16 novembre 2006 au 28 avril 2007
Tue/Wed/Fri 11 am - 5 pm, Thursday 11 am - 7 pm, Saturday 12 - 5 pm, Sundays & Mondays closed
McMaster Museum of Art, Hamilton (Ontario)
The exhibition focuses on the 15 Herman Levy collection works by Polish-born artist Josef Herman (1911-2000), the largest single holding that Levy acquired by a living artist. There is more to this presentation than a collector educating the eye and expressing taste (as the objectification of preference). There is a “communion” between two people, in and of the times. Also addressed are the limitations of art history, what W. McAllister Johnson referred to as its “mechanization.” Are the paintings “mere data” to be judged against canonical typologies, or can they be evidence of something else? What then is verifiable, retrievable, and what is interpreted through supposition?
Pay what you can, if you can with a suggested donation of $2.00. Students and seniors are always free.
RoseAnne Prevec
prevecr@mcmaster.ca
