{"id":4591,"date":"2026-01-16T13:38:36","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T19:38:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hilliardartmuseum.org\/exhibitions\/\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T13:38:36","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T19:38:36","slug":"talking-to-death-an-allegory-for-sculpture","status":"publish","type":"exhibition","link":"https:\/\/hilliardartmuseum.org\/fr\/exhibitions\/archive\/2022\/talking-to-death-an-allegory-for-sculpture\/","title":{"rendered":"Talking to Death: An Allegory for Sculpture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Talking to Death: An Allegory for Sculpture\u00a0<\/em>is a multi-media installation by the artist Trevor Gould.\u00a0As Gould\u2019s title indicates, there is a great deal at stake for sculpture in the 21st century as artists move into non-genre specific studio practices.\u00a0<em>Talking to Death\u00a0<\/em>is exemplary in that it is indicative of this broad trend by artists to work in a manner that is not easily defined in terms of the media in which they work. For example, this project is composed of many works of art, but they are treated as a bloc or a holistic work of art comprised of highly representational sculpture, loose gestural paintings, and non-objective abstraction.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to being art historically significant,\u00a0<em>Talking to Death\u00a0<\/em>provides an honest dialog related to the capricious nature of human interactions historically and currently. While there are certainly amazing benefits to globalized cultural, political, and economic systems, there are also negatives. We are currently in the throes of a global pandemic, the likes of which has not been seen for a century. As a result, many are painfully aware of how negative elements of human nature impact broad segments of society, colonialization and other sources of inequality chief among them.<\/p>\n<p>Trevor Gould was born in\u00a0Johannesburg, South Africa and spent the majority of his career teaching at Concordia University in Montr\u00e9al. During that time he was a\u00a0Stiftungs Professor in 2003 at the Hochschule f\u00fcr Gestaltung Offenbach am Main, Germany. His background, as well as his international exhibition record position him as an important voice in the dialog surrounding globalization. His exhibition credits include projects at the Museum of Contemporary Art Montr\u00e9al,\u00a0<em>XIII Biennale Internazionale di Scultura di Carrara<\/em>\u00a0in Italy, National Museum of Fine Arts Qu\u00e9bec, Mus\u00e9e Gassendi Digne-les-Bains in France, the Johannesburg Biennale, and le Pavilion d\u2019Hannibal, also in France. His work resides in many collections in Canada, Poland, Italy, France, and Germany.<\/p>\n<p>We acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/canadacouncil.ca\/\">https:\/\/canadacouncil.ca\/<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Talking to Death: An Allegory for Sculpture\u00a0is a multi-media installation by the artist Trevor Gould.\u00a0As Gould\u2019s title indicates, there is a great deal at stake for sculpture in the 21st century as artists move into non-genre specific studio practices.\u00a0Talking to Death\u00a0is exemplary in that it is indicative of this broad trend by artists to work in a manner that is not easily defined in terms of the media in which they work. For example, this project is composed of many works of art, but they are treated as a bloc or a holistic work of art comprised of highly representational sculpture, loose gestural paintings, and non-objective abstraction.\u00a0<\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":4592,"menu_order":0,"template":"exhibition_archived.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"exhibition-year":[76],"class_list":["post-4591","exhibition","type-exhibition","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","exhibition-year-76"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hilliardartmuseum.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/exhibition\/4591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hilliardartmuseum.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/exhibition"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hilliardartmuseum.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/exhibition"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hilliardartmuseum.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/exhibition\/4591\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hilliardartmuseum.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hilliardartmuseum.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"exhibition-year","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hilliardartmuseum.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/exhibition-year?post=4591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}