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Indian Wars

Description
Scanned slides documenting Bruno Canadien's exhibition Indian Wars. The exhibition consisted of multi-media paintings that were displayed in the New Gallery's Front Space, located at 516d 9th Avenue S.W., Calgary. The show ran from August 31 to September 3, 1999.

Canadien's work sought to draw attention to the issues facing First Nations peoples today, including the way in which they are portrayed in the media. States the artist, "My work attempts to be a voice that engages in the struggles that the Indigenous Peoples of North and South America are fighting. The Freedom Fighter Series of paintings speaks about, and is evidence of, active Indian resistance to oppressive colonialist forces in the Americas. [My work is] evidence of the wars that hundreds of nations and millions of people are fighting, regardless of the media's coverage or lack thereof. Similar in form to the shield utilized by the Plains Warrior, these pieces may be viewed as part of an aboriginal arsenal, symbolically defying any attack from colonial governments, militaries, or corporations. Defying their disinformation and lies, their threats and abuses."

Canadien supplied additional written information about the struggles of First Nations people alongside the exhibition.

You can learn more about the artist on his website, located at http://brunocanadien.typepad.com/

Description Sources
Bruno Canadien artist statement, 1999

Id number
1999.08.04

Classification
exhibition image > slide

Year 1999

Coverage (yyyy-mm-dd) August 31 to September 11 1999

Credit line Images from the collection of The New Gallery

Related entities
Bruno Canadien, individual (was created by)
The New Gallery, gallery (was photographed by)

Related places
Front Space (was exhibited in)

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