moca.ca Presenting Sponsor: & MARTIN BOYCE RIRKRIT TIRAVANIJA CARUSO ST JOHN Sept. 16 — 2022 Jan. 08 —2023
Sept. 16 — 2022 Jan. 08 —2023
HOUSE OF CARD features a selection of Demand’s large-scale photographs, with emphasis on his exploration into architecture, model making and collaborative processes. DEMAND HOUSE OF CARD
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HOUSE OF CARD refers to the precariousness of Thomas Demand’s practice as a builder. Although architecture generally equates with permanence, Demand explores ephemerality through the use of paper and cardboard. He is well-known for largescale photographs of three-dimensional models that replicate notorious, media-worthy or familiar scenes, which he creates from paper and cardboard. After photographing them, he destroys the models.
HOUSE OF CARD includes works by Demand and other influential artists, architects and designers including Martin Boyce, Rirkrit Tiravanija and Caruso St John Architects, spanning all three floors of the Museum.
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MOCA Toronto is excited to present the first major exhibition in Canada by internationally renowned photographer and sculptor Thomas Demand.
The exhibition is an updated iteration of HOUSE OF CARD, produced and presented by the Museum Leuven, Belgium in 2020.
The model - in the broadest sense of the word - lies at the heart of the work of Thomas Demand. The photographs and installations on Floor 02 embrace the act of modeling across disciplines with a particular emphasis on architecture. Demand’s Model Studies photographs of works by architects SANAA (Kazuyo Sejima + Ryue Nishizawa) and John Lautner, and the late fashion designer Azzedine Alaïa, represent the first time Demand has photographed models he did not build, pushing his exploration of representation and abstraction even further. This floor also includes a new site-specific ceiling installation by artist Martin Boyce and a model of Demand’s first built structure, The Triple Folly, a collaboration with Caruso St John Architects.
The exhibition opens with a focus on social gathering and memory in relation to the changing nature of the city due to urban development. The first work encountered is a life-size model based on the karaoke bar Black Label in Kitakyushu, Japan. Thomas Demand discovered this bar in 2008, while on a residency at the Center for Contemporary Art (CCA), Kitakyushu. Demand made a set of photographs that explore this independent mode of architecture, which can be seen on Floor 03. A number of years later, in response to Demand’s project, artist Rirkrit Tiravanija reconstructed the same bar at the CCA. untitled 2013 (thomas demand’s here), 2022 is a functional bar that will host karaoke and other artistic and social interventions in collaboration with local artists, musicians and bars.
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The exhibition continues with a selection of works that centre on Thomas Demand’s approach to recreating spaces, through photographs, moving-image and wallpaper. The recent installation, Refuge, 2021 is presented for the first time in North America. This group of photographs is emblematic of much of Demand’s work and creates an environment based on the room Edward Snowden is assumed to have lived in for a month in Sheremetyevo, Russia when seeking refuge. The atmosphere of the exhibition space is enhanced by other media including a wallpaper installation and moving image animation. The large-scale photographs, Black Label, 2009 create a circle of enquiry that takes us back to Tiravanija’s work on Floor 01. FL-01
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Fall programming includes a project by artist Dean Baldwin Lew, performance by New Ho Queen, a popup market by Zine Dream, as well as bar takeovers and karaoke on Free Friday nights, tours of Seeing the Invisible and children’s workshops on TD Community Sundays. Also at MOCA, new video works and a lightbox commission by artist Debashis Sinha. Watch moca.ca for details.
Kelly Jazvac makes artworks out of discarded billboards sourced from the urban advertising industry. Her focus on recycling, questions how we produce and exhibit contemporary art, and advocates for more sustainable practices. At MOCA, Jazvac presents a site-specific installation composed of a variety of two-dimensional adverts sculpted to propose new imagery and language, reforming space. Her exhibition Time Scale creates a hub for conversations and participatory activities that focus on our relationship with images, consumerism and plastics. A new sound commission by British-Egyptian musician and artist Sarah Badr will animate the South Stairwell. Badr’s practice focuses on world creation, complex natural phenomena, and algorithmic media. The sound piece will be accompanied by an audio-visual animation. These works build upon Badr’s visual language that uses procedural systems for simulation and spatialisation in graphics and sound that explores the association between form and place in digital spaces.
In conversation at the Isabel Bader Theatre, Victoria University at the University of Toronto.
KELLY JAZVAC TIME SCALE MOCA Toronto North End Gallery Sept. 16 — 2022 Oct. 30 — 2022 THOMAS DEMAND & JEFF WALL Sept. 13, 2022 — 7pm SARAH BADR MOCA Toronto South Stairwell Sept. 16 — 2022 Jan. 08 — 2022 COMING UP SEEING INVISIBLETHE MOCA Sept.Oct.&SoraurenTorontoParkHighPark01202230—2023
MOCA presents the acclaimed augmented reality (AR) contemporary art exhibition Seeing the Invisible in collaboration with the City of Toronto and Toronto Parks, Forestry and Recreation. The exhibition includes 13 AR works by internationally recognized artists such as Isaac Julien, Pamela Rosenkranz and Ai Weiwei. The route includes locations at MOCA, Sorauren Park and throughout High Park, taking visitors on an exploration of virtual art and nature as the artworks are seen and activated using a mobile app. The entire programme is free. Seeing The Invisible was initiated and organized by the Jerusalem Botanical Gardens in partnership with Outset Contemporary Art Fund.
Installation view CCA Kitakyushu, Japan, 2013.
All works by Thomas Demand: © Thomas Demand, VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn. Courtesy the artist and Matthew Marks Gallery / Galerie Sprüth
Thomas Demand, Refuge II, 2021, c-print / diasec, 160 x 200 cm.
Thomas Demand, The Triple Folly, 2020, mixed media.
Installation view HOUSE OF CARD, M Museum, Leuven, 2020.
Magers / Esther Schipper, Berlin / Taka Ishii Gallery 158 Sterling Road, moca.caToronto
Visionary Supporters Gilles and Julia Ouellette HOUSE OF CARD Presenting Sponsor Lead Supporter Foundational Supporter Major Sponsor
Ai Weiwei, Gilded Cage (AR), 2021. Courtesy the artist.
Castlepoint Numa SEEING THE INVISIBLE Foundational Supporter Major Supporter Kiki and Ian Delaney Tiana Koffler Boyman
Thomas Demand, towhee, 2020, framed pigment print, 135 x 172 cm.
Photo: Dirk Pauwels. Courtesy of M Museum Leuven.
Rirkrit Tiravanija, untitled 2013 (thomas demand’s here), mixed media.
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