Closing Tour: Ghosts of Canoe Lake: New Work by Marcel Dzama
October 17 | 5:30 PM
Ring Gallery
As Ghosts of Canoe Lake: New Work by Marcel Dzama comes to a close, please join us for a tour of the exhibition, led by Assistant Curator Muriel N. Kahwagi.
Delving into some of the art historical references that colour and contour Dzama’s practice – including Pablo Picasso, the Group of Seven, Tom Thomson, Lawren Harris, George Méliès, Francis Picabia, Maurice Sendak, and Federico García Lorca – the tour will shed light on the ways in which Dzama’s work navigates the interplay between the real and the fictitious.
The tour will be followed by Contemporary Cabaret, a burlesque and drag performance, organized in collaboration with The Cabo, western Canada's largest cabaret company. This performance is inspired by some of the works on view in Ghosts of Canoe Lake: New Work by Marcel Dzama. Contemporary Cabaret is a ticketed event - CLICK HERE to purchase tickets.
Ghosts of Canoe Lake: New Work by Marcel Dzama is co-organized by Contemporary Calgary and the McMichael Canadian Art Collection, and will be on view at Contemporary Calgary until October 27, 2024.
About the Artist
Since rising to prominence in the late 1990s, Marcel Dzama (b. 1974) has developed an immediately recognizable visual language that draws from folk vernacular, art-historical, and contemporary influences.
Born in Winnipeg, Canada, Dzama received his BFA in 1997 from the University of Manitoba. Since 1998, his work has been represented by David Zwirner. He has exhibited widely throughout the United States and abroad. In November 2023, Dzama presented To Live on the Moon (For Lorca) a film and performance commissioned by Performa as part of Performa Biennial 2023. Recent solo exhibitions by the artist include Marcel Dzama: Viviendo en el limbo y soñando con el paraíso at the Museo de Arte de Zapopan (MAZ), Mexico, in 2022; Marcel Dzama: An End to the End Times at the Savannah College of Art and Design Museum of Art, Georgia, in 2021; and Marcel Dzama: Tonight We Dance at the Sara Hildén Art Museum in Tampere, Finland, in 2021.
