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<\/a>Photo: Brinae Bain<\/p>\nOn the top of the escalator the installation titled\u00a0Pavillion of Blind <\/em>greats the visitors with its confusing visuality.\u00a0At first sight,\u00a0it looks like a Home Depot store room, but\u00a0when its multisensory machinery kicks in and it starts moving and producing many different visions, you can\u00a0gasp the artists’ intentions.<\/p>\n The print for MOCCA’s benefit has a very strong, surrealistic tone.<\/p>\n At the front\u00a0we can see\u00a0the work\u00a0of RBC Canadian Painting Competition winners.\u00a0Then we see this\u00a0urban forest of about 100 booths of art galleries and organizations, overwhelming even at first sight. Just looking at them makes you dizzy. It is always a hard decision what method to follow, go straight to the end in a vertical way or criss-cross horizontally. I start horizontally in the right side corner then go straight in the first lane. My policy is not to look at the sign of the gallery but at the art work only. Something very strong with burning red catches my eyes on the right side and I think, “vow, isn’t it a bit too much” and I keep walking but somehow after\u00a0three more booths, I turn back. There is something intriguing about that painting. It turns out to be Steve Driscoll’s Seared by the Sun <\/em>and I am not surprised to learn that is already sold. As I turn into the booth there is Jamie Angell of Angell Gallery, standing in front of Kim Dorland’s large painting, Bedroom #3, <\/em>depicting the artist’s wife on their bed. Kim Dorland, one of Toronto’s\u00a0most interesting \u00a0painters, currently\u00a0has a show on\u00a0at Angell Gallery, running untill November 8th. Angell has a unique taste and\u00a0is a risk taker; noone really knew Dorland when\u00a0Angell took him as a gallery artist and now he is one of the best sellers. Gavin Lynch and Rafael Ochoa, Angell’s newest artists are also doing well on the fair.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n I leave Angell’s booth on the other side and – there goes my methodical walking plan –\u00a0so I just walk and look and enjoy the art works.<\/p>\n Pari Nadimi Gallery’s booth is unusual too, showing works that are not typically displayed at fairs, like some dirty boots, a video piece by David Rokeby, Machine for Taking Time<\/em>.\u00a0The\u00a0two lenticular images by George Legrady seems to be different from each angle you view them, so you can enjoy at least eight different pictures. In the center\u00a0of the gallery there\u00a0is a funny little group by Sarah Farndon, that is very popular. Pari Nadimi Gallery is\u00a0also celebrating its 15th anniversary in\u00a0its newly renovated large\u00a0space on Niagara Street.<\/p>\n Two exhibitors share\u00a0a very colorful booth: Laura Ortiz Vega of Antena Estudio from Mexico city and Noah Antieau of Red Truck Gallery from New Orleans. It is the fifth year at TIAF for Ortiz Vega, who really likes Toronto and\u00a0 who is quite satisfied with the sales at this fair. For Antieau, this is the first year here. The two of them met a year ago in Chicago and connected right away beceause of their love for folk art, so they decided to share a booth at TIAF.<\/p>\n I try to put some order back into my wandering and get to the NEXT section when I run into Paul Petro. His gallery was one of the first I started to visit when I came to Toronto many years ago. Paul Petro Contemporary Art has a large place in TIAF and it is intricately planned. The display starts with Molinari’s\u00a0painting on the\u00a0back and continues with more geometric compositions, while on the side Carol Wainio’s large, fairy tale like\u00a0painting covers the whole side wall. Its greyish tones complimented by Tom Dean’s Peaceable Kingdom<\/em>, an idealistic depiction of peace between animals.<\/p>\n Back to NEXT, I\u00a0walk through the small booths of emerging galleries that occupy this section, Neubacher Shor Contemporary and Robert Kananaj from Toronto, Gurevich Fine Art from Winnipeg among them.<\/p>\n I love photography so Stephen Bulger Gallery is always on my list. Bulger, besides being an excellent dealer,\u00a0is also an amazing, charismatic teacher when it comes to photography. It is not a surprise that his booth is always crowded\u00a0with people listening to his\u00a0presentations. When asking him why\u00a0all the displayed pieces are historical, he said, that luckily this year there is another art fair, Feature, when he\u00a0can show the contemporary photographs of his collection. He, himself, rotated between the two places and was explaining images at TIAF on Friday, while doing the same at Feature on Saturday.<\/p>\n The talks and\u00a0presentations were\u00a0also well attended.<\/p>\n<\/a>Mocca Benefit Edition: Val\u00e9rie Blass, No regarde pas II, <\/em>2014, 13 x 19 inches, digital print on matte paper, edition of 25 unique prints. Courtesy of the Artist and Parisian Laundry, Montreal<\/p>\n<\/a>Angell Gallery with Steve Driscoll, Seared by the Sun.\u00a0<\/em>Photo: Brinae Bain<\/p>\n<\/a>Jamie Angell of Angell Gallery, with Kim Dorland’s large painting, Bedroom #3. <\/em>Photo: Brinae Bain<\/p>\n<\/a>MA2 Gallery, Tokyo, Japan. Photo: Elena Iourtaeva<\/p>\n<\/a>Nicholas Di Genova’s installation, LE Gallery, Toronto. Photo: Elena Iourtaeva<\/p>\n<\/a>Works by Attila Richard Lukacs and Angela Grossmann, Winsor Gallery, Vancouver. Photo: Elena Iourtaeva<\/p>\n<\/a>Lonsdale Gallery, Toronto. Photo: Elena Iourtaeva<\/p>\n<\/a>Pari Nadimi of the Pari Nadimi Gallery with work of Trevor Mahovsky (left) and Rhonda Weppler (right). Photo: Brinae Bain<\/p>\n<\/a>Exhibition view with Sarah Farndon’s work, Pari Nadimi Gallery. Photo: Brinae Bain<\/p>\n<\/a>Laura Ortiz Vega of Antena Estudio with her work. Photo: Brinae Bain<\/p>\n<\/a>Noah Antieau of Red Truck Gallery. Photo: Brinae Bain<\/p>\n<\/a>Paul Petro of Paul Petro Contemporary Art in front of Carol Wainio’s painting. Photo: Brinae Bain<\/p>\n<\/a>Peaceable Kingdom<\/em> by artist Tom Dean at the Paul Petro Contemporary Art Gallery. Photo: Brinae Bain<\/p>\n<\/a>Robert Kananaj of\u00a0 Robert Kananaj Gallery. Photo: Brinae Bain<\/p>\n<\/a>Mitch Billinkoff of Gurevich Fine Art with Elder Brothers<\/em> by Buffy Sainte-Marie. Photo: Brinae Bain<\/p>\n<\/a>Break Room<\/em> by Thrush Holmes. Photo: Elena Iourtaeva<\/p>\n<\/a>Stephen Bulger Gallery. Photo: Brinae Bain<\/p>\n<\/a>Christopher Cutts Gallery, Toronto. Photo: Elena Iourtaeva<\/p>\n<\/a>Sandra Ainsley Gallery, Toronto. Photo: Elena Iourtaeva<\/p>\n<\/a>Bruno Dahl Gallery, Ebeltoft, Denmark. Photo: Elena Iourtaeva<\/p>\n<\/a>Halcyon Art International, Pudong, Shanghai, China. Photo: Elena Iourtaeva<\/p>\n<\/a>Bryne McLaughlin of Canadian Art Magazine, that celebrates its 30th anniversary,\u00a0gave an energetic presentation in GENERATION(S)\u00a0TALK. Photo: Brinae Bain<\/p>\n