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Tomoko Yoneda “We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness” at Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography

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Tomoko Yoneda, Hiroshima Peace Day, from “Cumulus” series, 2011. C-type print. Courtesy the artist © Tomoko Yoneda

Tomoko Yoneda
We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness
20 July – 23 September 2013
at Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography

Yoneda Tomoko not only addresses subjects visible in reality but also projects the memories and history associated with places and things onto her work. As a result, through the act of looking at photographs, the viewer is challenged to question anew the essence of what is we actually are able to see.
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Essay: Sex in Public – Streetview and Vincent Chevalier’s PWIF’d at the Canadian Centre for Architecture

Text by Joseph Henry

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Exhibition view, ABC : MTL at Canadian Centre for Architecture, 2013. Courtesy Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal

Montreal-based Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA) has devoted roughly a year of programming (from November 2012 to March 2013) to an extensive curatorial investigation of the city’s cultural life and multi-faceted urban structure. With its three-part exhibition ABC : MTL, the CCA announced an open call for submissions, to nourish a diverse presentation of objects ranging from Robin Pindea Gould and Fiona Annis’ rigorous documentation of Montreal bridges to the architectural renderings of the Centre du Soccer, in the neighborhood of Saint-Michel. ABC : MTL additionally supplemented a smaller exhibition entitled Streetview, a collection of photographs spanning from the early twentieth century to present times, to offer portraits of the city via its canals, roadways and plazas.
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Nilbar GüreÅŸ “Nilbar Wien-Na” at Galerie Martin Janda, Vienna

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Nilbar Güreş, Ayse loves Fatma, 2011. C-Print. Courtesy the artist and Galerie Martin Janda, Vienna

Nilbar Güreş
Nilbar Wien-Na
7 June – 27 July 2013
at Galerie Martin Janda, Vienna

Nilbar Güreş offers her observers seemingly direct access that takes on varyingly playful, poetic or even ironic characteristics. However, hidden in the background are social-political constructs that can coalesce to depict individual destinies. In her large-format photographs, Güreş investigates, for example, the meaning of homosexual love in a society dominated by patriarchal structures (Ayse loves Fatma, 2011), or the narrowly apportioned, clearly defined societal framework for women (Overhead, 2010), and focuses on gender and cultural identities. Seemingly every day events are staged to resemble cinematic stills. The use of provocative gestures and their significance only becomes apparent when the cultural background is revealed.
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Adam Broomberg & Oliver Chanarin “To Photograph the Details of a Dark Horse in Low Light” at Gallery TPW, Toronto & on billboards across Canada

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© Adam Broomberg & Oliver Chanarin. Courtesy the artists and Galery TPW

Adam Broomberg & Oliver Chanarin
To Photograph the Details of a Dark Horse in Low Light
29 April – 2 June 2013
National Billboard campaign, Canada
11 May – 8 June 2013
Gallery TPW, Toronto

* Presented in partnership with Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival, Toronto

Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin’s To Photograph the Details of a Dark Horse in Low Light presents a national billboard campaign that depicts glamorous Caucasian women in high-contrast dress posed in front of neutral grey backgrounds. Collectively known as “Shirleys,” the portraits are culled from an archive of Kodak “norm reference cards,” historically used to calibrate skin tone in a photograph. French director Jean-Luc Godard made Kodak’s apparent predilection for white skin famous by refusing to use Kodak film on assignment in Mozambique in 1975. Kodak film, he insisted, was “racist.” Responding primarily to the confectionary and furniture industries’ complaints that they could not properly render dark chocolate or dark wood, Kodak chemists developed an emulsion that more accurately depicted darker colours: Gold Max, the first popular consumer film to address this problem, was initially described by Kodak as able “to photograph the details of a dark horse in low light.”
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Art Marathon: Papier 13 [Slide Show]

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Papier 13 on Ste Catherine Street.

