Beauty and Dread: Marion Wagschal's Cyclops and Other Tales
An Evening With Marion Wagschal at The National Gallery Of Canada Tales from the Schwarzwald as Told by My Mother , 1980-2013, Marion Wagschal Friday evening at the National Gallery of Canada opened Marion Wagschal: Cyclops and Other Tales — the Montréal painter's first exhibition at the NGC, and a survey that the artist herself described as covering five decades of work. The gallery was packed. Phones and cameras balanced on catalogue pamphlets, curator Anaïs Castro moving through clusters of guests before the talk began. Wagschal herself, small and sharp-eyed, took the floor with none of the caution you sometimes get from an artist facing a room full of people. She just started talking. Who Is Marion Wagschal For anyone encountering her for the first time, it's worth backing up. Wagschal was born in 1943 in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago — an unlikely starting point for a career that would become so identified with Montréal. Her parents were German Je...
