Art Metropole is pleased to launch Luis Jacob's Album IV
and an accompanying special photo edition titled Coalescent One.

$40 - Purchase Now (Wholesale discounts available.)

Please join us on Saturday May 29, from 1-3 p.m. to meet the artist.

Album IV was published by Art Metropole on the occasion of the exhibition
"Haunted: Contemporary Photography/Video/Performance" at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, where Jacob's Album IV (2004-05) was recently acquired for their permanent collection. Published as part of a series of "Album" artist books, Album IV is presented as a full-colour volume in an edition of 1000 copies. This work consists of hundreds of images culled from a variety of books, magazines, and other publications. Through processes of visual association, these images compose an extended narrative around various themes: pregnancy and childbirth, the trepidation of first steps, the schooling of children, the erotic dimension of mentorship and leadership roles, the formation of bonds of friendship and clique groupings, the reinforcement of behaviour and accomplishments, and social participation, withdrawal or transformation. Using imagery excised from published sources, these topics weave to form an encyclopedic thesis on the pedagogical roots of social experience.

Coalescent One is a new black and white photograph produced by Luis Jacob in
a limited edition of 16, available exclusively through Art Metropole. We are delighted
to invite you to support the publication by purchasing this striking photograph. Each print will be accompanied by a copy of the new book, especially signed by the artist.

Also available at Art Metropole, other titles from the "Album" series include:
Album (Art Metropole and Latitude 53 Society of Artists, 2001); Album III (Verlag
der Buchhandlung Walther König, 2007); Album V (Kultustiftung des Bundes, 2007);
and Album VII (Samuso Space for Contemporary Art, 2008).

Luis Jacob is an artist living in Toronto, Canada, and exhibiting internationally.
Recent exhibitions include: "Haunted: Contemporary Photography/Video/Performance",
at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (New York, USA); "Animism", Kunsthalle Bern (Switzerland) and Extra City Kunsthal Antwerpen (Belgium); "Dance with Camera", Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia), and Contemporary Art Museum (Houston); "7 Pictures of Nothing Repeated Four Times,
in Gratitude", at Städtisches Museum Abteiberg (Mönchengladbach, Germany);
"The Order of Things", Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen (Antwerp, Belgium); "Martian Museum of Terrestial Art", Barbican Art Gallery (London, UK);
and Documenta 12 (Kassel, Germany).

Opening in June 2010, he will present the first of a three-part touring mid-career survey exhibition that begins at the Darling Foundry (Montréal) before traveling to Toronto and Vancouver.

For more info contact Ann Dean (416) 703 4400 or [log in to unmask]

Art Metropole is a non-profit artist-run centre incorporated in 1974. We'd like to thank the Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council, the City of Toronto through the Toronto Arts Council, as well as private donors for their support.