MAIN SPACE EXHIBITION
MAY 2 – MAY 24, 1997
RECEPTION: FRIDAY, MAY 2, 1997 AT 8 PM
ARTIST TALK: FRIDAY, MAY 2, 1997 AT 2 PM

LOCATION – STRIDE GALLERY
722, 11 AVE S.W, CALGARY, ALBERTA

EXHIBITION INFORMATION

PRESENCE THROUGH ABSENCE is a solo exhibition of ceramic sculpture timed to coincide with the 1997 International Ceramic Symposium in Calgary. Ailincai’s point of departure is an aesthetic response to her intellectual understanding of all of the surrounding world and culture. She is involved in an on-going dialogue concerning the specificity of perceived location in time and space. Ailincai uses visual representations that examine an historical structure of communication originally documented by ancient charts, scrolls, alphabetical systems, navigational instruments and time keeping devices.

ARTIST BIO

ARINA AILINCAI is an artist who is originally from Romania, and now works in Toronto. She graduated with an MFA in Ceramics from the Ion Andreescu Institute of Fine Arts in Cluj-napoca, Romania in 1971.

EXHIBITION TEXT

PRESENCE THROUGH ABSENCE is a solo exhibition of ceramic sculpture timed to coincide with the 1997 International Ceramic Symposium in Calgary. Ailincai’s point of departure is an aesthetic response to her intellectual understanding of all of the surrounding world and culture. She is involved in an on-going dialogue concerning the specificity of perceived location in time and space. Ailincai uses visual representations that examine an historical structure of communication originally documented by ancient charts, scrolls, alphabetical systems, navigational instruments and time keeping devices.