snow

First we went to the AGO, to see the Rodney Graham exhibit. And although Graham is probably really big in Canada, I didn't see "it". Maybe I am just too female for so much lonely male romanticism. Then we visited some galleries I won't even mention. Then the gallery building on Richmond Street. A lot of very sympathetic art, lacking just a little bit of "it". And then we suddenly stumbled on "IT" in capital letters. In a narrow hallway even, that's why the photo is at a weird angle. Michael Snow. They're street banners for an art project in 1994, they were sold from the AGO museum shop, and when they ran out of them there, they were stolen from the light posts. Snow already made these walking women in '69, they are sweeping and absolute images. I wonder where the guys at TBWA\Chiat\Day got their idea for the ipod adds.

For my Belgian readers: In 1967 Snow was the winner of the Fourth International Experimental Film Festival in Knokke-le-Zoute.

Posted by eliane at May 21, 2004 09:29 PM