Toronto. The latest edition of AGO’s newsletter, Foyer, features, “Mining the archive with Stan Douglas”. The article gives photo collectors one and all, the impetus to dig through various archives to seek image information.
The Foyer writer, Matthew Rolfe, begins this article, “For Stan Douglas, pivotal moments in history are an opportunity to better understand the present. Over the last three decades, the Vancouver native has used his distinct command of photography, film and installation to unpack and reinterpret historical archives.
“Three works by Douglas demonstrating the range of his oeuvre are currently on view at the AGO – two in the exhibition Light Years: The Phil Lind Gift and one in the exhibition The Culture: Hip Hop and Contemporary Art in the 21st Century. On Wednesday, February 12 at 7 pm [This coming Wednesday], Douglas will discuss his work and continued investigation of the image during a live talk at the AGO.
“Douglas’s relationship with Abbott & Cordova, August 7, 1971 (2008) dates back to his time in art school in the 1980s.The grand photograph, on view in Light Years, depicts a chaotic scene from the Gastown riots of 1971 in Vancouver’s Downtown East Side [click the thumbnail at left to see the image left].
“After attending art school and situating his studio in the neighbourhood for years, Douglas staged a full-scale re-enactment of the 1971 event with over 100 actors in 2008, resulting in a composite photographic work of remembrance. …”
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