{"id":8653,"date":"2012-03-27T10:49:20","date_gmt":"2012-03-27T14:49:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artoronto.ca\/?p=8653"},"modified":"2012-05-27T11:30:18","modified_gmt":"2012-05-27T15:30:18","slug":"shaheer-zazaia-failed-revolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/?p=8653","title":{"rendered":"Shaheer Zazai: A Failed Revolution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/image0041.jpg-2-0f-21.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-8618\" title=\"image004.jpg 2 0f 2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/image0041.jpg-2-0f-21.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"322\" height=\"254\" \/><\/a><\/strong>What he becomes (detail), 2012, oil on canvas, 60\u201d x 48\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>April 5\u2013May 26, 2012<\/strong><br \/>\nOpening: Thursday, April 5, 5\u20138 p.m.<br \/>\n<strong>2 of 2 GALLERY\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><br \/>\n254 Niagara Street<br \/>\nToronto, ON, M6J 2L8<br \/>\nT: 416.591.6464<br \/>\nE:\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:info@2of2gallery.com\">mailto:info@2of2gallery.com<\/a><br \/>\n2of2gallery.com<br \/>\nHours: Wed\u2013Sat 12\u20135 p.m. or by appointment<\/p>\n<p>2 of 2 Gallery is pleased to announce a solo exhibition of new paintings by Toronto-based artist Shaheer Zazai. Zazai\u2019s second show at 2 of 2 Gallery is an archeological dig into humanity\u2019s long-standing persistence to revolution, its miscommunication and the negligence of the failure that follows. This body of work deals with the constant re-examination of identity and culture that is manifested in contemporary art. The standpoint taken is one that denies the possibility of positive definition, arguing the destructive effect of ideological \u2018progress\u2019 and slowly putting to rest the hollow optimism of post-modern thought. The process is one of archeology, uncovering a genealogy of flawed revolutions in the constant presence of human error.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA principle is the expression of perfection, and as imperfect beings like us cannot practice perfection, we devise every moment limits of its compromise in practice.&#8221; \u2013 Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi<\/p>\n<p>Shaheer Zazai received his BFA from Ontario College of Art and Design University (OCADU) in 2010. He has been exhibiting his work since 2008.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>April 5 \u2013 May 26, 2012<\/strong><br \/>\nOpening: Thursday, April 5, 5&ndash;8 p.m.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2 of 2 GALLERY<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>an archeological dig into humanity\u2019s long-standing persistence of revolution<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/?p=8653\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8656,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8653","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\/8653","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=8653"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8653\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11312,"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8653\/revisions\/11312"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}