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  • Aleksandra Mir: The Seduction of Galileo Galilei

    June 18 – August 6, 2011 Opening: Saturday, June 18 Artist’s talk at 3 pm, reception 4-6pm MERCER UNION A Centre for Contemporary Art International artist Mir is interested in the specific dynamics of technologies. Her new work is inspired by Galileo Galilei’s experiments with gravity.

  • Sarah Anne Johnson: Arctic Wonderland

    June 16 – July 16, 2011 Stephen Bulger Gallery During October 2009, Sarah Anne Johnson participated in an artist’s residency in the Norwegian territory of the ArcticCircle. Each of the twelve days at sea the group visited a different site on land, ranging from untouched vistas of pure landscape to abandoned mining camps.

  • Amy Switzer: Bird Call

    June 8 – July 9, 2011 Closing reception: Saturday, July 9, 4-6pm TELEPHONE BOOTH GALLERY Birds inspired by literature and created from books. Switzer’s recent drawings and sculptures attempt to address the complex relations we have with animals and the way we have charged them with symbolic and anthropologic characteristics.

  • Magic Squares: The Patterned Imagination of Muslim Africa in Contemporary Culture

    May 18, 2011 – Nov 20, 2011 Artists: Jamelie Hassan, Hamid Kachmar, Alia Toor and Tim Whiten Magic squares, known all over the world as mathematical games like Sudoku and Kenken, become carriers of powerful and diverse cultural meanings when they are painted, woven or embroidered on textiles Curated by Patricia Bentley Textile Museum of…

  • CONTACT Photography Festival 2011

    80 Spadina Avenue, Suite 310 Toronto, ON M5V 2J4 416.539.9595 info@scotiabankcontactphoto.com Current Exhibitions [column width=”100px” padding=”5%”] [/column] [column width=”440″ padding=”5%”] Figure and Ground: Deaf View Photography May 17-December 31 Distillery Historic District – Deaf Culture Centre 55 Mill St Bldg 5, Ste 101 Toronto, ON M5A 3C4 Tue – Sat 11am – 6pm Sun 12…

  • ISTVAN KANTOR and the DENTAL TROPE

    By Gary Michael Dault I came into the Drake Hotel coffee shop a couple of weeks ago and there was anarchist-wildman-artist Istvan Kantor at a window table in the sunlight and when he smiled a greeting—for we hadn’t seen one another for a couple of years—there was suddenly a visionary gleam in the coffee shop,…

  • 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…

  • Illuminated Manuscript

    By Matt Macintosh “Illuminated Manuscript”, a site-specific installation curated by Bonnie Rubenstein at The Coach House as part of this years CONTACT festival themed, “Figure + Ground” is part of Robert Bean’s ongoing research project on Marshall McLuhan, technology and obsolescence. With access to the back-rooms of the Canadian Science and Technology Museum in Ottawa,…

  • BEST BEFORE

    By Von Bark The art of eating is the very substance which gives us life. The art of preparing food for consumption is an alchemical/transformative process which simmers our cultural influences in complex ways. ‘Best Before’ is a group show of Aboriginal artists that bites into this feast. There is a light-handed but sharp sense…

  • Sound Before Sight

    By Amanda Pignotti As visitors walk toward the blackened room of the E-Gallery located on the UTM (University of Toronto at Mississauga) campus, sound before sight entices the crowd. One by one, visitors unconsciously emerge as “listeners” of a work of art, prior to becoming the “viewer”. Intimidating and boisterous tones stampede out from the…

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