Exhibition: Melanie Rocan
February 15, 2013 to April 27, 2013
KENDERDINE ART GALLERY
Exhibition:
Mélanie Rocan: Souvenir Involontaire
Curated by Ann MacDonald
Organized by the Doris McCarthy Gallery in partnership with the Kenderdine Art Gallery and Plug In ICA
Dates: February 15 to April 27, 2013
Description:
The visual world Mélanie Rocan creates with her paintings is a blended swirl of emotions and objects. Her art historical genealogy traverses many eras, from Surrealism to Expressionism, but perhaps she owes her greatest impulse to the Symbolist outgrowth of Romanticism. Enthralled by the inner material of the self, the Romantics preferred to view emotions as an implicitly valid approach to the world, and not secondary to analytic thought. Rocan’s imagery floats in the realm of the subconscious, with her dream-like, dream-dwelling subjects melding with environments both natural and cultural. The sense of nostalgia evoked by Rocan’s painted images—ferris wheels, gingham tablecloths, tire swings, floral wallpaper—speaks to memory and timelessness. These images are more about fleeting recollections than about the objects that define one’s social status. (Image: Mélanie Rocan, Caked, 2010, acrylic and oil on canvas)
Kenderdine Art Gallery | College Art Galleries
University of Saskatchewan Art Collection
Saskatoon, SK S7N 5A2 CANADA
E: leah.taylor@usask.ca
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