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August Klintberg | Portal

November 14, 2020 — February 13, 2021

Represented by Pierre-François Ouellette art contemporain, Montreal

Gallery shot of the exhibition. There are two makeshift table with three grey jackets on one and papers on another. There are framed blue and white abstract paintings on the wall.

August Klintberg’s exhibition Portal uses installation, textiles, works on paper and other materials to approach the archive as a queer portal for intellectual, erotic, and sensory encounter. Here, the archive can be thought of as a physical place for research, and a discursive space created through dialogue and relationship. The included works refer to elements of the regional history of non-normative sexualities, as well as text and drawings pulled from popular culture, print archives, and histories associated with the nation state named "Canada."

Collaborators have made this show possible, including Jarvis Hall, Megan Kirk, and Jolie Bird. Significant sources for the development of this work include the Arquives (Toronto), Les archives gaies du Québec (Montreal), the Canadian Architectural Archives (Calgary) and Kevin Allen's book Our Past Matters. Exhibition text by Crystal Mowry.

abstract painting of white forms surrounded by blue ink splashes. The image is rice paper

Portal 2-1 (2020), rice paper, ink, 24” x 48”

Acknowledgements

Support for this exhibition has been provided by the Canada Council for the Arts, and the Alberta University of the Arts. Work for this exhibition has been produced with several collaborators, including Stephen Harper, Jane Trash, Jolie Bird, Lillian Dwyer, Millicent Dwyer, Violet Combden, and Jarvis Hall. Photographic documentation by Stephen Harper; photographic printing by Resolve Photo. The work for this show has been framed by Jarvis Hall + Fine Frames. Several works in this exhibition are influenced by the research of Kevin Allen, and his book Our Past Matters: Stories of Gay Calgary. The artist thanks Preston Pavlis, Michelle Schultz, Adam Waldron-Blain, Crystal Mowry, Geoffrey Little, Benny Nemerofsky Ramsay, Jon Davies, Vivek Shraya, Naomi Potter, Jillian Fleck, Megan Kirk, and Sondra Meszaros.

White gallery space with a large colourful quilt made of different fabric patterns laid out on a wooden table in the center of the room. On the walls are small frames of digital images
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August Klintberg is a queer artist who works in the field of art history. He is an Associate Professor at the Alberta University of the Arts. Pierre-François Ouellette art contemporain (Montreal) represents his work, and he was shortlisted for the Sobey Art Award in 2013.

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