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Yam Lau at Leo Kamen Gallery

April 27, 2008 by ArtJetSet

Redefining pictorial space in art and media, Yam Lau creates a 3D perception from a 2D animation of his bedroom, on view at Leo Kamen Gallery. It’s morning, I would guess a sunday morning. Yam Lau creates a spinning cube reflecting on each outer surface simultaneously like a mirror, the slow waking and rising from bed. The reconception and refiguration of space is the most astonishing part of this work.

Categories: Toronto • Tags: Leo Kamen Gallery, Yam Lau

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Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art MOCCA

April 22, 2008 by ArtJetSet

The MOCCA‘s Contact exhibition titled From the Epic to the Everyday is a panoramic dialogue that stretchs accross the world, through different periods, themes, and cultures, discussing their unique identity through image. From Robert Burley’s documentary photos of the destruction of Kodak Park, Nan Goldin’s hauntingly intimate portraits, Luc Delahaye’s disaster scapes. A phenominal contrast between the redundantly ironic Martin Parr who exhibits middle class England at its worst to Bert Teunissen who photographed elderly couples in their homes, granting […]

Categories: Toronto, Uncategorized • Tags: Bert Teunissen, Luc Delahaye, Martin Parr, Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Nan Goldin, Robert Burley

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Contact Toronto Photography Festival 2008

April 15, 2008 by ArtJetSet

Contact is Toronto’s annual photography festival, where galleries (both public and private), restaurants, clothing stores, shops and offices of all kinds exhibit photographs and photo works. The festival last the entire of the month of May. Between Memory and History is the theme of this 12th annual Contact Photography Festival. One of the first shows I saw was a stunning exhibition at Paul Petro by photographer Henry Vehovec. Titled Tibet: Rights and Rings, Vehovec’s works harmonize the notion of the […]

Categories: Art Fairs • Tags: Contact Toronto Photography Festival, Henry Vehovec

HOT Canadian Galleries

April 14, 2008 by ArtJetSet

Montreal’s Galerie SAS featuring artists like Karine Giboulo who creates sculptures of ironic miniature interiors. Calgary’s Skew Gallery featuring artists like Matt Crookshank who does stunning abstract works, and Terrance Houle dynamic contemporary Aboriginal artist. Toronto’s Greener Pastures featuring André Ethier, an increadible artist, paintings are erie and striking. Toronto’s LE Gallery next big thing artist Katie Pretti, Nicholas Di Genova, and Dalek. Vancouver’s Tracey Lawrence Gallery, feature photographer-performance artist Tim Lee, iconic Jason McLean who’s freeform photo drawings are […]

Categories: Toronto • Tags: Galerie SAS, Greener Pastures, LE Gallery, Skew Gallery, Tracey Lawrence Gallery

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Yasumasa Morimura at Thaddeaus Ropac

April 14, 2008 by ArtJetSet

The brilliant and funny Yasumasa Morimura exhibition titled Requiem for the XX Century at Thaddeus Ropac. Morimura transforms himself into heroic and iconic portraits. This portrait of himself as Che was hung facing a small video screen previewing the live recording of the character.Morimura’s work has used icons from Western Art historical traditions, for this exhibition as a reference he used very iconic cultural historic figures.

Categories: Paris • Tags: Thaddeaus Ropac, Yasumasa Morimura

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Xavier Veilhan at Emmanuel Perrotin

April 12, 2008 by ArtJetSet

The Emmanuel Perrotin Gallery has two locations, one at 76 rue de Turenne and the other just down the street at 10 impasse Saint Claude. Xavier Veilhan’s feature exhibition titled Furtivo, which means movement, was an akward juxtaposition of works. Singularly you can see how each piece is negoting the theme of movement, yet the exhibition lacked unity. At rue de Turenne, a shark, then legs underwater of galloping horses, then these automatic self-functioning air hockey tables. Mechanical, cold, yes […]

Categories: Paris • Tags: Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, Xavier Veilhan

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ORLAN at Galerie Michel Rein

April 10, 2008 by ArtJetSet

ORLAN, she is her own canvas. Since the begining of her career she has used (by photographic documentation) her surgical and medical interventions as her artform. All the works are in ORLAN’s exhibition at Galerie Michel Rein are titled Refiguration Self-hybridation, indian-american series. The use of lightboxes was interesting. Very selfobessed in an Orlan way.

