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  • Kieślowski in Posters


    August 31 – September 10, 2011
    Opening: Wednesday, August 31,  7 – 11pm
    Steam Whistle Gallery
    255 Bremner Ave
    (just south of the CN Tower)
    Toronto, ON
    416-362-2337 ext.246
    info@steamwhistle.ca
    www.steamwhistle.ca
    Hours: Mon – Thurs 12 – 6, Fri – Sat 11 -6, Sun 11 – 5pm

    Cinematic master Krzystof Kieslowski exhibits at Steam Whistle’s Art Gallery on loan from the Film Museum in Łódź, Kieślowski in Posters is an exhibition showcasing world movie posters. The art show is part of The Toronto International Film Festival.

     Krzysztof Kieślowski – director of such masterpieces as Oscar nominated the Three Colours Trilogy, Decalogue and The Double Life of Véronique. Kieślowski created films that speak a universal language and is known and respected by cinema lovers worldwide.

    Marking the 70th anniversary of his birth and the 15th anniversary of his death, the Film Museum in Łódź along with the Consulate General of the Republic of Poland in Toronto and YouNxt proudly present the North American premiere of Kieślowski in Posters: The Films of Krzysztof Kieślowski in World Film Posters.

    The collection, which spans the years 1976 to 1994, consists of 48 film posters from countries such as: Spain, Italy, Israel, Japan, the United Kingdom, France, Germany and Poland. It’s travelled the world and in September will debut in Canada during the Toronto International Film Festival. 

    About Steam Whistle Gallery:Steam Whistle Brewing hosts monthly art exhibitions in their Retail & Hospitality area to showcase local creative talent. Although many exhibitors are established artists, some are showing for the first time. Steam Whistle does not charge rent for their gallery space, nor is a commission earned on any works that are sold. At the close of each show, one piece from the show (of the artist’s choice) is donated to their permanent collection bringing further profile to artists through the thousands of visitors to the brewery annually.

     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     

     

  • Rochelle Rubinstein & Lanny Shereck: Homestead

    Rochelle Rubinstein and Lanny Shereck, DWELLING, printed, painted and stitched sculpture, 32 x 38 x 48 inches, 2011 (photo credit: Lanny Shereck)

    September 3 – 25, 2011
    Reception: Thursday, September 8, 2011, 6-8 PM
    Loop Gallery
    1273 Dundas Street West
    Toronto, ON, M6J 1X8
    T: 416.516.2581
    E-mail:loopgallery.patricia@gmail.com
    http://loopgallery.blogspot.com
    www.loopgallery.ca
    Hours: Wed-Sat 12-5pm, Sun 1-4pm

     Loop Gallery is pleased to announce exhibitions by loop members Rochelle Rubinstein and Lanny Shereck, entitled Homestead.

    “We shape our dwellings and afterwards our dwellings shape us.” – Winston Churchill
    This exhibition presents an exploration of the notion of habitation and of homesteading.
    The evocation of home in a collaborative installation, DWELLING, combines the permanence and strength of stone with the fragility and comfort of fabric.  The three structures, one hovering slightly above ground, with their accompanying chimneys or silos, evoke old barns, quaint cottages, or mini-shelters. Their lack of functionality, including an absence of doors and windows, is both alarming and sad.

    Individual works by Rochelle Rubinstein consist of printed, painted and carved wood panels depicting imaginary villages. Here, ideas and concerns about the home extend to the communities that shape us. Issues of privacy, alienation, and claustrophobia permeate these environments, where Sherpa villages morph into suburbia, straw bale cottages into concrete bunkers.

    Lanny Shereck has created painted and collage works of architectural and building debris, referring to the materials, methods and values with which we shape our homes. This work evokes the messy processes of destruction and construction that somehow give form to our quest for habitation.

