Village Squire, 1976-02, Page 31development of the artist first in the colony of
New France and later in Lower Canada. The
subject of French Canadian art is important
because the story of Canadian art begins with
the activity in the French colony which as
everyone Knows stretches back to the
beginning of the seventeenth century. This
exhibition deals with the -mature and
maturing products of that colony from 1700 to
1850 where the structure of the society was
more or less established and artists were able
to find a modicum of support.
Also on view will be Stratfordart '76 a
juried members' show. This year was the first
for the format - the show's juror was Peter
Harris, Director of Rodman Hall Arts Centre,
St. Catharines
PETER BOROWSKY: Feb. 7-29 at London
Art Gallery.
l h s exhibition consists of 17 pieces of
s( ulpture -- canvas figures and flying and
sailing machines -- by the young London area
artist, Peter Borowsky.
Peter was born in London in 1948 and
received his only formal artistic training at H.
B Beal Secondary School from 1967 to 1969.
He now lives and works in a studio on his
father's farm near .Thorndale, Ontario.
The flying and sailing machine -sculptures
are directly connected to Peter's rural
environment and suggest the use of
technology to allow man a harmonious place
within the power of nature's elements.
However, the flying machines do not fly and
the sailing machines do not sail, creating a
paradox best described by Mr. David Moore
in the catalogue as "getting nowhere fast
with a maximum of delightful complexity."
Many parts of these flying and sailing
machines are "found" objects discovered by
Peter while combing junk and scrapyards for
to -be -recycled materials. This ecology -orient-
ed outlook is supplemented by the fact that
these machine -sculptures can in no way
pollute the environment. The largest of these
is a flying machine with a wing span of over
thirty feet.
Viewers of the exhibition may already be
familiar with Peter's previous series of canvas
sculptures whose therhe revolved around his
personal frustrations andconflicts as a
producing artist. The recent canvas figures in
this exhbition mainly depict emotional human
situations to which we can all in some way
relate. They are images and extensions of
Peter's own thoughts, personality and
experiences -- a delightful mixture of fantasy
and memory.
Peter Borowsky has exhibited extensively
in London and other centres in southern
Ontario since 1969. He has just been awarded
a $1,000 prize by Dow Chemical of Canada
Ltd. for his submission to "On View", a
juried exhibition organized by Visual Arts,
Ontario,
GINO LORCINI: London Art Gallery, Feb. 7 -
29.
This exhibition is a collection of recent work
by London sculptor Gino Lorcini.
Mr. Lorcini was born in Plymouth, England
and came to Canada in 1947. He studied at
the Montreal Museum of Fine Art and held
the position of Artist in Resident at the
University of Western Ontario in 1969, 1970
and 1971. Commissioned works by Lorcini
stand in London, Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal,
Ste. Anne and Quebec City. In addition to
producing these commissions, Mr. Lorcini
has exhibited extensively throughout Canada.
The exhibition consists of both wall pieces
and three-dimensional freestanding sculp-
tures: Lorcini has deliberately chosen to limit
himselfi to the exploration of the permutations
and combinations of angles and planes - their
joining together and the power of the spaces
between them. There are no curves in his
work. In the wall pieces Lorcini works with
acrylic, aluminum and bronze. The freestand-
ing forms are constructed of steel, each piece
carefully hand finished with coatings of
bronze on steel and stainless steel on steel.
All his sculpture is superbly crafted and,
although at first sight it appears to be simple
and direct it is nevertheless full of subtleties
and quiet strength. Each work has a very real
"presence" of its own, and the whole
exhibition underlines the fact that Gino
Lorcini is one of Canada's finest sculptors.
•
Film
The London Art Gallery in co-operatior
with the Forest City Gallery and the Visual
Arts Departments of the University of
Western Ontario presents a series o1
programmes in which internationally acclaim•
ed film-makers will show and discuss their
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