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Village Squire, 1977-08, Page 19AROUND TOWN ART OUTDOOR SCULPTURE SHOW AT THE GALLERY/STRATFORD: Limits, Lines, projections is the title of a summer sculpture show at Stratford on view to September 25th. Included are eleven works by Canadian sculptors Andre Fauteux, Peter Kolisnyk, Patrick Thibert and Louis Stokes. The latter two artists created their works especially for this show. This exhibition, funded by the Canada Council and accompanied by a handsome catalogue. is one of a series sponsored by the gallery over the years. The exhibition was organized by Eda Sepp who also wrote the catalogue introduction. All four sculptors work in a tradition that can be termed constructivist, putting together and building a work rather than using the traditional methods of carving, modelling and casting. Each sculptor has created within that tradition highly original and personal works of high quality. Andre Fauteux welds steel to formalize his artistic concerns of mass or volume or flatness. His sculptures are elegant. refined. with an emphasis on linearity which, in sum. seems to defy the mass and weight of traditional sculpture. Peter Kolisnyk exhibits his minimal white square Outlines which both enclose and open up the space. In their positive and negative sensations, the works activate the environment or slice it up much like a camera viewfinder, and make us question the relationships. Louis Stokes sculptures are like fences or barriers and they ask us on several levels to question other relationships. Boundaries, as they are called, were especially created for the Stratford site and are meant to be handled and adjusted by the viewer as he sees fit. Patrick Thibert has created three sculptures out of welded steel plates using a simple post and lintel system creating a sort of architecture that allows him to use various planes to activate the interiors of his work. The planes are so engaged as to make the viewer walk around the place to see it from all sides. MADE GLORIOUS: STAGE DESIGN AT STRATFORD: The Gallery Stratford. Gallery/Stratford announced its Summer Exhibition, Made glorious; stage design at stratford; 25 YEARS. The exhibition is produced in co-operation with the Stratford Festival. Major corporate funding for the exhibition is being provided by Mutal Life of Canada whose head offices are in Waterloo, Ontario. The exhibition will be drawn from the costume properties warehouse of the Festival and will have added documents from the Festival Archives. It will trace the development and changes in design at Stratford for the past 25 years. Over 50 costumes have been chosen. A portion of the exhibit will be given to demonstrating how a costume is designed and put together. 100 YEARS: EVOLUTION OF THE ONTARIO COLLEGE OF ART: London Art Gallery, 305 Queen's Ave., London. Prepared and circulated by the Art Gallery of Ontario, 100 YEARS: EVOLU- TION OF THE ONTARIO COLLEGE OF ART celebrates the centennial of the Ontario College of Art, paying tribute to the oldest and largest continuing art college in Ontario devoted solely to the education of the artist and the designer. The original exhibition, which opened in Toronto on November 26. 1976, showed over 290 works and presentations by approximately 185 artists and designers associated with the College, either as students or instructors. A smaller version comprising 88 works by 76 artists will be on view here in London. In addition, a slide presentation will illustrate many works which by their nature, cannot be exhibited. True to the College's continued emphasis on both fine art and design in its curriculum, the show includes not only paintings sculpture, graphics, ceramics, textiles. photography, film and concepted art but also industrial, commercial and environmental design. The list of names of artists/designers included in the show reads like an honour roll in Canadian art: Franklin Carmichael, A.J. Casson, Charles Comfort, David Craven, Greg Curnoe, Robert Harris. C.W. Jefferys. Nabuo Kubota, J.E.H. Macdonald, Lucius 0' Brien, William Ronald, Charlotte Schrei- ber, and Michael Snow are only a few of the artists whose work is included. Along with these artists are designers like Alan Fleming (CN logo, 1959) and John Tyson (Contempra telephone, 1967). The catalouge which accompanies the exhibition fully documents 100 Years of the Ontario College of Art and is well illustrated with historic photographs. The show continues to Aug. 28. JOHN NOESTHEDEN/WHITE PAINT- INGS, London Art Gallery, 305 Queen's Ave., London. The London Art Gallery is proud to present an exhibition of recent paintings and drawings by John Noestheden. The show, White Paintings is John Noesthe- den's first one man show in London, following an impressive number of shows in Canada and the South -Eastern United States. John Noestheden, born in 1945 in Amsterdam, Holland is a graduate from the University of Windsor, and also from Tulane University where he completed his graduate studies in 1975. Since then John has lived and worked in Windsor, Ontario, where Kate McCabe of the London Art Strickland -sow- JEEP JEEP TOYOTA American Motors STRICKLAND AUTOMOBILES Goderich (519) 524-8841 524-8411 524-9381 (PhieJitoli Sebringrife Opp. Post Office fy< Open daily `Til 9 p.m. Sundays 12 to 6 p.m. LOVELY THINGS FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD. VILLAGE SQUIRE/AUGUST 1977. PG. 17.