pleasure-soaked power of the visual.
Avatars of Beauty is an exhibition of painting, drawing,
sculpture, projection/installation, video and photography by Jim
Holyoak (Victoria/Montreal), Karen Azoulay (Toronto/New
York), Mark Neufeld (Vancouver/Berlin), Matt Barton
and Anna Bojic (Pittsburgh/Berlin), Mike Brodie [the
Polaroid Kidd] (Pensacola), Scott Evans (Victoria) and
Sylvie Laliberté (Montreal).
Born in Vancouver, raised in northern
California, Zannie Biggs is the recent recipientof a double
major BFA (Visual Arts/Art History) from the University of
Victoria.This exhibition is the culmination of a two-year curatorial
internship at Deluge Contemporary Art, which has been a wickedly fun
experience for her.
Contact: Deborah de Boer
Phone: (250) 385-3327
Email: delugeart@shaw.ca
Subject: Avatars of Beauty - deluge art 
Thu Jun 21, 2007 11:23 pm