Friday, September 6, 2013, 6 – 10 p.m.
Gardiner Museum
111 Queen’s Park
Artist An Te Liu.
AN TE SOCIAL / Opening Party for his exhibition, MONO NO MA.
Guests were invited to mingle with An Te and enjoy an exclusive first look at MONO NO MA.
They started to come early and their number grew very quickly.
Rachel Gotlieb, Interm Executive Director of the Gardiner and Kelvin Browne, Newly Appointed Executive Director and CEO of the Gardiner.
Shauna Levy, Deisgn Exchange President and Sarah Keenlyside, Producer Director Inkblot Media
For the second exhibition of the Gardiner Museum’s Artist Intervention series, renowned artist An Te Liu explores the space around things. Drawn at first to the burnished surfaces and anthropomorphic features of funerary ware found in the Gardiner’s Ancient Americas collection, Liu has transformed discarded materials into ceramic sculptures that evoke a multiplicity of references.
An Te Liu, George, 2013
With MONO NO MA, acclaimed Liu explores the spaces around things. Mono means ‘object’ in Japanese, and is paired with the more elusive word ma, meaning ‘space’ or ‘gap’. Together they describe an exhibit which is simultaneously aware of form and non-form.
An Te Liu and visitors.
Then party was up with complimentary beer from Steam Whistle Brewery, bubbly from Barefoot Wine & Bubbly, mouth-watering bites from à la Carte Kitchen.
Beats and vibes were provided by DJ John Kong (Do Right! Music).
Photo: Alice Tallman