On the Nature of Things

Patrik Andersson and Shep Steiner

Kamloops Art Gallery
94 pp 40 col. ill 11 x 8 in hardcover 
978-1-895497-79-3 
$29.99 Can. $34.99 U.S. (24 €)
January 2012 (Now available)

naturething.gifspacerBorrowing its title from Roman philosopher Lucretius in his epic poem dedicated to Epicurean philosophy, this exhibition catalogue assumes a multi-linear and non-directional curatorial approach to several individual artistic practices. While the artists surveyed share an interest in strikingly Modernist forms and structures, they employ surrealist wit to repurpose clichéd forms from our everyday urban environment and popular culture into extra-ordinary aesthetic tropes that challenge a stable understanding of both art and our modernity.

Individual presentations of sixteen artists are flanked by two original essays that situate each work in the context of the whole, and situates the whole in the context of Modernism. The artists include Kim Kennedy Austin, Andrew Dadson, Sarah Dobai, Rodney Graham, Alexander Gutke, Sofia Hulten, Jack Jeffrey, Evan Lee, Kristi Malakoff, Shannon Oksanen, Kathy Slade, Gordon Smith, T&T (Tony Romano and Tyler Brett), Jacques de la Villeglé, and Neil Wedman.










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