This is an archived event from Culture Days 2019.
Images
After Krieghoff
Agriculture Digital & new media Nature & outdoors Photography Visual arts
Date and time
Location
Orillia Museum of Art and History
Orillia, ON
Access
Free, and accepts optional pay-what-you-may donations for admission.
Offered in English.
Wheelchair accessible.
About
This exhibition comprises a series of photo and video montages using the artist’s own photographs of landscapes and objects, together with skies appropriated from Krieghoff’s paintings. The altered images are then rendered for side-by-side stereoscopic viewing.
Also part of the installation are reproductions of Krieghoff’s paintings on antique viewing cards, and a series of kaleidoscopes.
The work responds to the ambiguity of the photographic record, adjusting the landscape much like Krieghoff did through genre painting. The artist ruminates on perceptions of place, on objects subject to change, on rendered reality, notions of veracity, staged moments, authenticity and appropriation, as well as on the ecology of forest management. Her manipulations resonate with the Zeitgeist of accelerated environmental and economic change.
Ingrid Mayrhofer (BFA, MA, York University Toronto) majored in photography and printmaking. She has exhibited in Canada and abroad, has worked in art education and community art, and initiated a number of international exchanges with artists in Mexico, Cuba, Serbia and Chile. http://www.ingridmayrhofer.ca/culturenature.html documents her ongoing intervention with culture and nature in Tay Township, west of Orillia.
The artist gratefully acknowledges the support of an Ontario Arts Council Mid-Career grant and an Exhibition Assistance Grant for this project.
Links
- Objects Subject to Change ingridmayrhofer.ca
Organizer
Orillia Museum of Art and History
The Orillia Museum of Art & History (OMAH) is a hub of culture and heritage located down in the heart of Orillia’s Peter Street Arts District. From scientific specimens and photographs, to archives and oral histories, OMAH offers a wide range of research possibilities and interpretive programs complemented by a body of rich and engaging exhibitions. The clock tower of our Sir Samuel Steele Memorial Building is a beacon for our historical location.
The Orillia Museum of Art & History respectfully acknowledges our presence on the traditional territory of the Anishnaabeg. The Anishinaabeg include the Ojibwe, Odawa, and Pottawatomi nations, collectively known as the Three Fires Confederacy.