Author: artoronto

October 18 – 2o, 2012
Opening Reception: Thursday, October 18, 5 – 7 p.m.
Gallery 44 Centre for Contemporary Photography
401 Richmond Street West, Suite 120
Toronto, ON M5V 3A8
T: 416.979.3941
E: sojin@gallery44.org
www.gallery44.org

Presented in partnership with imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival

In partnership between imagineNATIVE, Gallery 44 and curator Amanda Strong, RESONATE brings together four unique Indigenous youth collaborations showcasing photography, film, radio and interactive multimedia art that speak to their experiences, feelings and perspectives through various mediums of artistic exploration.

Media Creatorz and the Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto (LIFT) present a collection of super 8 films created by 7 indigenous youth. Participants worked with a mentor filmmakers John Hupfield, Amanda Strong and Miles Turner to write, direct, shoot and edit a short film using super 8 film and final cut editing . Media Creatorz was formed in 2009 with the aims of providing workshops and opportunities for indigenous youth to express themselves via media arts and film. Participants included Nishka Turner, Leslie McCue (Ojibway), Asivak Koostachin (Cree/Inuit), Cecily Jacko (Ojibway), Kyle Burton (Metis) , Jared Robilliard (Dene) and Damien Bouchard (Ojibway).

7th Generation Image Makers and Gallery 44 present a series of photographic self portraits created by eight indigenous youth. Through Gallery 44 and LIFT facilities, the youth engaged in photography basics, conceptual process and finally the skillsets in Adobe Photoshop and After Effects. The works express the exploration of self through the youths perspectives. 7th Gen is a dynamic Aboriginal youth arts program operating within Native Child and Family Services of Toronto. Drop-in art space, community projects, where professional Aboriginal artists, mentors and elders provide quality and accessible programming in a culturally supportive and safe environment. Most programming centers around community workshops, drop-in art hours for youth, as well as public and private arts commissions. Participants included Nishka Turner (Mokawk), Leslie McCue (Ojibway), Cheyenne Scott (Coast Salish), Nigel Irwin-Brochmann (Cree), Emily Jones (Algonquin), Alice Thompson (Cherokee) and Alana Mcleod (Metis).

imagineNATIVE and New Adventures in Sound Art (NAISA) present a commission of radio artworks created by four Aboriginal youth. Through Sound Art Residency workshops in the NAISA studio, youth developed their understanding and skills of sound-based media art, including sound theory, Indigenous perspectives on sound art, capturing and recording content, sound editing, and storytelling. Selected participants include Cheyenne Scott (Coast Salish), Judith Schuyler (Oneida), Michele Lonechild (Ojibway/Plains Cree) and Leslie McCue (Ojibway) The installation involves the works presented from individual radios hidden in a plinth, creating a unique aural experience.

Amanda Strong (Métis) is a multi-disciplinary artist and was the imagineNATIVE/LIFT Mentorship recipient in 2010, completing the experimental short, Honey for Sale.

Presented in partnership with:

OAC, the Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto (LIFT), Gallery 44 Centre for Contemporary Photography, imagineNATIVE, 7th Generation, Native Child Family Services, Metis Nation of Ontario, NAISA, Niagara Custom Labs, ANDPVA

Linda Duvall and Peter Kingstone, Always put two on, girls, 60 x 100 cm inkjet print, 2012

October 26 – December 1, 2012
Opening Reception: Friday, October 26, 6 – 9 p.m.
Panel discussion: Wednesday, November 14, 6:30-8 p.m.
Gallery 44 Centre for Contemporary Photography
401 Richmond Street West, Suite 120
Toronto, ON M5V 3A8
T: 416.979.3941
E: sojin@gallery44.org
www.gallery44.org

Gallery 44 is pleased to present Living in 10 Easy Lessons, an exhibition featuring the collaborative work of Linda Duvall and Peter Kingstone. Living in 10 Easy Lessons comprises short instructional videos, a public poster series and take-away publication that engage ten women as they teach the artists skills they use in their everyday lives.

The exhibition aims to call attention to contemporary modes of education, where nearly anything can be learned through a series of steps, while simultaneously complicating assumptions around what these kinds of teaching and learning relationships can look like. Through the construction of a pedagogical relationship between the artists and their instructors, Duvall and Kingstone address both the potential and the problems of abstracting lived experience, thereby giving shape to related concerns around legitimacy, power and social change.

