Attila Richard Lukacs, Coo coo ka-choo, Mr. Robinson (detail), 1999. Collection of Salah Bachir and Jacob Yerex. Photo: Toni Hafkensheid
Thursday, June 26, 2014 / 7 – 8 p.m.
Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art
952 Queen Street West
Over the Rainbow / Speaker Series
Exhibiting artists Stephen Andrews, Andy Fabo, Elle Flanders, and Attila Richard Lukacs will join Artistic Director and Curator David Liss to discuss themes of seduction and identity.
The exhibition represents a modest selection of works from the collection of Salah Bachir and Jacob Yerex, by both queer and heterosexual artists, broadly assembled around the themes of seduction and identity. Grouped together the exhibition presents works, mostly in drawing, painting and photography, which acknowledge certain archetypes associated with Queer Culture, drawing relationships between a historically marginalized culture and mainstream culture, and ways in which these have influenced each other. By focusing on reciprocal influences and relationships, and presented within the context of WorldPride 2014 Toronto, the thematic approach is meant to consider commonalities of human experience over opposition and difference.