Visible Storage Project
Located on the gallery’s second floor, this initiative allows the safe display of works from our permanent collections and will support increased community access as well as curatorial and research opportunities.
On view in Fall 2024:
Drawing from the Art Gallery of Guelph’s permanent collection, Eternal Transcendent highlights a selection of photographic works by Robert Flack (Guelph, 1957-1993). These images manipulate representation through analog processes, superimposing photographs with drawn symbols and coloured gels to create assemblages that suggest bodily malleability and transformation. Iconography that featured prominently throughout Flack’s practice repeats itself onto the fragments of bodies depicted here: a ring of fire, an assemblage of swords, a coil of rope, and a labyrinth take root within each physical form.
Image detail: Robert Flack, Warrior (Chakras), 1990-1991, colour photograph, 103.2 cm x 79.4 cm. Purchased with assistance from the Ministry of Culture, Tourism and Recreation and an anonymous donation, 1993. Macdonald Stewart Art Centre Collection at the Art Gallery of Guelph
The Art Gallery of Guelph would like to extend its sincere appreciation to the Government of Canada, through Canadian Heritage, whose support is gratefully acknowledged in the realization of this important project.