Co-organized with the Graduate Progrram in Social Work, Ryerson University, Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, Tallulahs Cabaret.

Linda Duvall presents within gallery contexts, on the web, and within public communities. She has completed degrees in Sociology and English from Carleton University, and Visual Arts from Ontario College of Art and Design University and the University of Michigan. She is currently a Professional Affiliate at the University of Saskatchewan.

Duvall has exhibited locally and internationally, including solo exhibitions at the Art Gallery of Hamilton, Dunlop Art Gallery, Art Gallery of Mississauga, Museo Nacional de Arte Moderno, Guatemala City, Box Hotel Gallery in Barcelona, Thunder Bay Art Gallery, and TPW in Toronto. She has participated in various public art events including CAFKA, Kitchener, Nuit Blanche, Toronto, and Future Cities, Hamilton. www.lindaduvall.com

Peter Kingstone is a Canadian artist based in Toronto. Kingstone has a degree in Philosophy and Cultural Studies from Trent University and a MFA from York University. Kingstone has received numerous grants from the Toronto Arts Council, Ontario Arts Council, and Canada Council for the Arts. He was awarded the Untitled Art Award (2004) for Best Show in an Alternate Space. Kingstone’s work digs through history, community and narrative to examine our lives today. Kingstone has shown in video festivals and at galleries throughout Canada and the United States. www.peterkingstone.com

Cheyanne Turions is a Toronto-based writer and curator. Most recently, she co-curated with Erik Martinson the exhibition This Story Begins and Ends with Us featuring the work of Basma Alsharif at A Space Gallery, Toronto. She is the director of No Reading After the Internet (Toronto), and sits on the Board of Directors for Fillip magazine and the Editorial Advisory Committee at FUSE magazine. Currently, she is the Shop Manager at Art Metropole. She maintains a website devoted to dialogue around curatorial practice at cheyanneturions.wordpress.com

October 18 – November 22, 2012
Opening Reception: Thursday, October 18, 6 – 9 p.m.
JULIE M. GALLERY
15 Mill Street Building 37, Suite 103
Toronto ON M5A 3R6
T: 416 603 2626
E: info@juliemgallery.com
www.juliemgallery.com

Julie M. Gallery presents recent series by master sculptor Jiri Ladocha. Found in major collections such as the Guggenheim Museum, Jiri Ladocha’s work has exhibited throughout Europe and North America. His crisp and minimal aesthetic is softened by undulating organic lines—this lends an uncommon beauty and sophistication to works combining metal, glass, wood and graphite.

His latest series, Wave, is inspired by water, which manifests in complex snaking bends in sheets of plywood. These large-scale works are finished in either reflective aluminum leaf or a velvet black created by coating graphite in beeswax.

The majority of work in To Hell With Posterity was created after 2007. This includes pieces from the H.2.0, Summertime, Mercury Run, Black Squares, and Of Time and the River series, to name a few. His adept handling of traditional materials reflects European training, however the execution and innovation for which he is known is cutting-edge contemporary.

Angela Sterritt , Your Courage Will Not Go Unnoticed

October 15 – 21, 2012.
TIFF BELL LIGHTBOX
Reitman Square,
350 King Street West
Toronto, ON
http://imaginenative.org/festival2012/SSDI

Pattison Onestop, imagineNATIVE and Amnesty International Canada co-present, Stolen Sisters Digital Initiative (SSDI) from October 15 to 21, 2012. The national project is comprised of four commissioned works that celebrate and honour Indigenous women and their contributions as strong, successful and valued members of society.

The four one-minute, silent digital works were created by award-winning, Canadian Indigenous artists: Jesse Gouchey and Xstine Cook (LIKE IT WAS YESTERDAY), Lisa Jackson (SNARE), Cara Mumford (WHEN IT RAINS) and Angela Sterritt (YOUR COURAGE WILL NOT GO UNNOTICED).

“I’m honoured to be selected to participate in the SSDI. It’s through art that we can express the human side of tragic social issues like this, so often lost in news coverage,” says Genie award-winning filmmaker, Lisa Jackson. “It’s an opportunity to recognize the women at the heart of the issue and to bring an awareness of the violence against them to a broader audience.”

SSDI will play on the Pattison Onestop subway screens to over 1 million Toronto’s daily commuters and nationally on 254 digital monitors in 33 shopping centres across Canada, at the Calgary International Airport, and TIFF Bell Lightbox leading up to and during the imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival.

