The exhibitions of the Portrait Gallery of Canada will encourage
visitors to explore and enjoy the personalities from Canadian history,
along with the remarkable journeys and stories they reflect.
100 Wellington Street (coming in 2007) : Introduction - Long-term
Galleries
Flowing chronologically and divided over two floors of the historical
100 Wellington Street building, Canada's story will be told
through the meeting of peoples and the intersection of their ambitions
and challenges.
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View of Parliament Hill through
windows of historical
100 Wellington Street building (photo: Luc Bouvrette) |
100 Wellington Street : Historical Galleries
Encounters from the 16th century (and earlier)
through the 1830s will include the earliest unique portraits from
the first Aboriginal/white contacts and subsequent interactions,
as well as an exploration of the nature of Aboriginal portraiture
prior to white contact.
Tangled Gardens will feature portraits from the
16th century through the 1830s, showing the desire of early settlers
to Canada to re-create their homelands through their government
and social structures, their ideals and explorations in the tumultuous
conflicts of this period.
Becoming Canadians shows portraits from 1840 to
1914 of those involved in the run up to Confederation and its subsequent
socio-economic shifts, regional ambitions and mass immigration within
which Canada was born and took its first steps onto the world stage.
Within this section, the birth of photography will point to a democratization
of the portrait image, and the shift from formal sitting to informal
and candid images.
100 Wellington Street : Modern and Contemporary Galleries
Changing Tides explores the early 20th century,
in which Canadians lived through both harsh tragedy and exhilarating
innovations.
Rising Voices focuses on the 1950s through the
1970s, from the Quiet Revolution to Trudeaumania, when new heroes
were defined. In this section, a gallery will be devoted to Canada's
first internationally renowned portrait artist, Yousuf Karsh.
In the Here and Now introduces personalities from
the 1980s to the present day, and explores key interests of Canada's
population as reflected in the work of our most talented contemporary
portraitists. This section will also showcase new commissions by
the Portrait Gallery of Canada.
In addition to the chronological exhibition spaces, with their selected
archival material enhancing the portraits, two smaller integrated
interpretive spaces called Making History address
a series of contextual issues within the historical and modern/contemporary
periods. To further enrich the experience, original archival and
published documents, films, broadcasts, cartographic material, landscapes
and other historical artwork are presented.
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Self-Portrait,
2004
Irene Whittome (born 1942)
Gelatin silver print, 120.0 x 120.0 cm
PA-215111 |
100 Wellington Street : Thematic and Special Exhibition Galleries
Thematic and special exhibition galleries will offer space for
short term changing exhibitions around concepts, historical topics
or monographic installations, including some borrowed exhibitions.
Examples might be explorations of self-portraiture, the definition
of the family, the work of a specific artist such as Harold Town
or Frederick Varley, the commissioning of an artist installation
or recitations from diaries or journals to give voice and presence
to those for whom there are no portraits.
CURRENTLY ON VIEW: GROUND BREAKERS SERIES
PAST EXHIBITIONS
Karsh Masterworks
- A Tribute
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