A view of the National Gallery of Canada.
Earlier this week, the National Gallery of Canada and the Winnipeg Art Gallery announced a three-year partnership that will bring works by Christian Marclay, Janet Cardiff and Louise Bourgeois to Manitoba’s capital.
The two institutions will present exhibitions in a specially dedicated space called the National Gallery of Canada at the Winnipeg Art Gallery. Janet Cardiff’s Forty-Part Motet will open the exhibition space in January 2013 and be on view until April 2013, while “Louise Bourgeois 1911–2010” will begin a summer run in May 2013. Christian Marclay’s famed work The Clock will be shown in fall 2013.
This is the third partnership of this kind for the NGC, which launched the National Gallery of Canada at the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art in Toronto in November 2010 and the National Gallery of Canada at the Art Gallery of Alberta in Edmonton in 2009. These partnerships bring works from the NGC’s collection to other parts of the country in dedicated institutional spaces.
“Winnipeg has a famously lively artistic community and we are very happy to be there,” Mayer said in a related press release, adding that the city’s populace is “one of Canada’s most discerning local audiences.”
The announcement of the project also helps mark the WAG’s centennial this year.
