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SUMMARY:Art Talk: Cynthia Minden
URL:http://www.harbourliving.ca/event/art-talk-cynthia-minden/
LOCATION:Comox Valley Art Gallery :: 580 Duncan Avenue Courtenay, V9N 2M7
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Cynthia Minden – mixed media assemblage=0D=0A=
Art Talk: Saturday, September 13 at 1:00pm=0D=0A=
Exhibition Dates: 16 August – 13 September, 2014=0D=0A=
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This new body of assemblages are composed with gathered materials from the margins of wetlands, forest floor and foreshore, intertwined with cast off findings from human civilization. The abandoned cast-off detritus of a crowded world, set amid a jungle of plant life, a flotilla of regrouped bits and pieces.=0D=0A=
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I am building a library of artifacts drawn from the landscape, woven together in an artful conversation. The linkage of nature and art has always been important for me.=0D=0A=
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By pairing bone with porcelain, nail with knife and vine, I am looking for multiple meanings, layers of interpretation and a framework for thinking about the relationship between art, society and the environment.=0D=0A=
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A proliferation of stuff, which can be dispiriting, entwined with the regeneration of nature, which can be hopeful to imagine, these assemblages can be seen as modern fetishes; both poetic meditations and symbolic warnings about the present state of affairs. – Cynthia Minden. (photographs: Sarah Joyce)=0D=0A=
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Cynthia Minden started as a basket maker in 1987. Intrigued by the idea of containing space, she states: I started to make odd shaped vessels that could contain little more than one’s imagination. I’ve made hundreds of containers; call them shelters or nests, boats or baskets. Inspired, I learned papermaking and added it to my vessels as a skin, indulging in my love of collage. Then bees wax, gauze, plaster and pigments found their way into my work, which has continued to evolve into a wide range of projects.
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