National Gallery of Canada

On Thursday, April 25, the Gallery and the French Embassy in Canada invite you to the 9th edition of the Night of Ideas. 💡

You'll experience a unique journey through the Gallery's collections led by three personalities with three unique perspectives on works of art based on the theme of “Fault Lines”: Marinette Pichon, former French international soccer player, Kwende Kefentse, Ottawa-based cultural actor and artist, and Kim Thúy, Canadian writer.

After the talks, join the reception to continue your conversations with the guests.

📍 Scotiabank Great Hall
🕕 6 to 9 p.m. EDT (Tours begin at 6:15 p.m.)

🎟️ For more information and to book your free ticket, visit: https://www.gallery.ca/whats-on/calendar/night-of-ideas-2024

Organized in over 100 countries, the Night of Ideas brings together French and international voices from a wide range of disciplines in places of culture and learning to discuss major issues of our time.

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│ First look at the 60th Venice Biennale 👁️

Today, the Gallery, commissioner of Canada’s participation in the 60th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia, unveils the exhibition titled Kapwani Kiwanga: Trinket.

has transformed the Canada Pavilion by way of a site-specific sculptural installation and invites visitors into an immersive environment through an ambitious intervention on the building’s interior and exterior.

The exhibition opens on April 20. 🏛️ Keep an eye out for additional content. For more details, visit: https://www.gallery.ca/whats-on/touring-exhibitions-and-loans/around-the-world/canada-pavilion-at-the-venice-biennale/kapwani-kiwanga-represents-canada-in-venice

🤝 Kapwani Kiwanga: Trinket is curated by Gaëtane Verna, Executive Director, Wexner Center for the Arts. It is commissioned by the National Gallery of Canada and presented in partnership with the National Gallery of Canada Foundation and the Canada Council for the Arts | Conseil des arts du Canada. The Canadian representation at the is made possible through the Canadian Artists in Venice Endowment at the National Gallery of Canada Foundation and with the generous financial support of the Hatch, Power Corporation of Canada, Wexner Center for the Arts and numerous private contributions.

🖼️ Installation view of the exhibition Kapwani Kiwanga: Trinket, 2024, Canada Pavilion, 60th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia. Commissioned by the National Gallery of Canada and supported by the Canada Council for the Arts. © Kapwani Kiwanga / Adagp Paris / CARCC Ottawa 2024. Photo: Valentina Mori

Kan Azuma conceptualized his Other Land series during a short visit to a sand quarry on the north side of Toronto, while working as a darkroom technician at York University. 📷

In this series, he combined the shots he took at Peggy’s Cove in Nova Scotia, with those of a desert-like barren landscape captured at the Toronto construction site.

This prompted him to contemplate the geological time required to break rocks down into sand through weathering and eroding. ⌛

🎟️ Book your ticket to Kan Azuma: A Matter of Place: https://www.gallery.ca/whats-on/exhibitions-and-galleries/kan-azuma-a-matter-of-place

🖼️ Kan Azuma, Untitled, c. 1975, from the series Other Land. Gelatin silver print, 24.2 × 35.5 cm. CMCP Collection. National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa. © Kan Azuma

🐢 Ahead of tomorrow, spend time with Prudence Heward's The Farmer's Daughter, to observe her painting technique and painterly choices.

Heward was known and praised for her ability to harmonize figure and landscape. ⛰️ With her lipstick and painted nails, and the dark blue pools of her eyes, this farmer’s daughter seems to have sprung like a cultivated crop – or some wild, native species – from the land.

📖 Discover more about this work with Anita Lahey in the NGC Magazine: https://www.gallery.ca/magazine/your-collection/prudence-heward-strength-of-spirit

📍 The Farmer's Daughter is on view in Room A109a at the Gallery.

🖼️ Prudence Heward, The Farmer's Daughter, 1945. Oil on canvas, 61.2 x 51.2 cm. Gift of the Heward family, Montreal, 1948. National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa. Photo: NGC

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The photographs from the series 88 Shrines Pilgrimage by Kan Azuma, feature the people he met during his trip to Shikoku Island, one of Japan’s four major islands, in the mid-1980s.

The local folklore of the island says that, if you visit all 88 temples with diligence, your deceased family members may come and see you.

Azuma photographed pilgrims and workers at these temples on the pilgrimage route, in the hope of seeing his late mother’s face. 📷

📖 Read the article by Euijung McGillis, Assistant Curator, Photographs Collection, at the Gallery, in the NGC Magazine: https://www.gallery.ca/magazine/exhibitions/a-place-that-matters-to-kan-azuma

🎟️ Kan Azuma: A Matter of Place is on view until June 24.

