Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival
Opening: Friday, April 27, 7–10p.m.
MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY CANADIAN ART
16th CONTACT includes 200 exhibitions for 1000 artists
Contact 2012 Launch Party
Category: Emese Krunák-Hajagos
The Artists Project Opening Reception
Thursday, March 1, 2012, 7–10 p.m.
TORONTO EXHIBITION PLACE
Queen Elizabeth Building
For four days, March 1–4,more 200 artists from a variety of geographic and creative backgrounds will converge and connect with patrons.
Interview with painter Janna Watson
by Emese Krunák-Hajagos
My paintings may seem extroverted and gregarious and loud with colour, but the truth is that they are about interiority and the creative disclosure of being from inside out.
NOW / Gift Shop Gift Shop
by Emese Krunák-Hajagos
ART GALLERY OF ONTARIO
January 21 – April 1, 2012
The Now service bureau kicked off 2012 inside AGO’s Young Gallery with a collaborative installation by Sean Martindale and Pascal Paquette. On January 20th, behind the NOW logo on the vindows, an extremely large crowd filled the gallery to capacity with radiant young energy.
In The End A Good Story Is All That Remains
Opening: Thursday, January 12, 2012, 6–8 p.m.
FRAN HILL GALLERY
The eight New York artists represent a great diversity both in their age, artistic approach and style.
Stan Douglas: Entertainment | Coming After
by Emese Krunák-Hajagos
THE POWER PLANT CONTEMPORARY ART GALLERY
December 10, 2011–March 4, 2012
The winter season at the Power Plant opened with “two major exhibitions that delve into a wellspring of cultural history and the archive of the social.”
Art Toronto, 2011 / Angelo Musco
by Emese Krunák-Hajagos
October 28–31, 2011
METRO TORONTO CONVENTION CENTRE
There is a large photograph by Angelo Musco showing hundreds of human bodies like a spider’s web.
¡Patria o Libertad! Johanna Reich: ‘Monument’
by Emese Krunák-Hajagos
September 9 – October 30, 2011
MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY CANADIAN ART
She steps back, looks at it for a moment and then steps up on the stool and disappears into the painting.
¡Patria o Libertad! ANTUAN:‘Left or Right’
by Emese Krunák-Hajagos
September 9 – October 30, 2011
MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY CANADIAN ART
A man comes into this arena and starts to punch the faces on the bags. He punches and punches them harder and harder until sweat is running down his face and his knuckles become red.
Richard Barnes: Animal Logic
by Emese Krunák-Hajagos
Bau-Xi Photo
Have you ever wanted to know what is happening in the rooms marked Closed for visitors in the museums? Internationally known, award winning artist Richard Barnes spent ten years in those rooms
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.”
Staged Photography
By Emese Krunak-Hajagos
Looking at the exhibitions of Contact always remind me of my childhood. My relationship with photography started at a very early age since my mother was a professional photographer. She had a portrait studio from the 1950th for 40 years in Budapest. Through her work staged photography filled my life and as a passionate reader I always connected stories to the photographs.