<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Times New Roman; color: #487a22"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">RENDER presents </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Seth: Dominion</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> at the Dundas Museum & Archives</span></b></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Times New Roman; color: #487a22"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">February 7 through March 31, 2009</span></b></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">RENDER is pleased to present a new version of Seth's exhibition </span><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Dominion</span></i></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> at the Dundas Museum & Archives. Part of a tour of public galleries and museums organized by RENDER, the Dundas </span><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Dominion</span></i></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> project will open on Friday, February 6th and will run until March 31st. On Friday February 27th, the Dundas Museum & Archive will host Seth in conversation with Andrew Hunter (RENDER Director/Curator) at the old Dundas Town Hall. Also being presented at the Dundas Museum and Archives is a program of vintage documentary films curated by Seth. </span></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Dominion</span></i></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> is the elaborate, ever expanding, work-in-progress of the renowned Canadian cartoonist Seth. An imagined place combining elements of numerous early modern Canadian cities, </span><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Dominion</span></i></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> captures the spirit of the booming small metropolis at a time of community boosterism and growth that, to the contemporary eye, can seem at times quaint and alien. It is a place that embodies the confidence of many Canadian cities in the post Depression and World War II era when the North American economy expanded, manufacturing spread, and many cities were characterized by a level of civic engagement (through service clubs and politics) unheard of today.</span></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Developed over the past decade, </span><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Dominion</span></i></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> takes Seth's distinct vision of urban space off the printed page and into the format of an installation that serves to both present the artist's growing collection of model buildings and captures aspects of their interiors (the institutional décor of the city hall, records office, archive and library, for example). As with all of Seth's works, </span><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Dominion</span></i></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> is infused with melancholy and an air of ambiguous nostalgia tinged with a healthy dose of cynical humour. </span><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Dominion</span></i></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> is a cartoon space supported by an elaborate narrative vision that includes a detailed history and character studies that can be funny and amusing but equally dark. Dominion sits seemingly frozen at the cusp of the 1950s and 60s and one can imagine many of its buildings crumbling and fading in the voracious urban "renewal" of the 1960s and 70s.</span></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Visit the Dundas Museum and Archives website for more details (</span><a href="http://www.dundasmuseum.ca/"><span style="font: 12.0px Times New Roman; text-decoration: underline ; letter-spacing: 0.0px color: #3f691e"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">www.dundasmuseum.ca</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">).</span></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px color: #3f691e"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Dominion will be presented at the Confederation Centre Art Gallery in Charlottetown, PEI, in the spring of 2009 and is available for touring to other venues. </span></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Andrew Hunter, Director/Curator</span></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Lisa Hunter, Curator</span></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Please Visit Dominion</span></i></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">, Seth, 2008</span></span></p>
<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12px;"><br></span></div><br>-- <br>Barb Hobot<br>Curator-in-residence<br>RENDER<br>University of Waterloo<br>200 University Ave W<br>
Waterloo, ON N2L 3G1<br><a href="http://render.uwaterloo.ca">render.uwaterloo.ca</a><br>519-888-4567 x33575<br><br>