{"id":1247,"date":"2011-07-01T18:56:12","date_gmt":"2011-07-01T18:56:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artoronto.ca\/?p=1247"},"modified":"2011-07-10T16:49:26","modified_gmt":"2011-07-10T16:49:26","slug":"sylvia-lefkovitz-a-retrospective-featuring-paintings-and-sculptures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/?p=1247","title":{"rendered":"SYLVIA LEFKOVITZ: A RETROSPECTIVE FEATURING PAINTINGS AND SCULPTURES"},"content":{"rendered":"

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June 18\u00a0– July 8, 2011<\/strong>
\nOpening<\/strong>: Saturday,\u00a0June 18, 10am \u2013 6pm
\nGALLERY GEVIK<\/strong>
\n12 Hazelton Ave
\nToronto, ON M5R 2E2
\nT: 416.968.0901
\nHours: Tues – Sat 10-6
\nE-mail: natasha@gevik.com<\/a>
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It’s the first Toronto retrospective of Montreal-born Sylvia Lefkovitz (1924-1987).\u00a0 She started her career in Canada, but then travelled to Italy in 1960 to learn the “lost wax” bronze sculpture casting proces.\u00a0 The exhibition features paintings and sculptures from her time in Italy.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Lefkovitz is renowned for her murals, graphics, oils, drawings, lithos and sculpture rendered in bronze, silver and marble. Lefkovitz was described by one critic as \u201chaving an affinity with the earth.\u201d \u00a0Another termed her work \u201cprofoundly humane.\u201d\u00a0She mastered mural technique while living in Mexico, and applied it to her series of murals on the \u201cLife of Louis Riel\u201d (on permanent exhibition in North Battleford, Saskatchewan), and \u201cThe Acadians,\u201d now housed at Ste-Anne\u2019s University in Nova Scotia.<\/p>\n

Lefkovitz moved to Italy in 1960, and soon won Florence\u2019s Porcellino Award as Best Resident Foreign Artist; critical acclaim throughout the country quickly followed. After a long series of Italian exhibits and retrospectives and two decades of awards and commissions in both Europe and North America, Lefkovitz returned to Montreal in 1981. She died there in 1987.<\/p>\n

Sylvia Lefkovitz\u2019s life and work in both Italy and Canada were profiled in the National Film Board of Canada\u2019s documentary \u201cIn Search of Medea.\u201d<\/p>\n

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June 18 – July 8, 2011<\/strong>
\nOpening: Saturday, June 18, 10am \u2013 6pm<\/p>\n

GALLERY GEVIK<\/strong><\/p>\n

It’s the first Toronto retrospective of Montreal-born Sylvia Lefkovitz (1924-1987). She started her career in Canada, but then travelled to Italy in 1960 to learn the “lost wax” bronze sculpture casting proces. The exhibition features paintings and sculptures from her time in Italy. <\/p>\n

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