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  • ART TORONTO 2011

    Photo: Mauricio Contreras-Paredes

    Photo: Katherine Porter

    Ross Bell, Strip Cube, 2009-11. Georgia Scherman Projects. Photo: Mauricio Contreras-Paredes

    The 12th Toronto International Art Fair got off to a great start last evening (Thursday, Oct. 27) with the fundraiser gala for the AGO. The Art Gallery of Ontario in turn used the monies raised to add several pieces to its collection. All the galleries I talked to seemed to be thrilled at the success already of the Fair. Gallery owner Carrie Secrist of  the Carrie Secrist Gallery of Chicago said it was their first time at the fair and they had already sold over thirty small works . This was her first Toronto Fair and she has done many other art fairs and was pleased with the Toronto response to her artists.

    Angelo Musco at Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago. Photo: Mauricio Contreras-Paredes

    One of the unique offerings this year is the addition of the Next booths. These are for smaller up and coming galleries with works priced lower and artists who had not established themselves. Most of these young galleries were from Quebec and Toronto and paid roughly $6000 to get their booth. Artist Charlie Jones from L.A. has some colourful works in the exhibition. The printing making gallery, Open Studio was at the fair as was The Red Head Gallery a Toronto Co-op  gallery. MOCCA had sold out their Ed Burtynsky  Print Edition (sold all 25 prints) Dryland  Farming #13 as a benefit for MOCCA Programming. Canadian Art  Magazine’s Editor, Richard Rhodes had curated three special exhibitions for the Fair. The works will be changed in the space over a period of a day or two.

    Ed Burtynsky,  Dryland  Farming #13 Print Edition (sold all 25 prints)

    Another addition this year is a video screening room with 15 Canadian and international video titles being screened continuously in a loop. With the expansion of the actual space on the floor of the Convention centre (they have now section C as well as A & B) this allowed the Fair to display sculpture & installation in their OPEN SPACE section. Most of the works are from Toronto galleries but this is a great addition as well to the Fair. The Art Game by Kent Monkman is part installation part performance with a little tongue in cheek look at the art world. It was definitely worth waiting to catch this performance. There is so much to see you need more than a few hours to take it all in.

    Kent Monkman, The Art Game. Photo: Katherine Porter

    Director of the Fair, Linel Rebenchuk had reason to be happy with the opening success of the Fair. Wear some comfortable shoes and prepare to be amazed.

    Director of the Fair, Linel Rebenchuk. Photo: Mauricio Contreras-Paredes

    Photo: Mauricio Contreras-Paredes

    Photo: Mauricio Contreras-Paredes

    Derek Liddington, ( Part of Open Space ) Daniel Faria Gallery, Toronto. Photo:Phil Anderson

    Solo Artist Project: Larry Kagan at Lonsdale Gallery, Toronto.  Photo:Phil Anderson

    Andrew Smith, Galerie Dominique Bouffard, Montreal.  Photo:Phil Anderson

    Andy Warhol, BMW M1, 1979. BMW Art Car. Photo: Mauricio Contreras-Paredes

    Chuck Close, Roy, 2009; Alex, 1992. Galerie De Bellefeuille, Westmount. Photo: Mauricio Contreras-Paredes

    Evan Penny, Old Self, Variation #2, 2011. TrépanierBaer Gallery, Calgary. Photo: Katherine Porter

    Julie Blackmon at Catherine Edelman Gallery, Chicago

    Left: John Massey, Casa 1, Malaparte, 2010/11. Georgia Scherman Projects, Toronto. Photo: Mauricio Contreras-Paredes

    Markus Linnenbrink, EVERYWHEREALLTHETIMEEVERYTHING, 2009. ftc. Berlin.Photo: Mauricio Contreras-Paredes

    Kathy Kissik, Chaos in London, 2008. The Elaine Fleck Gallery, Toronto. Photo: Mauricio Contreras-Paredes

    Dean Project, New York. Photo: Mauricio Contreras-Paredes

    Solo Artist Project: Attila Richard Lukacs, Installation. Windsor Gallery, Vancouver. Photo: Mauricio Contreras-Paredes

    418 Contemporary Art Gallery, Bucharest, Romania.Photo: Mauricio Contreras-Paredes

    Jonathan Cooper, London UK. Photo: Mauricio Contreras-Paredes

    Mike Weiss Gallery, Kim Dorland,Cabin, 2009-2011, New York. Photo: Katherine Porter

    The Collage workshop. Photo: Katherine Porter

    Art Gallery of York University. Photo: Katherine Porter

    Photo: Mauricio Contreras-Paredes

    Photo: Mauricio Contreras-Paredes

    Photo: Mauricio Contreras-Paredes

    Photo: Mauricio Contreras-Paredes

    Text: Phil Anderson

  • Get Contemporary

    Saturday, October 5, 6 – 10pm
    The Hoxton
    69 Bathurst St., Toronto

    On Wednesday October 5th, the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art (MOCCA) celebrated the launch of its new advertising campaign at Toronto hot spot, The Hoxton. The new campaign — created by Cossette with Mark Zibert — presents a vibrant, engaging, and visually simplistic celebration of the human form. In a series of photographs and video installations, the beautiful subtleties of human interactions become visible through the uniform application of colour. Individuals drenched in pepto-bismol-like-pink paint perform simple actions like holding hands or hugging which, against a stark white background, creates an effect that is visually simplistic, satisfying, and oh so very contemporary.

