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`True Patriot Love': A major exhibition of work by Joyce Wieland development of Canadian perfumes called
is at the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Arctic Passion and Sweet Beaver.
Joyce Wieland at until 8 August. Entitled 'True Patriot Love', the
exhibition has been organized by the Gallery's
the National curator of contemporary Canadian art, Pierre
Théberge, and comprises thirty-five works by
Gallery of Canada the artist—ranging from quilted cloth
assemblages and drawings to photography and
films. Joyce Wieland's films include Rat Life
and Diet in North America—in which political
suspects escape from the United States to
Canada to take up organic gardening—and La
Raison Avant la Passion, 'a lyrical look at Canada'
and its Prime Minister. Among her interests are
an active concern with environmental problems,
the devising of nationalist recipes (Canadian
Nationalists' Soup—red and white), and the
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