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Through the Looking
Glass 1995
Various locations
Exhibition text by Dr. Kim
Sawchuk
Courtesy of Rosemont
Gallery, Regina.
Introduction
Antoinette Hérivel's portraits of life in small prairie
towns exude the warm excess of people and colours and stories.
Wide flat vistas are not part of her visual interpretation of
Saskatchewan. Geographically, prairie towns may be isolated,
separated from one another by miles. Internally towns are intensely
social. Within these cramped locations exists a hyperbolic overabundance
of emotion and situation, full of camivalesque joy, humour,
tension and sadness.
The ten works in Hérivel's current exhibition, Through
the Looking Glass, depict daily aspects of rural life. In these
canvases, people engage with one another collectively-talking,
eating, working, playing, exercising, fighting, dancing, watching
television. The paintings are strongly narrative. Rather than
simply representing these stories in a "realistic"
manner, Antoinette Herivel transforms them into allegories that
combine elements from classical mythology and art history with
everyday settings, such as laundromats, stores, restaurants,
powder rooms, town hall meetings, and county fairs.
The full text of Dr Sawchuk's critique
is here
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