DUAL BOOK LAUNCH
Gordon Monahan:
Seeing Sound
Sound Art, Performance
& Music 1978-2011
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Blackwood Gallery:
Wood
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Book Launch:
Sat. May 7th 1-3pm, 2011
Seeing Sound $40.00
Wood $30.00 (or $25.00 special launch price)
Purchase both books now.
| Gordon Monahan:
Seeing Sound, Sound Art, Performance and Music 1978-2011 Art Metropole is pleased to be hosting the launch of Gordon Monahan: Seeing Sound, Sound Art, Performance and Music 1978-2011, the first comprehensive monograph on this uncompromising and radically innovative artist's multifaceted body of work. Collecting essays by Earl Miller (Toronto-based writer/curator) and Gabriele Knapstein (curator at Hamburger Bahnhof Museum of Contemporary Art, Berlin) among others. Seeing Sound explores Monahan's brilliantly inventive compositions and sound installations, as well as his long and distinguished career as a pianist, having premiered the compositions of such luminaries as Udo Kasemets, James Tenny and John Cage.
Running throughout 2011-13 concurrent with the publication of Seeing Sound is a retrospective of the same name, presented by four Ontario galleries; Maclaren Art Centre, Barrie, Doris McCarthy Gallery, Scarborough, Blackwood Gallery, Mississauga, and The Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa. Additional works can be seen in the following locations: Thames Art Gallery (Chatham-Kent, ON), Owens Art Gallery (Sackville, NB), Kenderdine Art Gallery (Saskatoon, SK), singuhr-hoergalerie (Berlin, Germany) and Tom Thomson Art Gallery (Owen Sound, ON). Please visit the websites of these institutions for exact exhibition schedules. | Bio:
Born in Kingston Ontario in 1956, Gordon Monahan studied physics at the University of Ottawa and music at Mount Allison. He has performed and exhibited in numerous art galleries and music venues, including Hamburger Bahnhof (Berlin), the Venice Biennale, the Secession (Vienna), Haus der Kunst (Munich), Mak Museum (Vienna), The Kitchen (NY), the Walker Art Center (Minneapolis), Merkin Hall (NY) and Massey Hall (Toronto). He has lived in Toronto and New York and now divides his time between Meaford and Berlin. Art Metropole thanks the following galleries for their support for this book launch: 
| Blackwood Gallery: Wood In addition to our launch for Seeing Sound Art Metropole is pleased to have the opportunity to launch Wood, a compendium of Blackwood Gallery's exhibitions and projects from 2009. Part-catalog, part-magazine, part-annual report. Wood features sixty-four artists and writers from five exhibitions and two projects presented in chronological disorder. Artists from emerging to established, local to international, and of varied disciplines are all represented.
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