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Join Griffin Art Project’s Director, Lisa Baldissera for a live virtual curator’s tour of Griffin’s current exhibition, William Kentridge: The Colander.
Drawing from private collections in Western Canada as well as a selection of previous projects and new works from the Kentridge Studio, South Africa produced during 2020’s global pandemic, William Kentridge: The Colander explores the critique of political structures in Kentridge’s printmaking and filmmaking—looking at the layered, kinetic and collaged nature of his formal working processes, to investigate the porousness and vulnerability of artmaking and life—as well as the processes of the studio in his 2020-2021 series, Studio Life. Planned with the research and curatorial assistance of Jillian Ross, of Jillian Ross Print, as well as Parts & Labour, VivianeArt, Calgary and David Krut Workshop in Johannesburg, South Africa, The Colander will be held at Griffin Art Projects from May 29 to September 4, 2021.
Lisa Baldissera
Lisa Baldissera has worked as an independent curator, consultant and writer, and in curatorial roles in public art galleries in Western Canada since 1999, including Senior Curator at Contemporary Calgary (2014-16) and Chief Curator at the Mendel Art Gallery in Saskatoon (2012-14). She was Curator of Contemporary Art at the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria from 1999 to 2009, where she produced more than fifty exhibitions of local, Canadian, and international artists. She holds MFAs in Creative Writing (UBC) and Art (University of Saskatchewan) and recently completed a PhD at Goldsmiths College, University of London. Baldissera has served on contemporary art juries across Canada, including the Canada Council for the Arts, Saskatchewan Arts Board, RBC Canadian Painting Competition, the Hnatyshyn Foundation Visual Arts Awards, the Sobey Art Award, British Columbia Arts Council and as a guest of the British Arts Council outreach program. Recent curatorial projects include, Person/ne on Arendtian forms of care, citizenship and personhood for Griffin Art Projects, and in 2017, UTOPIA FACTORY, which considered issues of urban planning, monuments, public art and reconciliation in the building of a new art gallery and WILD: Fabricating a Frontier (with M:ST and Calgary Underground Film Festival), which complicated frontier narratives in contested zones and settler colonial contexts.