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26 October 2007 – 2 December 2007

Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery

Luis Jacob: A Dance for Those of Us Whose Hearts Have Turned to Ice and Other Works

  • Luis Jacob

    Artist

  • Scott Watson

    Curator

    Scott Watson (Canadian, b. 1950) is Director Emeritus and Research Fellow at the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, University of British Columbia. A curator whose career has spanned more than thirty-five years, Watson is internationally recognized for his research and work in curatorial and exhibition studies, contemporary art and issues, and art theory and criticism. His distinctions include the Hnatyshyn Foundation Award for Curatorial Excellence in Contemporary Art (2010); the Alvin Balkind Award for Creative Curatorship in BC Arts (2008) and the UBC Dorothy Somerset Award for Performance Development in the Visual and Performing Arts (2005). Watson has published extensively in the areas of contemporary Canadian and international art. His 1990 monograph on Jack Shadbolt earned the Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize in 1991. Recent publications include Letters: Michael Morris and Concrete Poetry (2015); Thrown: British Columbia’s Apprentices of Bernard Leach and their Contemporaries (2011), a finalist for the 2012 Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize; “Race, Wilderness, Territory and the Origins of the Modern Canadian Landscape” and “Disfigured Nature” (in Beyond Wilderness, McGill University Press, 2007); and “Transmission Difficulties: Vancouver Painting in the 1960s” (in Paint, Vancouver Art Gallery, 2006).

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The Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition by Toronto artist Luis Jacob. This exhibition features the Vancouver premiere of work from a new series of video installations, A Dance for Those of Us Whose Hearts Have Turned to Ice…, that Jacob produced for Documenta 12 which took place in Kassel, Germany from June to September 2007. His work received a positive critical response.

Jacob’s work explores the relationship between sculpture and dance and takes its inspiration from two seemingly disparate art historical sources—the sculpture of British artist Barbara Hepworth and the choreography of Quebecois artist Françoise Sullivan. Sullivan’s performance of Danse dans la neige in 1948 was a seminal event in the history of modern dance in Canada. A Dance for Those of Us Whose Hearts Have Turned to Ice… pays homage to this legendary work of modern Canadian art.

Also included in the exhibition is Album III, a work that consists of hundreds of photographic images collected from a variety of books, magazines and other publications. These images are montaged together within plastic-laminate panels to form an “image bank” that creates a visual narrative through processes of association and visual puns. Album III was published as an artist-book by Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Cologne.

The exhibition will also feature new work especially produced for Jacob’s exhibition in Vancouver.

We gratefully acknowledge the support of The Canada Council for the Arts.

Luis Jacob, A Dance for Those of Us Whose Hearts Have Turned to Ice, Based on the Choreography of Françoise Sullivan and the Sculpture of Barbara Hepworth, 2007. Still from video installation.

Luis Jacob, A Dance for Those of Us Whose Hearts Have Turned to Ice, Based on the Choreography of Françoise Sullivan and the Sculpture of Barbara Hepworth, 2007. Still from video installation.

  • Luis Jacob

    Artist

  • Scott Watson

    Curator

    Scott Watson (Canadian, b. 1950) is Director Emeritus and Research Fellow at the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, University of British Columbia. A curator whose career has spanned more than thirty-five years, Watson is internationally recognized for his research and work in curatorial and exhibition studies, contemporary art and issues, and art theory and criticism. His distinctions include the Hnatyshyn Foundation Award for Curatorial Excellence in Contemporary Art (2010); the Alvin Balkind Award for Creative Curatorship in BC Arts (2008) and the UBC Dorothy Somerset Award for Performance Development in the Visual and Performing Arts (2005). Watson has published extensively in the areas of contemporary Canadian and international art. His 1990 monograph on Jack Shadbolt earned the Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize in 1991. Recent publications include Letters: Michael Morris and Concrete Poetry (2015); Thrown: British Columbia’s Apprentices of Bernard Leach and their Contemporaries (2011), a finalist for the 2012 Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize; “Race, Wilderness, Territory and the Origins of the Modern Canadian Landscape” and “Disfigured Nature” (in Beyond Wilderness, McGill University Press, 2007); and “Transmission Difficulties: Vancouver Painting in the 1960s” (in Paint, Vancouver Art Gallery, 2006).

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Funders

  • Canada Council for the Arts