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Governor General opens new downtown gallery today
SENIOR Winnipeg artist Eleanor Bond has the honour of hosting today's official opening of the Buhler Centre, the distinctive new building at the corner of Portage Avenue and Memorial Boulevard co-owned by Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art and the University of Winnipeg.
About 200 movers and shakers will be on hand at 1:30 p.m. as Governor General Michaëlle Jean unveils a sculpture to inaugurate the new centre.
No other art is being installed just yet. When Plug In holds its grand opening on Nov. 6, a show of more than 12 new paintings by Bond will occupy the largest of four exhibition galleries, said Plug In director Anthony Kiendl. The show, Eleanor Bond: Mountain of Shame, will run until Jan. 2. Regular public viewing hours at the free gallery will start on Nov. 10.
Bond, 62, is a graduate of the University of Manitoba School of Art who has works in the National Gallery of Canada, Winnipeg Art Gallery and many other collections.
The $15-million, 50,000-square-foot Buhler Centre houses the U of W's faculty of business and economics and its continuing education division, as well as Plug In.
The sculpture to be unveiled by Jean today is called A Pole to Mark the Centre of the World (at Winnipeg). It was commissioned from Jimmie Durham, a widely exhibited American-born sculptor who lives in Italy. The sculpture will ultimately be installed in a public space in the Buhler Centre, rather than in one of the exhibition galleries.
-- Staff
Republished from the Winnipeg Free Press print edition August 26, 2010 D2
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