Bermuda Biennial 2016
Subtitle: it's about now : memories of the present
Contributors: Bermuda National Gallery
Publisher: Bermuda National Gallery
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Hamilton, Bermuda Islands
Language: eng
Number of pages: 61
Copyright date: 2016
Subjects: Bermudian Art; Exhibitions
Other titles: It's about now :; Bermuda National Gallery :
Description: The Bermuda Biennial 2016 is the 12th iteration of the exhibition series, and the second to embrace a theme. Sponsored by Bacardi Limited, the Bermuda Biennial serves as the Island's contemporary art nexus, from which innovative artistic expression is encouraged and observed. Bermudaœs historical heritage, its geographical remoteness and aesthetic, and economic resiliency, create a unique setting for a small but burgeoning contemporary art scene. This year's theme, It's About Now: memories of the present, led to a variety of artistic responses. In subject, artists tackle topical issues, such as environmental protection, globalization, and technology saturation. Others are more philosophical, with existential notions, poetic and / or theoretical references to time, memory, meaning. In form, expressions vary from photography to large scale installations, with materials including mirror, Mylar, and sewn fabric. Perhaps for the first time there is no painting, which is an important note for an artistic space grounded in plein air landscape painting.
Notes: "This catalogue was published on the occasion of the Bermuda Biennial 2016 at the Bermuda National Gallery, June 16-November 26, 2016."--Facing Title Page.
Table of contents: title: Welcome; title: Sponsor's Foreword; title: Jurors' Statement / Holly Bynoe, Senior Curator, National Art Gallery of Bahamas, Co-founder/ Executive Director ARC magazine; Valerie Cassel Oliver, Senior Curator, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX; title: The Artists; title: Meredith Andrews; title: Louisa Bermingham; title: William Collieson; title: Emma Cooper; title: James Cooper; title: Daniel C. Dempster; title: Ani Douglas; title: Vaughan Evans; title: Antoine A.R. Hunt; title: Christina Hutchings; title: Teresa Kirby Smith; title: Peter Lapsley; title: Jon Legere; title: Dany Pen; title: Jennifer Leigh Piper; title: Alan C. Smith; title: Andrea Sundt; title: Charlie Godet Thomas; title: Michael Walsh; title: Charles Zuill; title: Artist Details; title: Exhibition Listing.