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Exhibitions 2001-2006
SENSE OF
MOVEMENT
March 2 - April 2, 2006
Florence Debeugny, Pnina Granirer, Sonja Hébért, Sylvie
Roussel-Janssen
Evergreen Cultural Centre
1205 Pinetree Way, Coquitlam, BC
Summer 2005
This was
a very busy summer of exciting activities for me.
In April I participated in the International
Exhibition TO LOVE THE
EARTH, held in Utrecht, the Netherlands.
June 14 was the opening of ABSTRACTIONS ET
FIGURATIONS at the
Maison des Artistes, Château Grimaldi, in Cagnes-sur-mer, France,
which included 3 Canadian artists, one Swedish and one French
artist.
The most important exhibition was WEST COAST SURREAL:
A
CANADIAN
PERSPECTIVE, which took place at the Museo Granell in Santiago de
Compostela, Spain.
Second Screening of:
PNINA
GRANIRER:
Portrait
of an Artist
A
Television Documentary
Sunday,
July 31st, 2005
8:00
ET / 5:00 PT
by film maker Mehdi Ali (
A NEW ARCADIA: The Art of
Gregg Simpson;
LANDSCAPE REVEALED :
The Art of Toni Onley)
FLOATING
DANCERS
November
8 -
December 4, 2005
Seymour Art Gallery
4360 Gallant Ave., North
Vancouver, BC
European Exhibitions:
2005
West
Coast Surreal: A Canadian Perspective
Museo
Granell, Santiago de Compostela, Spain (Details of the
exhibition)
 
(below)
Pnina Granirer's room in the exhibition
 
Abstractions
et Figurations
Maison de Artistes, Château Grimaldi,
Cagnes-sur-mer,
France
June
15 -
July 3rd, 2005
Details of the
exhibition
SYNCHRONICITY
Thursday,
February 24th - March 9, 2005
Sidney and
Gertrude Zack
Gallery at the Jewish Community Centre
950 West 41st
Avenue
(just east of Oak Street in Vancouver)
There will be a
dance
performance choreographed to live music in the gallery space.
The artist will
be in
attendance.
This series
of work is based on
photographs taken during Ballet
BC and Kokoro Dance
rehearsals.
Granirer's mixed media paintings are
textured, earthy works, which capture the movement of the dancers.
Her startling life size drawings on clear Mylar are quite the opposite.
They are installed in
an innovative and engaging manner. Instead of
hanging in a frame from the wall, the drawings are suspended from
the ceiling, hovering, shimmering and moving in space; the lines
defining
the figures float with no visible support, within the open space
of the gallery. The simplicity of the drawings and the fragility of
the material allow the figures to move with the air currents as
if they
were
alive. The dancing figures float in space unencumbered and free.
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In this exhibition
Granirer explores a new realm, taking art to the
next level. The concept of live dancers interacting with static images,
developed during an exhibition she had at the Yukon
Arts Centre. There she
collaborated with dancer/choreographer Gail
Lotenberg
who created a 15 minute dance sequence entering and exiting Granirer's
life-size drawings. "The dancer becomes one with the art."
Granirer says, "When
the dancer entered the Mylars, there was a
gasp
from the audience. It was so dramatic and so unexpected."
It is really exciting to experience the interaction between a live
body and an imaginary one, drawn by the artist.
The visual works are a contained world by themselves. The addition
of the dance transforms them into a new and different experience.
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On opening night
viewers will be treated to a dance performance
choreographed
and performed by Natalie
Marrable,
to live music composed
and performed by Itamar
Erez, both
instructors at the Dena
Wosk School of
Performing
Arts. There will be more
opportunities to experience
the innovative combination of visual art and dance, and to watch
choreographers
work and perform in the gallery space during the Chutzpah!
The Lisa Nemetz
Showcase of Jewish Performing Arts Festival. Arts
Umbrella's most talented
graduating dance students,
under the
direction
of Artemis Gordon, will experiment
with movement, synchronicity and improvised choreography using
Granirer's
transparent drawings and
visual images as inspiration. The general public is invited to view
the creative collaborative process in motion.
Exhibition in Prague
In
conjunction with the
exchange, Canadian Artists in the Czech
Republic - Czech
Artists in Canada, October 7 - October 21, 2004, I
recently
visited Prague from September 27
until October
7.
I exhibited in this group show in the old
City Hall in the heart
of Prague
and was also an
artist in residence
at Art Department of
Charles University in Prague.
Visit
the Exhibition
THE
DANCERS' SUITE is
a series of works which is all about movement. Based on
photographs
taken
by the artist during rehearsals of Ballet British Columbia, they
reflect
the oldest human exploration in the arts. From times immemorial the
first
humans have
left their traces by painting images on cave walls. They
have
also
swayed and
danced in rhythm around the fire, connecting the
visual expression and
the dance with
the sacred. This exhibition
combines those two creative human
endeavours, by
expressing the dance
through
the paintings.
An
innovative and unusual aspect of this exhibition are the life-size
acrylic
drawings
on sheets of clear mylar which hang between the
paintings.
The figures drawn on
these sheets are floating in space, unencumbered
and
free, multiplied by the shadows
thrown upon each sheet and unto the
wall,
enhancing the feeling of movement and
motion. The simplicity of the
drawings
and the fragility of the material allow the dancing
figures to move
with
the air currents, creating a thread of movement from one painting to
another.
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