The AC Institute Presents:
Félix Lazo: m:n:m::l
Curated by María J. Montalva
Chris Twomey: TRIUMPH of the XX
February 23 – March 17, 2012
Opening Event: Thursday, February 23, 6-8pm
Contact: info@artcurrents.org
All exhibitions are free and open to the public.
MEDIA ADVISORY
The Artist Project Celebrates Five Years of Supporting New & Emerging Artists
(Toronto, January 16, 2012) From seasoned collectors and first time art buyers, to gallerists and interior designers, The Artist Project offers visitors a rare opportunity to meet and purchase work directly from Canadian and international artists. This face-to-face approach allows patrons to experience the thrill of discovering new talent and take home a great story along with their artwork. Special features such as Art Chats, the Untapped Emerging Artist Competition and expert-led tours also give visitors an insider’s view on new trends in the art world.
This March, The Artist Project marks its fifth anniversary with yet another exciting show featuring original works by a juried selection of over 200 independent contemporary artists. The fair has grown dramatically through the years – from 90 to over 200 artists, and more than 12,000 visitors are expected to attend in 2012. For four days (March 1-4, 2012), artists from a variety of geographic and creative backgrounds will converge and connect with patrons looking to get a glimpse of tomorrow’s Art Stars.
WHAT’S ON AT TAP:
Opening Night Preview Party Thursday, March 1, 7-10 PM (restricted19+) – Be among the first to view and purchase original works of art from top independent contemporary artists. Enjoy a decadent evening of art, music, and treats! A portion of the ticket proceeds from the Opening Night Party will be donated to the Canadian Art Foundation. For media passes, please RSVP to Sheryl So at sso@artcom.ca.
Untapped Emerging Artist Competition – 17 of the best up-and-coming emerging artists will be invited to participate in this special exhibition for FREE. Visitors are asked to vote for their favourite Emerging Artist and the winner will be awarded a free booth in the Main Section for 2013!
Installation Alley – Explore large-scale sculpture, conceptual art, and installations from the country’s most exciting emerging artists!
The Energy Competition – Every artist in the show will have the opportunity to create a piece in their medium based on this year’s theme: energy. Winners will be selected by a panel of judges and awarded cash prizes. There is also a People’s Choice Award!
“Take-12 SONY Studio” – TAP is pleased to welcome back SONY as the creator of the brand NEW “Take-12 SONY Studio” featuring the SONY A77 Translucent Mirror Camera, which takes 12 shots per second. This year, five photographers will use this revolutionary camera to develop exciting works. Editions will be available for purchase at the show.
“Artists-at-Work” Presented by SONY – With the help of SONY’s latest camcorder, which features a built-in projector, five artists will document their artistic practices, their studios and techniques. The videos will be projected in the form of an installation in the “Artists-at-Work presented by SONY” feature space.
ART CHATS Series – Features a variety of engaging and inspiring seminars hosted by leading art and design experts. This year, the series features topics such as The Art Detectives by writer Joshua Knelman and an artist panel hosted by Canadian Art editor Richard Rhodes.
Art Walks – Docents take visitors on an informative exploration of the show where they will meet the artists and ask the questions that visitors never think to ask! Art Walks are complimentary with admission and last approximately 30 minutes.
Event Details
WHEN: March 1 – 4, 2012
WHERE: Queen Elizabeth Building, Exhibition Place - 180 Princes’ Blvd | Toronto, ON
Come by: TTC, GO, or car (Paid Parking on-site)–MAP
DETAILS: Admission: $14 (adults) | $10 (seniors / students)
Free: Children 12 years of age or under
Free Re-Admission
$25 Opening Night Preview (open to 19 + years of age)
ONLINE DISCOUNTS ON TICKETS
About The Artist Project:
The Artist Project is a meeting ground for artists, art collectors, dealers and enthusiasts and produced by MMPI. As one of the largest trade show producers in the world, MMPI is committed to the continued development and enhancement of the art world through collaboration and partnership. As international purveyors of fine art, craft, and design exhibitions, our experienced staff of art fair coordinators are credited with Art Chicago™, Volta, The Armory Show, and NEXT. MMPI Canada is also responsible for Art Toronto, the One of a Kind Shows, Interior Design Show and IIDEX/NeoCon Canada.
