Opening – An inuit art cooperative in Canadian Great North
Kinngait, Nuvavut – The Claude Baud and Michel Jacot Collection
Centre culturel canadien
October 01st, 2024
18:00 - 21:00
Opening on October 1st from 6pm to 9pm (last entrance 8:30pm)
Exhibition from October 2, 2024 to January 17, 2025
Curator: Catherine Bédard
Special opening on November, Saturday 9th from 2 pm to 8 pm
To celebrate the 25th anniversary of the founding of the territory of Nunavut, in Canada, and the 65th anniversary of the West Baffin Cooperative in Kinngait (Cape Dorset, Baffin Island), the Canadian Cultural Centre is redeploying its historic exhibition, Fantastique Kenojuak Ashevak (created in 2013), by adding a new group of prints and sculptures from the Claude Baud and Michel Jacot collection. The exhibition illustrates both the wealth of a cooperative that is unique in the world and the vision of a Franco-Swiss collector duo who have been helping to raise the profile of Canadian Inuit art in France for decades.
This exceptional ensemble is complemented here by a body of new works by the now-famous Shuvinai Ashoona, granddaughter of Pitseolak Ashoona, a major figure in the first generation of artists from the Kinngait cooperative, who is also part of the Baud-Jacot collection.
In partnership with the West Baffin Cooperative, Kinngait, Nunavut
