Today I visited the University of Alberta with my brother Callum, who is 17 and looking to apply for a general arts course. After passing through the Law building we headed straight to the Art & Design department and i grabbed a few photos of some really interesting work! Outside the faculty in a large sculpture garden and clustered round the building, was a multitude of welded abstract forms which were really impressive in their sheer scale! Also on display were a small number of portrait busts and figurative sculpture cast in bronze.
An alumni exhibition by Nika Blasser was being held, which i really enjoyed and was more similar to the kind of work coming out of the Glasgow School of Art. The exhibition as a whole had a definite air of ephemeral fragility which was quite beautiful, my favourite work was Frost Garden II, salt and Prussian blue on somerset (4 feet x 6 feet)
Excerpt of Nika's artist statement:
I would like my works to provide an environment of reflection, in a manner that addresses the transference of time and moments of poetic clarity revealed by the abstract movements of nature. What can we see when the white noise of technology is returned to nature as an extension of, and a new apparatus for, sight? What is the new sublime of our era?
view the rest of the photos HERE
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