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For media inquiries and accreditation, please contact:
Sheryl So | sso@artscom.ca| 416-966-3421 ext. 206
For tickets / info about the show, visit: www.theartistprojecttoronto.com
Economic Crisis Observatory
I need your help. I need your observations.
The Economic Crisis Observatory is a participation project that is as part of Capital Offense. Economic activity is a sport that we all do every day. I want people to send me economic data (text or jpg). For instance what did you buy today? Or how many people waiting in line at…? Did you work today? What did you do? Or ?
Send data to h.c@earthlink.net (jpg or text)
When: now through March 10
Capital Offense
Beacon Arts Building, Los Angeles.
Opens Jan 28 until March 15.
Critical Art Ensemble, Gregory Sholette, Holly Crawford, Andrea Fraser, Noam Chomsky,
Martha Rosler, Team Colors Collective, Occuprint, Derrick Jensen, Steve Lambert, Nicholas
Lampert, Bask, Alex Schaefer, Cake and Eat It, Flora Kao, Jody Zellen, Meleko Mokgosi, Mira
Rychner, Bob Golub, Marc James Léger, Matt Greco, Daniela Comani, Aaron Burr Society,
Dara Greenwald, Derek Curry, Heather Ackroyd & Dan Harvey, Pete Yahnke Railand, Lori
Nelson, Dehlia Hannah and TWCDC
The AC Institute Presents:
Stephen Eakin: TRYING TO SAVE IT ALL
Megan Mjaatvedt: DENSELY WOODED AND PRECIPITOUS MOUNTAIN
Marco Pinter: Reflections and Object Permanence
January 12 – February 4, 2012
Opening Event: Thursday, January 12, 6-8pm
Special Performances:
Gravitational Forces and other new work by Marco Pinter
Thursday, February 2, 7pm
Contact: info@artcurrents.org
All exhibitions are free and open to the public.
547 W. 27th St. #610 and the AC (Exit) Project Space
New York, NY 10001
The AC Institute Presents
OCCUPY THE WALLS: A Poster Show
Curated by performance artist and musician Holly Anderson and poet and activist Jeffrey Cyphers Wright
December 8 – December 16, 2011
Opening Event: Thursday, December 8, 2011 6-8pm
Exhibitions are free and open to the public.
Art heeds the clarion call of the Occupy Wall Street movement at the AC Institute. This special show of posters is dedicated to the spirit evinced by the patriots at Liberty Square. Original, commissioned artwork will be shown beside authentic posters from the protest and will be on view for one week.
In addition to an opening there will be a poetry reading and performance (Date to be Announced.) The artists will then take their artwork to Liberty Square to demonstrate. This effort will be made into a film.
You can participate in this exhibition by bringing your poster to the AC Institute on Tuesday, December 6 and Wednesday, December 7 between 1 and 6pm. Submissions may be mailed to the AC Institute or emailed in PDF to info@artcurrents.org if received before Dec. 7.
The AC Institute reserves the right to disqualify submissions.
547 W. 27th St. #610 New York, NY 10001
‘Strange Days and Other Anomalies’ at Light and Space Contemporary
Ramon Raphael Banzon, Miggy Borja, Raffy La Madrid, Paul Bryan Miranda, and Mek Yambao come together in their first ever group exhibition as an official art group “Strange Days”, which opens on Sunday 6PM, November 13 at the Gallery 3 of Light and Space Contemporary.
In their show titled “Strange Days and Other Anomalies”, the group discovers unchartered terrain played out in unusual settings and circumstances. Through observation or pure imagination, strange encounters are conceived, which leads the mind to question its very own boundaries and re-examine what one considers “Strange”.
The exhibit simultaneously opens with solo exhibitions of Kaloy Olavides and Beejay Esber at the Galleries 1 and 2. All shows will run until November 28. Light and Space Contemporary is located at 53 Fairlane st. West Fairview, 1118 Quezon City, Philippines. For information, email lightandspace@gmail.com or visit http://lighandspacecontemporary.wordpress.com
Leanne Eisen: Scan
November 1st –16th, 2011
Opening Reception: Friday November 4th, 6-10pm
Pikto Gallery, 55 Mill Street, 59-103 Toronto.
