With this book, Dazibao awards Jim Verburg the Dazibao Prize for his solo exhibition One and Two, presented by Galerie B-312 during the 2011 edition of the Mois de la Photo à Montréal (curated by Anne-Marie Ninacs). The recipient of the Dazibao Prize is given the opportunity to produce a book as part of Dazibao’s series Les portables. The series Les portables is a space to disseminate image-based practices. Dedicated exclusively to the work of one artist, each title of the series is a travelling exhibition with unlimited venues and circulation. Devoted to innovative or hybrid work, Les éditions Dazibao is a site for thinking about the photographic image and it’s ties to other disciplines. Verburg’s work in photography, video, print, installation, and text subtly mines the complexities of romantic and familial relationships. Often working with minimal or abstract shapes and images to create an emotional topography, revealing the intricate layers that constitute intimacy, the harmonies and dissonances inherent in an interpersonal dynamic. Taking shape as a poetic puzzle – where many individual pieces offer divergent perspectives and sit in tension with one another in a shared space, suggesting how differences in visual perception parallel the often disparate points-of-view held by individuals navigating relationships. In this publication, Verburg focuses specifically on the circle and line in his practice, both as an aesthetic celebration of the form, as well as the possibility of form to represent ideas of the whole or self. Moving between image, object and idea – exploring personal and interpersonal negotiations of thought, emotion, intention and meaning.
Published by DazibaoISBN: 978-2-922135-41-1
6.5×9.5 inches, 102 pages pp, full colour offset, sewn hardcover, 2013
Edition of 400
$21 – $25
More info: http://www.jimverburg.com
Jim Verburg is a citizen of Canada and the Netherlands. Past exhibitions include an installation at Widmer + Theodoridis contemporary (Zurich), Portrait Study at the New Stage of the National Theatre (Prague), Domestic Queens at the FOFA Gallery (Montreal), So Many Letdowns Before We Get Up at PLATFORM centre for photographic + digital arts (Winnipeg), and the solo exhibition One and Two at Galerie B-312 for Le Mois de la Photo à Montréal. Recently he has presented a solo installation at Convenience Gallery (Toronto), a feature exhibition for the Contact Festival (Toronto), Where I Lived, and What I Lived For curated by Jon Davies at the Oakville Galleries, Untitled Installation (Weights and Measures) at ARTSPACE (Peterborough), and most recently More Than Two (Let It Make Itself), curated by Micah Lexier at The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery (Toronto). He has held residencies at the National Film Board of Canada (Montreal), Gallery 44 Centre for Contemporary Photography (Toronto) and The Banff Centre (Alberta). His film For a Relationship won the 2008 Jury Prize for the Best Canadian Short Film at the Inside Out Film Festival (Toronto), and was nominated for the Iris Prize (UK). He currently lives and works in Toronto.
The recipient of the Dazibao Prize is given the opportunity to produce a book as part of Dazibao’s series Les portables. The series Les portables is a space to disseminate image-based practices. Dedicated exclusively to the work of one artist, each title of the series is a travelling exhibition with unlimited venues and circulation. Devoted to innovative or hybrid work, Les éditions Dazibao is a site for thinking about the photographic image and it’s ties to other disciplines.
Publisher’s website: http://dazibao-photo.org/en/editions/
