Vancouver, 14 December 2011
Vancouver Art Gallery in Canada is currently displaying “Shore, Forest and Beyond, Art from The Audain Collection”, an exhibition that presents part of the private collection of Michael Audain and Yoshiko Karasawa, until 29 January 2012.
The collection has been created during the last twenty years and is one of the most important private collections concerning art of the first and last natives of British Columbia, the most western province in Canada across the Pacific Coast.
From the corpus of 170 selected objects from the collection, as well as from museum’s collection, the exhibition retraces the history of these people by presenting ceremonial objects of Haida artists and works of the time.
The show, in thematic and chronological order, highlights 20th century major artists, such as Emily Carr along with Canadians, such as Lawren Harris, Frederick Horsman Varley and B.C. Binning. The exhibition will also present Mexican modernism and visitors can explore paintings or photographs by Diego Rivera, Rufino Tamayo, David Alfaro Siqueiros and José Clemente Orozco.