🖼️ Kan Azuma, Untitled, c. 1995, from the series 88 Shrines Pilgrimage. Gelatin silver print, 22.8 × 15.6 cm. Kan Azuma fonds, National Gallery of Canada Library and Archives, Ottawa. Gift of the artist. © Kan Azuma

This Saturday, it's !

This global event has the simple mission of helping more people discover for themselves the joy of looking at and loving art. 👁️

How to participate?
📌 In-person/with a group: Meet us in the Great Hall at 11 a.m. for a guided slow looking experience with a Gallery interpreter.
📌 On your own: Pick any artwork and spend at least 10 minutes looking at it.
📌 Online: Watch the video guide and take a slow look at Rembrandt’s painting titled A Jewish Heroine from the Hebrew Bible.

While looking slowly at a work of art, we hope you'll discover that everyone can see and experience art without being an expert.

For all details, visit: https://www.gallery.ca/whats-on/calendar/slow-art-day-2024.

Share your experience using and tag us. 🖼️

Spring into creativity at Open Studio🎨

Starting this weekend, you're invited to draw a wish on paper embedded with seeds and take it home to plant in your garden.🌻

This activity is suitable for all ages, so bring your friends and family, or come solo!

📅 Saturdays and Sundays
🕙 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
🎟️ Included with admission, no materials needed

Drop by and say hi. 👋 For all details, visit: https://www.gallery.ca/whats-on/calendar/open-studio-2024-04-06

🕝 Please note that the National Gallery of Canada will close early, at 2:30 p.m., exceptionally on Wednesday, April 10, 2024, due to a special event. 🚗 Parking facilities will close as of 3 p.m.

We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause. We will be back to our regular operating hours starting the next day.

Book launch next week 📗

Join us next week during our with the author Sarah Phillips Casteel as she presents her book Black Lives Under Na**sm: Making History Visible in Literature and Art.

She will be in conversation with Aboubakar Sanogo, Associate Professor in Film Studies at Carleton University. Ming Tiampo, Professor of Art History and co-director of the Centre for Transnational Cultural Analysis at Carleton University, will moderate the discussion.

📆 Thursday, April 11
🕠 5:30 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. EDT
📍 Lecture Hall

The book can be purchased at the Boutique and is available online at ShopNGC.ca. The author will be available to sign copies following the event. For all the details, visit: https://www.gallery.ca/whats-on/calendar/book-launch-for-black-lives-under-nazism

Organized by the Centre for Transnational Cultural Analysis

New activity during our 🖍️

Inspired by the exhibition Kan Azuma: A Matter of Place, you can now create your own moody monochrome work of art starting tomorrow, April 4, at 5 p.m.

Draw on Kan Azuma’s atmospheric photographs that highlight fleeting moments to paint an image that reflects your day using watercolours. 🎨

🎟️ Book your free ticket now: https://www.gallery.ca/whats-on/calendar/free-thursday-nights-2024-04-04

Get a glimpse at Kan Azuma's Erosion series 👇

“The photos (for Erosion) weren’t meant to be viewed individually. Instead, I wanted viewers to feel the anxiety I had back then through the entire sequence.

I intended to create a rhyme-like rhythm, as in a poem, through the sequence of photos, so I purposely included weak images that must have confused the viewer (…).

Individually, none of the photos in the Erosion series are poems. But together they become one.” —Kan Azuma

🎟️ See Kan Azuma: A Matter of Place this spring: https://www.gallery.ca/whats-on/exhibitions-and-galleries/kan-azuma-a-matter-of-place

🖼️ All works: Kan Azuma, Untitled, c. 1973, from the series Erosion. Gelatin silver print, 25.3 × 25.2 cm. CMCP Collection. National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa © Kan Azuma

Last week, you may have noticed artist Thierry Delva at the Gallery, who sat for extended periods of time in front of works with a machine next to him.

Delva's performance in the Gallery's permanent collection is titled Drawings from the Heart: National Gallery of Canada (2024), where he creates a series of conceptual drawings produced by “deep looking” at artworks while he monitors his heart with a portable electrocardiogram (EKG) machine. 📈

Many were very curious about Delva's work and stopped by for a closer look. 👁️

🖼️ Benjamin West, The Death of General Wolfe, 1770 oil on canvas, 152.6 x 214.5 cm. Gift of the 2nd Duke of Westminster to the Canadian War Memorials, 1918; Transfer from the Canadian War Memorials, 1921. National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa.

Dance and Riopelle 💃🎻

Join Ottawa Dance Directive / Centre de danse contemporaine and Raphael Weinroth-Browne for the performance of a new and original site-specific choreography, inspired by the exhibition Riopelle: Crossroads in Time.

📆 Thursday, April 4
🕕 6 to 7 p.m. EDT
📍 Scotiabank Great Hall

Take advantage of this drop-in activity to enhance your exhibition visit!

