KINGSTON, ONTARIO
CROWD CONSCIOUS AT THE AGNES ETHERINGTON ART CENTRE
MAY 12 - SEPTEMBER 30, 2007

Luc Courchesne, 050607-6 (Nagoya), 2003-2006. Image: pfoac.com

Stephen Andrews, Medium Shot, 1998. Image: thebody.com
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Mike Nelso, MAGAZIN, Buyuk Valide Han, 2003.
(Installation view, Istanbul Biennale) Image: friezeartfair.com

Mike Nelson, one of the shortlisted artists (along with Mark Wallinger, Nathan Coley and Zarina Bhimji) was previously shortlisted in 2001, is known for his hyper-real installations:

“Nelson has received his Turner prize nomination for building installations out of wood and punctuating them with junk. He creates stage sets, emotionally charged false buildings within buildings. The rooms and corridors are self-contained, with ceilings. And yet they’re not seamless. They have a raw, wooden hokeyness, a rankness, a stench of bitter memories.”

Read more HERE.

Baudrillard famously said: “The very definition of the real has become: that of which it is possible to give an equivalent reproduction…The real is not only what can be reproduced, but that which is always already reproduced: that is, the hyperreal…”

Look out for my article in the Spring issue of Border Crossings magazine on the growing trend toward hyper-reality in art.

MONTREAL: MAY 10 - JULY 8, 2007

The Montreal Biennale, which will take place at six venues across the city, offers Montrealers and visitors a chance to see work by some of Canada’s most exciting artists.

Click HERE for the website.

Many artists this year are favourites of curator Wayne Baerwaldt, and some – particularly those from Western Canada - will be unfamiliar to Quebecers.

For what it’s worth, the press release describes artists’ interest in “the crossbreeding of individual and collective identities, the shift in national borders and the impact of religious beliefs.”

VOCA RECOMMENDS…OUR TOP 10 MUST-SEE SHOWS:

1. THEO SIMS’ THE CANDAHAR

Theo Sims, The Candahar. Image: acad.ab.ca

An artwork and live art where art and life converge, the Candahar is… an Irish Pub. Continue reading →

TORONTO
May 1 - 31, 2007

May is photography month in Toronto with CONTACT, celebrating photography in galleries and museums throughout the city.

For the CONTACT website, click HERE

Andrew Wright, Standing Wave #2 (Work in process), 2007. Image: Andrew Wright/contactphoto.com

Spring Hurlbut, Mary No. 2 from the series Luminous, 2006. Image: courtesy Georgia Scherman Projects Continue reading →