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Wil Aballe Art Projects is pleased to announce Canadian, a new digital print edition by New York-based artist, Aurel Schmidt. Certified editions will be available February 28th, 2013, with 100% of the artist’s proceeds kindly donated to Sierra Club BC. Canadian. from Drug Voodoo/Eden series. 11 x 16?. Archival inkjet print on hahnemuhle paper. Printed by Fidelis, Vancouver. Edition size of 50 + 6 artist proofs. $300, signed and numbered on accompanying certificate. Canadian is part of a series of meticulous colored pencil drawings Schmidt has been developing for nearly a decade. Transposing the traditions of Renaissance Dutch master painters, Schmidt utilizes still life to reveal the flaws and beauty inherent in contemporary culture. In this case, a pink hollyhock flower in a Molson Canadian can becomes a moment in which the beer can, garbage once emptied, is saved from a state of detritus by a flower in full bloom—a flower that, itself, awaits inevitable decay. Schmidt’s gaze shifts between beauty and rot, collapsing the lives of the two objects into a poignant moment when both meet and become meaningful, if transitory, partners.