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One of the central assumptions in Western culture is the concept of identity and individualism. We have built legal edifices to individual human rights, entrenching the idea...
Psychoanalysis and art discourse have had a long and storied relationship. While the meeting of the two is best known to art audiences through the pioneering work...
In reference to earlier work, Liz Magor has spoken of an “aggressive offer.” The description fits with what she showed in “I is being This” at Catriona...
Luc Paradis has been a well-known figure in the Montreal art scene for nearly a decade. He’s shown work widely in the city’s alternative art spaces, designed...
Massimiliano Gioni has had a hand in making some impressive exhibitions. He was part of the team—with Ali Subotnick and Maurizio Cattelan—behind the 2006 Berlin Biennial, “Of...
The work of artist Andrew Wright can be a bit confounding—in a good way. Over the past decade and a half, the Ottawa-based artist has conducted photographic...
In the preparatory notes for his recent exhibition “Waiting for the Barbarians (The Realia Series)” at Galerie Antoine Ertaskiran, Costa Rica–born, Montreal-based artist Juan Ortiz-Apuy describes his...
Getting to “Safar/Voyage” is a journey in itself. First, there is the winding ride to UBC’s bucolic, suburban-feeling campus. Then, the walk into what recent signage tells you...
Kenneth Parcell meets Steve Jobs. David Rokeby meets Martin Short. Marina Abramovic meets Super Mario Brothers. So might one describe the performance persona of on-the-rise Toronto artist Jeremy...
Brian Jungen’s recently opened exhibition at the Kunstverein Hannover is comprised of eight years of work, almost all of it produced since the artist’s survey at the...
When Gordon Rayner died suddenly at 75 of a heart attack in his Toronto home on September 26, 2010, he was two weeks shy of unveiling an...
Chandeliers, by definition, are excessive and opulent. At the Cosmopolitan in Las Vegas, for example, a multi-storey structure called the Chandelier, said to be composed of 2...
From laptops to handhelds, from bank accounts to anatomy, from gross national debt to the termination of the penny: size matters. In “Vanity Fare” at the Art...
One Saturday afternoon in early March, I boarded a school bus parked outside the Art Gallery of Ontario at the behest of Toronto performance duo Life of...
Hotel hallways are not usually venues for art exhibitions. Toronto-area artist Marco Cibola has fun with this idiosyncrasy in his first Canadian solo show, “It’s About Time,”...
The first thing one sees upon entering “Dark Matter,” the current exhibition at Arsenal Toronto, is a floating black blob: Ugo Rondinone’s The Twenty-First Hour of the...
In mounting the first Canadian solo exhibition of LA artist Paul Sietsema—who has been a Guggenheim Fellow and received solo exhibitions at MoMA and the Whitney—Mercer Union...
On a massive wall in the sixth-floor foyer that marks the entrance to the exhibition “Inventing Abstraction 1910–1925,” there is an equally massive wall graphic that attempts...
