by Phil Anderson
Follow Patrick Macaulay’s, curator of the Parade for Scotiabank Nuit Blanche, route and meet the Queen of the Parade at Queen Street West, then walk north to Charles Street West to see all 14 projects.
Patrick Macaulay’s Parade
Category: FEATURES
Edward Burtynsky: Water
by Amy Luo
Though Burtynsky’s work is inflected with environmental undertones, his visual language is never didactic or polemical. His images are stoic rather than confrontational, and open-ended rather than explicit.
Profanity and rebellion / Ai Weiwei at the AGO
by Aliya Bhatia
Is profanity and rebellion enough to be deemed as the most important contemporary artist in today’s generation? The industry art seems to think so. However, there is definitely more than meets the eye in Ai Weiwei’s multi-media works.
An Te Liu / Mono No Ma
by Alice Tallman
An Te has used industrial objects to create these works, they bare little resemblance to the human forms that are alluded to in their titles. He has created his own lexicon through his selection of found materials, melding together the ancient and the modern.
In-Between Worlds – Interview with Meryl McMaster
by Emese Krunák-Hajagos
I wanted to transform the way I viewed the past from the perspective of the present and express my bi-cultural heritage as a synergistic strength as opposed to a struggle between opposites.
An Intervention: Slapstick Meets Instances of In Finite
by Leanne Simaan
Together, Slapstick and In Finite present their audience with a breath of fresh air by challenging us to think and act outside of the box, even if it gets a little awkward.
Eric Doeringer: Survey
by Shellie Zhang
Ultimately, Survey sends a hopeful message through a satirical form by demonstrating the shifting attitude towards conceptual art from “I could do that” to the postmodern belief and that “I could expand on that”.
New Erotica
by Leanne Simaan
Collectively, these ladies put forth a message that uplifts and empowers the modern-day woman, even in moments of weakness and vulnerability.
Gabor Szilasi: The Eloquence of the Everyday
by Emese Krunák-Hajagos
Szilasi said that he knew even as a child about the process of memory and where memory is held. All of his photography involves both the mind and the heart and each image has a history.
Francis Muscat: When Tree Falls
by Julie McNeill
In this show, inspired by the trees a beaver brought down near his home, Muscat has taken the rough remainders and given them new meaning. I found this show contemplative, and an interesting juxtaposition of whimsy and strength.
Jon Knowles: I’m Only in it for the Manet
by Amy Luo
The show dismantles the fetishization of art-creation, but it is unclear if we are just left at a dead-end with some monochrome paintings for company.
Terry Gambarotto / Kardionic
by Leanne Simaan
the narrative that Gambarotto was attempting to communicate to his audience about the depths of our hearts, and not simply the scientific/cold exploration of this organ, but the emotional/spiritual connotations of the heart.