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FEATURE EXHIBITIONS & PROJECTS
ART TOURS
15TH ANNIVERSARY FEATURE EXHIBITION
Join one of Art Toronto’s engaging art tours. Tours are included with admission and last approximately 45-60 minutes. Arrive early as space is limited.
BGL, CANADA DE FANTAISIE / CANADA FANCY SPONSORED BY RBC WEALTH MANAGEMENT
BGL’s Canada de Fantaisie/Canada Fancy is an urban carousel made from steel security fences suspended from a lamppost. It explores notions of control and freedom, and engages viewers in breaking down barriers as they climb on and enjoy the ride. This installation continues BGL’s ongoing investigation of security fences and their relationship with collective values and cultural patterns. Usually a tool for crowd control, the modern security barrier becomes a symbol of transcendence and creativity.
BGL Canada de Fantaisie/Canada Fancy, 2012 Mixed media Courtesy of the artists, Diaz Contemporary, Toronto, and Parisian Laundry, Montréal. Installation view from the exhibition Oh, Canada, from May 26, 2012 to April 2013, MASS MoCA Photo: Timothy Harrison Raab
The Québec City-based artists who make up BGL—Jasmin Bilodeau, Sébastien Giguère and Nicolas Laverdière—have been collaborating for almost twenty years to create ambitious and often humorous works of art. Their elaborate sculptures, installations and performance works offer an original take on social and political issues, including consumer culture, contemporary values, the art establishment and the environment. Reacting to the increasingly digital age, BGL takes a distinctly DIY approach, tinkering, playing and enjoying the “poetry of materials”.
With its appearance at Art Toronto, Canada de Fantaisie/Canada Fancy is making a return visit to this city. First conceived for the exhibition Oh, Canada, held at MASS MoCA in North Adams, Massachusetts in 2012-2013, the work was assembled at York University, where BGL was sculptor-in-residence. The group will be heading to Venice next year to represent Canada at the 56th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia 2015, in a presentation organized by the National Gallery of Canada, along with guest curator Marie Fraser of the Université du Québec à Montréal. The Presenting Sponsor of the Canada Pavilion is RBC Wealth Management, with major support provided by Aimia. Canada de Fantaisie/Canada Fancy is sponsored by RBC Wealth Management, and presented by Art Toronto and the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa. BGL would like to thank the Odette Sculpture Center at York University, Toronto for helping to make Canada de Fantaisie/Canada Fancy a reality.
MARMAN AND BORINS, PAVILION OF THE BLIND
Pavilion of the Blind by Marman and Borins (Jennifer Marman and Daniel Borins) is a large-scale kinetic installation, featuring a colourful array of window blinds, panels and shades. Pavilion of the Blind arranges and rearranges itself into a series of constantly changing abstract compositions. Movement is triggered by a motion detector and controlled by a microcomputer housed within the structure. Marman and Borins, Pavilion of the Blind, 2013. Mechanized vertical blinds, shades, and panel systems (custom coloured), motors, micro controller, 10’ x 32’ x 4.’ Courtesy of Cristin Tierney Gallery, New York. Photo: Dan Dabrowski
VSVSVS NAP STATION
VSVSVS, a seven-person collective and artist-run centre based out of a warehouse in the portlands of Toronto, presents Nap Station, a much-needed respite from the stress of art. Lay your weary head to rest and let the buzzing of the crowds become a gentle, soothing white noise. Day won’t turn to night but there will be curtains. Schedule an appointment; drop-ins welcome. Décor provided by VSVSVS members.
Amalie Atkins is represented by dc3 Art Projects, Edmonton. Booth #1212
THE CURATOR SERIES
PRESENTED BY THE ART DEALERS ASSOCIATION OF CANADA (ADAC)
4-5pm ADAC Booth #1302
2-3pm Info Booth
Join Rachel Gotlieb, Chief Curator of the Gardiner Museum, for a tour that looks at artists who engage with craft processes such as ceramics, glass and textiles in their practice.
