Artist Philip Kanwischer
Title Falling #8/30
Media archival pigment print on paper
Dated
2015
Size 11.75 x 12 in. / 29.8 x 30.5 cm.
Frame Size 20.75 x 21 x 1 in.
Estimate $375 - $750
Notes
signed and numbered along bottom; signed, titled and dated verso; framed with archival mat and special glass
Provenance
this work was generously donated by the artist; proceeds will be donated to the Alberta University of the Arts (AUArts) Centennial Scholarships fund in celebration of the university's Centennial year. The Centennial Scholarships fund is a transformative initiative to provide future artists, craftspersons, and designers with tuition-free education. Centennial Scholarships will reduce financial barriers and provide students with a tuition-free year of study. For more information or to donate directly visit: auarts.ca/donate-now
Biographical Information
Philip Kanwischer ~ [21st century] Canadian
Philip Kanwischer is a multidisciplinary artist based in Calgary, Alberta, whose work explores the relationship between humans and wildlife. Through years of encounters with wild foxes, wolves, caribou, bears, and other animals in remote landscapes from Svalbard to the Yukon, his practice considers what exists between observer and observed.
Working primarily through photography, Kanwischer is interested in moments of mutual awareness: how an animal perceives his presence, whether connection can exist across species, and what these fleeting encounters reveal about the boundaries between human and animal worlds.
His practice also extends into physical making, including finely crafted knives, custom frames, hand-carved animal limbs, and sculptural objects. These works deepen his investigation beyond the image, using material, form, and process as another way of understanding the animals, histories, and environments that shape his work.
In 2015 Philip Kanwischer graduated from the Alberta College of Art and Design (now Alberta University of the Arts) with distinction in Photography, and completed an MFA in 2019 at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design.
see artist's website at philipkanwischer.com
for more biographical information and examples of work see artist's website at philipkanwischer.com