Category: LISTING ARCHIVE

Robert Motherwell (American 1915-1991): The Three Clowns, 1945, Gouache and ink on paper, 28.6 x 36.8 cm. Purchased with funds from an Anonymous Donor, with support from the Dedalus Foundation, 1998   98/79 ©Estate of Robert Motherwell

June 25 – December 11, 2011
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

 The Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO)  continues to celebrate the Abstract Expressionist movement with an exhibition of drawings by Robert Motherwell. Painting on Paper: The Drawings of Robert Motherwell, on view showcases 55 works from the AGO collection, which houses one of the largest public holdings of drawings by Motherwell.

“This exhibition gives visitors the opportunity to explore the mind and works of Motherwell, an eloquent and passionate Abstract Expressionist,” says Mathew Teitelbaum, the AGO’s Michael and Sonja Koerner Director and CEO. “Painting on Paper enriches the Abstract Expressionist New York experience at the AGO, giving visitors an in-depth look at the artistic process and evolution of one of the movement’s major figures.”

Curated by Brenda Rix, the AGO’s assistant curator of prints and drawings, Painting on Paper demonstrates how Motherwell’s motifs were imagined, refined and revisited over the span of his career by organizing the collection into several major chronological themes, ranging from the 1940s to the 1970s. The works on display were selected primarily from 74 drawings and paintings by Motherwell acquired by the AGO in 1998.

Painting on Paper: The Drawings of Robert Motherwell is generously supported by The Dedalus Foundation. Abstract Expressionist New York: Masterpieces from The Museum of Modern Art is organized by The Museum of Modern Art, New York. National Bank and Metropia are supporting sponsors of the exhibition.

July 28 – September 14, 2011
Opening : Thursday July 28,  7- 10 pm.
LAUSBERG CONTEMPORARY
326 Dundas Street West
Toronto, Ontario M5T 1G5
T: 416-516-4440
E: toronto@galerie-lausberrg.com
www.galerie-lausberg.com
Hours: Tues-Sun 12–6 or by appointment

Meyer’s paintings are both poetic and haunting. His subjects stare out from their expansive canvas, engaging the viewer in silent conversation. Meyer’s works are a profound study of the human condition, executed with painterly eloquence.   In the coming days, expect to receive an invitation to our upcoming exhibition of Meyer’s work at our Toronto location.

We are pleased to announce the launch of a brand new catalogue of Harding Meyer’s latest works. The 72-page catalogue includes texts by Philipp Holstein and Leonie Schilling. The cost for the catalogue is $38 CDN plus applicable taxes and shipping/postage.

June 6 – November 27, 2011
Opening: Monday, June 6, 2011 – 6:30pm 
Istituto Italiano di Cultura
496, Huron Street,
Toronto, ON 
T: 416-921-3802 ext. 221 
Hours: Mon – Fri  2:30 – 4:30pm  

The Italian Cultural Institute is proud to present Padiglione Italia in the World at the 54th International Art Exhibition of the Venice Biennale. On display works by Tony Calzetta, Vincenzo Pietropaolo, Francesca Vivenza. Opening remarks by the Consul General of Italy, Gianni Bardini.

To celebrate the 150th anniversary of the Unification of Italy, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry for Cultural Heritage and Activities have launched a special event. For the first time ever the Padiglione Italia at the 54th International Art Exhibition of the Venice Biennale has been extended over the national boundaries to include the Italian Cultural Institutes in the world.

The aim of the project, which has been devised by Vittorio Sgarbi, art director of Padiglione Italia, is to map out Italian creativity abroad. Each Institute has elected a number of Italian artists or artists of Italian descent living and working in its own jurisdiction, active in various disciplines, from painting to sculpture, photography, video, design, graphics. Over 400 artists’ portfolios have been submitted to a special commission made up of art historians and critics and chaired by Vittorio Sgarbi and 219 have been chosen.

The artists selected for Toronto are Tony Calzetta, Vincenzo Pietropaolo, Francesca Vivenza.

A collective exhibition of their works will be on display from June 6 until the end of the Venice Biennale, November 27 at the Institute. The exhibition has been filmed in a video which will be screened at the Padiglione Italia on a multimedia installation created by Benedetta Miralles Tagliabue. The accompanying music, “Da Pitagora e oltre”, has been composed for the occasion by Ennio Morricone. The exhibition has been curated by Adriana Frisenna (IIC Acting Director) and Corrado De Luca, (from De Luca Fine Art Gallery: www.delucafineart.com).
A special bilingual catalogue edited by Skira and curated by Francesca Valente (project coordinator) will accompany the exhibition. 

BIOS:

Tony Calzetta 
Over the last 30 years, since graduating from York University with an M.F.A., Tony Calzetta has exhibited continually in solo and group exhibitions. He works mainly on canvas and paper and occasional in the areas of sculpture and printmaking. He published two major livres d’artiste, Acts of Kindness and of Love in collaboration with writer John Metcalf, and more recently How God Talks In His Sleep and Other Fabulous Fictions with writer Leon Rooke. In addition to commissioned works he is represented in public and private collections in Canada, U.S. and Europe and in 2004 was elected as a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts (R.C.A.). 
www.artishell.com/calzetta 

Vincenzo Pietropaolo is an independent documentary photographer who lives and works in Toronto. He is internationally best known for his empathetic social documentary photo essays on immigration, work, and labour movement. He has published 8 photographic books, among which Making Home in Havana, Not Paved with Gold and Harvest Pilgrims. His latest large documentary project, Invisible No More (Rutgers University Press, 2010), deals with Canadians with intellectual disabilities.
www.delucafineart.com

Francesca Vivenza graduated at the Academy of Fine Arts of Brera, Milan, Italy. Vivenza has been living and working in Toronto since1970, and has exhibited since 1966. Her practice consists of mixed-media works, which include book-works, cut-out collages and site-specific installations, that she calls Tentative Itineraries. Vivenza addresses themes of travel, distance, disorientation, and questions the stability of taken-for-granted sites of personal identity as home, nation and native language
www.francescavivenza.com  

In collaboration with: Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs; the Venice Biennale

July 18 – August 7, 2011
Opening: July 22,  6 – 9pm
Artist Talk: July 22 at 7:30pm
THE RED HEAD GALLERY
401 Richmond St. W., Suite 115.
Toronto, ON M5V 3A8
T:  416 504-5654.
Email: art@redheadgallery.org.
www.redheadgallery.org.
Hours: Wed – Sa. 12 – 5 pm.

Dialogues on Uncertainty is a series of drawings that examines poetics of survival. Stability as a state of our ‘supposed’ well-being and success no longer exists in the contemporary world: space and time, place and non-place, clash through speed, only to be replaced by notions of adaptability and fluidity.

Referencing a contemporary experience of travel, mobility, and diasporas, this series focuses on materialising trajectories rather than destinations. Replacing the paintbrush, a miniature car drives automatically over Atlas—a classically painted human vertebra—through the duration of each phone-call. Taking the form of a journey, the disoriented trace the vehicle leaves behind underlines the nature of life in the dialogues created between space and place, here and there, past and future. Mapping time itself, these traces remain a course, a wandering, in the struggle to be positioned.

This exhibition is presented in conjunction with the Museum of Canadian Contemporary Art’s “This is Paradise.”

Celia Krampien: Hounds

July 20-31, 2011
Opening: Thursday July 21,  7-10pm
GALLERY 1313
1313 QUEEN STREET WEST,
TORONTO, ON M6K 1K8
T: 416 – 536-6778
E mail: director@g1313.org
www.gallery13131.org
Hours: Wed – Sun 1- 6

Main Gallery : THE SPACE BETWEEN

 
Death and the Nightingale

Group exhibition with works from Celia
Krampien , Danielle Storey , Kailey Lang and Rachel Idzerda.

Their work attempts to show what exists between people to explain the dynamica of these
specific relationships.

Process Gallery:  DRAPED NUDE photographs by Bill Filiou 

 He has been influenced by photographs of Edward Weston, Newton and others. a
professional photographer by trade he prints his own work and shoots in
both digital and film .

Cell Gallery: Group exhibition -Works by Members of Gallery 1313

Gerry Richards, Michelle Montague, Lesley Harries-Jones, Paul Brandjs, Joanne Maikawa and Diana Dixon.

