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Email PageIan Wallace 2008
January 17, 2008- February 16, 2008
Reception: January 17, 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Ian Wallace
Yvon Lambert Gallery
550 W 21st StYvon Lambert is pleased to announce Ian Wallace’s first solo exhibition with the gallery. To mark this occasion, the artist presents a landmark exhibition featuring four Paris-based pieces from his urban intersection series. These will be shown alongside works from an important series from 1997, and continued in 2007, titled after Jean-Luc Godard´s film Masculin/Féminin in which he appropriates scenes from classic European avant-garde films of the 1950’s and 1960’s.
In his intersection series Wallace continues to develop the motif of the urban intersection which he began in 1970. In these works he examines the contradictions of modernity that exist between the abstract structures of the painted support and the social dramas of the photographic image. In this recent ensemble of four canvases, the specific intersection is the crosswalk at the North-West corner of La Place de la République in Paris, located directly below the former studio of Louis Daguerre, one of the inventors of photography, and whose famous 1839 daguerrotype of this same street corner is one of the first key images that links the history of photography to the modern urban landscape.
The relation between image and narrative continues to be explored in the Masculin/ Féminin pieces. These images consist of photographs taken from video editions of films such as Godard’s Masculin-Féminin , and Le Mépris, Antonioni’s L’Avventura and Rosselini’s Viaggio in Italia. Excised from their cinematic context, then split into a gendered montage that is suspended against the field of abstract painting, Wallace invites us to contemplate the subjects of these films and their relation to the theme of sexual division in an entirely new way. By working through the limits and contradictions of the pictorial logic of late modernist abstract painting and the narrative drive of modern media, Wallace has come to emphasize a formal interpretation of the theme of gender politics.
Ian Wallace was born in Shoreham, England, in 1943, and has lived and worked in Vancouver since 1944. He received his MA in art history from the University of British Columbia in 1968. Since the early 1970’s Ian Wallace’s work has been exhibited widely in international institutions and is included in public collections such as the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Lenbachaus, Munich, Reina Sofia, Madrid, and the Musée National d'art Moderne, Centre Pompidou, Paris. An important survey of Ian Wallace’s work will take place at three major European venues in November 2008: the Witte de With, Rotterdam, the Kunstverein, Dusseldorf and the Kunsthalle, Zurich. A retrospective of Ian Wallace’s work will be held in 2010 at the Vancouver Art Gallery.
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