{"id":15843,"date":"2012-10-26T21:32:04","date_gmt":"2012-10-27T01:32:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artoronto.ca\/?p=15843"},"modified":"2012-11-30T17:49:24","modified_gmt":"2012-11-30T22:49:24","slug":"art-toronto-2012-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/v2.artoronto.ca\/?p=15843","title":{"rendered":"ART TORONTO, 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"

ART TORONTO, 2012<\/strong>
\nOctober 26 – 29, 2012<\/strong>
\n<\/strong>METRO TORONTO CONVENTION CENTRE<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0\"\"<\/a>Photo: Phil Anderson<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Photo: Phil Anderson<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Photo: Mauricio Contreras-Paredes<\/p>\n

This year the Art Toronto International Art Fair<\/strong> continues to impress and surpass its previous year in what is the largest exhibition ever. Frank Hyder<\/em> of Projects Gallery<\/em> (Miami and Philadelphia) says its about the quality of work that impresses him and partner Helen Hyder<\/em>. Hyder thought that were fewer galleries this year but the fair was still bigger.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Frank and Helen Hyder<\/em> of Projects Gallery<\/em> (Miami and Philadelphia).\u00a0Photo: Phil Anderson<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Julio Nieto, Y\u00a0Alicia,\u00a0from Villa del Arte galleries,\u00a0Barcelona, Spain. Photo: Salomeh Ahmadi<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Claudia Alvarez, Girl With Gun and Girl\u00a0With Hoody. \u00a0BlueLeaf Gallery, Dublin 2, Ireland. Photo: Salomeh Ahmadi<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Karine Giboulo, Democracy Village (detail), Art M\u00fbr, Montreal. Photo: Salomeh Ahmadi<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Richard Kraft, 16 Walkers for Toronto, 2012, Charlie James Gallery, Los Angeles, USA.\u00a0Photo: Deborah Kanfer<\/p>\n

The Fair is expected to attract over 20,000 visitors and art consumers. All the gallery owners I talked with seemed impressed with the Opening Night Preview in terms of enthusiasm and sales. Ron Moore<\/em> of Moore Gallery said Saturday has always been the best day for sales and this was echoed by other galleries.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Ken Macdonlad of Granville Fine Art Gallery and Ron Moore of Moore Gallery. Photo: Phil Anderson<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Mira Godard Gallery, Toronto. Photo: Mauricio Contreras-Paredes<\/p>\n

Every year there are special projects that help define the fair and one such project was the Beyond Geography<\/em> that echoes the Focus Asia<\/em> component of this years fair . In fact the title comes from a video work by participating artist, Li Ran<\/em>.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Co-curator Katherine Don of Beyond Geography<\/em> in front of Ons Aller Belang’s work. Photo: Salomeh Ahmadi<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Ye Hongxing, The tempting transitoriness No.9.<\/em> 2011 (detail of collage), Art Lexing, Miami, USA. Photo: Salomeh Ahmadi<\/p>\n

Other projects include the BMW Art Car<\/em>, this year the Robert Raustenberg<\/em>\u2019s 1986 Art Car, a BMW 635 CSi.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Robert Rauschenberg 1986 Art Car. Photo: Phil Anderson<\/p>\n

The South Asian Visual Arts Collective<\/em> of Toronto also had works on display including Joshua Vettivelu<\/em>\u2018s Glory Hole Installation\/Performance<\/em>. Canadian Art<\/em>\u2018s Richard Rhodes<\/em> curated a series titled Aerials: Prisons , Vistas and Infinities<\/em>. On display during my visit was Alain Paiement<\/em>‘s photo aerials works. I missed the accompanying talk by Richard Rhodes. Everyday the display and artist changes.<\/p>\n

Another fascinating and pleasing project was Aaron Taylor Kuffner<\/em>\u2019s The Gamelation<\/em> \u2013 \u201cthe worlds first and only fully robotic gamelan orchestra. The sounds created provided a unique and resonating atmosphere in what can be an overwhelming experience of taking in so much art.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Aaron Taylor Kuffner\u2019s The Gamelation. Photo: Phil Anderson<\/p>\n

