July 25, 2017Unraveling the UniversityBy rennie museumUnraveling the University by Sydney Marshall Without contest, my favourite artwork by Ian Wallace is The Idea of the University (1990). Installed in Rennie Museum’s monumental four-storey high exhibition space, the sprawling canvasses are almost as immense as their depicted subject: the University of British Columbia. It’s likely that I appreciate it so much because like Wallace, I also studied… Read more.
June 16, 2017Contextual Narratives of Simon StarlingBy rennie museumWritten by Jacky Lo Looking at art, we naturally consider the form, content, and context of the work and often times we tend to dismiss the monetary factors in its creation. Exposing the financial aspects of art can sometimes create a controversial presence in an artwork or an artist’s practice, as it contradicts the general assumption that visual art is… Read more.
May 9, 2017Celebrating CanadaBy rennie museumIn celebration of Canada’s 150th birthday, we are donating 197 paintings, sculptures and mixed-media pieces made by some of the most well-known and established Canadian and international artists working today to the National Gallery of Canada! This is the largest gift of contemporary art ever received by the National Gallery, with major pieces created by internationally renowned artists, such as… Read more.
May 2, 2017New rennie museum Exhibition – Ian Wallace: Collected WorksBy rennie museumrennie museum is pleased to announce a solo exhibition featuring rarely and never-before seen historic works of renowned Vancouver artist Ian Wallace. Highlighting Wallace’s perennial exploration of social issues, the works presented will also examine the crux of his artistic process: the intersectionality between public and private, personal and universal, process and production, abstraction and representation. The exhibition runs May… Read more.
March 23, 2017Simon Starling at rennie museumBy rennie museumSimon Starling on the process of making work, collaborating with craftsmen and his relationship to modernism. Interviewed on the occasion of ‘Simon Starling: Collected Works’ exhibited at rennie museum, November 18, 2016 – March 25, 2017. Simon Starling at rennie museum from rennie collection on Vimeo. VIDEO & EDIT: Milena Salazar Read more.
March 8, 2017Recycled DesignBy rennie museumWritten by Gregory Woollgar Simon Starling refers to his art as storytelling*. He is invested in ideas loaded with specificity and particulars. Viewers can usually only unpack his works by encountering a back story and sifting through the facts. To bridge this distance between the final work and their dense inspirations, Starling writes heavily about his pieces. They are the… Read more.
January 16, 2017Rodney Graham Catalogue Now AvailableBy rennie museumWe proudly share with you our newest and most ambitious catalogue to date, which commemorates the multi-venue celebration of Rodney Graham in the artist’s home town of Vancouver. Anchored by a major scholarly essay by Mark Godfrey, Senior Curator of International Art at Tate Modern, and accompanied by dozens of full-page colour illustrations of Graham’s works, the book also includes a… Read more.
January 13, 2017Consider the BombBy rennie museumWritten by Gregory Woollgar The atomic bomb is the figure of death looming over modernity. The promise of apocalypse has never been so close to humanity as it was during the Second World War and the Cold War. The irony is that this phenomenon was entirely self-propelled—it occurred through the guise of technological advancement. This pinnacle of science and technology,… Read more.
January 4, 2017rennie Speaker Series: Simon StarlingBy rennie museumDid you miss our our most recent rennie Speaker Series with Simon Starling? Here’s your chance to watch the talk! Hear Simon Starling talk about the works exhibited at rennie museum between November 18, 2016 and March 25, 2017. rennie Speaker Series: Simon Starling from rennie collection on Vimeo. Read more.
December 16, 2016Happy Holidays from rennie collectionBy rennie museumrennie museum will be closed for the holidays between December 23. Tours of Simon Starling: Collected Works will resume on January 4th, 2017. Read more.