TRUST THE EXPERTS
BREAK ROOM, THE NEXT LOUNGE BY THRUSH HOLMES
According to Holmes he is “creating an activated construction site. It’s a bit macho. I built mansions in Muskoka, the building sites of which would become environments for introspection. The workers would invariably bro-down and discuss their real interests and ideals, their vulnerabilities, art, music, books, sex, existence. We’d also seek to impress by one-upman-ship through building items with scraps --- benches, tables, outhouse scenarios, lamps. There was a lot of decoration too.” Thrush Holmes is represented by Mike Weiss Gallery, New York. Booth #1010
Trust the Experts is a program of tours for both the experienced and novice art buyer and collector. Senior art professionals will engage audiences and explore the complexities of Canadian art from past to present. Join Joseph Rumi, Director of Fine Art at Rumi Galleries in Mississauga, for a tour highlighting post-war modern works.
THE CURATOR SERIES
4-5pm ADAC Booth #1302
5-6pm Info Booth
PRESENTED BY THE ART DEALERS ASSOCIATION OF CANADA (ADAC)
Trust the Experts is a program of tours for both the experienced and novice art buyer and collector. Senior art professionals will engage audiences and explore the complexities of Canadian art from past to present. Join Jeanette Langmann, Director of Uno Langmann Limited Fine Arts in Vancouver, for a tour examining historical art.
THE CURATOR SERIES
Philip Monk, Director and Curator of the Art Gallery of York University, leads a tour that looks to the “between” of the art fair—to between the booths, even to their closets— to discover the conviviality of artworks and how they live together.
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 26 THE CURATOR SERIES
In Focus: Georgina Jackson and York Lethbridge of Mercer Union will highlight engaging and emerging practices by artists living and working in Toronto.
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 25 THE CURATOR SERIES
2-3pm Info Booth
The Trend is Your Friend: A survey of popular aesthetic and conceptual tendencies currently influencing international contemporary art practices, led by Lucas Soi, Independent Curator and Founder, Soi Fischer.
TRUST THE EXPERTS
2-3pm AGO Booth #1308
Courtesy of Cristin Tierney Gallery, New York.
Offering a glimpse of prairie upbringing, a love of storytelling, and an affection for whimsy and darkness together, Three Minute Miracle is a thorough introduction to Amalie Atkins’ artistic practice. MASS MoCA’s Oh, Canada exhibition featured the installation, which Atkins created after her move to Saskatoon. New places, cold weather, and creative necessity inspired the 16mm film exploring themes of loneliness and community with felt creatures, rotting teeth and dancing bears.
TRUST THE EXPERTS
5-6pm Info Booth
SELECTED 15TH ANNIVERSARY FEATURE PROJECTS
AMALIE ATKINS, THREE MINUTE MIRACLE
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 24
4-5pm ADAC Booth #1302
Andrew Hunter, Fredrik S. Eaton Curator, Canadian Art at the Art Gallery of Ontario leads a tour highlighting significant Canadian works on display throughout the fair with an emphasis on contemporary art that engages with history and “traditional” Canadian subject matter.
PRESENTED BY THE ART DEALERS ASSOCIATION OF CANADA (ADAC)
Trust the Experts is a program of tours for both the experienced and novice art buyer and collector. Senior art professionals will engage audiences and explore the complexities of Canadian art from past to present. Join Shelli CassidyMcIntosh, Executive Director of Olga Korper Gallery, as she explores the world of contemporary art.
MOCCA BENEFIT EDITION Art Toronto and the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art (MOCCA) have commissioned Montréal-based artist Valérie Blass to produce Ne regarde pas II, 2014, a limited edition digital print on matte paper, to benefit programming initiatives at MOCCA. Ne regarde pas II will be available for purchase onsite at the MOCCA Booth #1314 for $1,800 CDN. Art Toronto MOCCA Benefit Edition | Valérie Blass, Ne regarde pas II (detail), 2014. Courtesy of the artist & Parisian Laundry, Montréal. © Valérie Blass.
