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WILFRID ALMENDRA The Marseille-
based artist presents works produced at a
2015 Fogo Island Arts residency that extend
his multiform study of architecture, hobbies,
social class and alternative economies. From
Mar. 25. Fogo Island Gallery, Hwy. 334, NL.SANDI HARTLING The uneasy and often
absurd contrasts between truth, belief and
classified value are pivot points for a “subtly
warped” sense of space and self in “Things
We Can Agree On, and Other Works of Fic-
tion.” To Apr. 10. Confederation Centre Art
Gallery, 145 Richmond St., Charlottetown, PEI.BRENDAN FERNANDES Until Apr. 3. Art Gal-
lery of Nova Scotia Yarmouth, 341 Main St.,
NS. IGOR KOLODIN/CARL ZIMMERMAN To
Apr. 6/May 6 to June 8. Studio 21 Fine Art,
1273 Hollis St., Halifax, NS. LEYA EVELYN
Apr. 2 to May 29. Saint Mary’s University ArtGallery, 5865 Gorsebrook Ave., Halifax, NS.
“WHY ARE WE SAVING ALL THESE ARTIST
PUBLICATIONS + OTHER GALLERIES
STUFFS?” Until Apr. 17. Dalhousie Art Gal-
lery, 6101 University Ave., Halifax, NS.
WILMA NEEDHAM On view to May 15. MSVUArt Gallery, 166 Bedford Hwy., Halifax, NS.
CASSIE PACKHAM Continues to Mar. 31.
Khyber Centre for the Arts, 1880 Hollis St.,
Halifax, NS. JUSTIN LANGLOIS Opens May
27. Connexion ARC, 732 Charlotte St., Fred-
ericton, NB. “NEW CONSTELLATIONS” Onview through Apr. 6. Owens Art Gallery, 61
York St., Sackville, NB. WILLIAM ROBINSON
Opens May 6. Galerie Sans Nom, 140 Botsford
St., Moncton, NB. “ALL DAY WITHIN THE
DREAMY HOUSE” Continues to Apr. 10. The
Rooms, 9 Bonaventure Ave., St. John’s, NL.AGENDA
ATLANTIC
ANNA HAWKINS Fragments of tourist
videos of the Laocoön sculpture in the Vatican
Museums are culled from the web and recut
by the Montreal artist into a portrait of clas-
sical form set in flux by the myriad perspec-
tives of mass-media. Apr. 9 to May 18. Eastern
Edge Gallery, 72 Harbour Dr., St. John’s, NL.ENTER THE FOG Immersive works by
Maya Beaudry, Tiziana La Melia, Julia Feyrer
and Tamara Henderson probe the strange
and wonderful reaches of the subconscious
to reveal everyday poetics. Until Apr. 24. The
Rooms, 9 Bonaventure Ave., St. John’s, NL. Sandi Hartling Eye to Eye 2 015Anna Hawkins With Outthrust Arm (video still) 2015 Wilfrid Almendra Between the Tree and Seeing It 2 0 14COLLECTION ART GALLERY OF NOVA SCOTIAPHOTOTONI HAFKENSCHEID“Enter the Fog”: Tiziana La Melia Thought
Column for Joan Dark the Saint 2013–14“The Last Art College”: John Baldessari I Will Not Make Any More Boring Art 1971VIEW GARRY NEILL KENNEDY: The Last Art College
is a book I put together in 2012 that is basically
a chronology of what was happening in my first
10 years as president of the Nova Scotia College of
Art and Design. The title kind of says it all. Halifax
is close enough to Europe and New York that a
lot of really good artists came to teach and make work: Joseph
Beuys, Lawrence Weiner, Dan Graham, Vito Acconci, Yvonne
Rainer, Richard Serra, Sol LeWitt, Lucy Lippard, Hans Haacke,
Simon Forti, and the list goes on. They weren’t famous
then, and there wasn’t any money in art: Gerhard Richter had
a show in Halifax and his paintings were selling for $1,000
each, and still nobody could afford them! It definitely rode
a wave of conceptual art, but that was coincidental. We used
to talk in grad school about how art schools were terrible,
so incredibly bureaucratic, and how to make a good one.
I was the president and I was teaching and I was an active
political artist. It was the same for Jerry Ferguson and David
Askevold. Teaching and making interesting art...it does work.
Garry Neill Kennedy is a Vancouver-based artist and was president of the Nova
Scotia College of Art and Design from 1967 to 1990. The survey exhibition “The Last
Art College: Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, 1968–1978,” curated by David
Diviney, continues to Apr. 3 at the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, 1723 Hollis St., Halifax.Agenda_Atlantic-sp16_10TS.indd 34 02/04/16 12:58 PM