Beyond the Edge: Artists’ Gardens 2015
‘Unframing the Landscape; Uncontaining
Nature’ with John K. Grande
Thursday April 16
7.00 to 9.00 pm
The Chamber at Ben Franklin Place
101 Centrepointe Drive, Ottawa [map]
CBGS members: $12.00
Non-members: $15.00
Tickets: Pay on line through Paypal or buy your ticket at the door.
Space is limited to 250 seats.
Free parking
Nature is a volatile and powerful force that is part of our lives. Ecology plays a role in all economies. Art in our era requires
a reinvention of ways of understanding structures that integrate fluid natural systems within its vocabulary. John K. Grande
will present examples that explain the evolution of environmental art from land art to social ecology to earth art to bio-art.
John will share his curatorial experience with some of the world’s most ambitious exhibitions and discuss installations that
provocatively link landscape and art.
Urs Twellman, Pappelarchiv, 321 Parts, 1998
Ichi Ikeda, Greenscape
5 Greenscapes Shinobazu, Tokyo 2012
Bob Verschueren, After the Chaos
Arte Sella, Malga Costa, Italy, 2010
Curator, author, and scholar John K. Grande has curated earth art and eco art shows around the world, including at the
Royal Botanical Gardens in Burlington, Ontario, Van Dusen Gardens in Vancouver, B.C., and Pori Art Museum in Finland.
His books on art and ecology include Balance: Art and Nature (Black Rose), Art Nature Dialogues (SUNY Press, New
York) and Dialogues in Diversity (Pari Publishing, Italy). John K. Grande is curator of earth art at the Royal Botanical Gardens for the Pan Am Games in Toronto this summer.
Join us after the event – coffee will be served and John K. Grande will have his most recent books on sale.
Presented by the Canadensis Botanical Garden Society
Proceeds will go towards Beyond the Edge: Artists’ Gardens 2015: July 9 to September 27
http://canadensisgarden.ca/new-beyond-the-edge-2015/