  • 12th Annual Juried Emerging Sculptors Exhibition

     “First Prize” by Taylor Pilote

    August 9 – September 9, 2011
    Opening and Award Presentation: Thursday, August 11, 6:30pm
    CANADIAN SCULPTURE CENTRE
    500 Church Street
    Toronto ON M4Y 2C8
    Tel: 647.435.5858
    Email: gallery@cansculpt.org
    Hours: Tuesday – Friday 12-6; Saturdays 11-4

    Since 1999, the SSC – a non-profit artist-run organization – has brought in jurors and sponsored annual exhibitions for Emerging Sculptors from across Canada. As part of its educational mandate the SSC is proud to support (Canadian) Emerging Sculptors by providing them with an opportunity to advance their careers.

    This year, jurors Chad Wolfond, Dir. Lonsdale Gallery; Ted Rettig, Sculptor/Educator; and SunMi Jung, Sculptor – selected the following participants:

    Andy Berg, Kingston ON
    Candice Davies, Baysville ON
    Michelle Du Quesnay-Jones, Toronto ON
    ShuHui Lee, Toronto ON
    Alexandre Payer, Montreal QC
    Taylor Pilote, Fort Erie ON
    Louis-Marc Simard, Salmon Arm BC

    Award sponsors: Al & Malka Green, Artcast Inc., MST Bronze Ltd.

  • Courvoisier Artist Collective Exhibition and Urban Showcase for Local Talent

     

    August 10-September 4, 2011
    Opening: Wednesday, August 10, 7:00-9:30pm
    Formal Presentation at 7:30pm
    GALLERY 1313
    1313 QUEEN STREET WEST,
    TORONTO, ON M6K 1K8
    T: 416 – 536-6778
    E mail: director@g1313.org
    www.gallery13131.org
    or Rebecca Fair at PraxisPR
    T:905.949.8255 ext: 224 
    E-mail:  rebecca@praxispr.ca
    Hours: Wed – Sun 1- 6

    Artist Collective Unveils Gallery Exhibition And Urban Showcase For Local Talent
    The Courvoisier Collective supports local art community by bringing art back to the streets 

    The Courvoisier Collective program is the latest stage of the Courvoisier brand’s ‘Revolutionary Spirit’ campaign.  The program launched on June 6, 2011 with a call for art submissions. To participate and become a member of the Courvoisier Collective, artists submitted artwork to CourvoisierCollective.com.  During the one-month submission period over 130 art submissions, which spoke to the theme of the ‘renewal’ of the power of art, were received.  

    All submissions were eligible for a ‘Gallery Award’ call, where selected works, as chosen by online votes and the judging panel, will be exhibited at Gallery 1313. In addition, the three winning entries as determined by a panel of curators will have their submission appear on high-traffic urban billboards and PATH posters in Toronto during August 2011.

    The TOP THREE BILLBOARD WINNERS ARE:
    Erik Jerezano, First Place
    Hyein Lee, Second Place
    Mark Laliberte, Third Place

  • ART FAG CITY PRESENTS: THE SOUND OF ART

    A project by Paddy Johnson

    Thursday, August 11, 9pm
    Live performance at Mercer Union
    Free admission
    MERCER UNION
    A Centre for Contemporary Art
    1286 Bloor Street West,
    Toronto, Ontario M6H 1N9
    T: 416-536-2955
    E: info@mercerunion.org
    www.mercerunion.org

     Find out what art sounds like in the hands of artists Paul Slocum and Lewis Kaye. Thursday 11 August, the musicians will remix Art Fag City’s limited edition LP, The Sound of Art, a record composed of sounds heard in New York galleries, museums and project spaces over the last five years.
    Just what’s on this album? Work by artists well-known and not-so-well-known. Difficult electronics. Sounds of stampeding animals, Hebrew prayer, a transformer fire, a children’s carousel. One hundred carpenters pounding 10,000 nails. Field recordings of recordings by guitar genius John Fahey, and archival sound pieces by the pioneering conceptualist Lawrence Weiner. An iPod drum circle and thoughts on nostalgia. Also, yes, a toy monkey with cymbals.

