It’s opening night at the 401 Richmond building, so if you’re looking for something that’s warm, cozy and arty, come by the building for openings at A Space, Gallery 44, Red Head Gallery and YYZ Artists’ Outlet. You can see the Akimbo posting here and below, which include details about all of the exhibitions. A [...]
By Marissa
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Posted 9 01 2009
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Tagged a space, art, gallery 44, installation, mixed media, openings, photography, recommendation, red head, sculpture, spaces, video, yyz
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Toronto’s Nuit Blanche is now just a day away. And although I’ve conducted my recommendations alphabetically, it also appears that I’ve saved the best for last. Zone C is looking good, and I can guarantee that the strongest concentration of Nuit Blanche visitors will be wandering in these parts.
Performativity is a central theme for Toronto’s Nuit Blanche, taking place October 4th, from 6:52pm to sunrise. It’s not only central to a lot of the work that goes on throughout the night, but I think it’s an apt description of audience as well. On what other occasion are so many citizens out and about [...]
Nuit Blanche 2006 was quaint compared to the explosiveness of its 2007 incarnation. While the swell of drifters was often difficult to penetrate to even get to the art, there were some wonderful pieces that made the senseless wandering worth it, including Mircea Cantor‘s Deeparture at the Isabel Bader Theatre, and Kristen Roos‘s Ghost Station [...]
This might seem entirely biased, but I happened upon these two articles this morning and wanted to share. They’re both from the CBC, and no, I won’t be visiting alternative news sources to publish links about the other side. Give us the plan on culture, federal leaders urged Cultural sector helps drive economy: report
A graduate of Ryerson’s Photography program, New York-based Balint Zsako has emerged as a sort of Renaissance man, using his talents in a multitude of media including painting, illustration, sculpture and collage to embed absurdity into an age-old subject — the figure. Zsako is well known for his paintings — fine, black-ink detail outlining bright [...]
I didn’t realize it until I went to Montreal and Quebec a couple of weeks ago, but a lot of what bores me about art is the familiarity of media, the same ol’, same ol’ use of photography, painting, multi-dimensional materials, space, video, animation. I came to this realization first at MOCCA in Toronto, then [...]
I’m finding it harder and harder to come across art in Toronto that is actually moving, thought-provoking and evocative on both a political and social level. That isn’t to say conceptual- or aesthetic-based works or exhibitions aren’t interesting or fulfilling, because they can be. But goosebumps-inducing projects seem fewer and farther between as artists’ media [...]
Nan Goldin’s Heartbeat. At MOCCA. Soundtrack by Björk based on a Greek Orthodox mass. Haunting, passionate. Go immediately.
My favourite piece from last year’s Nuit Blanche was Mircea Cantor’s Deeparture, at the Isabel Bader Theatre. The work is a looped film wherein a deer and a wolf are confined together in a white cube space. The tension evoked in these few short minutes is electric. When I came home (at 5 a.m., beyond [...]
