Maria Gabankova
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Directory of Art
work at end of the Page
Biography
(pdf)
February 2012
Current Solo Exhibition
Memento Mori
Question and Answer
Session with Libby Hague
Sunday, February
12, 2012 at 2 pm
at Loop Gallery
1273 Dundas St.
West, Toronto
Invitation in PDF
Press Release
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2011
Canadian
Agricultural Hall of Fame
Unveiling
of commissioned portraits
Mr. Frank Stenger
more photos
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An Ordinary Aspect
Group Exhibition
in Columbus Centre
901 Lawrence Ave.
W
Toronto, Ontario
M6A 1C3
2.6.-27.6. 2011
more photo
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Parable of the Body
Exhibition in Hradec Kralove
Czech
version
English
in bigger size
Czech
in bigger size
2010
Maria
Gabankova on
Star
Portraits on TV Bravo
was
broadcast
by
PTV Production
in
November 2009 and
February 2010
2009
Canadian
Agricultural Hall of Fame
Unveiling
of commissioned portraits
Mr. R. Peter Heffering
more photos
and Mr. Paul Andre
Roy King
more photo
Previous Exhibitions
and Events
From
the Recent Exhibition
Opening Reception
PDF
Press Release
Loop Gallery
This Exhibition is together with the exhibition of
Maureen Paxton titled Little Babel
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2008
Canadian Agricultural
Hall of Fame
Unveiling of commisioned
portraits
of Mr. Paul Ekstein
and Mr. John Walker
at the occasion of
their induction into
the Canadian Agricultural
Hall of Fame
November 9, 2008 in
Toronto
***
Face Forward
September 12 -November
9, 2008
Contemporary Portraiture:
Curators Choice
Varley
Gallery - Unionville
***
March 14 - March
22, 2008
Art at the St. James
Cathedral
65 Church St. (at
King St.), Toronto
Maria Gabankova's
copy of the Crucifixion panel of the Issenheim Altarpiece
View from the Cathedral
Detail of copy of Grünewalds famous painting in
Colmar (France)
Art at the Cathedral
Maria Gabankova
Copy of the Crucifixion panel of the Issenheim Altarpiece
On display (March 14-22, 2008) is a painting by Maria Gabankova,
artist and associate professor at the Ontario College of Art and
Design, Toronto. The work is a large copy (94"x108")
of the Crucifixion panel of the Issenheim Altarpiece by Matthias
Grünewald which Ms Gabankova travelled to Colmar, Alsace,
France to study at the Unterlinden Museum in 2003. She was commissioned
by the Biblical Museum of Canada in Vancouver, B.C. to paint a
copy of the Crucifixion panel, which she completed in the summer
of 2007. The painting has had a profound influence on Ms Gabankova's
work and its spiritual content and expressive power relates to
the themes of her previous work. It will remain in the Cathedral
(at the Baptistry) throughout Holy Week until Holy Saturday.
The original Issenheim Altarpiece is an altarpiece painted by
the German artist Matthias Grünewald between 1512 and 1516,
It is on display at the Unterlinden Museum at Colmar, Alsace,
now in France. By far his greatest, as well as his largest work,
it was painted for the Monastery of Saint Anthony in Issenheim
near Colmar (then in Germany), which specialized in hospital work.
The Antonine monks of the monastery were noted for their treatment
of sufferers of skin disease, such as ergotism, symptoms of which
are displayed by figures including the crucified Christ in the
altarpiece. The iconography of the altarpiece has several unusual
elements, derived from closely following the accounts left by
Saint Bridget of Sweden of her mystical visions. These have long
had a significant influence on art, especially on depictions of
the Nativity of Christ. The Crucifixion includes Saint John the
Baptist, long dead by Gospel chronology.
More information about St. James' Cathedral is available at: stjamescathedral.on.ca
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January 12-February
3
Maria Gabankova:
Labyrinth of the heART
A selection of drawings
and paintings
featured in a recently published book
body broken body redeemed
by Piquant Editions in Great Britain
on Gabankova's Art.
***
body broken body
redeemed
Published
by Piquant Editions in Great Britain
on Gabankova's Art.
Details
of Book
Press Release in PDF
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2007
Good bye Dupont
Closing Exhibition
and Moving from Studio
June-July 2007
1400 Dupont St, Toronto,
Ontario
Pictures
and Exhibition
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2006
Unveiling of portrait
of Mr. P. Hannam
at the occasion of
his induction into
the Canadian Agricultural
Hall of Fame
Toronto - November
5, 2006
More pictures from the occasion
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Between the Word and
Flesh
Exhibition in Loop
- Toronto
December 3 -24 , 2005
Exhibition
Details
Press Release
Vernissage
Lorne Toews (New work exhibited simultaneously at Loop)
2005
Art Canada 5
New Town City Hall
- Prague, Czech Republic
Exhibition
***
2005
the body broken
Institute for Christian
Studies in Toronto
12 year retrospective
of 35 works on the theme of the body and the spiritutal
2004
the body redeemed
Redeemer University
College, Ancaster, Ontario
Ancaster - Redeemer University College
Vernissage
Speech
by Chris Cuthill
Article
by Andrea Hansen
2003
Art Detour
Toronto - November
2003
Part 1-Book of Revelation
Part
2 - Pear Series
***
New Work on the theme
of the Book of Revelation
Loop Gallery -Toronto
October 2003
Exhibition
2002
Eyedentity
Loop Gallery -Toronto
March 2002
Part
1
Part
2
2001
Art Detour
Toronto October 2001
Part
1
Part
2
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"6981 km from
Toronto"
Bratislava, Slovakia
- June/July 2001
Bratislava
Vernissage
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Artist with portrait
of Elizabeth
Foto: M. Babel
Directory
of themes, individual works and biography
Yellow
color indicates images from M. Gabankova
Green
color indicates texts.
Pink
color indicates work of Marias Parents J. Gabanek and A. Lanik
Portrait
Commissions by Maria Gabankova - Price List