Categories: Paris • Tags: Galerie Michel Rein, Orlan

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Barney Kulok at Galerie Hussenot

April 9, 2008 by ArtJetSet

Barney Kulok is a great contemporary photographer who’s work comments on surveillance, and the cracks between the spaces around us… looking objectively at common places. The lower level of the Galerie Hussenot, is a great big open white space. The prints are massive, yet you still manage to feel really small in the big void of empty space. In the context of this particular show of Barney Kulok, it worked. The gallery space echoed what we feel in Kulok’s photos.The […]

Categories: Paris • Tags: Barney Kulok, Contemporary Photography, Galerie Hussenot

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Barbara Prézeau and Inés Tolentino at JM’Arts

April 6, 2008 by ArtJetSet

I had never heard of the The JM’Arts gallery at 36, rue Quincampoix 75004 Paris, walking past I was loured in by the glittering icons in Barbara Prézeau’s painting in the front window. This exhibition featured to female artists of west Caribean origins, Prézeau from Haiti, and Inés Tolentino from the Domincan Republic. In an adherently feminist method, both artists use embroidery in their works. Prézeau creates complex alters to the Virgin Mary. Her use of mashup mixed media, found […]

Categories: Paris, Uncategorized • Tags: Barbara Prézeau, Inés Tolentino, JM’Arts

Galerie Agnes B PostPunk ColdWave

April 5, 2008 by ArtJetSet

DANSEZ!! Glowed in the entrance of the collective show at Agnes B Galerie du Jour!Featuring music, photos, and memoriabilia about the music scene in France from 1978-1983.This exhibition is a fun. Polaroids, concert posters, and listen rare or unreleased listening stations, gives a priviledged glance into a great musical era! Also a remarkable indicator of the current revival in Post punk ColdWave, seen in new music and fashion. I could relate to this show as North American doing Blondie and […]

Categories: Paris • Tags: Agnes b, Cold Wave, Phillipe Huart, Post Punk

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Toronto Sculpture Garden

April 3, 2008 by ArtJetSet

Since its inauguration 1983, strange and wonderful things have been growing in Toronto’s Sculpture Garden. The current exhibition is a giant mushroom, of which the interior serves as the artist Katie Bethune-Leaman’s studio space. Mushroom Studio, is a vague reference to the phenomenon-tradition of towns construct emblematic objects as tourist attractions (yeah…. we all have photos of the Big Apple off the 401West bound), which was recently parodied in beer commercial.

Categories: Installations • Tags: Katie Bethune-Leaman, mushroom studio, Toronto Sculpture Gardens

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Fashion Photographers Bruna Kazinoti and Sara Wilmer

April 1, 2008 by ArtJetSet

Two great fashion photographers to keep our eyes wide open for : Sarah Wilmer Bruna Kazinoti

Categories: Uncategorized • Tags: Bruna Kazinoti, Sara Wilmer

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Food For Thought

April 1, 2008 by ArtJetSet

Finally went to the Centre Culturel Suisse, in the heart of the marais, its a space dedicated to art culture and performance with lots of interestings thing happening all the time. I saw a disaster sculpture show, looks like it was run by toddlers of hardcore folkart enthousiasts!!! horrible horrible scarrrrrry pottery. I LOVED the banana peel sculpture and the snowman. Naive but it says something about temporality, banal jokes, and banana/carrot/ mmmmmm smoothie!!! I’m hungry, and I LOVE cake!!! […]

Categories: Paris • Tags: BlackBox, Centre Culturel Suisse, hand knit cake, Palais de Tokyo

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Monthly Archives: April 2008

Yam Lau at Leo Kamen Gallery

Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art MOCCA

Contact Toronto Photography Festival 2008

HOT Canadian Galleries

Yasumasa Morimura at Thaddeaus Ropac

Xavier Veilhan at Emmanuel Perrotin

ORLAN at Galerie Michel Rein

Barney Kulok at Galerie Hussenot

Barbara Prézeau and Inés Tolentino at JM’Arts

Galerie Agnes B PostPunk ColdWave

Toronto Sculpture Garden

Fashion Photographers Bruna Kazinoti and Sara Wilmer

Food For Thought