15 December 2013
In
Articles in issues
Claes Oldenburg & Coosje Can Bruggen. Public Sculpture, Architecture and Urbanism
15 December 2013
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Articles in issues
The Illuminated Cave. Dale Chihully’s Exhilarating Shadows
Of the objects which are being carried in like manner,
they would only see the shadows. To them, the truth would
be literally nothing but the shadows of the images.1
—Plato,
15 December 2013
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Articles in issues
The Ar(t)chitecture of Tadashi Kawamata: Between disruption and reconciliation
Art begins not with the flesh, but with the house.
That is why architecture is the first of the arts.
—Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari 1
Tower, detour, contour
In the summer of 2013, in
15 December 2013
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Articles in issues
Yam Lau: A World is a Model of the World
I believe that between utopias and these quite other sites, these heterotopias, there might be a sort of mixed, joint experience, which would be the mirror. The mirror is, after all, a utopia, since it
15 December 2013
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Interviews
Peter Hutchinson – With Nature in Mind
Born in England, Peter Hutchinson began as a geometric painter in close contact with minimal artists Sol LeWitt and Tadaaki Kuwayama. However, Hutchinson turned away from minimalism and conceptualism’s rhetorical bent to follow a more overtly poetic and nature-oriented path. Being British born, Hutchinson shares
15 December 2013
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Events
Anna Frlan: Interbellum III
Anna Frlan: Interbellum III
Ottawa school of Art Gallery
January 10—February 22, 2013
Anna Frlan uses nothing but steel in her art making. The infinite possibilities of steel’s liquid state keep drawing her back
15 December 2013
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Events
Tino Sehgal. Esse est percipi—To be is to be perceived 1
In the early spring of 2013, for a period of six weeks, British-born, Berlin-based artist, Tino Sehgal, instigated a variety of emotions in visitors, ranging from delight to trepidation, at the Musée d’art contemporain
15 December 2013
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Events
Richard Clements’ Day Treadeth On Night
Richard Clements,
Day Treadeth On Night
Paul Kuhn Gallery
Calgary, Alberta
May 17—June 30, 2013
However we see our world, it is very much through the acquisition and use of language,
15 December 2013
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Events
Ai WeiWei: According to What?
Ai WeiWei: According to What?
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Ontario
August 17—October 17, 2013
Ai WeiWei came to town. Or, more accurately, Ai WeiWei’s art came to town, the artist himself is still
15 December 2013
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Books
Ouvrages reçus
Michael A Robinson. Equal to my own equation. Éd. Plein sud, Longueuil, 2013, 118 p. Ill. couleurs et n/b.
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15 December 2013
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Books
Philip Monk, Glamour Is Theft : A user’s guide to General Idea, 1969-1978
Hard covered and fully illustrated with black and white photographs, diagrams and excerpts of the FILE Megazine, the book retraces the chronology of what was seen as a fictional mirror and an organ of communication within the Canadian art scene during the seventies. It