Scan, at Pikto Gallery marks Leanne Eisen’s first solo exhibition and foray into new media installation, with her new piece while (true).
while (true), consisting of a scanner, a computer monitor and an flat screen television, will create a real-time animation that will be left running the duration of the two week long exhibition from November 1st -16th. With each progressive scan, the computer monitor will be updated, then re-scanned, creating a feedback loop. The television will play an animated loop created from the scanned frames. The animation will be updated in real-time as the loop repeats.
The exhibition will also include Eisen’s series Scan, a series “exploring the aesthetic effects of movement and reflection in a digital technology that renders the material into data. The resulting works resemble ethereal landscapes, floating apparitions or maybe distant galaxies, however the pieces are more than merely finding shapes in the clouds, there is the presence of sheer volumes of space and distance, and the photographic feeling of capturing the image of something living and breathing. The images stimulate more questions than answers, with the viewer unable to come to any concrete conclusions about the works, leaving them in a sublime limbo.” (Zachary Eastwood-Bloom)
Contribute to this project on Rockethub.
Other View
Solo Exhibition by Mark Salvatus
The Drawing Room
October 15 , 2011
Other View is about the possibilities of art in the prosaic, as it is about the impossibility of capture of object and of art. Mark Salvatus brings together here work reminiscent of many others he’s done before, but which are necessarily new by virtue of his interest in the transient and silent, taking an object and all that it means and putting it into question as it highlights its utility, or makes it bigger pitted against another, or demands it make a statement in its mere existence, always in the process pointing a finger at the processes of art making in the present. But Other View is also ultimately about Salvatus’ insistence on the spectator’s experience of these objects as art as objects that are familiar and everyday, where intertexuality is default in the process of making sense of what is the ordinary turned object of art, where the gaze is the tenuous space within which the spectator finds meaning and enters a particular process of creativity. That this could mean objects being returned to their proper places, of artlessness and meaninglessness, is not so much a risk that Salvatus takes, as it is exactly the point.
Text by Katrina Stuart Santiago
Mark Salvatus (b. 1980) graduated Cum Laude from the University of Santo Tomas with a degree in Fine Arts major in advertising. He works across disciplines and various media that deal with community, urbanism, accidental encounters and everyday cultures. Winner of the 2010 Ateneo Art Awards, he is the recipient of the residency grants from Common Room Networks Foundation, La Trobe University Visual Arts Center and the New York Art Project (Art Omi). His recent exhibitions include “Stories of Dreams and Realities” at Rossi & Rossi (London), “Vernacular Cultures & Contemporary Art in Australia, India and the Philippines” at La Trobe University Museum of Art, LUMA (Melbourne), C_rafts at the Vargas Museum (Manila), “Open House” at the 3rd Singapore Biennale, Koganecho Bazaar in Yokohama and “Meta Question” at the 4th Guangzhou Triennial.
The Drawing Room, GF Metrostar Bldg., 1007 Metropolitan Avenue, Makati City, Philippines
ART TORONTO 2011, CANADA’S ONLY MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY
INTERNATIONAL ART FAIR, RETURNS TO TORONTO OCTOBER 28 TO 31
Toronto, September 12, 2011 — Collectors, curators and art enthusiasts will converge on Toronto at the end of October to experience the twelfth edition of Art Toronto - a four-day fair which showcases exhibits by 109 leading and emerging international galleries from 13 countries. Art Toronto 2011 runs from October 28 to 31, and features alternative spaces curated by The Drake Hotel, Canadian Art magazine, the Art Gallery of York University and the Art Dealers Association of Canada. Other highlights of the fair include solo exhibitions, installations and curated projects by renowned artists such as Andy Warhol, Kent Monkman, Edward Burtynsky, Chuck Close and many more. An Opening Night Preview to benefit the Art Gallery of Ontario will launch the fair on October 27. Media are invited to a special preview tour of the fair on October 27, before it opens to the public.