For more information about the program, locations, dates and showing times please check: http://imaginenative.org/festival2012/SSDI.

approaching storms (2012) 6 x 6 mixed media

October 13 – 31. 2012
Opening Reception with the artist: Saturday, October 13, 2 – 4 p.m.
INGRAM GALLERY
49 Avenue Road (@ Yorkville)
Toronto, ON M5R 2G3
Tel. 416-929-2220
www.ingramgallery.com
Hours: Tues – Sat 11 – 5 p.m.

 Midway upon the journey of our life
I found myself within a dark forest,
For the straightforward pathway had been lost

 – Dante Alighieri, Inferno, Canto I

Working on drywall in the manner many are familiar with — this new body of work sees Price rendering more detail and pushing his stellar imagery to a high point.

“Some people see the dark side, other people see the humourous side” Price says of his work. “I just think that as people we’re really strange, and I have fun exploring that.”

Please contact the gallery for full catalogue and further exhibition  information. at http://www.ingramgallery.com/artists/ryan-price/index.htm

September 11 – October 13, 2012
AKASHA ART PROJECT

The perception of an art exhibition that includes large images of Bruce Cockburn, Ron Sexsmith and Prince might make a viewer believe that they are at a celebration of music rather than art. This body of work by Kevin Kelly, entitled ‘Rock & Religion’, pieces together imagery from an evolving body of work which brings two worlds together so that they read as one.

Hell is real – dimensions 48×32- photograph on hand-manipulated steel 2012

‘Rock & Religion’ juxtaposes evangelical iconography with the rock idol, while at the same time administering similarities between the two.  It began with a journey down a Southern U.S. freeway where Kelly was struck with by religious signage.  Placed in conjunction with familiar faces of popular rock culture, these religious images take on the same identifiable and iconographic nature as the famous individuals hung next to them.  While these two worlds might at first seem quite dissimilar, the reception of each in Kelly’s mind is quite the same; he sees the behaviors associated with religion – worship, praise, idolization – not at all unlike the social reaction to rock stars who have maintained an iconic status in society.  

Brendan Canning – 48×48 – photograph on hand-manipulated steel 2012

There is also the social stigma that these two genres attach to one another. What makes this show interesting is Kelly’s ability to see the similarities even in the dissimilarities of these two worlds and pull it all together.  He has captured both rock and roll and religion with the same honest, caught-in-the-moment, grittiness.  

Iggy Pop – 16×24 – photograph on hand-manipulated steel 2012

Each work is mounted on hand-manipulated steel ranging in size from sixteen by twenty-four inches all the way up to pieces as large as forty-eight by forty-eight. Some of the works are hung individually, with others in diptychs, quadrants or stacked.  This provides a variety of viewing experience from different perspectives, both in relation to one another and on their own.  

By taking imagery that might seem glaringly obvious and presenting it in a new context, Kelly has offered the observer a chance to engage with the subject matter in a new way – to understand these images alone but also for their preoccupation with each other.

Tower with Prince, Bryan Ferry, Teddy Furry and Religious sign – photographs on hand-manipulated steel – each piece 24×16 – individual works displayed together.2012

Kevin Kelly’s “Rock & Religion” runs until October 13, 2012 at akasha art projects, 511 Church Street, Suite 200, with a closing reception on October 11 from 7-9 pm.

by Kelli Jerome

 

Lights Out, 2012, oil on canvas, 36 x 24 inches

October 11 – November 3, 2012
Opening Reception: Thursday, October 11, 6 – 8 p.m.
Artist talk with curator and writer Peggy Gale, Saturday, October 20, 2 p.m.
NICOLAS METIVIER GALLERY
451 King Street West,
Toronto, M5V 1K4
T: 416.205.9000
www.metiviergallery.com
Hours: Tuesday-Saturday 10 – 6 p.m.

Nicholas Metivier Gallery is pleased to announce University and Spadina, an exhibition of new paintings by Joanne Tod. The exhibition will open on October 11 and will be on view through November 3 with a reception for the artist on Thursday, October 11 from 6– 8 p.m. This will be Tod’s second exhibition at the gallery.

