MOCCA launches the Winter 2014 season with the monumental exhibition Misled by Nature: Contemporary Art and the Baroque, a special presentation of our award-winning NGC@MOCCA program, and in the Media/Retail Space The Nightwatchers, a solo exhibition by Toronto-based artist Keita Morimoto.
David Altmejd, The Holes (detail), 2008. National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa. © David Altmejd, Courtesy Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York. Photo © NGC
NGC@MOCCA Special Presentation / Misled by Nature: Contemporary Art and the Baroque
David Altmejd/ Mark Bradford/ Lee Bul/ Bharti Kher/ Tricia Middleton/ Yinka Shonibare, MBE
Curated by Catherine Crowston, Josée Drouin-Brisebois, and Jonathan Shaughnessy.
Organized by the National Gallery of Canada and the Art Gallery of Alberta, in collaboration with MOCCA.
Misled by Nature: Contemporary Art and the Baroque showcases a selection of works by contemporary artists that draw upon aspects of the historical Baroque: material excess, accumulation, bravado, theatricality and the construction of immersive, emotive environments. This presence of what could be called the ‘neo-baroque’ has, in recent time, been a recurring facet of contemporary art in Canada and around the world.
KEYNOTE LECTURE:
presented in partnership with OCAD University
SURROUNDING BEAUTY:
Thoughts on aesthetic experience, with reference to the Baroque
Friday, February 28 / 7 – 8 pm
Peter Schjeldahl, Chief Art Critic, New Yorker Magazine
Presented at OCAD University Auditorium, Room 190, 100 McCaul Street
LECTURE
Saturday, March 1 / 1 – 2 pm
Speakers:
Michael Atkinson, Professor, Faculty of Kinesiology and Physical Education, U of T
The Second Skin: Pleasures of the Tattooed Flesh
Rachel Anne Farquharson, writer and curator
Curiouser and Curiouser: the Anxiety of the Flat
Presented at MOCCA
LECTURE
Saturday March 8 / 1 – 2 pm
Speakers:
Erik Anderson, Chair and Associate Professor of Philosophy at Drew University
Cheesy Goodness
Kevin Melchionne, artist and researcher
Infinite Warehouse: Art in the Age of Amazon
Presented at MOCCA
Exhibition dates: February 8 – April 6, 2014, Museum Of Contemporary Canadian Art, 952 Queen Street West. Gallery hours: Tue – Sun: 11 – 6 p.m.