Selections From The Weston Collection
January 16, 2015 – April 30, 2015
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About the Exhibition
Opening in January 2015, The Gallery at Windsor presented Selections from The Weston Collection featuring works by Horia Damian, Tony Scherman and Christo & Jeanne-Claude.
Romanian-French contemporary artist Horia Damian is a painter and sculptor. Included in the display were four works produced between 1988 and 1992: Cosmogonie blanche, Cosmogonie nuit, Bleu Ziggurat and Colonne sur un fond de corail.
Tony Scherman is a Canadian artist best known for his use of encaustic and portraiture that depict persons and events of historical or popular significance. The exhibition included one work from the series Philosophers entitled Trudeau and three works from the series Ciao Gaia entitled Loire, Near Chambord and Untitled. All of these works were created between 2006 and 2010.
Christo & Jeanne-Claude, husband and wife artists who together have created environmental artworks in urban and rural sites around the world, were represented by works from four projects undertaken between 1970 and 1998: Wrapped Reichstag, Berlin; The Pont Neuf Wrapped, Paris; Valley Curtain, Rifle, Colorado; and Wrapped Trees, Fondation Beyeler and Berower Park, Riehen, Switzerland.