Joanne Tod is renowned as one of Canada’s most accomplished realist painters. Her interest in this genre evolved from an early interest in Pop art and documentary photography. Working from her photographs of compelling interiors, people and objects, Tod finds a way to insert an element of social commentary and wit into every impeccably crafted painting.

The title of Tod’s new exhibition, University and Spadina, invokes the names of two wellknown Toronto streets. The implication of a fictitious intersection sets up a paradoxical comparison of two closely situated, but otherwise disparate landmarks in this city – 1 Spadina Crescent, the current home of the University of Toronto’s Visual Studies Department and the Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art. The variance in their architectural style as well as function is highlighted in Tod’s ability to convey the particular moods that permeate these historic and still-evolving buildings.

Else Marie Hagen, Cover II (Detail), 144.8 x 100 cm chromogenic print, 2009

September 14 – October 13, 2012
GALLERY 44 Centre for Contemporary Photography

Else Marie Hagen’s scenes are meticulously planned. In these staged photographs everything is the result of a long procedure involving thinking and visual planning until the final form is realized.

There is a dreamlike quality to her images. Standing in front of Cover II., I feel a certain discomfort and quietness at the same time. A young woman stands in front of me. Her eyes are closed. She wears layers of clothing, all in washed-out colors, or maybe it’s the Nordic light that makes them look so pale. I get the feeling that she might fade away at any minute. The surface is flat, very flat. It looks like she is on a catwalk-like ramp. Will she follow it out of the picture? What might happen if she opens her eyes? The physical reality here produces a paradoxical illusion of stillness and movement simultaneously.

I turn to the right and there is Panorama. The crinkled golden surface reminds me of the gold of old icons and early renaissance paintings where they depicted God and the heavenly spheres in their timeless glory. What kind of panorama is this? The crumpled gold paper encloses the scene and makes me feel claustrophobic. The female figure has her back to us, absorbed in the “panorama” of this artificially gold surface where the reflecting light gives us a feeling of movement.

I found these pieces to be an intriguing exploration of the Visible. The more I look at them the more and more I get interested in the Invisible hidden behind.

by Emese Krunák-Hajagos

Featured image: Else Marie Hagen, Panorama, 2009, 123 x 254 cm chromogenic print

Juan Carlos Noria

October 11 – November 3, 2012
Opening Reception: Saturday, October 13, 4 – 8 p.m.
ROBERT KANANAJ GALLERY
1267 Bloor St. W.
Toronto, ON, M6H 1N7
T: 416.289.8855
E: info@robertkananajgallery.com
www.robertkananajgallery.com
Hours: Tues–Sat 11–6 p.m.

“Nested Heartbeat” comforts the unpredictable animal instinct of care and talent. The “Nest” has roots in early nineties with Juan Carlos Noria, which becomes a prominent figure, protesting and releasing instant messages of disobedience towards anything limiting the freedom of expression to street art, catching the attention of young artists at the time. Stefan Thompson’s social enlightenment and environmentally friendly tuning started in Ottawa at the time of Juan’s mini movement. Jordan Seal discovered his roots of meaning and purpose linked to art, when he came across and met for the first time with Stefan Thompson in 2010. Utopia and purity within the process of artmaking entertain the notion of individual revolution for Jordan, as he observed in Stefan, as Stefan did earlier through Juan. With Wing Yee Tong the “nest” is extending the comfort of the heartbeat. Her large, contemplative sculptures as state-of-mind, are steam-gathering meditation, mood setting of social alertness and endurance. In the context of Nested Heartbeat. Jason Trucco adapts the “nest” with multi-media piece “Going For Broker”, meaningful in several ways. Firstly, as a moving picture wherein the broker lives and breathes within the canvas. This calls attention to the subject’s heartbeat, the rhythm that animates human life, nested inside each of us. Even an investment broker. Secondly, Going For Broker is a work in a new medium, with its subject’s mood and gesture driven by real time stock market data updated by Internet every thirty seconds. As such it uses a defined heartbeat that pulses at regular intervals to take a measure of how billions of investors are feeling, a global heartbeat, at any given moment during the trading day and it translates this data to affect the emotions of the figure. This shows how some things, so vast that they can’t be seen or even touched, can be measured in ticker-tape and felt by the human heart.

