Your Cultural Concierge! VoCA offers critical commentary on the Canadian art scene, with a focus on Toronto. Featuring exhibition previews, critics picks, interviews and in-depth articles on art in Vancouver, Calgary, Winnipeg, Ottawa and Halifax.
July 17th, 2008 — Art market, Artists, Books, Collecting, Sculpture/Installation
VoCA’s fasination with British artist Damien Hirst continues with a review of Toronto author Don Thompson’s book, The $12 Million Stuffed Shark: The Curious Economics of Contemporary Art.
Check it out HERE.
Look for our review in an upcoming issue of Quill and Quire – we’ll post it on VoCA, too.
July 16th, 2008 — Artists, News: Canada, News: International, Video/New Media
London-based film artist and VoCA favorite Mark Lewis will represent Canada at the 2009 Venice Biennale!
Mark Lewis, Isoceles, 2007. Image: marklewisstudio.com
Click HERE for the full article.
July 16th, 2008 — Artists, Exhibitions, Photography, Sculpture/Installation, Toronto, Video/New Media
Iain Baxter& Landscape with Sea Boats, 1999, (from the series Television Works).
Image: corkingallery.com
Over the years, we’ve loved the AGO (the Yoko Ono exhibition in 2002, the acquisition of David Almejd’s 2007 Venice pavilion installation, the Henry Moore sculpture gallery with the Julian Opie pole dancers, Swing Space) and we’ve loathed them (Nuit Blanche 2006, their lack of innovative curatorial thinking, the institution’s low energy and measly acquisition budget…)
July 11th, 2008 — Artists, Nuit Blanche Toronto 2008, Toronto
We now know what this year’s 4 curators have planned for this year’s Nuit Blanche Toronto, which will take place on the night of OCTOBER 4, 2008.
Click HERE for the full list
Here are the first of VoCA picks for the night. Stay tuned for more over the coming weeks.
ZONE A: Curated by Gordon Hatt.
1. Without Persons, 2008 by Luis Jacob
Luis Jacob, The Inchoate Ensemble, 2007, colour photograph. Image: birchlibralato.com
The super-hot Toronto artist gets the best venue –the old Maple Leaf Gardens-that he’ll use as a haunting sound installation.
July 10th, 2008 — Artists, Painting
Here are the final five of all fifteen semi-finalists in Canada’s RBC Painting Competition.
Who do you think should win? Let VoCA know! (Post comment below)
Martin Golland, Prism Burn, 2008. Image: rbc.com
July 9th, 2008 — Artists, Painting
Over the next three days, VoCA will be featuring work by all fifteen semi-finalists in Canada’s RBC Painting Competition.
In the meantime, here is the second group of finalists, continued from below (in alphabetical order.)
Who do you think should win? Let VoCA know! (Post comment below)
Emmy Skensved, Mirror, 2008. Image: rbc.com
July 8th, 2008 — Artists, Exhibitions, Painting
VoCA features work by all fifteen semi-finalists in Canada’s RBC Painting Competition - see below.
Amanda Reeves, Untitled 03 2008. Image: rbc.com
Here is the first group of finalists, (in - almost - alphabetical order.) The second and third groups of finalists will come in the next few days…winner to be announced by Governor General Michaelle Jean in September 2008 before the works head off on a national tour.
For more info, please see our first post HERE.
Who do you think should win? Let VoCA know! (Post comment below)
July 7th, 2008 — Artists, Interviews, Photography
Courtesy of Designboom, we have found an interview with German photographer Barbara Probst, whose work is represented by Jessica Bradley Art & Projects in Toronto.
Read the full article HERE
Barbara Probst, Exposure #27, N.Y.C. 249 W. 34th Street, 05.25.04, 9:27p.m., 2004. Image: themorningnews.org
July 4th, 2008 — Artists, Exhibitions, Painting, Video/New Media
1. Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller
31 July – 28 September 2008
The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh
Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller, The Killing Machine, 2007. Image: e-flux.com
July 2nd, 2008 — Artists, Exhibitions, News: Canada, Painting
The RBC Canadian Painting Competition, a barometer of emerging painters from across the country, has announced this year’s shortlist.
Eli Bornowsky, Untitled 2008. Image: front.bc.ca
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