Lot 77
WANDA KOOP
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Provenance:
Private Collection, British Columbia
Note:
This small painting is an important study from Koop’s seminal multimedia installation In Your Eyes, 2001. The installation was exhibited at the Venice Biennale in 2001 and it tells the story of Koop’s family’s immigration into Canada during the Russian Revolution and her Mennonite upbringing. The works explore themes of social alienation and displacement, with recurring visuals of circular images on canvases that can be understood as Koop’s reference to these repetitive historical patterns. Perception is also a recurring concern in Koop’s work, as she uses the camera “to navigate through our society of spectacle, surveillance, and excess.”
Koop’s painting process involves making “tiny shorthand notes, often black and white, and then moving to small paintings and finally to larger ones.” This painting is a note for one of the large-scale canvases included in the exhibition (see image below).
Following the In Your Eyes exhibition, Koop was appointed a member of the Order of Canada in 2006.
Literature:
Mary Reid, Wanda Koop: On the Edge of Experience (Winnipeg Art Gallery in collaboration with National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, 2010), 129.
CONDITION DETAILS
Very good condition.
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