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  • Thursday May 23, 2013
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    Sakahàn: International Indigenous Art
    Special Exhibitions Galleries

    Sakahàn—meaning “to light [a fire]” in the language of the Algonquin peoples—brings together more than 150 works of recent Indigenous art by over 80 artists from 16 countries, including impressive installations created specifically for the project. Poetic, unexpected and challenging, the artworks document and interrogate distinct cultural and social issues. One of the Gallery’s most ambitious contemporary art exhibitions to date, Sakahàn will extend to partnering venues in the Ottawa region and abroad.

     

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    The Governor General’s Awards in Visual and Media Arts 2013

    22 Mar 2013 - 23 Jun 2013

    The Governor General’s Awards celebrate the remarkable career achievements of Canadian artistsin visual arts, including architecture, photography, independent film and video, audio and new media. The 2013 laureates will be announced next February.

    The exhibition is organized by the National Gallery of Canada in collaboration with the Canada Council for the Arts and the Governor General of Canada.

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    Clash: Conflict and Its Consequences
    Galleries B102, B103

    This exhibition draws upon works in the collection to present war and conflict as complex phenomena, ones that have far reaching consequences for both those directly engaged in it, and those at various points of remove. Central to this exhibition is photography’s relation to trauma and remembrance, at a personal, communal and national level, and issues of what constitutes history, for whom and why.

    Organized by the National Gallery of Canada.

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    Masterpiece in Focus: Rubens, Van Dyck, Jordaens
    Gallery C218

    A small but concentrated exhibition that closely examines key works from the National collections by Rubens, Van Dyck, Jordaens, and their collaborators. The exhibition will allow visitors to discover the artists’ creative world as it reveals the mysteries behind the objects.

    Organized by the National Gallery of Canada.

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    Canadian Bookplates from the National Gallery of Canada
    NGC Library and Archives

    Bookplates, or ex libris (from the Latin, meaning “from the books of ”), first came into use shortly after the advent of the printing press in the mid-fifteenth century. Attached to the inside cover of books to indicate ownership, they became especially popular among the upper classes in the eighteenth century. In the nineteenth century, the use of bookplates proliferated, appealing to a rapidly growing middle class that increasingly had the opportunity to develop personal book collections.

    This exhibition presents a selection of Canadian bookplates from the National Gallery of Canada Library and Archives, the work of Canada’s leading bookplate designers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

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Current Exhibitions

Marie Watt. <em>Blanket Stories: Three Sisters,Cousin Rose, Four Pelts and Sky Woman </em>(previous installation detail), 2005. Photo: Courtesy of the artist. Sakahàn: International Indigenous Art 17 May 2013 - 02 Sep 2013 Peter Paul Rubens. <em>Head of an Old Woman</em>, 1612. Oil on oak. Purchased 1925, no. 3339 Masterpiece in Focus: Rubens, Van Dyck, Jordaens 03 May 2013 - 02 Sep 2013
The Governor General’s Awards in Visual and Media Arts 2013 The Governor General’s Awards in Visual and Media Arts 2013 22 Mar 2013 - 23 Jun 2013 Morley Ayearst, bookplate for Viola L. Allen, 1920 Canadian Bookplates from the National Gallery of Canada 08 May 2013 - 30 Aug 2013
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Coming Soon

Charles Horetzky <em>Salmon Cove, Nasse River, looking north</em>, 1873 Albumen print Library and Archives Canada / e011067227 Library and Archives Canada - Early Exploration Photographs in Canada 24 May 2013 - 29 Sep 2013 Ludovico Carracci, <em>The Virgin and Child</em> (detail), c. 1580-1595, red chalk heightened with white chalk on faded blue laid paper, 28.2 x 24.5 cm, Purchased 1975. National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa Photo © NGC The Noble Art of the Carracci and their School: A Selection of Drawings and Prints 31 May 2013 - 29 Sep 2013
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