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Benoit Aquin
- Stephen Bulger Gallery
- 1026 Queen St. W. • View on map »
- 416-504-0575
- http://www.bulgergallery.com
Post–Ed Burtynsky, contemporary China remains a deep well for landscape photographers wishing to chart the haunting effects of environmental destruction. Aquin’s Chinese Dust Bowl collection, winner of the Prix Pictet—a prize honouring photographic work that brings to light social and ecological issues—tells of the country’s new deserts (created by drilling, overgrazing and the overuse of arable land), which are responsible for mass migrations and pan-national sandstorms. Like Burtynsky’s, Aquin’s images lend the horror a quiet loveliness; his palette is full of roses and browns, and his compositions at times suggest one of the founders of modern landscape painting, Claude Lorrain. Artwork $4,000–$6,000.—David Balzer
- When:
- Mar. 6/10 - Apr. 10/10
Free Event
Stephen Bulger Gallery
1026 Queen St. W.
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