    Text and Photo: Katherine Porter

  • Nuit Blanche 2011

    Saturday, October 1, 6:59pm – 7.00am

    From sunset on Saturday, October 1, to sunrise on Sunday, October 2, 2011, Toronto celebrated its 6th annual all-night contemporary art festival, Scotiabank Nuit Blanche, displaying over 130 works created by local, national and international artists.

    Zone A

    Karen Henderson, Slow Falls Rising, 2011. Photo: Phil Anderson

    AES + F, The Feast of Trimalchio, 2009-11. Photo: Mauricio Contreras-Paredes

    AES + F, The Feast of Trimalchio, 2009-11. Photo: Phil Anderson

    Sam Durant, Electric Signs, 2002, 2008. Photo: Phil Anderson

    Richard Purdy, L’écho-l’eau, 2011. Photo: Phil Anderson

    Althea Thauberger, The Police Station, 2011. Photo: Mauricio Contreras-Paredes

    Jessica Rose, A City Sleepover, 2011. Photo: Katherine Porter

    Jessica Rose, A City Sleepover, 2011. Photo: Katherine Porter

    Zone B

    Usman Haque and Natalie Jeremijenko, Flightpath Toronto, 2011. Photo: Mauricio Contreras-Paredes

    Usman Haque and Natalie Jeremijenko, Flightpath Toronto, 2011. Photo: Mauricio Contreras-Paredes

    Usman Haque and Natalie Jeremijenko, Flightpath Toronto, 2011. Photo: Adrian Oosterman

    GUILD, Through the Gorilla Glass, 2011. Photo: Mauricio Contreras-Paredes

    GUILD, Through the Gorilla Glass, 2011. Photo: Adrian Oosterman

    Christine Irving and Interactive Art, The Heart Machine, 2010. Photo: Mauricio Contreras-Paredes

    Christine Irving and Interactive Art, The Heart Machine, 2010. Photo: Mauricio Contreras-Paredes

    Anthony Swan, Hillary Predko, Maihyet Burton, Denis Taman Bradette, The St. James Circus. Photo: Mauricio Contreras-Paredes

    Jean-François Bouchard, Still Life. Photo: Phil Anderson

    Zone C

    Jeremy Jansen and Niall McClelland, Barricades, 2011. Photo: Mauricio Contreras-Paredes

    Jeremy Jansen and Niall McClelland, Barricades, 2011. Photo: Mauricio Contreras-Paredes

    Jeremy Jansen and Niall McClelland, Barricades, 2011. Photo: Adrian Oosterman

    LEITMOTIF: Cubes, group exhibition. Photo: Phil Anderson

    Funhouse, group exhibition. Photo: Katherine Porter

    Text: Michelle Lun

  • Gallery Hop / Evening Magazine Launch

    Saturday, September 24, 5;30 – 7:30
    CANADIAN ART FALL ISSUE

    On the evening of Saturday 24th 2011, the Canadian Art Foundation’s 16th Annual Gallery Hop wasn’t the only thing worth celebrating in Toronto. That same evening, Canadian Art Magazine celebrated the launch of its fall issue and 25 years in production.

    Mark Glassman of Pages Bookstore (now closed) in centre. Photo:Mauricio Contreras-Paredes

    John Bentley Mays, art writer in the right Photo:Mauricio Contreras-Paredes

     Photo:Mauricio Contreras-Paredes

    The evening was hosted at Monte Clark Gallery, of the historic Distillery District, who also celebrates its 10th year in Toronto. The gallery currently shows the group exhibition Capture, which includes works by artists like Scott McFarland, Alison Yip, and Jeff Wall.

    Photo:Katherine Porter

    Photo:Katherine Porter

    Photo:Mauricio Contreras-Paredes

    Text: Katherine Porter

  • Gallery Hop, Panel discussion

    Panel artists Jed Lind, Sarah Anne Johnson, An Te Liu and Rick Rhodes, editor of Canadian Art (from left to right). Photo:Katherine Porter

    Tiff Bell Lightbox

    Marvel, excitement, and pride filled the voice of Rick Rhodes, editor of Canadian Art magazine, as he presented the theme of last Saturday’s Gallery Hop Panel Discussion: Location3 (Location, Location, Location). As he introduced the Canadian Art Foundation’s 16th annual ‘Hop’, Rhodes suggested that Location be understood both as an indication of progress and as an equation. As the Saturday panel graduates from the unpainted dry wall and exposed electrical of Queen West’s pre-restored Gladstone Hotel to the Tiff-Bell Lightbox, we recognize its progress.

    Panel artists Jed Lind, Sarah Anne Johnson, An Te Liu (from left to right)Photo:Mauricio Contreras-Paredes

    By pointing to the mysterious worlds of math and science in a subtle pun, Location3 also refers directly to ideas of place and place-less-ness as an equation that is integral to Art (especially in Canada). On the panel, artists Jed Lind, An Te Liu, and Sarah Anne Johnson spoke to the diversity of ways in which location has informed their work.

    Sarah Anne Johnson’s presentation. Photo:Katherine Porter

    An Te Liu negotiated culturally coded notions of place, non-place and place-ness-less, Johnson spoke of her need to inject bleak documentary-style photography with personality, story, and emotion,

    Sarah Anne Johnson:Ripple, 2011 Photo:Mauricio Contreras-Paredes

    and Jed Lind spoke to his fascination with location as a perpetual product of dislocation.

    Jed Lind’s presentation Photo:Katherine Porter

    The result was a (free!) intellectual and visual feast for Canadian art enthusiasts, that promises and exciting event for years to come.

    Photo:Mauricio Contreras-Paredes

    Text by Katherine Porter