C: International Contemporary Art, September 1st, 1998
Susan Hobbs Gallery, Toronto
Robert Wiens's six three-metre-high watercolours of wizened pine trunks set Susan Hobbs's long, thin gallery up as a kind of back-alley Valhalla, a nave of virtual pillars reaching to the whitewashed ceiling's exposed wooden joists and cross braces. This allusion to a sacred space conjured a particularly Canadian obeisance to the majesty of the northern forest which, in art, means the depiction of towering conifers. From Tom Thomson and the Group of Seven through to Emily Carr, the pine and its cousins are ever-present in brooding elemental dramas. As over-playe...
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