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OCAD University Open Research RepositoryFaculty of Liberal Arts & Sciences1985 Review: Nicola WojewodaTuer, Dot Suggested citation: Tuer, Dot (1985) Review: Nicola Wojewoda. C: International Contemporary Art, 7. ISSN 1480-5472 Available at http://openresearch.ocadu.ca/id/eprint/1357/Open Research is a publicly accessible, curated repository for the preservation and dissemination of scholarly and creative output of the OCAD University community. Material in Open Research is open access and made available via the consent of the author and/or rights holder on a non-exclusive basis. NICOLA WOJEWODA Garnet Press, Toronto August 9-31 36 PLACES P R O D I OF G y ) ) ) t ) c o , , ) � , 0 ) 0 0 c _ c 0 O wh re there is nothing left to ay. The w rk of Niki Voj woda challengs ilenc on the part of contemporary ao critics. Sh has undertaken to revitalie relation of la'nd cap to the dichot natur and cultur ; pr s nting it as faces original and p rsonal vi ion. It i p rhap a truism to dichotomy f ity v rsu rath r than th city ver us th existence · and kitsch reproductions or 1ts power. Nicola Wojewoda; The Wood's Edge; 1985; charcoal on paper; 1 08 x 60 in. Photo· cour­tesy Garnet Press. Again, it i not th ar h i ymbol f th pri­mitiv whi h Woj woda i lightly playing with, but an I m nt f kit h whi h pun tu-t our inh rit d repr nt tion f th land­cap . Lik th charcoal drawing whi h on­t in a r sidu of th bla k-v Iv t g nr of livingr m art, there i an acknowl dg m nt f pa ti h , but at th am tim a work whi h draws upon sourc s beyond th con­s ious effort of appropriation. For in The Fl hEat rs, ther is a city subtly traced into th dusky blue mountains, barely visibl in th wealth of olours and f rmal trategie which ompris the whole. Two fierce dogs loll indolently in the pastur , like �h European cows of a Homer Watson painting. The total eff ct i not a rejuvenation of our primitiv origins, but a questi n upon our contempor­ary position within th context of the land­scape' history. The view r is drawn back into the work through th glint of th knife. Although the figure holding it i a r produc­tion from the renaissanc attitud t ward an idealized pastoral setting, th knife its If i till D t Tuer 

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