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Keeping Canada and the World Beautiful MAY/MAI 2008GLOBAL ART EXHIBITIONS - ARCHITECTUREChronological Listing of Gallery Openings & Lectures
MAY 1, THURSDAY/JEUDI 1 MAI Guest Curator: Gwendolyn Owens. Till July 31, Au 31 Juillet 2008. Galerie hours: Wednesday - Saturday: 12 PM - 6 PM ADMISSION FREE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Heures d'ouverture de la galerie: Mercredi - Samedi: 12h00 a 18h00 ENTREE GRATUITE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! *Impressions Art Gallery OPENING RECEPTION 5 - 9 PM/VERNISSAGE 17h00 a 21h00 - YORKVILLE - - 12th Annual Toronto Photography Festival - CONTACT 2008 - Dans le cadre du festival de photographies - CONTACT 2008 - www.impressionsartgallery.ca Gallery Director: Madame Elena Klaoudatou, B. Comm. E - mail: [email protected] , Tel: 416 922 3944, Fax: 416 922 7434. Gallery Curator: Mademoiselle Sofia Damil. E - mail: [email protected] , Tel: 416 922 3922, Fax: 416 922 7464. 102 Yorkville Ave., Toronto "ABANDON" An Exhibition of photography by Mark Coatsworth. The Exhibition is a four part, photographic documentary series about our world after ecological collapse. From the decline of Canada's Atlantic fisheries, to the resource rush in the far North, to the great floods of New Orleans, ABANDON examines modern societies who ignored the early warnings, and so brought about their own destruction. These series are microcosms of what is happening to our planet on a global scale. This is the story of the things left behind. Till June 7, Au 7 Juin 2008. Galerie hours: Tuesday & Wednesday: 3 PM - 7 PM Thursday, Friday & Saturday: 10 AM - 7 PM Sunday: 12 PM - 6 PM ADMISSION FREE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Heures d'ouverture de la galerie: Mardi et Mercredi: 15h00 a 19h00 Jeudi, Vendredi et Samedi: 10h00 a 19h00 Dimanche: 12h00 a 18h00 ENTREE GRATUITE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! *Toronto Image Works OPENING RECEPTION 6 - 8 PM/VERNISSAGE 18h00 a 20h00 - 12th Annual Toronto Photography Festival - CONTACT 2008 - Dans le cadre du festival de photographies - CONTACT 2008 - - SECOND FLOOR: SUITE #207 - www.torontoimageworks.com E-mail: [email protected] . Tel: 416 703 1999, Toll Free: 1 888 867 2252, Fax: 416 703 3991. Gallery Director: Bernice Lyons Page. E-mail: [email protected] . 80 Spadina Ave., Toronto "Srebrenica: The Absence" An Exhibition of photography by Roger LeMoyne. Artist Talk: Saturday May 3 2008 1:30 - 2:30 PM/Samedi 3 Mai 2008 13h30 a 14h30. Since the early 1990's, Roger LeMoyne has spent most of his time documenting the human condition in places such as the D.R. Congo, Afghanistan and the Balkans. He is the recipient of many major awards including the World Press Photo for his Kosovo work and the Dorothea Lange-Paul Taylor Prize in 2007 for a series entitled "After War." His first book "Details Obscurs" which takes a hard look at the effects of recent conflicts on civilians, was published in 2005. Till May 31, Au 31 Mai 2008.
