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MOVING PICTURES. A VIDEO INSTALLATION SURVEY
Group
Show
ARTCORE
Gallery
TORONTO
November
12 to December 12 2004
Artcore Gallery presents a thought-provoking installation of
internationally renowned video artists:
Jubal Brown (Canada)
Pascal Paquette (Toronto)
Istvan Kantor (Hungary)
Francis Alÿs (Belgium)
Stefano Cagol (Italy)
William Kentridge (South Africa)
Ángel Marcos (Spain)
Sven Påhlsson (Norway)
Miguel Angel Rios (Argentina)
Artcore Gallery
55 Mill Street
Pure Spirits Bldg.
Toronto
Press
Release
Article:
Gary
Michael Dault, "Where the cosmic meets the microscopic", Globe &
Mail, Toronto, Jan 1, 2005
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ARTISTS:
Francis Alÿs
Multiplicacion de los Borregos
A complusive wanderer, Belgian-born, international artist
Francis Alÿs gives us another personal exploration into the quirks
of everyday life. Set in Mexican piazza, in a country which is very
dear to him and has been home for last 20 years, Multiplicacion de los
Borregos is a playful and suggestive comment on urban and rural
rituals.
Jubal Brown
In Bloom
Toronto artist Jubal Brown presents a new limited edition
project, Edition of 10 and each with a handmade velvet case. The lush
organic images become beautiful abstractions of colour and shape while
the romantic swell of electronic tone matches the haze and blush of
colour and texture. Beautiful, yet complicated, these pictures slowly
reveal themselves to be more morose than they initially appear.
Stefano Cagol
Tokyospace
by
Stefano Cagol stages mutual exchange between individual and shared
space within a global dimension par excellence: the megalopolis of
Tokyo. At a conceptual level the whole project brings back to the
principle of Leibnitz' monads, i.e. a closed organism representing a
point of view on the universe and which, in virtue of this point of
view, inevitably bounces again onto the outside. The monad, or better
the artist's creative space, stands for intimacy, subjective dimension,
but it becomes also permeable, constant reflex of a surrounding
space.
- Excerpt from essay by Letizia Ragaglia, Chief
Curator, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Bolzano, Italy
Istvan Kantor
[Kantor] was all about freeing creative expression in art
making and shunning anything that codified or canonized artistic
production. Protesting the stifling effects of museum culture, Kantor
sprayed 6 vials of his blood in an X pattern on the wall of the Museum
of Modern Art. This gift, freely bequeathed to the museum, was utterly
rejected. Kantor was arrested and the wall was wiped clean.
Unfortunately, some specks of blood strayed onto a canvas by Picasso.
- Linda Feesey
William Kentridge
Johannesburg
Monument
Mine
Sobriety, Obesity and Growing Old
Felix Listens to the World
Felix in Exile
History of the Complaint
In these videos, South African artist, William Kentridge's
incredible drawings portray strong characters and a visual landscape,
which together, reveal very personal emotional and social statements.
Politically fused storylines are carried out by Kentridge's main
protagonist, Soho Eckstein, whose empire eventually comes crumbling
down, resembling much of what we have seen repeat itself numerous times
throughout history.
Ángel Marcos
Hints 22
In his video Hints 22, Spanish artist Ángel Marcos
proposes the story of someone who carries his own wishing well around
with him:
...he learned that what is important is not for wishes to
come true; for him the important thing was to make them. From then on,
he replaced achievements with wishes, he always carried his fishes and
his stream with him, he thought of his fish and created the well in
which he made his wishes; not for them to come true, but simply to be
dreamed...
- Extract from the book Rastro 22 by Ángel Marcos
Sven Påhlsson
Sprawlville
Consuming Pleasures
Crash Course
Påhlsson's obsessive curiosity in North American life
and its somewhat disturbing evolution, comes across loud and strong in
his very dynamic 3-D renderings of his interpretations of Middle
America. At a moment when we are questioning our overly commercial,
consumer-driven and at times very restricted and artificial existence,
Påhlsson, a Norwegian, paints a powerfully grim view from the
outside looking in.
Miguel Angel Rios
Return
In Return, tops begin to move like sleeping giants waking up
after a long sleep. Also perceived as a metaphor on rebirth, the
video's beautiful soundtrack takes us through this journey and struggle
of accomplishment. A very provocative piece by the Argentinean artist,
Miguel Angel Rios.
Sophie Castonguay
Da Bomb
Ce tableau qui fait suite à L'attente est le
deuxième d'un project qui s'intitule " Je " objet d'étude
morphologique. Ici, le tableau devient le lieu d'étude d'une
relation particulière. C'est la structure et la forme de la
relation qui détermine la structure et la forme du tableau.
C'est en cherchant à répondre à la question : "
Qu'est-ce qui me défini ? " que j'en suis venu à
l'élaboration de ce projet. Dans La montagne, quelle est la
place que j'occupe par rapport à lautre ? Ce projet sera l'objet
d'une résidence de six mois à Bâle, en Suisse.
J'aurai l'occasion d'observer la place que j'occupe dans une nouvelle
culture. S'en suivront quelques tableaux.
- Artist Statement
Pascal Paquette
Tagging Don Mount Series
At the corner of Dundas and Carroll streets in Toronto's
southwest Riverdale neighbourhood is the Don Mount Court public housing
complex. This ghetto, and others like it, are incubators of urban
culture. It is being demolished and replaced with streets that conform
to the city street grid, overlaid with a mix of private and public
townhouses. The City of Toronto plans to integrate the current
habitants of the Don Mount Court into this more conventional
neighbourhood.
Residents of the Don Mount and homeowners in the surrounding
community have discussed some of their concerns at community meetings.
Others have gone even further to air their opinions by tagging and
inscribing messages on the walls of the now vacant buildings.
My intent is to document signs of the undoing of the Don
Mount Court and bring forward these messages.
- Pascal Paquette, 2004
<>GALLERY:
Since its incorporation in 1997, Artcore has been committed to
presenting
the best of innovative contemporary Canadian and
International art. Artcore's
program includes regular exhibitions in its new 800 square
metre premises
in Toronto's historic Distillery District, participation in
international
art fairs, and the organization of traveling exhibitions.
Through these
activities, it is the gallery's mandate to raise and expand
the level of
awareness of contemporary art internationally.
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