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A Portrait of Obsession
by Natalie Hegert
Iris Häussler at Daniel Faria Gallery
April 3rd - May 11th
Posted
4/12/13
To encounter Iris Häussler’s sculptures in a white box gallery is a rarity, as the artist’s work is usually found in immersive site-specific installations involving fictive narratives and incredibly detailed staging. On view at Daniel Faria Gallery is something of a retrospective grouping of the artist’s concept drawings, along with the sculptures she created under the auspices of various fictional characters: Mary O’Shea, Joseph Wagenbach, and Ted Wilson. Now Iris Häussler “invites” us to vi... [more]
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Sublime Vision
by Kate Addleman
Josef Sudek at Art Gallery of Ontario
October 3rd, 2012 - April 7th
Posted
12/19/12
It is difficult not to be moved by the work of Josef Sudek. The Czech photographer, who died in Prague in 1976 at the age of eighty, had such a way with light and eye for composition that common things commonly arranged became testaments to the idea that beauty is everywhere, available to those who can see it. Curated by the Art Gallery of Ontario’s Maia Sutnik, Josef Sudek: The Legacy of a Deeper Vision pulls entirely from the gallery’s own collection, which includes almost 1,000 prints by... [more]
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Oh Those Colours!
by Kate Addleman
Kristine Moran at Daniel Faria Gallery
October 26th, 2012 - November 24th, 2012
Posted
11/7/12
Kristine Moran’s work looks good on websites. It looks good in magazines and on gallery flyers. But oh, my god, it looks great in person. Maybe that’s why everyone and everyone’s mother turned out to see it at the opening of Between Life and Death at Daniel Faria last Friday. We were all there, local high rollers and sloppy art fans, clumped about on the gallery’s expansive floor space, trying and failing to talk to each other about something other than the pictures. Speaking of space: Danie... [more]
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Why Toronto?: Focus on Toronto International Art Fair
by David Yu
at Art Toronto (Toronto International Art Fair)
October 26th, 2012 - October 29th, 2012
Posted
10/24/12
If ever asked to conjure up a list of international art fairs I would bet Art Toronto is pretty low on that list (that’s even if the fair makes it on the list at all). With such heavy hitting art fairs like Frieze, Hong Kong International Art Fair, The Armory Show, Art Basel and Art Basel Miami, it’s obvious why Art Toronto could be overlooked on an international art market platform. However, Art Toronto does fill a necessary hole for Canadian collectors. One could literally walk around this fair and... [more]
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The City Wants Art: Gallery Offerings During Art Toronto
by Kate Addleman
Posted
10/24/12
Even if you don’t go to the swanky preview party at the Art Gallery of Ontario, even if you don’t make it down to Metro Convention Centre at all, you will feel Art Toronto in the city this weekend. The biggest art fair in the country, it will accommodate some 100 galleries and 20,000 attendees (watch them stream in over land, air, and water!) and prove, as always, a crucial moment in the yearly calendar of artists, their handlers, and the patrons who feed, clothe, and make stars of both. Knowing the... [more]
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A Dialogue in a Trecartian Tone
by Janine Armin
Peter Campus, Joachim Koester, Sharon Lockhart, Ryan Trecartin at The Power Plant
March 26th, 2010 - May 24th, 2010
Posted
5/4/10
This dialogue, derived from texts by art critic Hal Foster and physicist Richard Feynman, among others, has been mediated by the internet personas of Hunter S. Thompson, Edgar Allan Poe and Raymond Chandler. In a post-humanistic stasis, and based on Ryan Trecartin's major exhibtion at the Power Plant in Toronto, the mode of dialogue gains a Trecartinian tone. Written and regurgitated with Mathew Timmons.
1: For the non- initiate public the situation is quite different (as opposed to trans... [more]
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Toronto: Year in Review by curator David Moos
by David Moos
Wangechi Mutu at Art Gallery of Ontario
February 24th, 2010 - May 23rd, 2010
Posted
2/7/10
David Moos-- "2009 unfolded with a vibrant decentered logic..."
There were great projects and exhibitions happening in all parts of the city—from larger institutions to private galleries and art festivals.
In the summer of ‘09 Mark Lewis represented Canada at Venice and by late August audiences could encounter his films at the University of Toronto’s Barnicke Gallery where pavilion commissioner Barbara Fischer assembled Lewis urban films into a coherent portrait of the modern city. That coinc... [more]
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From the ArtSlant Archive: An Epic Exploration
by David Yu
Adel Abdessemed, Franz Ackermann, Angela Bulloch, Mircea Cantor, Cerith Wyn Evans, The Otolith Group, Henrik Håkansson, Antonia Hirsch, Thomas Hirschhorn, Ann Veronica Janssens, Kimsooja, Jed Lind, Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle, Josiah McElheny, Janet Cardiff & George Bures Miller, Tania Mouraud, Gabriel Orozco, Adrian Paci, Trevor Paglen, Katie Paterson, Fred Tomaselli, Keith Tyson at The Power Plant
June 12th, 2009 - August 30th, 2009
Posted
8/15/09
Editor's Note: In honor of the opening of ArtSlant Toronto, we dug through our archives of Toronto reviews from the past few years. We're featuring the following review from David Yu, for its particular celebration of the Toronto scene, which remains cutting edge and experimental.
I’ve been away from the Toronto art scene for a number of years and was looking forward to revisiting the city that served as backdrop to the cultivation of my love for contemporary art. What I miss most about... [more]
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Made in Canada
by David Yu
Marc Bell, Tasha Brotherton, Mark Delong, Barry Doupe, Shayne Ehman, Liz Garlicki, James Kirkpatrick, The Lions, Amy Lockhart, Jason McLean, Jennie O'Keefe, Seth Scriver, Peter Thompson at The Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art (MOCCA)
June 27th, 2009 - August 23rd, 2009
Posted
8/15/09
Pulp Fiction is a great exhibition that showcases a uniquely North American trend in art practice which sprung out of the 1990’s and continues on to this day. It arose out of the need for emerging Canadian talent to find spaces and networks in order to collaborate and create new work. Because of a lack of funding and available exhibition spaces, artists sought out like-minded others, self-organized exhibition spaces and created opportunity for themselves. This led to the development of a... [more]
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