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Marie-Claude Langevin — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 04:10:14 +0000

Artwork identification

Alternate title:

The New Normal

Artwork creator(s):

Yanover, Shirley

Artwork creator(s):

Yanover, Shirley

Text author(s):

Yanover, Shirley

Text author(s):

Yanover, Shirley

Remarks on location:

Installed above the entrance to the building and on the field.

Artwork description

Source: Photo provided by Shirley Yanover

Description:

This exhibition also featured two other parts. New Normal, an acrylic painting, was hung in the cafeteria. Normal Graduation 23 consisted of twelve oval plastic clocks that were suspended from metal chains on the chandelier in the entrance. The clocks contain the following elements: portraits from 1913-1973 repertories, newspaper cuttings of local Stratford, wallpaper evoking the era at which the portraits were taken, a copy of the New Normal painting and the logo of the Normal School.

Mention(s) légale(s) des illustrations:

Photo credits:

Text of the artwork:

NORMAL -- THE NEW normal

Text theme:

Belonging and social identity

Artwork theme:

History of the place

History

History:

Normal Resonance. Gallery 96, Stratford, Ontario, July 5-September 28 2003 [commissioner: Cindy Hubert].

Event date(s):

2003

Dimensions

Height:

0.92m

Width:

0.6m

Depth:

0.6 m

Other information

Note(s):

This exhibition was held at Gallery 96, which used to be an École Normale (an academic institute to train masters) until 1973 (the "Normal School"). The text is a reference to the location.

Artist's biography:

Yanover, Shirley

Owner(s):

Collection of the artist

Source:

1. Shirley Yanover, artiste shirley.yanover@rogers.com 2. Cindy Hubert, directrice Gallery 96 Stratford, ON (519) 271-4660 info@gallery96.com gallery96@orc.ca

Présences du littéraire dans l’espace public canadien - Normal Resonance

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