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David Armstrong Six’s anti–form fit installation The Dry Salvages took over
Parisian Laundry’s idiosyncratic back gallery, which is known as the Bunker—
a raw, windowless concrete box accessed via a subterranean passageway.
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Glittering, seductive and mystical: crystals and mirrors are the loci of Jason
de Haan’s remarkably focused freshman exhibition with Toronto’s Clint
Roenisch.
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“Under the paving stones the beach!” So goes the slogan from Paris in May
1968: dismantle civilization and you will find paradise. For her show at Susan
Hobbs Gallery, Krista Buecking looks at the brick as a trope of cultural upheaval,
in the process suggesting a way to understand the political uncertainties of
our time.
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What would time’s face look like if it had one? A literal example might be an
analog clock; a more symbolic one might be hoary-bearded Father Time. “The
Surgeon and the Photographer,” Geoffrey Farmer’s latest exhibition at
Catriona Jeffries, gives us neither.
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Scott Rogers pays homage to Mel Bochner’s
Measurement Room (1969), with his own work, Wireframe: an installation that demarcates the physical dimensions
of Stride Gallery, this time as photoluminescent outlines.
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Micah Lexier’s I AM THE COIN fills the BMO Project Room’s main wall with
a grid of 20,000 custom-minted coins. It’s an impressive sight: light shimmers
over the coins, the reflections shifting as you move around, and little circles
of light are scattered throughout the room.
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The work of Judy Radul often troubles the process of how one comes to think of one thing as true and another false.
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Jordan Broadworth’s paintings remind me of the afterimages one experiences when glimpsing illuminated signage in the urban landscape.
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In recent years, re-enactment, in various guises, has become rich terrain for artists and exhibition-makers alike.
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The 63 works on display in Francine Savard’s mid-career retrospective, curated by Lesley Johnstone, express intellectual and philosophical concepts with refined, graphic precision.
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The world that we are confronted with on a daily basis is a complex, multi-layered chaos that is continually flexing and moving.
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Françoise Sullivan succinctly summed up Quebec’s mid-20th-century revolution in the arts as follows...
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The title of Tricia Middleton’s installation at the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal is adapted from Nikolai Gogol’s novel Dead Souls.
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Steve Higgins is a man of the city; Ihor Holubizky, curator of this exhibition, calls him an astute “observer/flâneur.”
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The French-Moroccan Montrealer 2Fik is a gender-bending activist and self-taught photographer who considers his debut exhibition, held at Galerie [sas], to be his coming-out as a visual artist.
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Free exhibition at the Power Plant highlights our nation’s emerging painting stars
Award in Portrait Photography category recognizes Donald Weber's artist project in the Fall 2010 issue
More than 300 GTA teens enjoy free downtown-Toronto gallery talks during this fall’s School Hop
In 2010, at the age of 35, Toronto artist/DJ/promoter/activist Will Munro succumbed to brain cancer. Here, David Balzer reviews the first big survey of Munro’s work, which makes apparent how talented, prolific and perceptive this creator was.
The Dulwich Picture Gallery’s recent Group of Seven show was one of the UK museum’s biggest hits ever, drawing 41,000 visitors. The attention was deserved, writes Sarah Milroy, as the exhibition offered new insights even to seasoned Canadian-art observers.
The Occupy movement has galvanized the way we think about haves and have-nots. But where do artists fit in? As Joseph R. Wolin observes in this review of David Altmejd’s show at the Brant Foundation, context can be as powerful as content in determining the split.
What happens to identity when our relationship to land and language is disrupted? This is a key question raised in “A Stake in the Ground,” an exhibition of works by 25 First Nations artists, curated by Nadia Myre, that’s currently at Montreal gallery Art Mûr.
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