[left] Grier Edmundson "Untitled (wallpaper study)" (2012); Krisjanis Kaktins-Gorsline 'Untitled " (2011) on Grier Emundson's wallpaper at Battat Contemporary, Montréal

[from left] Niall McClelland 'Stain" (2013); Sylvain Bouthillette "Crisse de fuck" (2013); Massimo Guerrera "Et l'oscillation de la langue…' (2013); Jimmy Limit at Clint Roenisch, Toronto

Jennifer Murphy "Untitled" (2013) at Clint Roenisch, Toronto

Arnaud Maggs "After Nadar: Pierrot the Collector" (2012) [left]; After Nadar: Pierrot in love" (2012) [right] at Susan Hobbs Gallery, Toronto

Arnaud Maggs "Scrapbook (1)" (2009) at Susan Hobbs Gallery, Toronto

Ian Carr-Harris "balucki " (1993) at Susan Hobbs Gallery, Toronto

Eveleigh Romany "Pages 1, 6 & 9" (1973) at Galerie Roger Bellemare, Montréal

Geneviève Cadieux "L'esprit de la perle" (2012–2013) at Galerie René Blouin, Montréal

Serge Murphy "La nuit peinte en rouge I & II" (2011) at Galerie René Blouin, Montreál

Lynn Cohen (centre top); Michael Snow (centre bottom), Gabor Szilasi (top right) et al at Art 45, Montréal

Jon Rafman "Strand Road, Co. Dublin, Ireland" (2012) at Galerie Antoine Ertaskiran, Montréal

Luce Meunier "Figure semblable" (2012) at Galerie Antoine Ertaskiran, Montréal

Jaime Angelopoulos at Parisian Laundry, Montréal

Ed Pien "Liquid Clouds" (2012) at Pierre-François Ouellette Art Contemporain, Montréal

Chih Chien Wang at Pierre-François Ouellette Art Contemporain, Montréal

Launa Bauer "Grey is A Colour, Grey is A Color" series (2012) at Galerie Nicolas Robert, Montréal

Robert Waters "Bird Flew" (2006–2007) at p|m Gallery, Toronto

Wil Murray "Adieu Vielle Europe" series (2013) at p|m gallery, Toronto

Gwenessa Lam at Republic Gallery, Vancouver

Lyse Lemieux at Republic Gallery, Vancouver

Lyse Lemieux at Republic Gallery, Vancouver

David Gillanders "The Garden" series (2013) at Galerie Trois Points, Montréal

John Massey at Georgia Scherman Projects, Toronto

Hyang Cho "Trial III (three)" (2012) at Georgia Scherman Projects, Toronto

Hyang Cho at Georgia Scherman Projects, Toronto

Melanie Authier at Georgia Scherman Projects, Toronto

Vanessa Maltese at Erin Stump Projects, Toronto

Laurie Kang "Untitled Form (Endura Glossy)" (2013) at Erin Stump Projects, Toronto

Marie-Claude Bouthillier "Grand bleu «mcb»" (2003) at Galerie Hugues Charbonneau, Montréal

Trevor Gould "Untitled (Darwin Series)" (2007–2013) at Galerie Hugues Charbonneau, Montréal

[from left] Gabriel Coutu-Dumont "Demo" (2012); Paul Bureau "Sans titre" (2013) at Galerie Donald Browne, Montréal

Sorel Cohen "After Bacon-Muybridge: coupled figures-Whizzer Leg Toss" (2008) at Galerie Donald Browne, Montréal

Nicolas Baier "Tablette" (2012) at Galerie Division, Montréal

Gwenaël Bélanger (left) and Eric Ladouceur at Galerie Graff, Montréal

Team Macho at Narwhal, Toronto

Team Macho at Narwhal, Toronto

"Cabinet of Curiosities" at Galerie Joyce Yahouda, Montréal

Galerie Jean-Claude Bergeron, Ottawa

Artist Dominique Paul in front of her work "Migrations des Arthropodes, Dumbo" (2012) at Galerie éric Devlin, Montréal

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Papier 13
26 – 28 April 2013
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Papier 13: Local Matters

