Arnaud Maggs

de Josee Drouin-Brisebois, Rhiannon Vogl, Charles A. Stainback

"Arnaud Maggs: Identification is a survey exhibition that follows the senior artist's production over four decades. Focusing on seminal and recent works, it showcases the artist's various working strategies and subject matter. The show features his early portrait series, his monumental photographic installations of found historical ephemera, the typography used in signage and numbering systems, as well as pieces that centre on rare books, including his own Scrapbook (2009), which is filled with the inspiring images Maggs collected while working as a graphic designer. Each work on display records in some way the people, places and lived experiences that have marked him--they can be seen as portraits of the artist"--Foreword.