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Sunday, November 27
12 - 5 pm
Enjoy all the University of Toronto galleries have to offer! Check out four exhibitions on this cross-campus edition of the Contemporary Art Bus Tour. The day kicks off at 12 pm at the Justina M. Barnicke Gallery (7 Hart House Circle) and continues to the University of Toronto Art Centre, before departing at 1 pm to the Blackwood Gallery and DMG. Guided tours will be offered at each venue! No tuition required - it's all FREE! Seats are limited, so reserve yours by contacting the Justina M. Barnicke Gallery at 416.978.8398 or sandy.saad@utoronto.ca by Friday, November 25.
JUSTINA M. BARNICKE GALLERY
Exhibition tour by Sky Goodden, Publications Coordinator, Justina M. Barnicke Gallery
Models for Taking Part
9 September – 11 December 2011
Curated by Juan A. Gaitán
Works by Anetta Mona Chisa & Lucia Tkácová, Bouchra Khalili, Renzo Martens, Tobias Zielony, and Artur Zmijewski
Models for Taking Part assembles media works by international artists Anetta Mona Chisa & Lucia Tkácová (b. Slovakia and Romania), Bouchra Khalili (b. Morocco), Renzo Martens (b. the Netherlands), Tobias Zielony (b. Germany), and Artur Zmijewski (b. Poland). The artists' provocative works critically interpret the public sphere as both an idea and ideal that intersects uneasily with factional and even personal interests. The exhibition presents models of participation in which the idealized marriage between democracy and the public sphere becomes fraught with incongruity, at times appearing unsustainable.
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO ART CENTRE
Exhibition tour by Dr. Niamh O'Laoghaire, Director, University of Toronto Art Centre
Angela Grauerholz. The inexhaustible image ... épuiser l'image
6 September - 26 November 2011
Curated by Martha Hanna
Organized by the Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, an affiliate of the National Gallery of Canada
Angela Grauerholz: The inexhaustible image ... épuiser l'image is a significant retrospective of the work of an important Canadian artist. The exhibition reveals how Grauerholz broadens our consideration of the medium of photography. Grauerholz expands our understanding of photography in the ways she uses it to engage with feminism, Conceptual art, and photography's relationship with time. Grauerholz invites the viewer to travel with her on a journey of discovery. Our viewpoint is aligned metaphorically with the photographer's, whether looking outward from interior spaces, or focused on our shared experience of urban and natural landscapes. Our engagement with the exhibition's multimedia installations and navigation through the artist's website echoes our collective experience of the past, photography, and public collections.
BLACKWOOD GALLERY, U of T MISSISSAUGA
Exhibition tour by curators Ben Donoghue and Heather Keung
Lost Secrets of the Royal
9 November - 11 December 2011
Curated by Ben Donoghue and Heather Keung
Blackwood Gallery: Daïchi Saïto and Cindy Mochizuki
A Space Gallery: Louise Noguchi and soJin Chun
The Lost Secrets of the Royal project is a commissioning initiative of the Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto (LIFT) and the Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival, working with four new installations by Cindy Mochizuki, Daïchi Saïto, soJin Chun, and Louise Noguchi. The discussions leading to this project originate with Colin Geddes's donation of an archive of incomplete and decaying 35mm Hong Kong films salvaged from the basement of what is now Toronto's Royal Cinema. The only stipulation for Geddes's donation of this trove of orphaned reels was that they became the source for remaking, transforming, and plundering new works.
The collection includes period dramas, comedies, martial arts, and pink films. All the prints in the collection are incomplete and in various stages of decay and discolouration. Artists were invited to produce new works that could challenge the source material and break with overtly didactic collage-based composition. Emerging from this are four projects by contemporary Asian-Canadian artists that challenge cinematic narrative, locational identity, movement, and technologies.
DORIS MCCARTHY GALLERY, U of T SCARBOROUGH
Exhibition tour by Ann MacDonald, Director/Curator, Doris McCarthy Gallery
Moment
16 November 2011 – 28 January 2012
Curated by Astrid Bastin and Maria Iovino
Work by Beatriz Olano and Magdalena Fernández
In this exhibition, curators Maria Iovino and Astrid Bastin pair the work of two artists working with geometric abstraction, a genre in Latin American art that has not been fully explored in a public forum. While contemporary art audiences tend to be familiar with work that overtly addresses the continent's social issues, the artists in Moment use a more oblique approach to present alternative ways of thinking about these conditions. Beatriz Olano's work broadens notions of structure, extending the confines of spaces where she situates her projects with minimum, precise traces. In her work, Magdalena Fernández recognizes the universal connection between geometry and nature, a trajectory she shares with Piet Mondrian and Hélio Oiticica, among others. Moment articulates the ideas of Olano and Fernández in a site-specific project at the Doris McCarthy Gallery. Nature and artifice intermingle, freeing perception in a game of geometries that transforms the gallery while bringing out its particular characteristics.
JUSTINA M. BARNICKE GALLERY
7 Hart House Circle
Toronto, ON M5S 3H3
(416) 978-8398
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO ART CENTRE
15 Kings College Circle
Toronto, ON M5S 3H7
(416) 978-1838
BLACKWOOD GALLERY
University of Toronto Mississauga
3359 Mississauga Rd. North
Mississauga ON L5L 1C6
905.828.3789
DORIS McCARTHY GALLERY
University of Toronto Scarborough
1265 Military Trail
Toronto ON M1C 1A4
416.287.7007
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