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A guide to the best exhibitions and events in the visual arts
“In our digitally decentred world, veracity, or what is real, is the nagging question and it’s the theme of the 2009 edition of CAFKA. This year’s festival features Max Streicher’s 10-metre-long Dung Beetle in City Hall’s Rotunda Gallery, while Pipilotti Rist’s video Open My Glade (Flatten) is projected onto the City Hall tower itself. There are also new works by the Graffiti Research Lab, David Hoffos, Andrew Hunter and others. Now in its seventh incarnation, CAFKA has built a reputation for bringing cutting-edge contemporary art to the Kitchener region.”
Gordon Hatt is Executive Director of Contemporary Art Forum Kitchener + Area. CAFKA 09 runs from Sept. 18 to Oct. 4 at Kitchener City Hall and various locations.
The Vancouver-based artist refashions salvaged building materials into an immersive, pleasingly provisional architectural environment. To Oct. 10. Red Bull 381 Projects, 381 Queen St. W.
Local designers venture beyond fashion’s “aspirational nature” with clothing focused on sustainability and special needs. Opening Oct. 24. OCAD Professional Gallery, 100 McCaul St.
Breitz mines the uneasy intersection of performance, identity and pop culture in this survey, which features a new video commission. Sept. 19 to Nov. 15. The Power Plant, 231 Queens Quay W.
“Medium Close Up” features photorealist paintings that harness the machismo of American films like Rear Window and Easy Rider. Until Oct. 10. Paul Petro Contemporary Art, 980 Queen St. W.
More than 200 images from the celebrity and fashion photographer’s early career make a case for Steichen’s lasting influence. From Sept. 26. Art Gallery of Ontario, 317 Dundas St. W.
Artists and curators reposition notions of First Nations identity in the latest instalment of Renwick’s photo-portrait series Masks. Nov. 21 to Dec. 19. Leo Kamen Gallery, 406–80 Spadina Ave.
The muted colours and dramatic landscapes of Dieppe evoke absent figures and histories in “Caux.” To Nov. 22. Oakville Galleries, 120 Navy St.
Toronto-inspired films by Lewis, including the Cold Morning trilogy, which debuted at the Venice Biennale, are featured at the Justina M. Barnicke Gallery. New and recent works are at Clark & Faria and the Art Gallery of Ontario concurrently. Until Oct. 26/to Oct. 10/until Jan. 3. 7 Hart House Circle/55 Mill St./317 Dundas St. W.
A major retrospective attests to the Hungary-born photographer’s 50-year engagement with documentation and the urban landscape. Co-organized with the Musée d’art de Joliette, the show highlights Montreal cityscapes alongside provocative European street photographs. Opens Oct. 9. Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, 380 Sussex Dr., Ottawa.
The annual art extravaganza once again spills into public spaces and art venues across the city centre for a dusk-to-dawn display of projects curated by Thom Sokoloski, Gregory Elgstrand, Makiko Hara, Jim Drobnick and Jennifer Fisher. Oct. 3 only. Various downtown locations.
The effects of displacement, migration and gentrification on the German city of Berlin prompt creative interventions by 11 European practitioners in an exhibition curated by the Canadian artist Germaine Koh. Opening Sept. 18. Kitchener- Waterloo Art Gallery, 101 Queen St. N.
Artworks, media reportage and first-person accounts critically unpack the “war on terror” in Afghanistan and the shifting optics of conflict both on the battlefield and on the home front. From Oct. 24 to Nov. 21. Gallery TPW, 56 Ossington Ave.
”In the Likeness of the Earth” is the subtitle of this group show honouring three generations of Cape Dorset artists—such as Shuvinai Ashoona and Annie Pootoogook—whose drawings and sculptures double as ephemeral mapping devices. From October 10. McMichael Canadian Art Collection, 10365 Islington Ave., Kleinburg.
Illuminating the normally unseen activity inside a beehive is the goal of “Collaborating in the Darkness,” a series of abstract, cameraless images made by Aganetha Dyck and her photographer son, Richard. On view to Sept. 26. Michael Gibson Gallery, 157 Carling St., London.
Full talks and tours schedule, Douglas Coupland conversation info, and magazine launch details posted for free day of activities
Applications due May 9 for $55,000 in prizes
Free art tours for high-school students to take place in April and May
New writers on contemporary art encouraged to apply by June 1
Dates already set for next year’s Toronto festival
Applications for this $7,000 student award are due April 6
Event to feature a conversation with Douglas Coupland, gallery tours, a magazine launch and more
Films on Shary Boyle, Elmgreen & Dragset, Michel de Broin and Jon Gnarr set to open the festival on March 22
Opening-night celebration and art-industry talks highlight fifth year of fair
Don’t miss the North American premieres of films on Candida Höfer and Thomas Struth, happening February 23
The 85-year-old artist Arnaud Maggs nudged out Fred Herzog and Alain Paiement as winner of the second annual Scotiabank Photography Award, announced last night in Toronto. This $50,000 win follows the opening of a major Maggs survey at the National Gallery of Canada.
As one of the primary exhibitions for Contact 2012, “Public: Collective Identity | Occupied Spaces” is ambitious. Charlene K. Lau observes that the two-venue show mirrors the fractures of contemporary life: public and private, visible and invisible, place and non-place.
In this review, writer and artist Joni Murphy considers Abbas Akhavan’s current solo show in Montreal, which activates a variety of themes—war and art, destruction and nation building, human and animal—with a distinctively light touch.
Melding William Morris-style ornamentation with more contemporary concerns, artist Luke Painter detours around dry academicism for something more vibrant and visceral. Mariam Nader reviews his current Toronto show at LE Gallery, finding depth in decoration.
Frieze opened its first New York edition last week with some surprising highlights: sculptures that were free for public viewing outside the big commercial tent. Canadian Art art director Barbara Solowan was there, and brought back this slideshow.
