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Magazine Article
Simply Curious
2007
Overview
Provocative curation can make an exhibition. The opening wall of \"Simply Curious,\" a group show organized by gallery partner Martin Shopland, presented a seemingly abstract oil painting in a muted palette of ochres and dark reds by François Xavier Saint-Pierre, flanked by two bronze sculptures of male slaves on pedestals, their black-patinated bodies writhing and twisting against their shackles and away from the painting. It was a curious but somehow suitable pairing that became even more interesting when one learned that the contemporary painting actually depicted the reflection of a ship's mast in water and that the slaves (ca. late 18th century) were galley slaves modelled after figures found on a monument to Ferdinando II de' Medici in the Tuscan port city of Livorno.
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Canadian Art
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