Window Box Gallery: Come Play with Us, Danny.  Tapestry by Brette Gabel curated by Xenia

Brette Gabel is a not so recent graduate of the University of Regina. While avoiding schoolwork Brette began embroidering, quilting and watching horror movies. Following school, Brette moved to Toronto where she participated in the Toronto School of Art’s Independent Studio Program. After which she became a contributing member to the White House Studio. Currently Brette is researching farming accidents, taxidermy and organizing alternative community interventions. Brette’s work strives to connect love, fear, heartache and the grotesque with craft and social interventions

Algoma #2, 1977, acrylic on canvas, 47” x 61″

June 25 – August 31, 2011
CHRISTOPHER CUTTS GALLERY
21 Morrow Avenue,
Toronto ON. M6R 2H9
T: 416 532 5566
info@cuttsgallery.com
www.cuttsgallery.com
Hours: Tues – Sat. 11-6, until Saturday July 30th
by appointment only August 1 – 31, 2011

“The paintings in this show remind me of Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns’ work except Burton’s are more text based. They share an anomalous position in my mind as not quite ‘Pop Art’ yet vital in their Dadaistic ‘clawing back’ meaning from the excesses of Abstract Expressionist theory. Burton’s words have a humanity that reaches out, as in his painting Six Questions, which ends in an expression of love for … perhaps the viewer. In Stripe Streak he plays with meaning and action ironically. The self-importance of post painterly abstraction is gently and humorously debunked.”, wrote Ashley Johnson in his article (www.artoronto.ca features).

Photo: Sue Douce

July 28, 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 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 bottle of water or a beer or two, 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.

July 20 – July 31, 2011
Opening reception (by invitation): Friday, July 22, 6 – 9pm
Closing party (by invitation): Thursday, July 28, 6 – 9pm
Propeller Centre for Visual Arts
984 Queen St. W.
T:416 504 7142
www.propellerctr.com
rejected@torontorejects.com
Hours: Fri – Sat 12 – 6, Sun 12-5pm

Last year, the Toronto Complaints Choir, produced as part of the 2010-2011 World Stage season at Harbourfront Centre, collected over 1000 grievances, gripes, and annoyances from people across the city. The choir transformed these troubles into a siren song for the disenchanted. For twelve days in July, Bruce Mau Design (BMD) will work to do something about it.

Our pop-up studio, working in real-time in the Propeller Centre for the Visual Arts, will design solutions in response to the complaints. A book of these ideas will be simultaneously designed, and then given away throughout this city we love.

BMD’s Bureau of Doing Something About It is being led by studio designers Amanda Happé, Chris Braden, Kar Yan Cheung, Michal Dudek, and Paul Kawai.

Incident on rue Roy, Montréal, 1966Copyright:© George S. Zimbel / Courtesy of Stephen Bulger Gallery

July 21 – September 17, 2011
Opening: Thursday, July 21, 5-9pm
Artist Talk: Saturday, July 23, 2pm. RSVP as seating is limited.
STEPHEN BULGER GALLERY
1026 Queen Street West
Toronto, Ontario M6J 1H6
T: 416.504.0575
E: info@bulgergallery.com
www.bulgergallery.com

 “A lot goes into a finished documentary photograph: a very personal view of life, a knowledge of technique, and of course information. It is the information that grabs the viewer, but it is the photographer’s art that holds them” George S. Zimbel

 The gallery is pleased to present its second exhibition by the acclaimed photographer George S. Zimbel, which concentrates on his wonderful depictions of childhood taken over a period of seven decades.

 An alumnus of Columbia University, the Photo League and the Alexey Brodovitch Seminar, Zimbel (b. Woburn, Mass. 1929) honed his craft in New York City, working for national magazines (Look, The New York Times, Redbook, Parents, Architectural Forum, etc.). Parallel to assignments he was always at work on self – initiated projects. These included diverse subjects such as 1950s European photographs, readers from libraries to submarines, politics in the U.S. and Canada, Marilyn Monroe in The Seven Year Itch, and the ongoing chronicle of his family. For decades, Zimbel has displayed an uncanny ability to take quintessential photographs depicting our life and times.

 The Zimbels left the United States and operated Bona Fide Farm on Prince Edward Island from1971-1980. After moving to Montréal in 1980, Zimbel has been printing and exhibiting from his extensive archive and has had many solo exhibitions at galleries and museums around the world. In 2000, he was honoured with the largest photography exhibit ever shown at Institut Valencià d’Art Modern in Spain, accompanied by a major catalogue. In 2001, Zimbel was given the Lifetime Achievement Award of Canadian Photographers in Communications and was short listed for the Roloff  Beny Award for best Canadian photographic book. In 2004, Zimbel had a retrospective exhibition at Confederation Centre Museum and later that year he had a major presence in the Marilyn Monroe exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum. He was subsequently featured in the PBS American Master’s production “Marilyn Monroe: Still Life.” In 2005, Zimbel had a retrospective exhibition at the Canadian Embassy in Tokyo and the Owens Art Gallery at Mount Allison University followed by the publication of his book Bourbon Street New Orleans 1955. In 2006, he was inducted into the Royal Canadian Academy of Art.