{"id":28390,"date":"2015-05-06T21:23:30","date_gmt":"2015-05-07T01:23:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artoronto.ca\/?p=28390"},"modified":"2015-05-24T18:14:41","modified_gmt":"2015-05-24T22:14:41","slug":"scotiabanks-contact-photography-2015-launch-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/v2.artoronto.ca\/?p=28390","title":{"rendered":"CONTACT Photography Festival 2015 \/ Launch Party"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a><\/strong>Installation view with Mariah Robertson’s photo-sculpture<\/p>\n

Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival Launch Party\u00a0<\/strong>
\nMay 1, 2015 \/ 7 – 10 p.m.<\/strong>
\nMuseum of Contemporary Canadian Art<\/strong>
\n952\u00a0Queen Street West<\/p>\n

A party was held at MOCCA launching this year’s\u00a0Scotiabank’s CONTACT Photography Festival, in conjunction with the opening receptions for\u00a0Part Picture,<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0Past\u00a0Picture: Photography and The Chemistry of Intention<\/em>, with\u00a0Demolition Site<\/em> on view in the MOCCA courtyard.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Jihyun Jung, Demolition Site 14, Outside, 2013. Photo:\u00a0Courtesy of the artist.<\/p>\n

As the visitors entered from Queen Street West, they were greeted with a new violent mural on the east side of the court, made by Jihyun Jung.\u00a0\u00a0 The\u00a0harsh spotlights during the warm sunset made the mural, titled\u00a0Demolition Site,<\/em>\u00a0scream. The Korean artist was commissioned to create this work\u00a0on a 1 to 1 ratio, of a building being ripped apart, deconstructed, and on its\u00a0way to ashes. A foreshadowing event for MOCCA’s current home, in anticipation for demolition, making space for new condos.\u00a0Like each year, photography lovers\u00a0came\u00a0to celebrate the festival, crowded the courtyard in front of the museum and overpacked the interior. The artistic vision and technical processes expressed by the photographers in\u00a0Past Picture<\/em>\u00a0continue to amuse and\u00a0influence us even in this digital age with Photoshop.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Installation view of\u00a0\u00a0Past Picture<\/em>\u00a0with photographs by\u00a0Man Ray (in front)<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Installation view of\u00a0\u00a0Past Picture<\/em>\u00a0with Anna Atkins, Polypodium crenatum, Norway, 1854<\/p>\n

Curated by Chris Wiley, the collection of contemporary North American photographers sprawled throughout the museum,\u00a0while Torontonian musician, Bahamas, stole the crowd with his solo performance. The title\u00a0Part Picture<\/em> was chosen to compliment the artists’ experimentation with mediums and variations on photography, often resulting in hybrids of photo-painting and photo-sculpture.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Elad Lassry’s photo-sculptures in Part Picture<\/em><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Installation view of Part Picture<\/em> with photographs by Ryan Foerster<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>\u00a0Guests of Part Picture<\/em> with Barbara Kasten, Studio Construct 8<\/em>, 2007 (right)<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/em>Guests of <\/em>Part Picture <\/em>in front of\u00a0 Hiroshi Sugimoto’s work<\/p>\n

Part Picture<\/em> is also the perfect title for the opening night, as the performance by Bahamas, the mural, and the excited crowd overpowered the art work itself. Most of the pieces were inaccessible during the opening night. The long photo-sculpture by Mariah Robertson hung in the middle of the gallery, in front of the stage. The metallic paper with bursts of colour, its scrolls rolling\u00a0from the ceiling\u00a0and continuing on the floor, were tripped over and accidentally stepped on by fans. The stage was set up in front of John Houck’s large grid prints, and the rest of the audience acted as a buffer between the viewers and the art.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Part Picture, w<\/em>ork\u00a0by Jan Groover<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Work by Lucas Blalock from Part Picture<\/em><\/p>\n

The opening was a party, where the aura of change hung heavy in the air. You’ve got to come back to experience this new, expressionistic quality of photography, that is\u00a0addressing a new turn in defining what photography is in the art world.<\/p>\n

Text: Tetyana Herych. Photo: Elena Iourtaeva<\/p>\n

*Exhibition information: May 2 – 31, 2015, Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, 952\u00a0Queen Street West, Toronto. Gallery hours: Tue – Sun 11 – 6 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

May 1, 2015 \/ 7 – 10 p.m.<\/p>\n

Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art<\/strong><\/p>\n

Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival’s opening was a party, where the aura of change hung heavy in the air. <\/p>\n

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