{"id":42078,"date":"2019-01-19T17:43:52","date_gmt":"2019-01-19T22:43:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artoronto.ca\/?p=42078"},"modified":"2019-02-05T14:26:53","modified_gmt":"2019-02-05T19:26:53","slug":"tim-whiten-at-olga-korper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/v2.artoronto.ca\/?p=42078","title":{"rendered":"Tim Whiten at Olga Korper Gallery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Tim-Whiten-in-front-of-Hallelujah-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-42076\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Tim-Whiten-in-front-of-Hallelujah-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"375\" height=\"227\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Tim Whiten in front of <em>Hallelujah II<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Coffin? Treasure chest? Space cube? The exhibition of the latest works by Tim Whiten leaves one intrigued, inspired and introspective. The dazzling <em>Chasing Cobald<\/em> and <em>Arisearose<\/em> anchor the room with their intricate geometric presence, bold ultramarine color and sharp edges. The lighter, seemingly floating <em>Hallelujah I<\/em> and <em>II<\/em> expand the horizon of the imagination.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/unnamed.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-42081\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/unnamed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"375\" height=\"246\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Chasing Cobald<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Arisearose-detail.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-42071\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Arisearose-detail.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"375\" height=\"250\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Arisearose<\/em>, the top part<\/p>\n<p>The intricately decorated sculptures <em>Reliquaire (II)<\/em> and <em>Who-Man\/Amen<\/em> possess a striking ability to draw the viewer in, make them bow and contort in an attempt to peak at the enigmatic contents. Yet, no matter how hard one tries, the insides remain a mystery.\u00a0Whiten&#8217;s face radiates with delight when asked about the engaging aspect of his work: he is glad that the public would &#8220;take something away&#8221; from his objects.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Reliquaire-detail-Reliquaire.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-42080\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Reliquaire-detail-Reliquaire.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"211\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Reliquaire (II)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/rsz_1rsz_2_engaging.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-42085\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/rsz_1rsz_2_engaging.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"375\" height=\"242\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Visitors engaging with the piece <em>Who-Man\/Amen<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Re-cognizing-Asterion-and-Hallelujah.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-42073\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Re-cognizing-Asterion-and-Hallelujah.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"375\" height=\"238\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Re-cognizing <em>Asterion<\/em> and <em>Hallelujah I<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Text and photo: Elena Iourtaeva<\/p>\n<p>*Exhibition information:\u00a0Tim Whiten, <em>Suspend<\/em>, January 17 \u2013 February 16, 2019,\u00a0Olga Korper Gallery, 17 Morrow Avenue, Toronto. Gallery hours: Tue \u2013 Sat, 10 am \u2013 6 pm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>by Elena Iourtaeva<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Yet, no matter how hard one tries, the insides remain a mystery. <\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/v2.artoronto.ca\/?p=42078\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":42077,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[144,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-elena-iourtaeva","category-features"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/v2.artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/v2.artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/v2.artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v2.artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v2.artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42078"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/v2.artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42078\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42152,"href":"https:\/\/v2.artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42078\/revisions\/42152"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v2.artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/42077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/v2.artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v2.artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v2.artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}