Chamber Music: Mixed media works by Kenny Lee
August 12 – 23, 2009
Launch Projects, Toronto

We’ve been noticing, over the past few years, that more artists are looking at objects from varying perspectives.

Barbara Probst, “Exposure #34A: N.Y.C., Central Park, Umpire Rock, 06.14.05, 6:34 p.m. ,” 2005. Image: twi-ny.com

Barbara Probst’s excellent photographs tackle an event from numerous points of view, as do the mesmerizing videos of Bettina Hoffmann. VoCA favorite Sarah Anne Johnson creates sculptures that relate to her photographs, for a more immersive experience. We blogged about her recent show HERE.

Image: launchprojects.wordpress.com

Along the same lines is this show at Toronto’s Launch Projects. Venezuelan artist and OCAD grad Kenny Lee seeks to “explores the public realm of debate as a metaphor for an individual’s inner dialogue,” according to the gallery. He has created a mini-diorama of a parliamentary assembly that is meant to work with a series of paintings and drawings of the group from various zoom-inspired camera angles.

Bettina Hoffmann, La Ronde 2004, Video stills. Image: canadianart.ca

The work attempts to parallel the abstract and concrete realities of varying opinions and perspectives.

Of course, government institutions and parliamentary structures are filled with intriguing metaphor – there’s an excellent and recommended book by Lawrence Vale called Architecture, Power and National Identity that we read years ago on a similar subject.

Check out this show and see if Lee succeeds in finding the magic in the relationship between the very public and the intensely private.

Click HERE for Launch Projects website.