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Peter Hide</div>
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<i>After Rome</i>, 1992</div>
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mild and cast steel</div>
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Collection of the Kamloops Art Gallery, gift of the Artist</div>
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City of Kamloops and Kamloops Art Gallery</p>
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<b>Artwork from the Kamloops Art Gallery’s collection moved to prominent new location.</b></div>
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A large sculpture by Canadian artist Peter Hide, <i>After Rome</i>, has been re-located to a new site in Kamloops. It was previously displayed at the corner of Victoria Street and 2nd Ave for many years before being safely stored during a site renovation. Following
the renovation, the Kamloops Art Gallery (KAG) worked closely with the City of Kamloops to find an appropriate new public home for the sculpture. The sculpture is now on view within a beautifully landscaped area at the corner of Columbia Street and 3rd Avenue,
as a prominent marker at the entrance to downtown Kamloops and the Royal Inland Hospital.</div>
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Peter Hide is a Canadian artist based in Edmonton, Alberta. He has had a significant influence on generations of young sculptors in Canada, particularly in Saskatchewan and Alberta. Hide is known for his large-scale welded sculptures made of heavy, rusted industrial
scrap steel. His work follows the Modernist assembled sculpture tradition originated by artists including Pablo Picasso. This is an approach continued by American Modernist artists David Smith and Michael Steiner and Hide’s teacher, British artist Anthony
Caro.</div>
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Hide’s sculptures abandon the traditional pedestal and instead stand independently as monoliths emerging from the ground. The artist welds and sandblasts the rusted Corten steel and does not apply a finish to the sculpture, revealing the natural qualities of
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In describing his work, Hide explains that <i>After Rome</i>, “although loosely based on the human figure, is an abstract sculpture, and its parts do not equate to body parts. It does, however, make a play between an angular compressive side and a loose, airy
curvaceous side, and it is dynamic in space in that one view leads to another and so encourages the spectator to move around the piece ... outline and scale are particularly important in my work as ways to establish the expressive content of the sculpture.”</div>
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<i>After Rome </i>is part of the Kamloops Art Gallery’s art collection and is installed permanently at this location as part of the Gallery’s partnership with the City of Kamloops to present its collection in public spaces throughout the city.</div>
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Charo Neville, Curator, Kamloops Art Gallery</div>
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Dušan Magdolen, Cultural Services & Events Manager | City of Kamloops</div>
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<b>About the Kamloops Art Gallery</b></div>
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The Kamloops Art Gallery, established in 1978, is situated on the unceded and unsurrendered lands of the Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc within Secwepemcúl’ecw, the traditional territory of the Secwépemc people. The largest art gallery in Secwepemcúl̓ecw (the Interior
of British Columbia), the Gallery offers national caliber art experiences through a diverse range of accessible and affordable exhibitions, talks, tours, and studio-based programming for all ages and abilities, and boasts a collection of over 3,000 works of
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