“Art Toronto is more than a place to buy and sell art, it’s also about opportunity: opportunities for galleries to meet artists, fellow dealers and curators,” said Linel Rebenchuk, of Art Toronto. “It also allows visitors to see the best of what the art world has to offer, and gives attendees the opportunity to learn and take part in forums, interviews, performances and panel discussions.”
Special to Art Toronto 2011
Art Toronto 2011 Media Preview Tour – Thursday October 27th at 10am and Friday October 28th at 10am
Join us for breakfast and be among the first to experience Art Toronto 2011, hear about the special programming and witness the unveiling of the BMW art car. This preview tour will feature the work of Kent Monkman, Edward Burtynsky and other hidden gems and exhibits you won’t want to miss. Please RSVP to tkuld@artscom.ca.
Opening Night Preview
On Thursday, Oct. 27, 2011, Art Toronto will host a celebratory launch of the fair and a benefit for the Art Gallery of Ontario. At this special ticketed event, guests can preview and purchase works of art before the fair opens to the public, while enjoying cocktails and hors d’oeuvres, and socializing with some of today’s leading artists whose work is featured at Art Toronto. Visit http://www.ago.net/art-toronto-2011 for details and to purchase tickets.
The Art Game - Commissioned Flagship Project by Kent Monkman
Curated by Steven Loft, The Art Game is a life-size maze, constructed from booth walls identical to the Art Fair itself, which takes the audience through an art world “funhouse”. The meandering corridors are made more confusing with the use of double-sided mirrors, trick windows, and fake doors, forcing the audience into a challenging experience of disorientation and multiple choice – not unlike the real art world. Dispersed throughout the maze are four “dioramas”, in the form of four small rooms, each one presenting the four key players in the Art Game: artist, curator/museum director, gallerist, and collector.
Art Toronto 2011 MOCCA Benefit Edition
With the support of Art Toronto, the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art is pleased to announce Edward Burtynsky as the Art Toronto 2011 MOCCA Benefit Edition Artist. For more information go to www.mocca.ca or visit their booth during Art Toronto 2011.
The BMW Art Car
As the official vehicle of Art Toronto 2011, BMW Canada is proud to present iconic artist Andy Warhol’s 1979 Art Car – the BMW M1. Since 1975, artists from around the world have turned BMW automobiles into art, signifying a particular period through the Art Car program. The name Andy Warhol is the quintessence of pop art. He began his artistic career as a commercial artist and was successful in holding his own exhibitions in New York as early as 1952. BMW Canada is extremely proud to bring Warhol’s Art Car to Toronto as a means of sharing one of the company’s many cultural initiatives with Canadians.
RBC Canadian Painting Competition
Established in 1999, with the support of the Canadian Art Foundation, the RBC Canadian Painting Competition is a tribute to Canada’s artistic talent. The goal of the competition is to support and nurture emerging Canadian visual artists by providing them with a forum to display their artistic talent to the country and hopefully open doors to future opportunities. Selected works from previous year’s semi-finalists are on exhibit at Art Toronto 2011 or see the paintings of all 15 semi-finalists by visiting www.rbc.com/paintingcompetition.
Curatorial Program
Entitled Place, this initiative is curated by William Huffman and explores the notion of navigation as a unifying theme – ultimately moving people through the fair and activating existing elements with a four artist, intervention-based mechanisms. This initiative is a presentation partnership between Toronto Arts Foundation (TAF), Art Dealers Association of Canada (ADAC) and Art Toronto.
Foodservices with Jon Sasaki: This commission initiative will be available exclusively through food services at Art Toronto. Sasaki will create artist multiples for take-away by altering cocktail napkins and paper plates in an effort to connect with the Art Toronto visitor and make unique, the banal consumables expected to be part of conventional hospitality service.
Mapping an Exhibition with William Huffman: This project is intended to highlight individual artworks already on display in the various booths by creating an exhibition that links the works physically and conceptually through route instructions. This component will be activated by a take-away map and instruction kit, which guides visitors through the fair occasionally highlighting works of particular interest at various gallery booths. Along with the map device, signage will identify the featured pieces and provide didactic or narrative information. The selection of works may change daily, thereby telling a different story and, incorporating as many galleries/artists as possible.
