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Art Canadian

Alison Norlen

Glimmer

foreword by Kent Archer

Publisher
Esplanade Art Gallery, Kenderdine Art Gallery, Thunder Bay Art Gallery
Initial publish date
Jan 2010
Category
Canadian
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780888805607
    Publish Date
    Jan 2010
    List Price
    $15.00

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Feats of scale are signature to Norlen's work: exhibitions like Float engrossed viewers in massive drawings, (24 feet wide is not unknown for Norlen), that are anchored in tumultuous celebrations of carnivals, parades and amusement theme parks. These drawings and accompanying installations (Parade I, II and III, all 2001) are a veritable feast, a cacophony of sights, sounds, smells and tastes, a riot of the senses. The works demonstrate a controlled horror vacuii in which Norlen energetically juxtaposes large and small, jamming in a dancing girl figurine next to a jet plane, wheat sheaves towering over Ferris wheels and carnival lights strewn with abandon throughout. The drawings and installations are alive with a passionate and purposeful confounding of perspectival logic, and a fantastic, topsy-turvy register of sizes.

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