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Canada’s
new Territory Nunavut five years old
Kenojuak Ashevak as Representative of Nunavut at German-Canadian
Anniversary Celebrations in Germany
First major exhibition of this renowned Inuit artist in
Germany
By Ansgar Walk
The works of Kenojuak Ashevak have long been a feature
in many major museums in the world; her pictures and stone
carvings are much sought after by collectors and they
obtain high prices; her designs adorn Canadian postage
stamps and coins. On February 1, 2004, the first exhibition
of her works in Germany was opened at Burg (Castle) Vischering.
This was one of the reasons why the 77 year old artist
made her first visit to Germany from March 25 to April
4, 2004. Together with Jimmy Manning, the print studio
manager of the West Baffin Eskimo Co-operative Cape Dorset,
she came primarily as an ambassador of her homeland to
the celebrations here for the 5th anniversary of the Canadian
territory of Nunavut.
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Ansgar
Walk
Author of Books on the Arctic by Pendragon
During
the last years the author (natural scientist, born in
1929) and his wife spent time and again many weeks in
the Canadian North - the Inuit Territory Nunavut became
for both of them a kind of second home. This is why
the Arctic with all its fascination is a major interest
for his writing - particularly the topics nature, issues
of social development and Inuit (Eskimo) culture. He
did not only write about his experience and insights
but illustrates as well by many colour photos taken
together with his wife, thus showing the reader how
he sees the Land of Inuit.
www.ansgar-walk.de
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