Icebreaking
Subtitle: La débâcle : Jesse Stewart
By: text by/texte de Rebecca Basciano ; translation/traduction, Louise Saint-André
Contributors: Ottawa Art Gallery
Publisher: Ottawa Art Gallery = Galerie d'art d'Ottawa
Published: 2019
Place of publication: Ottawa, ON, Canada
Language: eng
Number of pages: 19
ISBN-13: 9781894906609
Copyright date: 2019
Subjects: Exhibitions; Expositions
Other titles: Débâcle; Icebreaking.; Icebreaking. French.
Description: "Published in English and French, this catalogue features the work of contemporary Canadian artist Jesse Stewart. Drawing inspiration from works in the Firestone Collection of Canadian Art, Stewart examines the role of industry on climate change, as well as the related disappearance of ice. Works by Franklin Carmichael, Alan C. Collier, and Claude Picher highlight industrial activities such as mining and smelting in Ontario's Great Lakes region, as well as annual icebreaking to clear shipping channels along the St. Lawrence River. Stewart's work, in turn, seeks to emphasize renewable resources. His use of reclaimed materials, including wood, glass, and plastic, stresses the necessity of upcycling in the face of accelerated toxic manufacturing and consumer consumption. Reflecting on the global ramifications of local pollution, Stewart also looks to melting glaciers and polar ice caps. Depictions of northern landscapes from the Firestone Collection, by artists Lawren S. Harris, A.Y. Jackson, and Philip Surrey, have been paired with Glacialis (2010-19), a video of Stewart using percussive instruments made of ice. We feel a sense of urgency and ephemerality as it becomes evident that Stewart's music will end when the instruments melt. As we currently sit at an environmental tipping point, it is necessary to contemplate the reverberations of our collective and individual actions on the local ecology in the age of the Anthropocene."--
Notes: Includes a small card in an envelope on the back page.

"Franklin Carmichael, Alan C. Collier, Lawren S. Harris, A.Y. Jackson, Claude Picher, Philip Surrey."

Catalogue of an exhibition held at the Ottawa Art Gallery from February 9 to June 23, 2019.

Includes bibliographical references (page 19).

Text in English and French, translated from the French.