Exhibitions
Interthinking Art + Science
February 27 - March 3, 2023 - Gordon Snelgrove Gallery
Márton Orosz
Márton Orosz (b. 1979, Budapest, Hungary) is the Founder and Curator of the Collection of Photography and Media Arts at the Museum of Fine Arts–Hungarian National Gallery in Budapest. He is also the Acting Director of the Vasarely Museum affiliated with the same institution. He has published widely on new media, kinetic art, concrete art, photography, and film history, and curated exhibitions on these subjects internationally.
material + time
January 24 - April 15, 2022 - Kenderdine Art Gallery
Organized by Cole Thompson
material + time developed in relation to the overarching ethos of The Structurist journal, founded by Eli Bornstein in 1960 at the University of Saskatchewan. As the recipient of the biannual Structurist Prize Award, scholar, curator and filmmaker Márton Orosz will present a new documentary film on the Hungarian artist, theorist and educator György Kepes at Remai Modern in March 2023. During this time, Orosz will also present his research and participate in a symposium hosted at the University of Saskatchewan. material + time exists in conversation with these events.
Artists in material + time include Vikky Alexander, Ralph Allen, Carl Beam, Jill Crossen-Sargent, Paul de Guzman, Gay Outlaw, Cherie Moses, David Rokeby, Margot Wawra, Elizabeth Willmott and Morgan Wood, with additional material courtesy of the University of Saskatchewan Archives and Special Collections, the City of Saskatoon Archives, and the Star Phoenix Archives.
Domestic Mutations in the Age of the Sharing Paradigm
October 17–December 13, 2019 - Kenderdine Art Gallery
Lawrence Blough is Principal of GRAFTWORKS Design Research and professor at Pratt Institute School of Architecture. Before founding GRAFTWORKS in 1999, he worked in the offices of Peter Eisenman and was a senior associate at Architecture Theatre, a nonprofit architecture and urbanism foundation. His projects and collaborations have been widely published both in the U.S. and abroad and have been exhibited at institutions such as Temple University, MoMA, Locust Projects in Miami, CAUE 92 in France and Yale University.
Events
Sahar Soheilisadigh, MFA CANDIDATE ARTIST’s TALK
Wednesday, March 1st, 2023, 12:30 to 1:20 PMUniversity of Saskatchewan, Gordon Snelgrove Gallery, Murray 191
Artist's Talk
Shelby Lund, MFA CANDIDATE ARTIST’s TALK
Wednesday, March 1st, 2023, 6:30 to 7:20 PMUniversity of Saskatchewan, Gordon Snelgrove Gallery, Murray 191
Public Lecture
Art as Luminoscience: György Kepes and a new medium sculpted from light
Thursday, March 2nd, 2023, 4:00 PMUniversity of Saskatchewan Convocation Hall, Saskatoon Canada
Mini-symposium
How To Design a Car that Can Make Friends with a Tree: György Kepes and the Agency of Visual Research from Mid-Century into Contemporary Art
Friday, March 3rd, 2023, 1:00 - 4:00 PM
University of Saskatchewan Convocation Hall, Saskatoon Canada
With Márton Orosz, Nina Czegledy, Oliver Botar, Steven Rayan and Jean-Sébastien Gauthier
Film Premiere
György Kepes: Interthinking Art + ScienceDirected by Márton Orosz2023, Hungary, 80 minutes
Friday, March 3rd, 2023, 7:00 - 9:00 PM
Remai Modern, Saskatoon, Canada
Film Screenings
Rea Tajiri, Lordville, 2014, 67 minutes
with curatorial introduction by Cole Thompson
February 17, 2022, 7:00 PM
University of Saskatchewan Neatby-Timlin Theatre (Arts 241)
Daniel Eisenberg, Persistence, 1997, 81 minutes
with introduction and post-screening discussion led by Daniel Eisenberg
March 3, 2022, 7:00 PM
University of Saskatchewan Neatby-Timlin Theatre (Arts 241)
Sky Hopinka, maɬni – towards the ocean, towards the shore, 2020, 80 minutes
with curatorial introduction by Cole Thompson
March 17, 2022, 7:00 PM
University of Saskatchewan Neatby-Timlin Theatre (Arts 241)
Public Lecture: Domestic Mutations in the Age of the Sharing Paradigm
Domestic Mutations in the Age of the Sharing Paradigm presents Professor Lawrence Blough’s architectural proposals for new types of collective living space influenced by emerging social and economic collaborative models. Contesting accepted delineations between work and leisure, nuclear family and post-familial life, four organizations are developed around different co-live and co-work scenarios.
Oct. 17 2019, 7 p.m., Agriculture Building Atrium
Collections
Structurist in University's Collection
- "Mediation Mantra" by Elizabeth Willmott (Gift of the artist, 2022)
- "Open Doors" by Margot Wawra (Gift of the artist, 2003)
- "EXSA 2800" by Tadao Takano (Gift of Linda Blackwell Bentley, 2023)
- "Space Nets" by Elizabeth Willmott (Gift of the artist, 2022)
- "Depression + Liberation" by Margot Wawra (Gift of the artist, 2003)
- "Double Plane Structurist Relief #3" by Eli Bornstein
- "Structurist Relief" By Ron Kostyniuk (Gift of the artist, 1995)
- "Hexaplane Structurist Relief No. 2" by Eli Bornstein (Gift of Dorothea Adaskin, 2005)
- "Untitled Hexaplane Structurist Relief" by Eli Bornstein
- "Study 1987 #3 maquette" by Charles Hess (Gift of Ron Kostyniuk, 1999)
- "Dance of the Little People" by Ron Kostyniuk (Gift of the artist, 1999)
- "Relief" by Ron Kostyniuk (Gift of the artist, 1999)
- "Transparent Construction #3" by Terry pope (Gift of Ron Kostyniuk, 1999)
- "Dancing Lights" by Ron Kostyniuk (Gift of the artist, 2002)
- "Green, Blue, Violet" by Marie Lannoo (Gift of the artist, 2018)
- "CTA-25 NEG." by Victor Vasarely
- "Into the Dark" by Oliver Bevan
To see more works related to Structurist principles, please visit The University of Saskatchewan's Art Collection.