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Pnina Participating in International Exhibition: ‘Traces of Time’, Lecce, Italy.

In March 2023, Pnina received an unexpected invitation to participate in the International Exhibition Traces of Time, in Lecce, Italy. They asked for a specific body of works from the series “In Search of Meaning”, found on her website. They found her work by visiting her website, after reading a review by Diana Hayes in the BC Review of Books online, on her poetry and art book, GARDEN OF WORDS.  Pnina Granirer is the only artist representing Canada.

TRACES OF TIME 

PALMIERI FOUNDATION, LECCE

From 20 May to 02 June 2023

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What People Are Saying About Pnina’s New Book, ‘Garden of Words’

“This poignant collection serves as an important reminder of the fragile and tenuous nature of our own existence, the incredible power of art, love, community and the awe- inspiring mystery, beauty and hope we can all find when we take the time to reconnect with nature and ourselves.”
– Paul F. Crawford
Director/Curator at Penticton Art Gallery

“[Granirer] doesn’t shout but almost whispers the powerful themes of war, plague, sadness, joy and memory, questioning the human condition with delicacy and compassion.”
– Lillian Boraks-Nemetz
Author of Out of the Dark and Mouth of Truth: Buried Secrets

Artist Pnina Granirer is also a poet who has written verse since 1945, when the 10-year-old expressed her joy at the end of WW2. The poems range in space from Romania to Israel to Canada, and include many vignettes recorded with a painter’s eye and a haiku-like intensity. Some are vividly illustrated with images selected from her long career in visual art. Among my favourites were descriptions of a racoon washing its paws, a glass of sangria in Spain, and eroded sandstones rocks in the Gulf Islands. The book ends with a moving elegy for her recently deceased husband. Readers will find much to treasure in this rich selection from the work of a talented poet-painter.
– Graham Good, Professor Emeritus of English, UBC. Translator of Rilke’s Late Poetry and Goethe’s Poems

“This collection of poems encompasses a range of subject matters, offering personal reflections that are variously joyous, sharp and heartbreaking. Interspersed with Granirer’s writing are artworks spanning many years of painting. Time collapses within these pages. They offer a window into a vivid life lived in extraordinary times, and a woman enchanted with the world around her.”
– George Harris, Curator/Director Two Rivers Gallery, Prince George, BC

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Pnina at the Jewish Book Festival Vancouver

Pnina will be appearing at the Jewish Community Centre of Greater Vancouver’s 2022 Jewish Book Festival on February 9 at 1 pm. You can register by following this link on Eventbrite.

Pnina will be introducing her new book of poetry, Garden of Words.

The Cherie Smith JCC Jewish Book Festival is one of Vancouver’s leading cultural and literary events, attracting a large and varied audience of over 5,000 people of all ages. This highly popular community-wide event brings together prominent and emerging Jewish writers and non-Jewish writers on Jewish subject matter.

Pnina joins such authors as David Baddiel, Dara Horn and Gary Barwin at this year’s event.

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You Are Not Alone, Penticton

In September, Pnina took part in the You are not alone exhibition at the Penticton Art Gallery.  (The description is below). A permanent online exhibition can be viewed here.  

While the isolation imposed by governments worldwide during the Covid-19 pandemic protected us from the dangers of a contagious virus, it also exposed us to the ever growing threat of separation on our psychological and social health. In these challenging times only our collective awareness that none of us are in this alone — that human beings everywhere on this planet face the same threat — allowed us to keep our solidarity, our  togetherness and our strength while in quarantine.

This exhibition is a collective effort and joint statement from 180 artists around the globe that we stand together and that we will always find our space to create, adapt and stand strong.

These 300 multiple-medium artworks are the result of an open call released in March 2020 by the Penticton art gallery in Canada,the Syria.art Association (Nice/Berlin) and the Online Cyrrus Gallery celebrating a strong and creative partnership and demonstrating the ability of art in bringing people together.

These works will be kept as an archive to serve as a time capsule, a permanent document of this moment in our collective history. The collection will be made available for loan to other galleries and museums across the globe and in a permanent online exhibition. The exhibition was shown in Penticton, Canada in September 2020 and will be shown in Nice, France in 2022.

Curated by Humam Alsalim and Paul Crawford.

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Pnina at the Richmond Art Gallery

Pnina was featured at the Richmond Art Gallery’s “Selected Stories” exhibition from October 28 – November 21.  The exhibition celebrated the RAG’s 40th anniversary.

As the RAG states:

Any collection of art is also a collection of stories, of curatorial decisions, disagreements, and exclusions. The permanent collection tells the story of local artists, ambitious exhibition projects and a dedicated community. However, like any collection of stories this collection does not tell the unobjective truth, it reflects the decisions made by a certain group of people, during a specific period in time and it has been shaped by the exclusions and discriminations prevalent in our society. While the permanent collection illustrates the progress of the RAG from a community art space to a nationally recognized gallery, it also contains clear omissions in representation. The works included in this exhibition convey the Gallery’s progress, while also reflecting these omissions. In recognizing this we are eager to take the necessary steps toward including more stories in our collection, more stories about Richmond, about its artists and art enthusiasts, and about the next forty years of the Richmond Art gallery.

Curated by Sofia Stalner, Pnina joined  Diyan Achjadi, Gabriele Ailey, Yasuo Araki, Michael Batty, Betty Jean  Drummond, Greg Girard, Pnina Granirer, Brian Grison, Shirley Inouye, Evan  Lee, Wayne Ngan, Toni Onley, Larry Osland, Susan Point , Arthur Renwick, Jack  Shadbolt, Kinichi Shigeno, Arnold Shives, Anna Wong, Alan Wood and Gu Xiong.