Venue / Location:
Glenbow Museum -130 9 Avenue SE
Repeats every day until Sun Nov 14 2010 .
21 Aug 2010 (All day)
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Ticket Price:
Adult (18+) $14, Senior (65+) $10, Student (with valid ID) $9, Youth (ages 7-17) $9, Family (2 adults, up to 4 youth) $28, Child (Ages 6 and under) Free, Glenbow Museum Members -- Free!
Event Description:
The irreverent and irrepressible John Will is highly regarded as an important and influential Canadian artist. He works in a tradition of artists who are satirical, subversive and sometimes slanderous in their critique of society from Hogarth and Daumier to Ensor and William Wiley. He brings formidable wit to the subjects of sex, war, racism, religion, mortality, sport, anxiety, rock and roll, the economy, celebrity culture, the art world, bizarre events, alien landings and personal hygiene. He mixes them up in topical concoctions that can be acerbic, even rude, and labyrinthine in their narrative and conceptual complexity.
The Broken World of John Will, featuring mostly lithographs, was selected from Glenbow's extensive collection of Will's art to highlight the way he cuts up snippets of a fractured world from the front line of experience and knits them together. Between 1962 and 1980, he produced over 100 prints, each of them a labour-intensive work packing a barrage of ideas and demonstrating his technical prowess as a printmaker. He shifted his focus to video, photography, performance and painting when he decided that his first comprehensive exhibition of prints would be the time to quit making prints. More recently, Will has tried to quit his entire artmaking practice through Artists Anonymous, a collaborative enterprise with fellow artist, Jeff Funnell. Luckily for us, the rehab program to treat art addiction has had limited success.
Educated in painting and printmaking in Iowa, he was a Fulbright scholar at the Rijaskademie in Amsterdam and a Ford Foundation Printer Fellow at the Tamarind Institute. Now a Professor Emeritus, he taught at the University of Calgary for 27 years and continues to influence students, artists and the Calgary art community.
— Katherine Ylitalo, Guest Curator
