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[cid:[log in to unmask]] **ARLIS/NA Conference attendees will receive a 50% discount on general admission to the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) upon showing their conference badge! The gallery is a short walk from the conference hotel and is easily accessed by public transit. For more information visit http://www.ago.net/** The following exhibits are on display during the conference: Yael Bartana: ...And Europe Will Be Stunned. January 25 to April 1, 2012. Lind Gallery. After winning the Artes Mundi prize for "work that stimulates thinking about the human condition" in 2010, Israeli filmmaker and artist Yael Bartana presented her latest project at the 2011 Venice Biennale -- the first non-Polish artist to represent Poland at the major international art exhibition ...And Europe Will Be Stunned, her film trilogy made between 2007 and 2011, will be on view for the first time in Canada in the AGO's Lind Gallery from Jan. 25 to April 1, 2012. Featuring architecture and scenography by Oren Sagiv, ...And Europe Will Be Stunned raises questions about ideas of homeland and a sense of belonging. In the films -- Mary Koszmary (Nightmares), Mur i Wie¿a (Wall and Tower) and Zamach (Assassination) -- Bartana tests reactions to the unexpected return of the "long-unseen neighbour," telling a story of the Jewish Renaissance Movement in Poland. The trilogy also challenges the viewer's readiness to accept the other and the complexities of cultural integration in a culturally and politically unstable world. Jack Chambers: Light, Spirit, Time, Place and Life. Until May 13, 2012. Signy Eaton Gallery. There were many sides to artist Jack Chambers. He was a passionate defender of artists' rights, an experimental filmmaker with an international reputation, and a painter who continually reinvented his language of expression. Chambers initially created dreamlike surrealist paintings during an eight-year stay in Spain. Back home in London, Ontario, he developed a strikingly realistic style he called Perceptual Realism. He would focus his camera on his family, his home or on favourite places around the city, and then painstakingly recreate the photographs in paint. Four recurring themes in Chambers's work - light, place, spirit and time - are reflected in the layout of this exhibition. Collectively they open our eyes to new ways of seeing both his world and ours. This exhibition includes a significant archives component drawn from the Jack Chambers fonds, Collection E.P. Taylor Library & Archives at the AGO. "Where I was born..." : A Photograph, a Clue, and the Discovery of Abel Boulineau. March 5, 2011 - April 1, 2012. Tanenbaum Gallery. This exhibition features for the first time the work of a completely unknown French photographer and his photographs of French regional life at the turn of the 20th century. The group of 1,702 gelatin silver printing out paper prints was acquired by the AGO as the work of Émile Fréchon (1848-1921) but recent research has revealed the work to be by Abel Boulineau (1839-1934), a painter and teacher at the Association polytechnique in Paris, not known until now to have made photographs. This momentous discovery was made by a student intern with the AGO's Photography Department. Through a focused selection of more than 70 works, visitors will find out how they came to be attributed to Boulineau and will discover Boulineau's gem-like photographs of the regions of Brittany, Aquitaine and the Rhône-Alps. Lucy Tasseor Tutsweetok. May 4, 2011 - April 1, 2012. Toby and Joey Tannenbaum Sculpture Atrium. Lucy Tasseor is from Arviat, the southernmost community on the Nunavut mainland, close to the geographical centre of Canada. The local stone, a tough grey steatite, is harder than the steel tools traditionally used by Arviat carvers. In the 1960s, Tasseor began creating a unique style of sculpture, simply by using an axe to chip away the hard stone. As Inuit Art expert Ingo Hessel explains: "[Arviat sculptors] communicate essential ideas of form and content with a minimum of elaboration." Tasseor's work is recognizable by its flat planes, with a distinct and simple use of incised line. This exhibition features over 40 works by Tasseor from the 1960s to the 1990s, all from the AGO's collection. In keeping with the Gallery's efforts to provide the public with new ways of seeing art, we asked Toronto artist and Inuit Art collector Ed Pien to envision the exhibition. He created display cases that echo the shape of the kayak, with shard-like forms on which the sculptures rest. NOW: A Collaborative Project with Sean Martindale and Pascal Paquette. January 21 - April 1, 2012. Young Gallery. Martindale and Paquette join forces for the first time to create a collaborative installation for the Toronto Now Series. Using convergent forms of street art, graffiti writing and activist interventions combined with contemporary painting, sculpture and design these artists eradicate traditional art classifications and work to expand the understanding of what artistic creativity can be. Taking inspiration from their daily environment, the gallery and the current socio-political and cultural climate of Toronto, this installation invites audiences to reconsider Toronto Now. Curated by Katherine Dennis, an MFA candidate in Criticism & Curatorial Practice at OCAD University this exhibition is the focus of her thesis. Over the course of five months the artists and curator have worked closely with the AGO including the FRANK restaurant, the AGO gift shop and the Weston Family Learning Centre to construct an integrated project that playfully works with and responds to established museum systems. Songs of the Future: Canadian Industrial Photographs, 1858 to Today. August 20, 2011 - June 03, 2012. Betty Ann & Fraser Elliott Gallery. The practice of photography in Canada closely parallels the development of its industries. As railroad tracks were laid and bridges were built to allow access to remote forests and mineral-rich territories, photographers followed, as they did when mining and lumber interests developed. These industrial activities have undeniably shaped the Canadian landscape - for better and for worse. And photographs of these activities - whether made on commission by those eager to document their contribution to national progress, or for the photographer's own interest - continue to feed our imaginations, shape our opinions and make us aware of what is at stake. Songs of Future: Canadian Industrial Photographs, 1858 to Today includes more than 100 photographs - by such figures as William Notman, Alexander Henderson, Richard Maynard, J.C.M. Hayward, John Vanderpant, E. Haanel Cassidy, George Hunter, Bill Vazan, Ralph Greenhill, Geoffrey James, Edward Burtynsky, Peter MacCallum, Steven Evans, Jesse Boles, and Isabelle Hayeur - most drawn from the AGO's permanent collection, and many of which have never been shown. For more information on exhibits and events on in Toronto during the conference, please visit the conference web site 'About Toronto' events section: http://www.arlisna.org/toronto2012/aboutToronto3.html Karen McKenzie Chief Librarian E.P.Taylor Research Library & Archives [cid:[log in to unmask]] Art Gallery of Ontario 317 Dundas St. W. 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