{"id":7884,"date":"2012-02-27T12:42:41","date_gmt":"2012-02-27T17:42:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artoronto.ca\/?p=7884"},"modified":"2012-04-01T10:09:49","modified_gmt":"2012-04-01T14:09:49","slug":"maria-raponi-from-above","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/?p=7884","title":{"rendered":"Maria Raponi: From Above"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Raponi_Maria.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-7882\" title=\"Raponi_Maria\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Raponi_Maria.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"226\" height=\"294\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div>Maria Raponi, <em>401 Richmond Building (detail),<\/em>132 x 132cm digital transparency, 2011<\/div>\n<p><strong>March 2 \u2013 March 31, 2012<\/strong><br \/>\nOpening: Friday March 2, 6-9 p.m.<br \/>\n<strong>GALLERY 44 CENTRE FOR CONTEMPORARY PHOTOGRAPHY<\/strong><br \/>\n401 Richmond Street West, Suite 120<br \/>\nToronto, ON M5V 3A8<br \/>\nT: 416.979.3941<br \/>\nE: <a href=\"http:\/\/webmail.cardinalfactor.net\/src\/compose.php?send_to=sojin%40gallery44.org\">sojin@gallery44.org<\/a><br \/>\nwww.gallery44.org<\/p>\n<p>Maria Raponi\u2019s project<em> From Above<\/em> displays a composite image of the ceilings of the three floors above G44\u2019s vitrines. Multiple views are reduced to a singular perspective, condensing time and space the way a lens condenses light. From Raponi\u2019s perspective, our experiences and our stories become transcribed onto our environments, similar to an unwritten graffiti prevalent in the spaces we occupy.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Maria Raponi<\/strong> is a Toronto-based artist who works across many platforms including film, photography, digital media, installation and sculpture. She is a graduate of the combined MFA program between the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and Tufts University, in addition to the BFA program at the School of Image Arts at Ryerson University. Her works have been exhibited in North America, Europe and Asia, and she has worked on site-specific projects presented in Toronto, Montreal and Dortmund (Germany).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>March 2 \u2013 March 31, 2012<\/strong><br \/>\nOpening: Friday March 2, 6&ndash;9 p.m.<\/p>\n<p><strong>GALLERY 44&#8217;S VITRINES<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Multiple views are reduced condensing time and space the way a lens condenses light. <\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/?p=7884\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7891,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-listings_archive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7884","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=7884"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7884\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8792,"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7884\/revisions\/8792"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}