Daily Lectures, Tours and Special Presentations
Download the Art Toronto Show Guide at www.arttoronto.ca/show_guide/ for a complete list of daily programming.
Art Toronto 2011 could not happen without the support of our presenting sponsor, RBC Wealth Management, BMW – the Official Vehicle of Art Toronto, and AXA Art Insurance– the Official Art Insurer of Art Toronto.
About Art Toronto 2011
Join this gathering of some of the world’s best galleries and artists. Lectures and on-site events are free with admission tickets. General admission $18 (available online for $16); Groups/Students/Seniors $14; Four-day pass $44; Children under 10 are free. Metro Toronto Convention Centre (MTCC) North Building, 255 Front Street, 1-800-663-4173, www.arttoronto.ca, info@arttoronto.ca Opening Night Preview will be held on Thursday October 27, 2011 - visit http://www.ago.net/art-toronto-2011 for details or call 416.979.6628 to purchase tickets.
To request media credentials for Art Toronto 2011 please visit http://www.arttoronto.ca/accred_form/
To RSVP for the media preview tour or for more information about Art Toronto, hi-res photos or to arrange an interview with one of our spokespeople, please contact:
Talvi Kuld – Account Director
Arts & Communications
(416) 966-3421 x 204
Co-curated by Danielle St Amour and Francesca Tallone, Double Fantasy features 10 Canadian artists, living throughout Canada and the US, working on the theme of music video and the straight-forward, or unexpected, response to that marriage of mediums.
Part of Nocturne: Art At Night at the Khyber, Halifax, Nova Scotia. 15 October 2011, 7pm.
ARTISTS:
BRIDGET MOSER /
PATRICK VEZINA + VINH TRUONG /
BRENDAN REED /
RAY FENWICK /
JESSIE RAINVILLE /
JACQUELINE LACHANCE /
WILLIE BRISCO /
STEVE WISEMAN /
JASON HARVEY /
LEAH CAMERON + KATE O’CONNOR /
Saturday 15 October 2011, 7pm
Khyber Institute for Contemporary Art
1588 Barrington St.
Halifax, Nova Scotia
Still Counting … Sept. 11 - Dec 3 2011
Reception Friday Oct. 21, 6-8pm
Installation created by Michael Mut
Beginning in 2004, “…and counting…” was my reaction to the violence and murder of the devastating incidents of 9/11 and the ongoing reports of death in Iraq and Afghanistan. It was an opportunity to put myself and others through the tough questions that surround violence and murder. I arrived at a conundrum: “I am opposed to killing and war, I love my country, but my government wages war… I pay taxes, and those dollars are used for warfare…I am ultimately inextricably connected to the whole process. I am killing innocent people with my money”
“…still counting…” expands my focus to include all acts of murder committed around the globe.
To commemorate the 10th anniversary of 9/11, I’ll begin the next phase of the installation in New York City. I’ll place tagged mummies in various locations throughout the city, and I invite you to find and follow these objects to my website for more information and opportunities for participation.
From September to December 2011, Michael Mut Gallery will host an installation exposing the horrors of genocide. Over 9000 mummies in heaps and piles confront the insanity of murder. New mummies will be created daily to commemorate the murders that take place every day around the globe.
Thursday September 8 - October 1, 2011
Curated by Andréa Picard
16mm anamorphic film, 45 minutes
Slow Action will be screened every hour at 12:00 | 1:00 | 2:00 | 3:00 | 4:00 pm
Presented in collaboration with the Future Projections program of the Toronto International Film Festival.
Note special hours for this exhibition during the film festival only: open every day, September 8 –18, 2011 from 12:00 - 5:00 pm.
A heady mix of lingering beauty and offbeat humour, Ben Rivers’ four-part, 16mm film, Slow Action extends the artist’s interest in hermetic, rural existence by investigating four parallel worlds in an ostensibly utopian, post-apocalyptic universe.
Media Contact
Kim Simon
Curator