Main
Sandra Ainsley Gallery TORONTO 247 Angell Gallery TORONTO 800 AREA Gallery HAMILTON 253 Art Mûr MONTRÉAL 812 Back Gallery Project VANCOUVER 919 Bau-Xi Gallery / Bau-Xi Photo TORONTO & VANCOUVER 400 Beaux-Arts des Amériques MONTRÉAL 342 Galerie Anita Beckers FRANKFURT 710 Galerie De Bellefeuille MONTRÉAL 422, 518 Galerie Jean-Claude Bergeron OTTAWA 107 Bicha Gallery LONDON 913 Stephen Bulger Gallery TORONTO 824 Caviar20 TORONTO 842 CFA Gallery TORONTO 112 Contempop Expressions Galleries TEL AVIV 251 Galeria Contrast BARCELONA 626 Jonathan Cooper, Park Walk Gallery LONDON 209 Corkin Gallery TORONTO 820 Christopher Cutts Gallery TORONTO 608 Galerie D’Este MONTRÉAL 522 Bruno Dahl Gallery EBELTOFT 109 Diaz Contemporary TORONTO 720 Galerie Division MONTRÉAL & TORONTO 900
Barbara Edwards Contemporary CALGARY & TORONTO 618 Espace40 MONTRÉAL 428 Fazakas Gallery VANCOUVER 1020 Feheley Fine Arts TORONTO 600 Flowers Gallery LONDON & NEW YORK 215 Jill George Gallery LONDON 612 Michael Gibson Gallery LONDON 602 Mira Godard Gallery TORONTO 410 Galerie Mark Hachem PARIS 440 Halcyon Art International LONDON 200 Han Art MONTRÉAL 316 Hazelton Fine Art Galleries TORONTO 237 Herringer Kiss Gallery CALGARY 1012 Rebecca Hossack Gallery LONDON & NEW YORK 306 Initial Gallery VANCOUVER 1018 Gallery Jones VANCOUVER 620 K+Y Gallery PARIS 100 Olga Korper Gallery TORONTO 706 Jennifer Kostuik Gallery VANCOUVER 730 Anna Kustera NEW YORK 1014 Lacerte art contemporain QUÉBEC CITY 506 Galerie Claude Lafitte MONTRÉAL 338 LE Gallery TORONTO 911 Loch Gallery TORONTO, WINNIPEG & CALGARY 328
Lonsdale Gallery TORONTO 828 Victor Lope Arte Contemporaneo BARCELONA 626 Julie M. Gallery TORONTO & TEL AVIV 830 Mayberry Fine Art TORONTO & WINNIPEG 204 Messum’s Fine Art LONDON 231 Nicholas Metivier Gallery TORONTO 700 MKG127 TORONTO 908 Modernbook Gallery SAN FRANCISCO 1016 MULHERIN TORONTO & NEW YORK 1006 Pari Nadimi Gallery TORONTO 1004 O’Born Contemporary TORONTO 834 Pierre-François Ouellette art contemporain MONTRÉAL & TORONTO 1000 p|m Gallery TORONTO 822 PARISIAN LAUNDRY MONTRÉAL 902 Christina Parker Gallery ST. JOHN’S 434 parts gallery TORONTO 334 Paul Petro Contemporary Art TORONTO 906 Postma Fine Art CALGARY 114 Praxis NEW YORK 614 Project Gallery LOS ANGELES 915 Quantum Contemporary Art LONDON 103 Marcia Rafelman Fine Arts TORONTO 628 Galerie Raphael FRANKFURT 310 Roberts Gallery TORONTO 438
Nikola Rukaj Gallery TORONTO Rumi Galleries MISSISSAUGA Georgia Scherman Projects TORONTO Miriam Shiell Fine Art TORONTO SLATE Fine Art Gallery REGINA Studio 21 Fine Art HALIFAX Gallery Tableau SEOUL Thompson Landry Gallery TORONTO Thompson’s Galleries LONDON TrépanierBaer Gallery CALGARY UNIX Gallery NEW YORK Galerie Van Der Planken ANTWERP Vision Neil Folberg Gallery JERUSALEM Odon Wagner Contemporary TORONTO Mike Weiss Gallery NEW YORK Winsor Gallery VANCOUVER Zemack Contemporary Art TEL AVIV 3D Gallery VENICE
Not-For-Profit
Fogo Island Arts FOGO ISLAND Open Studio TORONTO Propeller TORONTO The Red Head Gallery TORONTO
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NEXT: Dedicated to emerging art + artists Wil Aballe Art Projects | WAAP VANCOUVER 1112 Actual WINNIPEG 1102 Antena Estudio | Red Truck Gallery MEXICO CITY & NEW ORLEANS 1208 Artspace Warehouse LOS ANGELES 1118 Galerie BAC MONTRÉAL 1106 dc3 Art Projects EDMONTON 1212 The Dopamine Collective OWEN SOUND 1214 Gurevich Fine Art WINNIPEG 1114 Renann Isaacs Contemporary Art GUELPH 1204 Robert Kananaj Gallery TORONTO 1216 MA2Gallery TOKYO 1104 Neubacher Shor Contemporary TORONTO 1210 Galerie Nicolas Robert MONTRÉAL 1116 São House MONTRÉAL 1206 Catinca Tabacaru Gallery NEW YORK 1108
Sponsors & Partners
ADAC 1302 AGO 1308 Artsy 1306 AXA Art 1312 Inuit Art Foundation 1300 McMichael Canadian Art Collection 1304 MOCCA 1314 Superframe 1200 The Drake 1100
Publications
Akimbo The Art Newspaper Border Crossings C Magazine Canadian Art CV: Ciel Variable esse Espace The New York Times Sculpture Magazine
PLATFORM 2014 PRESENTED AT THE ART TORONTO STAGE SPONSORED BY CANADIAN ART
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 24
Hear from leading art professionals about modern and contemporary art. Learn from some of Canada’s top collectors about what they buy and how they got started. Discover what’s happening on the international scene from artists, writers and curators. Get inspired to build or start your own collection of original art.
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 25
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 26
BGL IN CONVERSATION WITH MARIE FRASER
VALÉRIE BLASS IN CONVERSATION WITH DAVID LISS
TO MARKET — REFLECTIONS ON THE 21st-CENTURY ART ECONOMY
PRESENTED BY THE INUIT ART FOUNDATION
4:30-5:30pm
AN ARTIST RESIDENCY ON FOGO ISLAND
Luciano Benetton’s Fondazione Benetton Studi e Ricerche of Treviso, Italy began Imago Mundi several years ago as a massive international art project involving the enthusiastic voluntary assistance of artists from around the world. In different countries, over one hundred artists are invited to create small two or three dimensional works which are then documented in illustrated catalogues and shown in international exhibitions. Verona–based Imago Mundi curator, Jennifer Karch Verze will speak about this important global art project as well as about the forthcoming spotlight on Inuit Art.
SPONSORED BY RBC WEALTH MANAGEMENT
PRESENTED BY FOGO ISLAND ARTS
PRESENTED BY THE ART DEALERS ASSOCIATION OF CANADA (ADAC)
Québec-based trio BGL – comprised of artists Jasmin Bilodeau, Sébastien Giguère and Nicolas Laverdière are renowned for cheeky, critical and explosive works, and self-referential, site-specific installations that seek to re-contextualize the gallery space. For almost two decades, the collective has presented major installations and performances and participated in innumerable group and solo exhibitions nationally and internationally, and will represent Canada at the 2015 Venice Biennale. BGL join Marie Fraser, Professor of Contemporary Art History and Museology at the Université du Québec à Montréal and Curator of the 2015 Canadian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale, to discuss their practice, their recent work and their plans for Venice.
Join Fogo Island Arts founder Zita Cobb and Fogo Island Arts/Kunsthalle Wien Artistic Director Nicolaus Schafhausen in conversation with recent Fogo Island artist-in-residence Edgar Leciejewski about living and working on Fogo Island, the ideals of Cobb’s project, and how they relate to the experience of being an artist in the early 21st century.
Montréal-based artist Valérie Blass explores tensions between form, figure, materials and art-historical tropes. She has been the subject of solo institutional exhibitions in Montréal, Québec City and Calgary, as well as at the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art (MOCCA), Toronto, in 2009. In 2012, Blass was commissioned by the Public Art Fund New York for a year-long group exhibition at the MetroTech Center and was selected to participate in the major survey exhibition Oh, Canada at MASS MoCA. Blass has created the MOCCA benefit edition that will be sold exclusively at Art Toronto 2014. She joins MOCCA’s Director David Liss for a conversation about her practice.
THE CURATED MARKET
POWER TALK
PRESENTED BY CANADIAN ART
HARO CUMBUSYAN: PRIVATE COLLECTIONS IN PUBLIC
IMAGO MUNDI INUIT ART PROJECT 1-2pm
COLLECTORS SPEAK 3-4pm
PRESENTED BY AXA ART
Established collectors in conversation with Christiane Fischer, President and CEO of AXA Art Americas. The panellists represent members of the community who have built impressive collections over years, including David Angelo, a collector of contemporary art, Beverly Creed, who began collecting photography in 1979, and Alan Schwartz, whose passion is international. Join as they share stories, ideas and advice on building collections. As moderator, Fischer continues AXA ART’s tradition of conversations with collectors from around the world on their motivation and passion for collecting. A Q&A segment with the audience will be part of the discussion.
POWER TALK BISI SILVA: CURATING AFRICA? THE SHIFTING CURATORIAL PARADIGM 6-7pm
PRESENTED BY THE POWER PLANT
Bisi Silva is an independent curator and the Founder and Director of the Centre for Contemporary Art, Lagos, which opened in Nigeria in December 2007. She has co-curated many international exhibitions, was one of the curators for the 2006 Dakar Biennial in Senegal and was a member of the international jury for the 55th Venice Biennale in 2013. Silva will use the art sector in Nigeria and the activities of the Centre for Contemporary Art, Lagos, as the point of departure to engage with the evolving art dynamics on the continent.
1-2pm
POWER TALK SASKIA BOS: NOT QUITE MEANT FOR ABOVE THE COUCH 3-4pm
PRESENTED BY THE POWER PLANT
Saskia Bos has been the Dean of the School of Art at Cooper Union in New York City since 2005. Previously, she served as Artistic and Managing Director of de Appel arts centre in Amsterdam for more than two decades. Known for her achievements in art history and critical theory, Bos has also produced many international projects and major exhibitions. Bos will discuss the need to support young artists in the development of their practices outside of the market economy, and the need to avoid getting into it too early.
4:30-5:30pm
6-7pm
Art fairs used to be environments thought anathema to curators. Now, a “curatorial” sensibility is present at art fairs across the world. In this panel discussion, Canadian Art Associate Editor David Balzer, author of Curationism: How Curating Took Over the Art World and Everything Else, speaks with a group of artists and collectors about the benefits and challenges of working in a millennial art market—where curating is now often synonymous with value. Panellists include artist Thrush Holmes, curator and collector Stefan Hancherow and writer and specialist at Artsy, Elena Soboleva.
1-2pm
The past decade has seen dramatic changes in the contemporary art market, with technology in particular enabling a much broader reach. In celebration of Art Toronto’s 15th anniversary, we take a look at the changing landscape of the art market both nationally and internationally. The panel of art-world insiders describes their relationship to the catalysts of change. Moderated by Andrea Carson Barker, Founder and Publisher of culture blog VoCA. Panellists include economist Don Thompson, author of the 2008 bestseller The $12 Million Stuffed Shark, collector Matthew Evans, and Jane Corkin, Owner and Director of Corkin Gallery in Toronto.
(COLLECTING COLLECTIONS) 3-4pm PRESENTED BY THE POWER PLANT
Haro Cumbusyan is a collector of contemporary art with a special interest in the moving image. He is the Founding Director of Collectorspace, a nonprofit organization that brings private art collections to public view, and promotes critical discussions and writing on contemporary-art collecting practices. Given the increasingly visible role private collectors play in the art ecosystem, Cumbusyan will take a critical look at different collecting practices, and create reference points for new and existing collectors. He will survey several private collections with a special emphasis on how collectors fulfill their responsibility to the artworks, the artists and the public at large.
CANADIAN ART GENERATION(S) 2-3pm LOCATION: Canadian Art Booth Join Canadian Art Editors Bryne McLaughlin, Leah Sandals and Richard Rhodes as they discuss their favourite artists and artworks at Art Toronto 2014.
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 24 Managing Editor, Bryne McLaughlin SATURDAY, OCTOBER 25 Online Editor, Leah Sandals SUNDAY, OCTOBER 26 Editor, Richard Rhodes
C MAGAZINE: CONVERSATIONS 5-5:30pm LOCATION: NEXT Lounge
C Magazine will host 30-minute discussions on Friday, Saturday and Sunday, focusing on experimental platforms for art production and criticism, including artists books, live art criticism and alternative exhibition spaces.
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General: $18 (online); $20 (on site) Students and seniors: $14 Groups +10: $14 3-Day Power Talk Pass: $40 Children under 10: Free Catalogue: $28
A benefit for the Art Gallery of Ontario Thursday, October 23
Friday, October 24 12-8pm Saturday, October 25 12-8pm Sunday, October 26 12-6pm Monday, October 27 12-6pm
OPENING NIGHT PREVIEW 6:30-10pm Ticket: $200.00
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