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Founders' Gallery: Past ExhibitsDiabolique11 August 2011 - 13 November 2011Diabolique is a contemporary art exhibit based on art works from twenty-two internationally renowned artists dealing with human conflict and suffering - a display that evokes imagination and provokes thought through visual interpretation of the beholder. Emerging and mid-career artists from Britain, Canada, Hungary, Libia, Romania, South Africa, and the USA explore the horrors of war both in war zones and in their own communities. "This exhibition is an eclectic mix of devilish dioramas, cruel vignettes, diary or journal entry drawings, text, and collage narrating the influence of human conflict, the grotesque and the gruesome, masks, hybrids, surreal scenes that remind us of Goya's Disasters of War or Dante's Inferno," said curator Amanda Cachia. Exhibits included Douglas Coupland's Gorgon, and Scott Waters, Family Portraits. The Military Museums (TMM) was the final stop for this travelling contemporary art show, which is on loan from the Dunlop Art Gallery in Regina. Afghanistan: A Glimpse of War1 March 2011 - 4 July 2011 :: The Founders' GalleryDeveloped and circulated by the Canadian War Museum. Detailing Canada's efforts to help Afghans rebuild a country shattered by years of war, this exhibition uncovers personal stories drawn from the chaos of battle and the struggle for peace. War Art Now11 Sept 2010 - 31 January 2011 :: The Founders' GalleryThe Military Museums presents new artwork by Dick Averns from his Middle East deployment with Canadian peacekeeping troops. Photographs, sculpture, video, and text portray Averns’ experiences. Exhibition organized by The Military Museums and curated by Colleen Sharpe. Unravelling the Yarns : War Rugs and Soldiers
11 Sept 2010 - 31 January 2011 :: The Founders' GalleryThis exhibit showcases the Fyke Collection of Afghan war rugs and tells stories about weaponry represented on handknotted carpets. The Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry Regimental Museum and Archives and The Nickle Arts Museum identify the images. The exhibit is curated by Michele Hardy, Curator of Decorative Arts, The Nickle Arts Museum, and Sergeant Christopher Mavin, Collections Manager with the Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry Regimental Museum and Archives, and Colleen Sharpe, Art Curator with The Founders' Gallery. Canopy11 Sept 2010 - 31 January 2011 :: The Founders' GalleryCanopy is an exhibit by Toronto artist Penelope Stewart. It features a tiled pattern photographed and screened onto thirty feet of organza fabric. The ghostly pattern evokes remembrance and is derived from detail on the University of Toronto memorial to soldiers lost in the world wars. Curated by Colleen Sharpe, Art Curator with the Founders' Gallery. The Navy: A Century in Art27 March – 20 June 2010 :: The Founders' GalleryThe Navy: A Century in Art marks the 100th anniversary of the Canadian Navy. A selection of paintings from many of Canada’s leading war artists demonstrates how geography, history and war have shaped the navy since 1910. This travelling exhibition produced by the Canadian War Museum draws from the Beaverbrook Collection of War Art. Artwork captures the diverse roles, traditions and key moments for this national institution. The exhibition premieres in Calgary at The Military Museums, then moves to the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic in Halifax and ends at the Canadian War Museum in Ottawa. Tanks and Tartan: Soldiers for 100 Years31 March – August 2010 :: The Founders' GalleryTanks and Tartan: Soldiers for 100 Years is a joint exhibit commemorating the centenaries of two Calgary units, The King’s Own Calgary Regiment and The Calgary Highlanders. The exhibit contains artefacts, photographs and artwork, including rare trench art. It covers the history of these two units during peacetime and while on active service in World War One and World War Two. Also included are the experiences of individual members serving around the world on peace-support missions. The First Maple Leaf Flag
1 July - 22 August 2010 :: The Founders' Gallery
FREE on Canada Day from noon to 3 PM This traveling exhibition is produced by The Canadian Museum of Civilization in collaboration with the House of Commons. Prairie Boys at Sea
1 July - 22 August 2010 :: The Founders' Gallery
Commemorating the Canadian Navy's Centennial year, "Prairie Boys at Sea" offers a local look at the Navy on the prairie through stories, art and artefacts from the collection of the Naval Museum of Alberta Society. Perhaps recalling their fathers stories of life in the trenches during World War One, over twenty percent of the Navy personnel who enlisted, came from the prairies. Find out how landlocked Alberta became home to several Naval bases, and learn about the contributions of many brave sailors who served Canada during the last 100 years. Second World War POW ExperiencesJune 6, 2009 – December 6, 2009 :: The Founders' GalleryThe first regional partnership exhibit that The Military Museums has been involved with, this exhibit focuses on a comparison of POW experiences between Albertans held in camps in Germany and Germans held in camps in Alberta. This was one of Alberta’s main contributions to the war effort, as POWs held in Alberta far exceeded the rest of the camps across Canada combined. Many artifacts from the camps themselves and individuals held there are presented along with their stories. The exhibit relies as well on significant art from the Canadian War Museum and several Maxwell Bates paintings recently acquired by TMM. Developed in partnership with the Galt Museum in Lethbridge, the PPCLI Regimental Museum, Lord Strathcona’s Horse (RC) Regimental Museum and the KOCR Regimental Museum, the exhibit debuted in Lethbridge in May 2008 and after being displayed at TMM it will travel throughout Alberta and perhaps more broadly. This is an important watershed for TMM”s emerging world-class status as the first partnership exhibit and the first traveling exhibit developed here. Art in the Service of War: The Emergent Group of SevenJune 6, 2009 – December 6, 2009This exhibit shows the work of four official war artists and their diverse perspectives of the First World War. Soon after the war, these artists became core members of Canada’s best-known art movement, the Group of Seven. Each featured artist provides insight into an important aspect of war from the Home Front to The Western Front. The somber war palette of mud and smoke, along with the necessity to depict massive destruction on a hitherto unseen scale, provided an artistic challenge for the painters. The emergent artists were inspired to adopt techniques that would be seen in the Group of Seven’s later famous Canadian landscapes. This is a special opportunity to discover as some scholars note, the origin of the very style that later defined these famous Canadians. The exhibition features over 40 paintings as well as dozens of rarely seen works on paper from The Beaverbrook Collection of The Canadian War Museum. Artworks in the exhibition are by A.Y. Jackson, Arthur Lismer, Franz Johnston, V.H. Varley and J.E.H. MacDonald. The exhibition includes select artifacts and archival materials from The Canadian Museum of Civilization, The Canadian War Museum, The Military Museums of Calgary and The University of Calgary Library and Cultural Resources. The exhibition is produced by The Military Museums of Calgary in conjunction with University of Calgary Library and Cultural Resources with the generous support and assistance of The Canadian War Museum. Return to The Founders' Gallery. |
