{"id":12670,"date":"2012-07-01T09:35:17","date_gmt":"2012-07-01T13:35:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artoronto.ca\/?p=12670"},"modified":"2012-09-10T08:49:52","modified_gmt":"2012-09-10T12:49:52","slug":"through-the-looking-glass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/?p=12670","title":{"rendered":"THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS"},"content":{"rendered":"

July 5 \u2013 September 9, 2012<\/strong>
\nOpening: Thursday, July 5, 6 \u2013 9 p.m.
\nJULIE M. GALLERY<\/strong>
\n15 Mill Street Building 37, Suite 103
\nToronto ON M5A 3R6
\nT: 416 603 2626
\nE: info@juliemgallery.com
\nwww.juliemgallery.com
\nFeaturing work<\/strong> by Jiri Ladocha & Mats Nordstrom, Deganit Berest, Anat Betzer, Atsmon Ganor, Itamar Jobani, Shai Kremer<\/p>\n

Join artists Jiri Ladocha & Mats Nordstrom at the opening of their inaugural show at the Julie M. Gallery. We are excited to branch out from Israeli contemporary art to include the Czech-born sculptor Ladocha & his life-long friend and sometimes collaborator Mats Nordstrom (originally from Sweden) to our roster of artists.<\/p>\n

Through the Looking Glass is a group show that offers a glimpse into the future.\u00a0 It previews works by late-career artists who have just joined the gallery roster, Jiri Ladocha <\/strong>and Mats Nordstrom<\/strong>.\u00a0 Both are masters of their disciplines, slated for solo exhibitions at the Julie M. Gallery. Through the Looking Glass turns a critical lens on the boundaries of medium.\u00a0 Today, an artist can rarely be categorized as a painter, sculpture, or photographer.\u00a0 Instead, it is more common to work at points of intersection between the categories that traditionally organized art history.\u00a0 Czech-Canadian artist Jiri Ladocha toes the line between sculpture and experimental painting.\u00a0 Mats Nordstrom, originally from Sweden, transgresses the purist inclinations of photography.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\"\"<\/a>Jiri Ladocha, Untitled (diptych), 2012, bent plywood and aluminum leaf<\/p>\n

JIRI LADOCHA<\/strong><\/p>\n

Born in former Czechoslovakia, Jiri Ladocha creates sculptures and three-dimensional wall pieces that betray a tense dialectic between the rigid austerity of Minimalism and the romance of flowing organic lines.\u00a0 Crisp, sure-handed, and post-minimal, his creations reflect meticulous labor and decades of experience.\u00a0 Wood, glass, aluminum, fine metal leaf, plaster, graphite, and pigment are samples of the materials given new life through honed aesthetic sensibility, and reborn in Ladocha\u2019s expert hands.\u00a0 Jiri Ladocha\u2019s work is found in collections and museums throughout Europe and North America.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\"\"<\/a><\/strong>Mats Nordstrm, Untitled, Remnants series, 2011-2012, c-print<\/p>\n

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MATS NORDSTROM<\/strong><\/p>\n

Photographs by Mats Nordstrom are the product of an intuitive exploration of his emotional landscape\u2014often they encapsulate moments from the artist\u2019s past.\u00a0 Informed by a childhood in Sweden, Nordstrom\u2019s recent work on view in Through the Looking Glass includes a series of high-contrast black and white photographs titled Remnants.\u00a0 Remnants explores the transformative effect of light and shadow on outmoded household utensils, shot against a marred aluminum sheet.\u00a0 Strong side-lighting throws crisp shadows, which lend these allegories of a simpler time three-dimensionality and a sharp graphic presence.\u00a0 Nordstrom’s artistic career was preceded by a background in mathematics and biochemical engineering, commercial photography in New York, and catalyzed by working on the Interview Magazine team with Andy Warhol.\u00a0 His work can be found in permanent collections including the Stockholm Museum of Modern Art and the London Museum of Fine Art.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

July 5 \u2013 September 9, 2012<\/strong>
\nOpening: Thursday, July 5, 6 \u2013 9 p.m.<\/p>\n

JULIE M. GALLERY<\/strong><\/p>\n

works by late-career artists who have just joined the gallery roster, Jiri Ladocha and Mats Nordstrom<\/p>\n

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