During the school year, I’d often complain that required courses were scheduled on either Thursday or Friday evenings between 6:30 pm and 9:30 pm. It just didn’t make sense for a curatorial program to develop a schedule that conflicted so regularly with gallery openings in the city. Unfortunately, the predicament doesn’t end with the term. Working in a gallery ties me up on Saturday afternoons and I always have to miss a ton of great stuff. Here are a couple that I hope you’ll make it to. I’ll be there in spirit.
REPLYall, presented by Art Metropole and SAVAC, is a six-week-long, collaborative art exhibition between Daniel Barrow (Winnipeg), Divya Mehra (Winnipeg/New York), Lorna Mills (Toronto), Peter Morin (Victoria) and Shaan Syed (Toronto/London, UK). Although you can view the work online at any time (and you should go, if only to see Mehra’s “Money in the Bank” video), if you work at a gallery, you certainly can’t make it to the public art talk at Art Metropole on Saturday, June 13th. It starts at 2 pm.
Another thing I can’t attend is Balint Zsako’s book launch, also at Art Metropole. Presented by MOCCA, Works from the Bernardi Collection is Zsako’s first book, and it sounds like a work of art in and of itself (and is a steal, at $45) — “The fully-illustrated, [and hardcover] 156-page publication features a text and interview with the artist by renowned Winnipeg writer and publisher Robert Enright, a short text by New York writer and advisor Robert Curcio, and a foreword by MOCCA Artistic Director and Curator David Liss.” The launch is this Saturday, May 30, from 1 pm to 3 pm at Art Metropole. The artist will be present. (You can read my interview with Zsako here.)
(Also at Art Metropole, which already passed last Saturday, was the launch of Dan Adler’s new book, Hanne Darboven: Cultural History 1880-1983. If you know Darboven’s work, you know this book was a huge undertaking, and though I haven’t read it, I’ve heard Adler speak about it, and he has tackled the subject with unerring patience and a devoted curiosity. I can’t wait to pick up a copy. It was published by One Work/Afterall Books. Each book in the One Work series focuses on a single work by an artist. It’s available at Art Metropole.)
Ok, fine. It looks like it’s just Art Metropole and I who can’t seem to make it work.
(Above photo: Screenshot of the REPLYall website.)