The MOCCA Benefit edition by Toronto artist, Ed Pien<\/em> was mostly sold out . The water jet cut aluminium multiple was titled Leap. Sales of the work benefit MOCCA . Ed Pien has shown internationally\u00a0(recently at the 18th Biennale of Sydney 2012) as well as being represented by galleries in Toronto (Birch Libralato) and Montreal (Pierre \u2013 Francois Quellette Art Contemporain).<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Wil Kucey from LE Gallery \u00a0in front of Matt Bahen’s work\u00a0Rosetta Stone. Photo: Phil Anderson<\/p>\n

Art Toronto again offers the Next Galleries<\/em> program where emerging galleries are offered an opportunity to display the works of new and emerging artists. This years collection of Next Galleries on the West side of the fair floor area included 19 galleries from Toronto, Venice, Montreal, Havana, Los Angeles, Mexico City and New York. Local Galleries included Le Gallery, MKG127, Narwhal, O’Born Contemporary, Erin Stump Projects, Blunt \u2013 an art collective, Neubacher Shor Contemporary and General Hardware Contemporary. These galleries offered some exciting works by new artists that demand attention.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Roy Arden from Monte Clark Gallery, Toronto. Photo: Deborah Kanfer<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Genaral Hardware Contemporary, Toronto. \u00a0Photo: Mauricio Contreras-Paredes<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Neubacher Shor Contemporary, Toronto.\u00a0Photo: Mauricio Contreras-Paredes<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>\u00a0Open Studio, Toronto. Photo: Mauricio Contreras-Paredes<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Nicholas Metivier Gallery, Toronto. Photo: Mauricio Contreras-Paredes<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Jim Holyoak AGAC, Live drawing. Photo: Deborah Kanfer<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>A tour.\u00a0\u00a0Photo: Deborah Kanfer<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Photo: Deborah Kanfer<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Christopher Cutts Gallery, Toronto. Photo: Mauricio Contreras-Paredes<\/p>\n

One of the more pleasing observations I made was the invitation of artists to participate in some of the gallery booths representing them. This is difficult for many galleries with a large roster of artists and for most galleries travelling a considerable distance the cost of bringing artists along becomes prohibitive. At the Winsor Gallery, from Vancouver I talked with artist and photographer Brian Howell about his work. Howell collected a number of shopping carts filled with different objects over a period of about four months. He collected over 40 such carts and then took them to the studio to photograph them. Some 28 photographs became part of an exhibition in April of 2011 at the Winsor Gallery. At the Fair the Winsor displayed about ten of the works. Each photograph told a different story about the person who was moving these belongings in transit in the carts. It was fitting project for Howell, a former journalist.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Brian Howell of Winsor Gallery, Vancouver, BC. Photo: Phil Anderson<\/p>\n

Also on hand was artist Angela Grossmann, of Winsor Gallery who talked about her use of working with found objects to display her work, as the piano rolls. The objects had there own history which added to her art work. The opportunity of talking to the artist about their individual work added to the value of the experience and made the work more engaging.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Malcolm Woolff of Woolff Gallery(London, UK) and art work by Russell West. Photo: Phil Anderson<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Project Gallery, Philadelphia. USA. Photo: Mauricio Contreras-Paredes<\/p>\n

This years Art Toronto offered such a variety of art experiences and Toronto is fortunate to have this kind of event to bring international galleries to Toronto and at the same time showcase the abundance of talented artists that call Toronto home. Now that\u2019s something to take pride in.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Photo: Mauricio Contreras-Paredes<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Photo: Mauricio Contreras-Paredes<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Photo: Salomeh Ahmadi<\/p>\n

\u00a0Text: Phil Anderson<\/p>\n

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October 26 – 29, 2012<\/strong><\/p>\n

METRO TORONTO CONVENTION CENTRE<\/strong><\/p>\n

continues to impress and surpass its previous year in what is the largest exhibition ever. This year’s project was the Beyond Geography that echoes the Focus Asia <\/p>\n

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