Jon Sasaki
Subtitle: homage
By: editor Sarah Milroy
Contributors: McMichael Canadian Art Collection
Publisher: McMichael Canadian Art Collection, d'art canadien
Published: 2021
Place of publication: Kleinburg, Ontario
Language: eng
Number of pages: 99
ISBN-13: 9781486851942
Copyright date: 2021
Subjects: Exhibitions; Artistic Photography; Photography; Canadian Art; Photographie artistique; Expositions
Other titles: Homage
Work titles: Jon Sasaki (2021)
Description: "This catalogue accompanies the McMichael's exhibition Jon Sasaki: Homage. Each generation walks in the footsteps of the past while also finding ways to describe the world anew. In this series, Sasaki investigates cultures close to home. Jon Sasaki: Homage presents the full suite of Sasaki's large-format high-resolution photographs documenting bacterial cultures and fungus swabbed from archival objects in the holdings of the McMichael Canadian Art Collection--the paintbrushes, palettes and paint boxes once used by the original members of the Group of Seven and Tom Thomson. The resulting eerily beautiful, landscape-like images reflect Sasaki's near-devotional attention to Canadian art history, and to the legacies of the Group of Seven and Tom Thomson. In this series, Sasaki expresses wry solidarity with the ghosts of Canadian art past, as seen through the lens of contemporary photo-based art."--
Notes: Catalogue of an exhibition held at the McMichael Canadian Art Collection from May 7 to September 6, 2021.
Table of contents: title: Canadian culture(s) / Sarah Milroy; title: Germinations / Jon Sasaki; title: Time machines / Alison Douglas.