    These sounds are just the start of a larger project that begins at Mercer Union. The first stop in a tour around North America, musicians, artists and creative folk of all types will be invited to remix this album to produce new sounds. Paul Slocum, a Brooklyn based programmer, artist and musician, will use the album in combination with “Magic Carpet”, an iphone app he built to be both a musical instrument and music visualizer. The application spins images of quilts at high speeds to create fractal like images. In keeping with this sensibility, Torontonian Lewis Kaye, a sound artist and media science researcher will use the software Plogue Bidule to process live audio from the event along with the other pre-existing samples including those from The Sound of Art.

    Paul Slocum is a Brooklyn based, artist, musician and programmer. From 2006-2009 he ran And/Or, a gallery in Dallas with a focus on New Media. He was also a member Treewave, a two-person band that makes shoegazy pop music using obselete 70’s and 80’s computer and video game gear accompanied by female vocals. Recently, Slocum released Sir Sampleton a wildly popular sampling keyboard, and Magic Carpet, a music visualizer and musical instrument for mobile phones and tablets.
    Lewis Kaye is Toronto based sound artist and media sciences researcher whose work is animated by a fascination with the interplay between sound, technology and culture. His projects frequently explore, adapt and transform recordings of various sound environments. Often working in collaboration with visual or performance artists, his work has found expression in many forms including media installation, theater, audio CD, 5.1 video and live 2-channel and multichannel performance. Major solo works include the McLuhan-themed Through The Vanishing Point (McLuhan in Europe Festival 2011, CONTACT Photography Festival, 2010), and You Are Here, which was commissioned as the official podcast audio guide for the City of Toronto’s first Nuit Blanche in 2006. Lewis holds a PhD in Communication and Culture from York and Ryerson Universities, and has taught courses on sound studies, alternative media and digital culture.
    Paddy Johnson is the founding editor of Art Fag City. In addition to her work on the blog, her work has been published in such magazines as New York Magazine, The Economist, and The Daily. Johnson lectures widely about art and the Internet at venues including Yale University, Parsons, Rutgers, South by Southwest, and the Whitney Independent Study Program. In 2008, she served on the board of the Rockefeller Foundation New Media Fellowships and became the first blogger to earn a Creative Capital Arts Writers grant from the Creative Capital Foundation. Two years later, Johnson was nominated for best art critic at The Rob Pruitt Art Awards and won The 2010 Village Voice award for Best Art Blog. Johnson also writes a regular column on art for The L Magazine.

  • Easy Tiger

    August 3 – 27, 2011
    Opening: Wednesday, August 3, 7pm-11pm
    Steam Whistle Gallery
    255 Bremner Ave
    (just south of the CN Tower)
    Toronto, ON
    416-362-2337 ext.246
    info@steamwhistle.ca
    www.steamwhistle.ca
    Hours: Mon – Thurs 12 – 6, Fri – Sat 11 -6, Sun 11 – 5pm

    Come by and see music and art collide for our August art exhibit.
     

    Easy Tiger is a Toronto based arts collective committed to promoting quality art and music without limitations or prejudice across all genres and mediums. Friends who are drawing from varied experience and skill, the group is equipped to lend our dirty hands to the success of projects small and large. Dean Povinsky, Brad Leitch and Ben Sellick are combining the two worlds with live music performances and an art exhibit on August 3rd 7-11pm.

      

     Steam Whistle Brewing hosts monthly art exhibitions in their Retail & Hospitality area to showcase local creative talent. Although many exhibitors are established artists, some are showing for the first time. Steam Whistle does not charge rent for their gallery space, nor is a commission earned on any works that are sold. At the close of each show, one piece from the show (of the artist’s choice) is donated to their permanent collection bringing further profile to artists through the thousands of visitors to the brewery annually.

  • Istvan Kantor Brainwash Session 2 @ The Temple of Desperadoes

    August 13, Saturday 2 – 6 pm
    ANTIX – Centre for Art Crime and Neoism
    276 Crawford Street, Toronto
    through drive way towards garage
    www.istvankantor.com
    http://home.interlog.com/~amen/
    http://www.hungarianpresence.ca/Culture/Media/kantor-215.cfm

    ANTIX ArtCrime Depot is Istvan Kantor’s storage space and summer gallery, archive of Kantor’s life and crimes, a meeting place for secret conversations, future projects, conspiracy plans, also amazing deals on bloody canvases and many other beautiful Neoist Monty Cantsin artifacts! Come with a juice or beer, bring your friends, look around, sit down, have a great afternoon… while the Rentagon is out on vacation, we R right into revolution!

