In her paintings the Canadian artist Carol Wainio makes use of early children\u2019s book illustrations. \u201cPicture books\u201d in her work, and their sometimes full, sometimes empty illustration pages, frame questions about original and copy, scarcity and excess, modern and pre-modern. The illustrated book recurs as window or empty frame, stage set or diptych, embodying a kind of wondering about representation, epistemology, and about the fate of early skeletal stories of exchange, transformation or wish, which like myth or folk tale, had been filled in by individual telling or dressed up by different illustrators over time.<\/p>\n
During her stay at the Deutsche B\u00f6rse Residency Program Wainio did research on the children\u2019s book collection of Walter Benjamin at Johann Wolfgang von Goethe University Frankfurt. Benjamin\u2019s texts \u201cThe Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction\u201d (1936) and \u201cSome motifs in Baudelaire\u201d (1939) have had a strong influence on Wainio\u2019s paintings. <\/p>\n
Carol Wainio made her M.F.A. at Concordia University, Montr\u00e9al, Qu\u00e9bec (CA) in 1985. Since 2003 she works as a professor at the Department of Visual Arts at University of Ottowa. She participated in several exhibitions in Canada, the Netherlands and the USA, e.g. at Galerie Ren\u00e9 Blouin, Montr\u00e9al, at S.L. Simpson Gallery, Toronto and at Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Toronto.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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