Building a new New World Amerikanizm in Russian Architecture 13 November 2019 to 5 April 2020 “Amerikanizm” in Russia can be construed as a multifaceted phantasmagoria—a term used by Walter Benjamin to interpret the spectacle of the commodity. Russian political thinkers, writers, architects, and designers experienced ideal images of the New World as a sequence of fantasies. Visual and textual representations, unfolding on a continuum, generated a collective illusion that shaped modern Russia. Curator: Jean-Louis Cohen In 1924, Leon Trotsky went as far as to affirm that “Americanized Bolshevism will triumph and smash imperialist Americanism,” echoing the prophetic vision, formulated by Alexander Blok, of a “New America” forged in the coal-mining regions of Russia.
Charles Dédoyard, Dnieper Hydroelectric Power Station under construction, Zaporozhe, Soviet Union (now in Ukraine), 1932 Gelatin silver print, 8.2 × 5.8 cm CCA PH1987:0799
Boris Mikhailovitch Iofan, Perspective for the People’s Commissariat for Heavy Industry, Moscow , 1938 Graphite and watercolour on paper, 43 x 37.6 cm CCA Collection DR1995:0003
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Hanran: 20th-Century Japanese Photography
Studio of Jason Kelly Johnson & Nataly Gattegno
photographs from the Yokohama Museum of Art
28 photographers, from the early 1930s to the 1990s, call attention to the costs of nuclear warfare and Japan’s extraordinary recovery – all unfolding in front of the camera’s mechanical eye. to March 22, 2020 National Gallery of Canada Canadian Photography Institute Galleries Ottawa, Ontario www.gallery.ca
Nakahira Takuma, Untitled [Kyobashi, Tokyo]
Lightcloud translates sounds from the highway underpass into 9 unique formations of dynamically patterned light. Slowly changing ambient effects are triggered by the sound of passing people, cyclists and cars from the two neighborhoods and I-880 above. Lightcloud animates the underpass with variable intensities of computer-controlled LED illumination. Lightcloud, Oakland, California, 2019-2020
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Qautamaat | Every day / everyday
From images circulated on social networks, Qautamaat brings together the photography of Inuit community members and artists liv- ing in Inuit Nunangat and in urban centres further south. Documenting places and phenomena of daily life, they offer a visual map and memory of the lived environment.
artgalleryofguelph.ca January 22 – April 26, 2020
Tarralik Duffy, 3/4 mile marker, 2019
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