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Papier 13 Art Fair proceeded to hold a sixth annual installment in the city of Montreal, this year between 26–28 April. While its tradition continued in exclusively showing paper-based art works, the fair tent noticeably grew in size to occupy 15,000 square feet – a much larger surface than in previous editions – to accommodate a greater number of galleries as well as more spacious lecture and lounge areas. Montreal’s only art fair especially caught our attention this year in setting up shop right on Ste. Catherine – the city’s busiest high street – which naturally allowed for an increase in attendance.
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Adrian Paci “Lives in Transit” at Jeu de Paume, Paris

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Adrian Paci
Lives in Transit
26 February – 12 May 2013
at Jeu de Paume, Paris

The work of Adrian Paci (born in 1969 in Albania) underlines one of the paradoxes of human intelligence, which consists of becoming aware of reality through irreality. Often inspired by subjects close to him, stories arising from his everyday life, Adrian Paci lets them slide poetically towards a fiction, which in its turn creates one or more wider realities. The exhibition at the Jeu de Paume gathers extremely diverse works (videos, installations, paintings, photographs and sculptures) made since 1997 and shows the numerous interconnections that operate between these different media and means of expression.
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Reaching 100 (Or The End of an Era) at Parker’s Box, Williamsburg, NY

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Entrance to, Reaching 100, with paintings by Philippe Nuell. Photo by Etienne Frossard. Courtesy of Parker’s Box NY

Reaching 100 (Or The End of an Era)
13 April – 5 May 2013
at Parker’s Box, Williamsburg, NY

Artists: Ophir Agassi, Beatriz Barral, Virginie Barré, John Bjerklie, Matt Blackwell, Willard Boepple, Steven Brower, Denis Castellas, Jason Glasser, Patrick Martinez, Philippe Nuell, Bruno Peinado, Mike Rogers, Stefan Sehler, Joshua Stern

This exhibition is dedicated to Nancy Grumbacher (1946-2013)

This will be the gallery’s one hundredth exhibition since it opened its doors in June 2000, and it will be the last in the gallery’s original location on Grand Street in Williamsburg. We hope to re-emerge somewhere soon with a new model, new energy and new ways to promote the best experimental contemporary art.

Parker’s Box has always endeavored to curate challenging exhibitions often involving exploration of some of the more rarefied regions of contemporary art practice, whether in painting, sculpture, video, installation etc. As a commercial gallery, Parker’s Box has always taken pride in making no concessions to that status, in favor of allowing artists a platform of complete freedom on which to experiment.
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Mashrooming at CirkulationsCentralen, Malmö

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Mashrooming
2 – 31 March 2013
at CirkulationsCentralen, Malmö

Artists: Elisabeth Czihak, Catharina Freuis, Markus Guschelbauer, Michael Strasser

The exhibition Mushrooming is showing photographic and installation works by four young Austrian artists. They are all concerned with (pictorial) space – intervening in it, expanding it, opening it up or reconstructing it.

In addition to its designation as a fixed, architectonic construct, these artistic interventions make it possible to experience space as living and mutable. At times the resulting images take on a bizarre, surreal or even uncanny character and all of the works involve irritation in relation to customary ways of perceiving space and architecture or the relationship of humans to space. [read the full text here]
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Hit and miss treasure hunt in the labyrinth – Art Souterrain 2013

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Nathalie Quagliotto, Vous êtes ici / You are here, 2013. Photo by Nathalie Quagliotto.

The Labyrinth themed fifth edition of Art Souterrain indeed furnished a dazzle of art sceneries to mark seven kilometres underground pathways with over 120 artworks. Taking the topic to heart, many works denoted either a puzzling of the visual senses or forms of bewilderment within the self, between societies or geo-political conditions. Mélodie Prégent’s installation “Warren” (2013) combined adjacent mirrors and perspective photographs of empty corridors, stairways and tunnels to create illusions of endless passages. Loren Williams whimsically faked several tunnel entrances, not only to confuse or amuse the audience but also to suggest gateways to fantastic and imaginary worlds. Continue reading “Hit and miss treasure hunt in the labyrinth – Art Souterrain 2013”