Jason Trucco is an accomplished artist and director whose distinctive and highly experimental work is grounded in handsome explorations of seemingly familiar images, ideas, and experiences. An important contributor to the Newest Wave movements of the 2010s, his mode of expression is a disarmingly clear and accessible style, characterized by inventive new technology, wordplay, and wit. Trucco is widely recognized for his innovations in the world of interactive cinema. Overall exploration of the fine arts is evident. He became known in the 2000s and 2010s for his avant-garde productions, particularly for his 2011 collaboration with Kii Arens (and Gerald Casale), “What We Do” for Devo, which deftly combined the practices of visual art, performance, technology, and design. In a new series of art works, Exhibit A, Trucco explores the legacy of picture making by introducing interactivity to drawing, still photography, and moving image. Canadian, from Toronto, lives in US.

Juan Carlos Noria works under the pseudonyms of royal or dixon. Accomplished figure skater in his youth, he later brings grace and lines out of an obsession to ne arts since early nineties. Juan Carlos also ensured a showcase for other young Ottawa artists. Born in Caracas, Venezuela, he grew up in Ottawa, Canada, and lives and works in Spain since 2004.

Stefan Thompson uses Earth paints and recycled materials to make his works, like fabric mache, wheat and milk pasting, collage, wax and woodcarving, wood burning, egg tempera, oils, and sewing. Stefan Thompson is from Ottawa, Ontario, where he received a Bachelor of Science in Environmental Science from Carleton University.

Jordan Seal Project started with the first anniversary exhibition of Robert Kananaj Gallery in August 2012. Jordan’s project is about witnessing and experiencing wonder. He creates abstract worlds that channel his individuality chanels the before social borders with birth of utopian eden. Jordan Seal was born and lives in Ottawa.

Wing Yee Tong works with everyday materials and the throwaways of mass consumer culture to make hybrids inspired by folk crafts, handcrafted labour, nesting projects and stories of living in the urban environment. Sculpture, drawing, installation and video are her areas of expression. Born in Hong Kong, Wing Yee recently moved back to Toronto from Saskatoon where she completed her studies in MFA studio. Wing Yee majored in painting and drawing at the Ontario College of Art and Design, spending her nal year in Florence, Italy.

Thursday, October 4, 2012, 6:30 – 11 p.m.
ART GALLERY OF ONTARIO

On October 4th, 2012 the AGO started a new series called The First Thursday. Fron now on the 1st Thursday of each month, the AGO will open its doors to adults aged 19+ from 6:30 to 11 p.m. No two 1st Thursdays will be the same, with unique projects, activities and performances designed to make each evening memorable.

 “Our aim is to be more than just a social destination,” said Kelly McKinley, the AGO’s executive director of education and public programming. “We want to give people the opportunity to see and make and do and hear as much art as they can every month.”

Evan Penny talks in his show Re Figured

On October 4th Evan Penny, Toronto based internationally acclaimed artist, presented Re Figured, his evolution over the past decade – realistic sculptures that are half object, half images. Some taking nearly 400 hours of work, Penny shared during his talk that his works are “not artificial, it’s real.” Although life-like, but also distortions of reality allowed a sort of voyeurism that caught the crowds’ curious eye.

Scott Murray in front his sculpture by Evan Penny: Murray Variation 3

He asked questions like ‘who am I?’ and ‘who are we?’ While the exhibit appears to be basic on print, the magnitude of the work is much more remarkable in person. The materials used include advancements in silicone processes that are used in film and medicine, human hair, fabric and resin. (Please also see our interview with Evan Penny at http://www.artoronto.ca/?p=14389)

Trevor Kruse is talking

Also at the AGO’s 1st Thursdays series, DesignTALKS lectures with Trevor Kruse, award winning designer and principal of Hudson Kruse Design, who has designed both residential, condominiums and corporate offices, including Trump Towers. Kruse shared that he finds space planning the most fun. He has worked on everything from private residential homes from scratch to modernizing Victorian homes to homes in Europe for people he has had a 15 year relationship with. The biggest challenge for him is time frame – what’s desired is not what’s expected given custom made requests, delays and other obstacles that can’t be controlled for in the design world.

Afie Jurvanen is playing

To close off the night Afie Jurvanen hailing from Barrie, Ontario, of the band, Bahamas performed an intimate set in Walker Court to a crowded room. A Juno and Polaris Prize nominee, it was quite a great night of all things aesthetically pleasing. His soulful electric guitar was captivating. I went for the art, and stayed for the band.

