AGO Insider
Oct 19, 2022
‘‘Multidisciplinary artist Caroline Monnet presents visions of the future with a selection of recent works at Arsenal Contemporary Art Toronto, on view now..”
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‘‘Multidisciplinary artist Caroline Monnet presents visions of the future with a selection of recent works at Arsenal Contemporary Art Toronto, on view now..”
Read More“Today, the Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival announced the full program for the 26th edition of the city-wide event launching in May, with some projects taking place later in 2022. The Festival features over 140 exhibitions by Canadian and international lens-based artists who will present an array of projects online and in museums, galleries, and public spaces across Toronto.”
Read More“Miles Greenberg's most recent project Late October took place at Arsenal Contemporary Art Toronto late last Fall. Precious Okoyomon's poem "Late October" appeared as a sort of precursory libation at the entrance to the exhibition. The poem speaks to an interregnum that many of us have explicitly and implicitly come to feel.”
Read More“With Toronto being the fastest growing metropolitan city in Canada, it's easy to overlook its shoreline and the stories it tells about our relationship with the environment. For this reason, the second edition of the Toronto Biennial of Art (TBA) explores the sense of kinship between humans and nature through contemporary works from Canadian and international artists.”
Read More“With Toronto being the fastest growing metropolitan city in Canada, it's easy to overlook its shoreline and the stories it tells about our relationship with the environment. For this reason, the second edition of the Toronto Biennial of Art (TBA) explores the sense of kinship between humans and nature through contemporary works from Canadian and international artists.”
Read More“For 10 weeks every two years, local, national, and international Biennial artists transform the city and its partner regions with artworks, talks, and performances that reflect the local context and the Biennial's commitment to inspire individuals, bridge communities, contribute to global conversation, and amplify calls to action.”
Read More“Where there is water, there is life - which is why people settle along riverbanks and lakeshores. As the second Toronto Biennial of Art takes the meeting of water and land as its theme, there is a certain yearning in the art of three dozen Canadian and international creators displayed at nine different sites across this Great Lakes city.”
Read More“What Water Knows, The Land Remembers, the second edition of the Toronto Biennial of Art, opened on Saturday, March 26, 2022. The Biennial’s free Exhibitions and Programs, presented across several sites throughout the 72-day event, remain on view through June 5, 2022.”
Read More“The Toronto Biennial of Art (TBA) opens Saturday, March 26 and for 10 whole weeks, its slate of programming is entirely free to explore. In addition to art exhibitions, the program includes performances, workshops and walking tours, and all that action will be spread across nine different venues [...]”
Read More“The second edition of the Toronto Biennial of Art (TBA) — What Water Knows, The Land Remembers — opens on Saturday, March 26. The Biennial’s free exhibitions and programs, presented across several sites throughout the 72-day event, remain on view through June 5.”
Read More“Returning to its mystical lagoon, Greenberg takes an absorbing new step in his practice. The supernatural pool is populated by three solid sculptures, the first to be produced and displayed by the artist. The figures are familiar and humanoid, yet jagged and abstract.”
Read More‘‘Tasman Richardson mines the intimate condition of video feedback and capture to explore contemporary practices of vanity and voyeurism.”
Read MoreL’exposition en cours de Pascal Grandmaison renoue avec l’installation vidéo à grand déploiement étudiée en fonction de la galerie René Blouin, de vastes espaces qu’il a déjà su occuper intégralement.
Read MoreThrough a series of portraits featuring the exhausted landscape of the New Mexico desert, Cadieux allowed herself to inhabit the corporeal, less as a vessel for introspection than a light tower from which to look out.
Read MoreAn intensely personal yet universal exploration of the experience of loss, marking the first time Perry has chosen to address the tragedy of the recent suicide of her best friend and artistic collaborator, Pete Morrow.
Read MoreArsenal Contemporary Art Toronto is pleased to present "Liquid Language", the first exhibition in Toronto by London, U.K. artist Hannah Perry.
Read MoreAdam Basanta uses sound and image to illustrate the behavior of feedback loops, blurring the line between technology and nature while testing the boundaries of authorship.
Read MoreSince 2009 Caroline Monnet has been writing and directing films that centre on the strength and resilience of indigenous peoples in Canada. In her sculptural and installation work she uses materials like concrete, wood, arrows, copper and clothes to explore the complexity of indigenous identity from the vantage point of her urban position and lifestyle.
Read MoreIn a new series of ‘Fragment’ portraits, Monnet has developed individualized masks that overlay the faces of chosen subjects. Mixing facial features with geometric shapes, new identities are forged through abstraction and interference.
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