Spring & Arnaud at Open Studio and Culture Days in Guelph!

If you are in Guelph this weekend (or anywhere really) check out culture days
because there are lots of free culture happenings and you are invited to join in.
The Guelph School of Art is doing a make & take print swap, which I am excited about.
On the 3rd floor of Wyndham Art Supplies, there will be lots of printing on Saturday
4:30pm-6:30pm and Sunday 12-4pm, details are here.

Short notice to see a wonderful film, Spring & Arnaud at Open Studio tonight.
I saw this film last year at the Macdonald Stewart Art Centre (now the art gallery
of Guelph) and loved it. It is about art and love and two wonderful people.
Here are the details below from Open Studio.

FREE Screening of Spring & Arnaud Presented by Open Studio
Directed by Marcia Connolly and Katherine Knight
Friday, September 25th, at 6:00 pm in the Urbanspace Gallery, 401 Richmond St. W.


Image Credit: Courtesy Site Media

Screening followed by a Q&A with Spring Hurlbut and director Katherine Knight, and a subsequent reception at Open Studio. MORE


In Conjunction with the Exhibition:
Spring Hurlbut: La Bouche
In the Open Studio Print Sales Gallery
On now until October 11th

Invited by Open Studio to realize a print media project, celebrated Canadian artist Spring Hurlbut worked with master lithographer Kevin Haas to create a series of three prints titled La Bouche. MORE



Image Details: Spring Hurlbut, Don’t Give Me Any Of Your Lip, 2015, lithograph, screenprint, edition of 5, 22” x 30”,
from the series La Bouche, produced under the auspices of the Open Studio Publishing Program. Printed by master
lithographer Kevin Haas.




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Spring & Arnaud

This Thursday at the Macdonald Stewart Art Centre there will be a screening of the film, Spring & Arnaud. I have been a big fan of Arnaud Maggs work for some time and did not know about his relationship with Spring Hurlbut or much about his personal life at all. The film seems to look at their relationship and their art practice... but I will know more after I see it. 

You can watch the trailer for the film here.
I have added the MSAC press release information about the screening below.

Calling all film enthusiasts!

Please join us at the MSAC on Thursday, November 7 for The Festival of Moving Media's opening-night film screening of Spring & Arnaud!
At the conclusion of the film, director Marcia Connolly and artist Spring Hurlbut will lead a post-film discussion.

7:30PM / Thursday Nov. 7/ Macdonald Stewart Art Centre / $10 

Cinematically gorgeous and beautifully crafted, Spring & Arnaud is a breathtakingly tender and intelligent love story about acclaimed Canadian artists Spring Hurlbut and Arnaud Maggs. Spring’s art focuses on mortality and the traces we leave behind: ashes, bones, preserved animals, old metal cribs that invoke the spirits of the deceased in her photography, video, sculpture and installations. Arnaud Maggs, winner of the Scotiabank Photography and Governor General’s awards, remains fascinated by systems of identification, of repetition and the miniscule differences and similarities in collections of people, objects and ephemera while recognizing the authority of photography to express these ideas in massive installations. Whether singing “It’s only a paper moon” together as dusk falls on the French countryside or talking about the process of making art in their Toronto studios, their undying love for each other as they face the reality of Arnaud’s illness literally lights up the screen. 

This film is itself a work of art, filled with wonderful images and crisply edited. But it’s the human saga of a quirky but richly satisfying personal relationship that will make Spring & Arnaud connect with audiences in a way that cultural documentaries rarely do. Their art works may be serious, but there’s a lightness about their relationship that makes them seem like irresistible characters in a TV sitcom.

R.I.P. Arnaud Maggs

Artist Arnaud Maggs poses with his work of art titled Notification xiii at the National Gallery in Ottawa on March 22, 2006. He died Saturday. (Tom Hanson/Canadian Press)

This photo from the cbc.ca website. Click here for the obituary.
Susan Hobbs Gallery
Here is an interview from this past Spring with Michael Hansen for ArtSync

A delightful blog, MUSE-INGS by Tim Atherton. This link to his post about his happy discovery of Arnaud Maggs and his work.

I have been a huge fan of Arnaud Maggs work since I first saw his Notification series. Such a talent and delightful character.