    Istvan Kantor’s artistic practice incorporates robotic sculpture, video, performance, mixed-media installation, painting, sound, and various other action-based social-mediums like the open-pop-star movement of Monty Cantsin and the world wide network of Neoism. Neoism is a transmission interface and revolving platform to gain public support and media attention for its users.
    Kantor employs all his skills and talents to constantly surprise and fascinate. “I swear to God, I’ll never make any boring art!” he declares with bold determination, irony and wit, holding up a picketing sign.
    His main interest lies in creating work that establishes a discussion within and around the conflicting territories of institutional authority and cultural gentrification. In this regard Kantor’s work investigates the revolutionary and scientific aspects of artistic practices that attempt to surpass the conventional models of creative experience.
    Istvan Kantor is Hungarian-born, Toronto-based artist. Recent and upcoming solo exhibitions include: Monty Cantsin Was Here, Jogja National Museum, Yogyakarta, Indonesia, febr/2011; Made in Estonia, installation, Tallinn, may/2011; Selected works, St.Istvan Museum, Szekesfehervar, Hungary, oct/nov 2011 Upcoming group exhibitions include: Interakcje Festival, Piotrkow, Poland, may/2011; WRO Biennale, Wroclaw, Poland, may/2011

    Istvan Kantor aka Monty Cantsin is also known as a noise/music artist, electro-instrumentalist and singer of the Toronto based Red Armband. He has recorded and released over a dozen albums of songs and noise works since the early 80s.

  • Haute Culture: General Idea — A Retrospective, 1969 – 1994

    Baby Maker 3, 1984-1989, cromogenic print, 76.2 x 63.5 cm. Collection Fonds national d’art contemporain, France. Image courtesy the Estate of General Idea and the Art Gallery of Ontario.
      
     
    July 30, 2011 – January 1, 2012.
    panel discussion: Jackman Hall
    Wednesday, November 16 
    ART GALLERY OF ONTARIO
    317 Dundas Street West,
    Toronto, ON M5T 1G4
    T:416-979-6648
    www.ago.net
    Hours: Tue & Thurs – Sun 10 – 5:30, Wed 10 – 8:30
     
    “This is the story of General Idea and the story of what we wanted. We wanted to be famous, glamorous, and rich. That is to say, we wanted to be artists and we knew that if we were famous and glamorous we could say we were artists and we would be.”
    — General Idea, excerpt from “Glamour,” FILE Magazine, vol. 3, no. 1, fall 1975. 

    The exhibition features 336 works by the groundbreaking multidisciplinary group, including 107 works from the AGO collection, spanning their prolific and influential 25-year career.  
    Curated by Paris-based independent curator Frédéric Bonnet, Haute Culture is the first comprehensive retrospective devoted to General Idea, a collaboration between artists AA Bronson, Felix Partz and Jorge Zontal that began Toronto in 1969. The group’s transgressive concepts and provocative imagery challenged social power structures and traditional modes of artistic creation in ever-shifting ways, until Partz and Zontal’s untimely deaths from AIDS-related causes in 1994.  
    “General Idea is a truly seminal Canadian artist group whose diverse and increasingly influential production warrants deep and comprehensive consideration,” says Matthew Teitelbaum, the AGO’s Michael and Sonja Koerner Director, and CEO. “We are so pleased to mount an exhibition of their work on this large a scale, as I know that our visitors will find their exuberant and exacting vision to be intensely rewarding.” 
    Haute Culture is organized around five themes central to the trio’s production: “the artist, glamour and the creative process”; “mass culture”; “architects/archaeologists”; “sex and reality”; and “AIDS.” In addition to the works on view inside the exhibition, the AGO will install the artists’ two-metre-tall AIDS sculpture at the corner of Dundas West and Beverley streets.  The lacquered metal sculpture, created in 1989, is based on Robert Indiana’s 1970 LOVE sculpture and will be on view throughout the exhibition’s run.
    “Through a prolific creation, General Idea’s body of work reveals a complex combination of reality and fiction, and of parody and rigorous cultural critique,” says Bonnet. “Treating the image as a virus that infiltrates every aspect of the real world, the group set out to colonize it, modify it and so present an alternate version of reality. Their visionary influence has only become more apparent with the passage of time.” 
    Haute Culture was first exhibited at the Musée d’Art moderne de la Ville de Paris, from February 11 to May 29, 2011. The AGO’s presentation of the exhibition is curated by David Moos, the Gallery’s former curator of modern and contemporary art, and Georgiana Uhlyarik, the AGO’s assistant curator of Canadian art.  
    A 224-page hardcover catalogue has been published to coincide with the exhibition. Edited by Bonnet, General Idea features more than 200 colour and black-and-white reproductions and includes contributions from Bonnet, Bronson and Moos, among others. Published by JRP|Ringier and distributed by Distributed Art Publishers, the publication is available at shopAGO for $44. 
     