For all event details, visit: https://www.gallery.ca/whats-on/calendar/dance-and-riopelle-2024-04-04

📸 Curtis Perry Photography

Hop over to the Gallery this weekend!

We are open all weekend, including on March 29 (Good Friday) and on April 1 (Easter Monday). Join us with friends or family for:

🌷 Open Studio: Friday to Monday
🌷 Public guided tours: Saturday and Sunday

It's a great time to see what's new at the Gallery. ✨

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In the newly acquired work by Mona Hatoum, Balançoires, the artist borrows the familiar form of the swing.

Her seats are glass, however, unable to accommodate anyone. They are engraved with a split map of Beirut—where she was born, underscoring the fragility of the city's often precarious sociopolitical situation.

📖 Read Amin Alsaden's article about three of Hatoum's works and recent additions to our collection, in the NGC Magazine: https://www.gallery.ca/magazine/your-collection/mona-hatoum-uncanny-space

📍Balançoires is on view in Room B104 in the Contemporary galleries.

🖼️ Mona Hatoum, Balançoires, 2010, sandblasted glass seats and stainless-steel chains. Gift of Michael Audain and Yoshiko Karasawa, Vancouver, 2021. National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa. © Mona Hatoum Photo: NGC

Film and Riopelle 📽️🎨

Join us for a screening of the film "Joan Mitchell, une femme dans l’abstraction" in conjunction with the exhibition Riopelle: Crossroads in Time.

Joan Mitchell was one of the greatest American abstract painters of the post-war period, and she had a passionate and tumultuous long-term love affair with artist Jean Paul Riopelle.

📆 Thursday, March 28
🕕 6 to 7 p.m. EDT
📍 The Gallery's Auditorium

For all event details, visit: https://www.gallery.ca/whats-on/calendar/film-and-riopelle-joan-mitchell-une-femme-dans-labstraction-joan-mitchell-a-woman

This screening is presented by the National Arts Centre / Centre national des Arts French Theatre and the Gallery, in association with the International Festival of Films on Art (Festival International du Film sur l'Art).

📸 Joan Mitchell in her Vétheuil studio. © Photograph by Robert Freson. © Estate of Joan Mitchell

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LAST WEEKS 💥See Riopelle before it closes on April 7

The artist has left us with a huge and brilliant body of work that transcends time and has inspired generations of artists. Riopelle: Crossroads in Time includes his acclaimed works alongside creations rarely or never seen before.

🎟️ Plan your visit now: https://www.gallery.ca/whats-on/exhibitions-and-galleries/riopelle-crossroads-in-time

🛫🏛️ The exhibition will then be on show at the WAG-Qaumajuq from May 31 to September 8, 2024.

🖼️ Jean Paul Riopelle, Chicago II, 1958, oil on canvas, 250 × 300 cm. Collection of the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec (MNBAQ), Quebec City. Transfer through a special contribution from the Ministère de la Culture et des Communications du Québec. © Estate of Jean Paul Riopelle (Copyright Visual Arts-CARCC, 2024) Photo: MNBAQ, Idra Labrie

Riopelle: Crossroads in Time This centenary retrospective examines the 20th-century artistic trailblazer through a 21st-century lens.

Discover Agnes Martin's White Flower I as we celebrate her birthday🎈

Canadian-born painter Agnes Martin (1912–2004) is recognized as one of the most significant artists of the American post-war generation. Her distinctive painting technique persisted with subtle variations throughout her life.

This work is one of approximately six paintings that Martin titled with some variation on the words “white flower.” 🌼 https://youtu.be/SS1jbUkYhY0?list=PLK8qVR6emhGDykvSPiXGQblkbvLIDmy6f

💭 is a series where leading women authors speak about key artworks by women artists in our collection. Stay tuned for more episodes!

Sheila Heti on Agnes Martin's White Flower I Inspired Words: Spotlight on Women Authors and Artists. Listen to leading authors speak about key artworks in the Gallery’s collection. Sheila Heti on Agnes...

Did you spot these photographs in the Garden Court? 👀

In addition to the works in the exhibition space, two photographic enlargements from the series 88 Shrines Pilgrimage by Kan Azuma are displayed on the mezzanine level of the Fred & Elizabeth Fountain Garden Court. 🌿

Three other enlargements from the series are installed along the staircase exterior of the exhibition space.

🎟️ See them in person! Kan Azuma: A Matter of Place is open until June 24: https://www.gallery.ca/whats-on/exhibitions-and-galleries/kan-azuma-a-matter-of-place

Supported by the Scotiabank Photography Program at the Gallery.

🖼️ Kan Azuma, Untitled, c. 1995, from the series 88 Shrines Pilgrimage. Gelatin silver print, Kan Azuma Fonds, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Library and Archives, Gift of the Artist. Installation view of Kan Azuma: A Matter of Place, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, 1 March – 24 June, 2024 © Kan Azuma. Photo: NGC

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Learn Inuktut through art! 🗣️🖼️

Starting next week, join us online to learn the basics of the Inuktut language with expert teacher Miali Coley-Sudlovenick and simultaneously enrich your knowledge of Inuit art.

