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Baghdad Museum @ Propeller Centre for the Visual Arts

an expressive reconstruction of artifacts from the Iraqi National Museum in Baghdad

ARTISTS: Melanie Browne-Karen Buck-Mackintosh- Maralynn Cherry-Rowena Dykins  Laura Hair-Phil Irish - Dale Jones - Merike Lugus- Anne O'Callaghan- Joan O¹Doherty Pam Patterson- Perry Rath - Marianne Reim - Katie Rodgers - Margaret Rodgers -Sally Thurlow - Todd Tremeer - Monika Wagner - Wendy Wallace - Linda Ward Selbie

June 15-26, 2005

Opening Thursday June 16, 6:30 pm

 

Propeller Centre for the Visual Arts
984 Queen W. Toronto, ON M6J 1H1

(416) 504-7142
http://www.propellerctr.com

       

GALLERY HOURS: WED-SAT: 12:00 - 6:00 / SUN: 12:00 – 5:00

...In the exhibition "Baghdad Museum" artists have developed work relative to their own individual practices in response to the looting of the Iraqi National Museum in Baghdad...

        The Baghdad Museum exhibition exists as a lamentation on the loss, the ambiguities, the collusion and propaganda. It is a search for meaning through the rubble of media scrutiny and rhetorical bombast from all sides. Fueling the imagination of the artists is not only the visible dismantlement of relics from an ancient culture, but also the self-destructive assault on the roots of our own western civilization. The warrior's historical imperative is to superimpose his own young, crude, and powerful culture. The artist's is to perceive and articulate through the power of symbols, the forces of desire, tragedy of loss

Margaret Rodgers, December 2003.

Proceeds from sales revenue will be shared between the artist and the Iraqi Red Crescent which will go through the Canadian Red Cross (its counterpart) to contribute to humanitarian aid.

 Media contact:  Margaret Rodgers (905) 436-8465 - mrodgers@rogers.com

Baghdad Museum exhibition has been organized under the auspices of The Visual Arts Centre of Clarington and the IRIS Group , women artists in Durham Region. Previous venues have been at VAC Clarington in Bowmanville and The Latcham Gallery in Stouffville, Ont.