{"id":45372,"date":"2020-06-04T14:42:19","date_gmt":"2020-06-04T18:42:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artoronto.ca\/?p=45372"},"modified":"2020-06-08T10:41:36","modified_gmt":"2020-06-08T14:41:36","slug":"virtual-tour-of-lumir-hladik-cozy-venom-at-darren-gallery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/v2.artoronto.ca\/?p=45372","title":{"rendered":"Virtual Tour of Lum\u00edr Hlad\u00edk: Cozy Venom at Darren Gallery"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/virtual-tour-Darren.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/virtual-tour-Darren.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-45373\" width=\"331\" height=\"166\"\/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Thursday, June 4, 2020 <br \/>6 \u2013 7 pm Toronto \/ 7 &#8211; 8 pm Montreal <\/strong> <br \/><strong>Online&nbsp;Event&nbsp;\/&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.ca\/e\/virtual-gallery-and-studio-tour-registration-105979557710\">Register<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pour yourself a glass of wine and join us via ZOOM for a virtual curator-led art tour of <em>Cozy Venom<\/em>, featuring artist Lumir Hladik. This private art tour includes the current exhibtion at Darren Gallery, followed by an exclusive virtual studio visit with the artist. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Lum\u00edr Hlad\u00edk<\/strong> is a Toronto based, Czech born, post WWII neo-Avant-garde artist, one of the pioneering creators of the 70s East European installation, action and performance art movement. He has developed a very distinctive form of ar <br \/>After moving to Canada, the artist spent decades studying natural entropy in the Canadian wilderness. His practice expanded to include gestural drawings, mixed media, video and bio interventions involving living wildlife such as black bears, birds and insects. His current work is exploring notions of immortality and celebrity, cultural amnesia and anthropomorphic arrogance. It is riddled with symbolism and historical contexts. His work responds to today&#8217;s society\u2019s ubiquitously ridiculous \u201crational\u201d defence of its irrationality. He asserts that, \u201cdisrespect for death is killing life\u201d. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After moving to Canada, the artist spent decades studying natural entropy in the Canadian wilderness. His practice expanded to include gestural drawings, mixed media, video and bio interventions involving living wildlife such as black bears, birds and insects. His current work is exploring notions of immortality and celebrity, cultural amnesia and anthropomorphic arrogance. It is riddled with symbolism and historical contexts. His work responds to today&#8217;s society\u2019s ubiquitously ridiculous \u201crational\u201d defence of its irrationality. He asserts that, \u201cdisrespect for death is killing life\u201d. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/rsz_lumir_hladik.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-44685\" width=\"288\" height=\"231\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"> Installation view of Lum\u00edr Hlad\u00edk\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Cozy&nbsp;Venom.&nbsp;<\/em>Photo: Yianni Tong <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Please also check our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artoronto.ca\/?p=44688\">interview<\/a> with Apollonia Vanova, director of Darren Gallery.<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>June 4, 2020 \/ 6 &#8211; 7 pm<\/p>\n<p>Online Event<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Pour yourself a glass of wine and join us via <em><\/em>ZOOM for a virtual curator-led art tour of Cozy Venom, featuring artist Lumir Hladik<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/v2.artoronto.ca\/?p=45372\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45378,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-archive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/v2.artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45372","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=45372"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/v2.artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45376,"href":"https:\/\/v2.artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45372\/revisions\/45376"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v2.artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/45378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/v2.artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v2.artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v2.artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}