Text and photo: Salomeh Ahmadi

BMO 1st Art Awards – Canada’s Emerging Student Artists
Ceremony: Tuesday, October 2, 2012
Exhibition Runs from October 3 – 28, 2012
MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY CANADIAN ART

This was the tenth anniversary for the BMO 1st Art Awards and the evening was celebrated with the exhibition of works and the awarding of prize monies to all 12 regional winners and the National Winner Mika Goodfriend of Concordia University. The range of works was diverse including a variety of media. Works included photography, mixed media, sculpture, printmaking and painting.

 Opening remarks by Gilles G. Ouellette, President & Chief Executive Officer, Private Client Group, BMO Financial Group

The quality of work was high and the winners will find their work in the BMO Corporate Art Collection with the likes of Paterson Ewen , Emily Carr, Ian Wallace, Lawren Harris and other well known Canadian artists.

Father Dan Donovan, St Michaels College Collection and Olga Korper of Olga Korper Gallery

The occasion was attended by art gallery directors and collectors from across the city as well as representatives from BMO and art patrons. The winners were introduced by Dawn Cain, curator of the BMO Financial Group Corporate Art Collection. Opening remarks came from Gilles G. Ouellette, President & Chief Executive Officer, Private Client Group, BMO Financial Group.

 Dawn Cain, curator of the BMO Financial Group Corporate Art Collection, and National winner Mika Goodfriend

2012 Winners:

BMO 1st Art! National Winner – Mika Goodfriend, ConcordiaUniversity

National Winner Mika Goodfriend from Concordia University documented French Quebecois retirees often referred to as Snowbirds. His diptych and social commentary on the snowbirds was wonderful.

BMO 1st Art! Regional Winners:

Alberta – Noor ul Ain, Alberta College of Art and Design
British Columbia – Yi Xin Tong, SimonFraserUniversity
Manitoba – Agnes Neufeld, University of Manitoba
New Brunswick – Nathan Cann, Mount Allison University
Newfoundland & Labrador – Diana Chisholm, Grenfell Campus, Memorial University
Nova Scotia  – Jessie Babin, Nova Scotia School of Art and Design
Nunavut – Lavinia Van Heuvelen, Nunavut Arctic College
Ontario – Sarah Beatie, Marilyn I. Walker School of Fine and Performing Arts, Brock University
Prince Edward Island – Adnan Saciragic, HollandCollege
Quebec – Jean- Michel Leclerc, Universite du Quebec a Montreal
Saskatchewan – Anita Miles, University Of Regina
Yukon Territory – Kristen Poenn, Yukon School of Visual Arts

Noor Ul Ain,  In and about the shadows that I follow and around the shadows that you follow

Noor Ul Ain of the Alberta College of Art had a mixed media work titled, In and about the shadows that I follow and around the shadows that you follow. This towering work of wire, thread and fabric was delicate and engaging.

Jessie Babin, Nova Scotia winner

Lavinia Van Heuvelen, Nunauvut winner

Kristen Poenn of the Yukon School of Visual Arts, work Coyote Crown used plaster, coyote fur, latex, wir, styrofoam, hot glue and oil paint to depict a three headed, ferrous headpiece.

All the works on display were impressive works and it will be worth following these students as they follow their career paths as artists. Congratulations to BMO for recognizing emerging student artists and kudos for MOCCA for exhibiting and supporting these artists.

Text and photo: Phil Anderson

 

October 11 – November 2, 2012
Opening Remarks by Dr John Stanley, Saturday, October 13, 1:30 p.m.
CANADIAN SCULPTURE CENTRE
500 Church Street
Toronto, ON M4Y 2C8
T: 647-435-5858
E: gallery@cansculpt.org
Hours: Tue–Fri 1 2– 6; Sat 11 – 4 p.m.

 

CANADIAN SCULPTURE CENTRE Presents THINGS FALL APART a solo exhibition by Andrew Pawlowski.

THINGS FALL APART… explore natural disasters, human tragedies, and apocalyptic prophesies.

Pawlowski incorporates found materials, driftwood, bronze and stone assemblages with medieval flair. His symbolic carvings of wood and stone reflect variants of human attitudes towards self-deception. Mental visions imbued along the mysterious road between life and death sway the viewer away from the main tract unmasking human weaknesses. The assemblages may be visually disturbing at times, and thought-provoking intentionally, they evoke poignant dark humour, yet “things come together again”.