Candice Breitz
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- Publisher
- The Power Plant
- Initial publish date
- Jan 2009
- Category
- General
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781894212298
- Publish Date
- Jan 2009
- List Price
- $65.00
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Description
This catalogue accompanies internationally acclaimed artist Candice Breitz's first major survey exhibition in North America, organized by The Power Plant in fall 2009. The catalogue features documentation of Breitz's work, commissioned by The Power Plant, Factum (2009), a series of video portraits featuring seven sets of identical twins and one set of identical triplets, as well as illustrations of key works from Breitz's oeuvre: Him + Her (1968-2008), Legend (A Portrait of Bob Marley) (2005), Becoming (2003), and Four Duets (2000). Essays by exhibition curator and Director of The Power Plant Gregory Burke, art historian Anne Wagner and art critics Jon Davies and Claire Gilman, engage with Breitz's ongoing fascination with original and copy and the performance of identity.?
About the authors
Anne Wagner, PhD, is an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology and cross-appointed to Child and Family Studies at Nipissing University. Her areas of research focus on gender, race and (higher) education, critical pedagogies and violence against women.
Jon Davies is a writer and curator based in Toronto. His writing has appeared in C Magazine, Canadian Art, GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, Animation Journal, Cinema Scope, Xtra! and many other publications. He has also contributed book chapters on filmmaker Todd Haynes and artists Candice Breitz, Luis Jacob, Ryan Trecartin, and Daniel Barrow. He has curated numerous screenings for the artists` film and video exhibitor Pleasure Dome, and for various venues in Toronto from Gallery TPW and Vtape to the Images Festival and Inside Out, as well as internationally. He most recently curated the traveling retrospective `People Like Us: The Gossip of Colin Campbell` for the Oakville Galleries, Ontario. He is currently Assistant Curator of Public Programs at The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery.