Cranking, 2011, oil on canvas, 30.5 x 25.5cm. Photo courtesy of Pierre-Francois Ouellette art contemporain.
September 9 – December 10, 2011
Opening:Friday, September 9, 8-10pm.
YYZ Artists’ Outlet
401 Richmond Street West, Suite 140
T: 416-598-4546
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Hours: Tues – Sat 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.
For this, his first solo exhibition in Toronto, Dil Hildebrand presents a new body of work. Back to the Drawing Board represents a focal shift away from the photographic and toward a diagrammatic approach to the image; an incarnation that abandons the image altogether.
DIL HILDEBRAND was born in Winnipeg, Canada, and obtained his MFA from Concordia University, Montreal in 2008. In 2006 he won the RBC Canadian Painting Competition and has since participated in many exhibitions throughout Canada, the United States and abroad. Upcoming exhibitions include group shows at OBORO, Montreal (curated by David Elliott) and Espace Virtuel, Chicoutimi. In 2010, Hildebrand participated in the 4th Beijing International Art Biennale 2010 in Beijing, China, and produced Long Drop: The Paintings of Dil Hildebrand, a monograph by Anteism Press. With critical texts by Louise Déry, Richard Rhodes and Christine Redfern. Long Drop surveys a selection of Hildebrand’s paintings on canvas and paper from 2006 to 2009. His work has been collected by major museums throughout Canada, including the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, and the National Gallery of Canada.
Dil Hildebrand is represented by Pierre-François Ouellette art contemporain. He lives and works in Montréal.