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**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.
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
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