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

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Face Forward

September 12 -November 9, 2008

Contemporary Portraiture: Curators Choice

Varley Gallery - Unionville

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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.

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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

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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

 

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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

 Portraits I

 Portraits II

Figure Studies

Anatomy

Figurative Composition

Leaking Boat

  Figura non grata

 Mannequins

Drawings

Sill life

Landscape

  Collage

Education

Academic Appointment

Honors

  Profesional Memberships

 Solo exhibitions

 Group Exhibitions

Public and Corporate Collection

 Commissions

Film and Theatre
Bibliography

 Publications

Conferences

Other Activities 

Services and Aministration

Teaching

Parents Artists

Joseph Gabanek

Antonie Lanik

Portrait Commissions by Maria Gabankova - Price List