Carol Wainio: The Book
Donald Beecher & Randy Innes
Drawing on rich and varied sources such as 19th-century French illustrator J.J. Grandville (La Vie Privée et Publique des Animaux) and folktales such as Puss in Boots, Wainio explores the narrative power of fairy tale illustrations. Her paintings however evoke a mood of disenchantment and loss rather than wonder. The subjects of the traditional European folktale - poverty and excess, high culture and low, desire and consumption, camouflage and forms of recognition or status through representation or dress - become commentaries on today’s global consumerist society and its inequities. Thoroughly illustrated and with two original essays, this publication documents a ten-year survey.
Carleton University Art Gallery (09/2010) 84 pp 29 col. ill. 9 x 10.5 in hardcover 978-0-7709-0540-8 $30.00 Can. $35.00 U.S. (24 euros)
Carol Wainio: Les registres du contemporain / Contemporary Registers
Michèle Thériault
Cette exposition constitue le premier véritable survol de la production de l'artiste par une institution canadienne. Figurant parmi les peintres les plus estimés de sa génération, Carol Wainio est une artiste dont le travail reflète une sensibilité très contemporaine. Ses toiles fourmillent de références qui rappellent aussi bien le flot d'images que déversent sur nous les nouvelles technologies que les procédés plus anciens de narration en peinture. Son travail représente, métaphoriquement, le monde contemporain, marqué par l'agitation et la fragmentation, et où la perception se dispute souvent à la réalité. Le parcours proposé tient compte de l'œuvre de Carol Wainio depuis le début des années 80, en mettant essentiellement l'accent sur sa production des dix dernières années. Français/Anglais.
Widely admired for her resolutely contemporary approach to painting, Carol Wainio has produced an oeuvre distinguished by references as diverse as digital technology and the most traditional painterly narrative. The agitation and fragmentation that characterize her canvases, while reflecting contemporary sensibilities, puts accepted realities themselves in question. An essay and an artist's statement accompany this first retrospective of twenty years of production. Carol Wainio has exhibited throughout the country and has been the subject of numerous publications, including Persistent Images (Art Gallery of York University) and Carol Wainio (Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver). In English & French.
Musée d'art de Joliette (2000) 71 pp 20 col. ill. 25 x 20 cm 2921801159 $22.00 Can. U.S. (17 Euros)