MAY 2, FRIDAY/VENDREDI 2 MAI Aires, Los Angeles, the North Pole and elsewhere. Current events are evoked blending impressions with History. Faces, unusual encounters, urban landscapes, desolate stretches. Humanity comes face to face with the anxious universe we have created and which we wish to endow with meaning. We collide with nature and its contrasting greatness. Different worlds meet – solemnly or mockingly. Contrasts arise and the question “Are we?” remains unanswered. - Tendance floue - À Paris, Bombay, Buenos Aires, Los Angeles, au Pôle Nord et ailleurs, nos regards se sont posés, entre préoccupations intimes et politiques. Des faits d’actualité sont évoqués, où les impressions se mêlent à l’Histoire. Des visages, des rencontres insolites, des paysages urbains, des étendues désolées. L’homme est confronté à l’univers inquiet qu’il a créé, et auquel il cherche à donner un sens. Il se heurte à la nature, qui lui oppose sa grandeur. Différents mondes se rencontrent, avec gravité ou dérision. Des contrastes s’opèrent. Et la question « Sommes-nous ? » reste en suspens. - Tendance floue - In collaboration with The French Consulate in Toronto. Avec le soutien du Consulat général de France à Toronto. Till May 31, 2008/ AU 31 Mai, 2008. Galerie hours: Monday - Wednesday: 9:30 AM - 6 PM Thursday: 9:30 AM - 11:30 AM and 1:30 PM - 6 PM Friday: 9:30 AM - 3:30 PM ADMISSION FREE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Heures d'ouverture de la galerie: Lundi - Mercredi: 9h30 a 18h00 Jeudi: 9h30 a 11h30 et 13h30 a 18h00 Vendredi: 9h30 a 15h30 ENTREE GRATUITE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
MAY 3, SATURDAY/SAMEDI 3 MAI OPENING RECEPTION 2 - 5 PM/VERNISSAGE: 14h00 a 17h00 - THE HISTORIC DISTILLERY DISTRICT - East of Parliament 1 block south of Front St., E.. - 12th Annual Toronto Photography Festival - CONTACT 2008 - Dans le cadre du festival de photographies - CONTACT 2008 - www.corkingallery.com Gallery Director: Madame Jane Corkin. E-mail: [email protected] . E-mail: [email protected] , Tel: 416 979 1980, Fax: 416 979 7018. Bldg. #61. 55 Mill St., Toronto "Anikora-Seifuku " An Exhibition of digitally constructed images by Ryoko Suzuki . In Anikora - Seifuku, Ryoko Suzuki challenges the conventional understanding of social documentary with digitally constructed images that comment on the specific social roles of women living in contemporary Japan. Depicting popular Japanese dolls, akin to Barbie dolls in North America, the artist's face is superimposed to create uncanny, larger than life-size characters that illustrate traditionally "appropriate" gender roles: nurse, schoolgirl and waitress, among others. The distorted, unrealistic bodies of the dolls, reminiscent of animé, express the notion of the supercute, or "kawaii." This idea confronts the cute, but often highly erotic, fictionalized portrayal of women that is prevalent in Japanese comics, advertising and children's toys. & "Empty Lots" An Exhibition of images of abandoned parking lots by Chad Gerth . Chad Gerth's Empty Lots series explores and documents the intricacies of urban and human landscapes through images of abandoned parking lots slowly being reclaimed by nature. Made in Gerth's hometown of Chicago, these images represent the contemporary city not through its distinctive skyline but through the flatness of its terrain and the common yet unremarkable areas that exist in any city. Shot from a high, almost vertiginous point of view, the cityscape is transformed into a barely recognizable, abstract plane of shape and colour. The modernist, machine-like grid construction of so many North American cities is here exemplified by the rigidly defined boundaries of both the lots and the photographs themselves, tightly cropped and carefully composed. Gerth calls these spaces, these empty lots, "gaps of nothingness ... like grass in the cracks of the sidewalk or a rhizomic void in the skyline." They exist not as places of civic or social importance, but as vacant spaces beyond control of the city. & " Roadkill " An Exhibition of work by Marc Séguin. Roadkill consists of large scale, figurative oil paintings that explore the communicative potential of traditional artistic methods. Incorporating entirely original found material - the roadkill of the title is actual roadkill attached to the canvas - these works are surreal, haunting meditations that eliminate all narrative potential. Ghost-like apparitions float in empty space, with the faces and identities of these strange figures obscured by paint, masks and hoods. Employing his signature style, Séguin creates complex, emotionally charged works with little embellishment. At its core his work examines not only the dark, hallucinatory world of his subjects but the very processes and methods of oil painting itself. Marc Séguin's work has been exhibited nationally and internationally and is in major public collections throughout Canada. He lives and works in New York City. Till July 13, Au 13 Juillet 2008. Galerie hours: Tuesday to Saturday 10 AM - 6 PM Sunday 12 PM - 5 PM ADMISSION FREE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Heures d'ouverture de la galerie: Mardi - Samedi: 10h00 a 16h00 Dimanche 12h00 a 17h00 ENTREE GRATUITE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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MAY 5, MONDAY/LUNDI 5 MAI along the fence of the Consulate General of Italy.. An Exhibition of 10 digital prints, each 60 x 70.5 inches by RAFFAELA MARINIELLO. Venue of this Exhibition: Consulate General of Italy - Fence on Dundas St W at Beverly St, Toronto. Raffaela Mariniello was born in Naples, Italy in 1961 where she currently lives and works. Her first introduction to photography was working for a press photography agency in her early twenties. Her works can be found in several international public and private collections and she is represented by Studio Trisorio, Naples. In Collaboration with CONTACT PHOTOGRAPHY FESTIVAL 2008. Avec le soutien du FESTIVAL DE PHOTOGRAPHIES - CONTACT 2008. Till June 29, Au 29 Juin 2008. Galerie hours: Monday - Friday: 2:30 PM - 4:30 PM ADMISSION FREE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Heures d'ouverture de la galerie: Lundi - Vendredi: 14h30 a 16h30 ENTREE GRATUITE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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