Each of the six weekly one-hour sessions is inspired by works of art in the Gallery, with instruction given in English.

📆 March 26 to April 30 (weekly)
🕛 12 to 1 p.m. EDT
💻 Zoom

The lessons are free and suitable for all ages. To register for one or multiple sessions, visit: https://www.gallery.ca/whats-on/calendar/learn-inuktut-through-art-2024-03-26

📸 Courtesy of JS Photography

GET YOURS NOW📕

The Riopelle: Crossroads in Time exhibition is closing soon but you can keep enjoying the artist's works at home with the exclusive catalogue. Grab it while you can!

With full spreads of his most notable works, it features essays by art specialists and artists who reflect on Riopelle’s legacy as they look at his work.

👉 Purchase your catalogue now or grab it at the Boutique after your Gallery visit: https://www.shopngc.ca/boutique/en/books-en-2-3-4-5-6-7/

📦 Free shipping for online orders over $75 (before tax) within Canada.

All works © Estate of Jean Paul Riopelle CARCC Ottawa 2024
🖼️ Jean Paul Riopelle, Sans titre [Untitled], 1953, coloured inks on paper, 74.5 × 107.4 cm. Purchased 1998. National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa. Photo: NGC
🖼️ Jean Paul Riopelle, Hommage aux Nymphéas – Pavane [Tribute to the Water Lilies – Pavane], 1954, oil on canvas, triptyque, 300 × 550.2 cm. National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa. Photo: NGC

MEET THE ARTIST 🤝

Join artist Thomas Corriveau on a unique tour as he explores the connections between his own work in the exhibition Riopelle: Crossroads in Time, and the art and legacy of Jean Paul Riopelle.

📆 Saturday, March 23
🕝 2:30 p.m. (In French at 1:30 p.m.)

Take advantage of this drop-in activity, included with your admission, to enhance your exhibition visit.

ℹ️ For all event details, visit: https://www.gallery.ca/whats-on/calendar/meet-the-artist-thomas-corriveau-english

📸 Antonio Calabrese

One week left❕

The exhibition Nick Sikkuark: Humour and Horror closes on Sunday, March 24.

A fascinating part of the artist's work is that we can discover the same creatures, story elements and iconography throughout, leaving us with a sense of wonder as to where they will turn up next. 💭

🎟️ Make sure you see it! Reserve your ticket now: https://www.gallery.ca/whats-on/exhibitions-and-galleries/nick-sikkuark-humour-and-horror

🖼️ Nick Sikkuark, Untitled (Shamans Approaching Each Other?), 2005. Coloured pencil on wove paper, 30.4 × 30.4 cm. Canadian Arctic Producers, Mississauga (821004577). © Estate of Nick Sikkuark. Photo: NGC

Happy birthday, Mary Pratt! 🎈

Novelist Sheila Heti invites you to discover this acclaimed East Coast painter's work, Red Currant Jelly, from our collection: https://youtu.be/wbN-UvWwyxQ?list=PLK8qVR6emhGDykvSPiXGQblkbvLIDmy6f

In her work of the 1970s, Pratt (1935–2018) addressed the everyday objects of women's domestic lives. By depicting them close-up and in detail, she suggested larger symbolic meaning, as well as a sense of absurdity.

Red Currant Jelly is characteristic of Pratt's elevation of banal domestic activities to the state of ritual.

💭 is a series where leading women authors speak about key artworks by women artists in our collection. Stay tuned for more episodes!

Sheila Heti on Mary Pratt's Red Currant Jelly Inspired Words: Spotlight on Women Authors and Artists. Listen to leading authors speak about key artworks in the Gallery’s collection. Sheila Heti on Mary P...

My Bistro has a limited offering as our kitchen undergoes renovations to better serve you. 🥐 Happy Goat Coffee remains open during usual operating hours. ☕

We thank you for your understanding and apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.

Literature and Riopelle 📚🎨

Join us for a conversation between celebrated author Martine Delvaux and Sylvie Lacerte, curator of the exhibition Riopelle: Crossroads in Time.

Delvaux will read excerpts from Ça aurait pu être un film [It Would Have Made a Great Movie], her acclaimed book about Jean Paul Riopelle, Joan Mitchell and Hollis Jeffcoat.

📆 Thursday, March 21
🕕 6 to 7 p.m. EDT
📍 The Gallery's Auditorium and on Zoom

For all event details, visit: https://www.gallery.ca/whats-on/calendar/literature-and-riopelle-martine-delvaux-and-sylvie-lacerte

📸 Courtesy of Julia Marois and Léa Martin