Undoubtedly philosophers are in the right when they tell us that nothing is great or little otherwise than by comparison.1 – Jonathan Swift, Gulliver’s Travels Endlessly amassed, the dwarves, midgets, small things, miniatures and other diminutives have yet to reach the level of his shins,
Guy Laramée, Guan Yin Galerie d'Art d'Outremont May 3—27, 2012 The world is large, but in us it is deep as the sea. –Rainer Maria Rilke Art sometimes may be created through excessiveness. But how do we measure the “excessive”? How does the work make us see the refusal
An Era of the Boundless? Defining the boundless is not an easy task—actually, it is almost as dizzying to think about it as it is to experience it. One can sometimes grasp it as the infinite (literally without bounds) sometimes as excess (implying the overstepping of
Since it was uploaded last summer Jonathan Gales’ short film Megalomania 1 has aroused fascination with its protagonists, a city and its architecture portrayed as an incommensurable and immobile construction site. A truly post-humanist product, Megalomania’s unfurling of Piranesian scenes allows one to grasp the failure
Leading pioneers of the Eco-Art movement, the collaborative team of Newton and Helen Mayer Harrison (often referred to simply as “the Harrisons”) have worked for over forty years with biologists, ecologists, architects, urban planners and other artists to initiate collaborative dialogues to uncover ideas and
Greg Payce: Illusions The Raphael Yu Centre of Canadian Ceramics, Gardiner Museum
Peter Alexander Pór, Tribute to the Cathars Persona Non Grata –The Veil of History Exhibition Bezpala Brown Gallery, Toronto February 5—25, 2011
Eco-Art. Pori Art Museum 2011. 221 pages. www.poriartmuseum.fi This beautifully illustrated book (English, Finnish) preserves the memory of the Eco-Art exhibition, which was held from February to March 2011 to mark the 30th anniversary of the Pori Art Museum, Finland. The curator Pia Hovi-Assad was assisted by