Illuminating Language: Book Launch & Lecture with artist Dick Averns

Join Contemporary Calgary for the launch of Illuminating Language, a new publication by Calgary-based artist and writer Dick Averns. Averns will give a lecture, followed by a discussion and audience Q&A with Mona Filip, Chief Curator at Contemporary Calgary. The evening also includes a book signing, a cash bar and an opportunity to purchase the book. Free with registration.

Bringing together 25 years of Averns’ artwork, Illuminating Language explores how art can help us navigate and make sense of the complexities of being human. His practice includes serving as an official war artist in the Middle East and creating performances at political rallies involving Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton and Danielle Smith.

The 132-page, full-colour book is published by Vernon Public Art Gallery, with a curatorial introduction by Lubos Culen, a guest essay by Wayne Baerwaldt and artist passages by Averns. It will be available at the Contemporary Calgary art book shop for $44 plus GST, with a 10% launch discount. Members always receive 10% off.