Author: artoronto

RICHARD BARNES: ‘ANIMAL LOGIC’

September 10 – 24, 2011
Opening: Saturday, September 10th, 2-4pm

BAU-XI PHOTO

In Animal Logic, Richard Barnes has photographed the museum in between installations, highlighting the artificial components in recreating the natural world

Artur Zmijewski: Them

September 9 – October 30, 2011
Opening: Friday, September 9, 8:00 – 11:00 pm

MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY CANADIAN ART
Media / Retail Space

As with many of Zmijewski’s projects, Them engages directly with dogma and prejudice to reveal profound insights into human behaviour and relationships.

¡Patria o Libertad!

September 9, 2011 – October 30, 2011
Opening: Friday, September 9, 8:00 – 11:00 pm

On Patriotism, Immigration and Populism

MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY CANADIAN ART Main Space

How we deal with love of country and nationalism is an important challenge of our time. ¡Patria o Libertad! presents video works by 22 international artists, all investigating the diverse forms that patriotism embodies

Sam Mogelonsky: Wish you were here

August 31st – September 24th, 2011
Opening: Thursday, September 8, 6 – 9pm

THE RED HEAD GALLERY

By developing her own form of naïve sculptural language, Mogelonsky constructs environments to transport the viewer into an imaginary space, outside and beyond the everyday

Istvan Kantor: END OF SUMMER PANIC

August 27, Saturday 2 – 6 pm
276 Crawford Street, Toronto
through drive way towards garage

ANTIX – Centre for Art Crime and Neoism

ANTIX is Istvan Kantor’s storage space and summer gallery, archive of Kantor’s life and crimes, a meeting place

Abstract Expressionist New York

by Emese Krunák-Hajagos

Art Gallery of Ontario
May 28 – September 4, 2011

what made that time unique was a capacity of artists to engage with a cosmic quest, a spiritual quest to find meaning. A total commitment on the artists’ side so painting was the only thing that mattered there was no separation between the self and the art work, that’s why the paintings feel like living things.”

LAURA PETURSON: Possible Outcome

September 7 – October 8, 2011
Opening and our First Anniversary! *let them eat cake*: Sat, Sept 10th, 2 – 4pm
also featuring Kasia Czarnota’s glass works

Telephone Booth Gallery

their work capture and examine the expectations and sentiments placed upon very young girls and the tiny but wondrous moments that make up a day in a young life.

Infinity cubed

August 30 – September 23, 2011
Opening: Thursday, September 1, 6-8pm

John B. Aird Gallery

Celebrates the vitality of the Sculptors Society of Canada’s 83rd year.

This year, “Infinity cubed” features contemporary figurative and non-figurative works in all media (stone, clay, bronze, steel, paper, wood, mixed-media) by 40 members