ALEX JANVIER

A canonical figure in Native American art history, Alex Janvier has maintained a 50-year artistic practice that fuses aboriginal traditions with modernist abstraction. Influenced by Kandinsky and Klee, his murals and works on paper, canvas and linen explore the Dene geo-cultural landscape of his northern Alberta home with a combination of Indigenous iconography and contemporary realities within a personal aesthetic that is universal in reach his works reference an ancient past, recent Indigenous history, and his own experience of colonization. Janviers synthesis of pictorialism and abstraction embodies a conceptual and

O figura canonica in istoria artei native americane, Alex Janvier a mentinut o practica artistica de 50 de ani, care imbina traditiile aborigene cu abstractizarea modernista. Influentat de Kandinsky si Klee, picturile sale murale si lucrarile pe hartie, panza si lenjerie exploreaza peisajul geo-cultural Dene din casa sa din nordul Albertei, cu o combinatie de iconografie indigena si realitati contemporane, intr-o estetica personala, care este universala in atingerea lucrarilor sale. trecutul antic, istoria indigena recenta si propria sa experienta de colonizare.