    Haute Culture: General Idea — A Retrospective, 1969 – 1994 is conceived and organized by the Art Gallery of Ontario in conjunction with the Musée d’Art moderne de la Ville de Paris. The exhibition is generously supported by the Volunteers of the Art Gallery of Ontario, Thomas H. Bjarnason & Woodrow A. Wells and Paul E. Bain & Isa Spalding. Contemporary programming at the AGO is supported by the Canada Council for the Arts.  

    Contemporary programming at the AGO is supported by the Canada Council for the Arts

  • The Square Foot Exhibit


    August 5 – 21, 2011
    TWIST GALLERY
    Preview Gala: Friday, August 5, Tickets: $20
    Public reception. Saturday, August 6.Free, line ups are expected
    1100 Queen St. West
    Toronto, ON  M6J 1H9
    T: 416 – 588 – 2222
    www.twistgallery.ca
    Hours: Wed-Fri 12 – 7pm,  Sat – Sun 12 – 5pm

    Detail from Phil Anderson’s interview with artist/organizer  Nurit Basin:
    The show grew in size, one year I believe it was in 2008 we had over 900 artists and over 2000 pieces of artwork. I think the biggest challenge was communicating with so many artists regarding deadlines of dropping off the artwork, making sure all the artwork is accounted for during the show, and the pick-up of the artwork. At the end of each show we learn new things on how to improve the logistics and apply them to the following year.
    Anderson: What do think is the attraction for the public to go to Square Foot?
    Basin: A couple of things such as the number of artists that take part in the show and the number and variety of works that are exhibited in one room. Once all the artwork in hung it actually starts to look like one big art piece which is the installation itself.
    To read the whole interview please check out our News section

  • JUN KANEKO

    June 30 – September 18, 2011
    GARDINER MUSEUM
    111 Queen’s Park
    Toronto, On M5S 2C7
    Tel:1 416.586.8080
    mail@gardinermuseum.com
    Hours: Mon-Tues 10-6, Fri 10-9, Sat-Sun 10-5pm

    Jun Kaneko (American, born Japan 1942) studied painting in his native Japan as a young man. In 1963, he moved to the United States where he studied ceramics with a number of influential artists from the California School, including Peter Voulkos and Paul Soldner. Although Kaneko is best known for creating large-scale ceramic sculptures and installations, painting has remained an important part of his artistic practice throughout his career. In recent years Kaneko has also branched out to design opera sets and costumes for several productions in Omaha, Atlanta, Philadelphia and Vancouver.

    This exhibition presents a survey of 39 works by Kaneko ranging in date from the early 1980s to the early 2000s. The works in the exhibition include a mix of large and small ceramic sculptures as well as a selection of paintings and drawings. The combination of works in different media emphasizes Kaneko’s strong command of form and colour, and his longstanding interest in optics and perception.

    Jun Kaneko is a traveling exhibition organized by Smith Kramer Fine Art Services for a tour of North America. The Gardiner Museum is the final stop on the tour and the only scheduled Canadian venue for the exhibition.