{"id":2276,"date":"2011-08-01T18:29:16","date_gmt":"2011-08-01T18:29:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artoronto.ca\/?p=2276"},"modified":"2011-09-11T20:57:36","modified_gmt":"2011-09-11T20:57:36","slug":"libby-hague-sympathetic-connections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/?p=2276","title":{"rendered":"Libby Hague: Sympathetic Connections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Libby-Hague.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2275\" title=\"Libby Hague\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Libby-Hague.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"385\" height=\"257\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>June 11\u00a0&#8211; \u00a0September 11,\u00a02011<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>ART GALLERY OF ONTARIO<\/strong><br \/>\n317 Dundas Street West,<br \/>\nToronto, ON M5T 1G4<br \/>\nT:416-979-6648<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ago.net\/\">www.ago.net<\/a><br \/>\nHours: Tue &amp; Thurs \u2013 Sun 10 \u2013 5:30, Wed 10 \u2013 8:30<\/p>\n<p>Toronto-based artist Libby Hague\u2019s new installation at the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) extends beyond gallery walls and onto the AGO\u2019s Dundas Street fa\u00e7ade. <strong><em>Libby Hague: Sympathetic Connections<\/em><\/strong>,\u00a0 is part of the AGO\u2019s Toronto Now series of rotating contemporary projects by Toronto artists. The installation transforms woodblock prints into paper sculptures that connect across the walls, ceiling, and external windows of the AGO\u2019s Young Gallery.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Sympathetic Connections<\/em><\/strong> combines representational and abstract forms in a room-spanning three-dimensional installation. Colourful sculptural forms crafted from Japanese paper fill the gallery, dangling from walls and cascading down from the ceiling, while a wall-mounted print of a nuclear power plant looms in the periphery, an image inspired in part by the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster in Japan earlier this year.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLibby Hague\u2019s playful, yet foreboding narratives give physical form to fictional worlds that simultaneously mirror and manipulate reality,\u201d says Michelle Jacques, the AGO\u2019s acting curator of Canadian art. \u201c<strong><em>Sympathetic Connections<\/em><\/strong> provides a timely exploration of our problematic relationship with the natural environment, invoking universal themes of responsibility and dependency, vulnerability and rescue, and risk and luck.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><em>Toronto Now<\/em> is generously supported by The Contemporary Circle. Contemporary programming at the AGO is supported by the Canada Council for the Arts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>June 11 &#8211;  September 11, 2011<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>ART GALLERY OF ONTARIO<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> \u201cSympathetic Connections provides a timely exploration of our problematic relationship with the natural environment, invoking universal themes of responsibility and dependency, vulnerability and rescue, and risk and luck.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/?p=2276\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-listings_archive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2276"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2498,"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2276\/revisions\/2498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}