Interview with Victoria Henry, Director of the Canada Council for the Arts- Art Bank on the art exhibition “Getting Naked”
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The Canadian Art Bank is a unique institution which for decades has been collecting Canadian artworks and making them available to other institutions, galleries, embassies, and businesses either on loan or rented.
Among their some 17-thousand artworks are many representations of the human body. However, due to some prudishness, these are almost never sought out by business or government, or even galleries, for display.
That is until David Marskell, CEO of a museum in Kitchener Ontario learned that many of these works had in fact never been seen in public.
The board members of “The Museum” as it’s called, soon agreed to mount a special exhibition to display these works.
Marskell said, “This is a rare opportunity to not only see these incredible works of art but also have a conversation about why Canadian culture shy’s away from nudity”.
Virginia Eichhorn, hired as curator by The Museum said in a press release. “Since its rebranding and evolution over the last several years, THEMUSEUM has made its mark in establishing itself as an organization that is not afraid to make bold choices”.
The exhibit is called “Getting Naked” and will showcase over 100 of the artbank works none of which are pornographic though a few might be classified as erotic, but all show the fascination of the artists –some of whom have become Canadian icons= have for the human body.
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