To coincide with Iain Baxter&'s exhibition of new works, and, at the Corkin Gallery, MAG has featured Iain on the cover of the November issue, with a feature article by editor Monika Burman. Pick it up for free at galleries around Toronto.
Listen to Iain Baxter& discuss his new projects, as well as his early conceptual work, with MAG's Julie Glick here: http://www.massartguide.com/audio/200811_iain_baxter_toronto_on.php
Saturday, November 1, 2008
Sunday, October 5, 2008
Ryoko Suzuki and Marc Séguin reviewed in current issue of BORDER CROSSINGS
...Suzuki cleverly turns a Japanese pop culture practice on its head and provides an interesting avenue into understanding the notion of manufactured desire in contemporary Japan. -- Carla Harms
Séguin's figuration broaches abstraction the way Jean-Paul Riopelle's abstraction always broached figuration ... Séguin paints the figure, but invokes and evokes registers of meaning that lie below, above or beyond the ground plane of representation. -- James D. Campbell
Thursday, September 4, 2008
Iain Baxter&.update.
Iain Baxter& has exhibited several new projects this summer in a number of exhibitions, including two European biennales, the Fifth TECOMAH Art Biennale in Jouy-en-Josas, France and Les Ateliers de Rennes, Biennale d'art Contemporain in Rennes, France. At TECOMAH, a biennale that focuses on environmental issues, Baxter& was one of 10 international artists invited to create a site-specific piece in an outdoor park. Baxter&'s piece was a large ampersand, tilted on its side and camoflauged with grass. Read about it here: http://www.tecomah.fr/les-environnementales/les-artistes.asp
For Les Ateliers de Rennes, Baxter& worked with local school children and commercial sandwich company Daunat to create a series of installations based on the humble sandwich. The project, titled &WICHTIME, resulted in a humourous series of works that deconstruct the sandwich and re-insert it into unusual contexts. The sandwich becomes anything: a landscape, a bedroom, a piece of sports equipment, shoes. Find out more here: http://www.lesateliersderennes.fr/site/expositions_artistes.php?id=53&id_lieu=7&id_langue=2&PHPSESSID=216ff5fb3f042a64401a3f3342374013
Baxter& and the N.E. Thing Co., are the subject of a recent video discussion by Crown Point Press director Kathan Brown. In casual conversation with the viewer she discusses how artists often act as precursors to pop culture trends, even if the trends appear decades later. You can watch it here: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8196280233303142094&hl=en
Baxter&'s exhibition Passing Through continues to tour museums and art galleries throughout Canada with a recent stop at the Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon. Passing Through contains early photographs and lightboxes from 1958 through to 1983. Revealing Baxter&'s ongoing interest in the everyday, these photographs also act as a unique document of North American culture in the last half of the 20th century.
For more information on Iain Baxter& please visit http://www.corkingallery.com/
For Les Ateliers de Rennes, Baxter& worked with local school children and commercial sandwich company Daunat to create a series of installations based on the humble sandwich. The project, titled &WICHTIME, resulted in a humourous series of works that deconstruct the sandwich and re-insert it into unusual contexts. The sandwich becomes anything: a landscape, a bedroom, a piece of sports equipment, shoes. Find out more here: http://www.lesateliersderennes.fr/site/expositions_artistes.php?id=53&id_lieu=7&id_langue=2&PHPSESSID=216ff5fb3f042a64401a3f3342374013
Baxter& and the N.E. Thing Co., are the subject of a recent video discussion by Crown Point Press director Kathan Brown. In casual conversation with the viewer she discusses how artists often act as precursors to pop culture trends, even if the trends appear decades later. You can watch it here: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8196280233303142094&hl=en
Baxter&'s exhibition Passing Through continues to tour museums and art galleries throughout Canada with a recent stop at the Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon. Passing Through contains early photographs and lightboxes from 1958 through to 1983. Revealing Baxter&'s ongoing interest in the everyday, these photographs also act as a unique document of North American culture in the last half of the 20th century.
For more information on Iain Baxter& please visit http://www.corkingallery.com/
Saturday, June 21, 2008
Saturday, March 29, 2008
Saturday, March 15, 2008
Grit Schwerdtfeger: Distanz 2006 March 8
“Cheerful, melancholy and frequently laconic, Grit Schwerdtfeger balances her art on the threshold between anticipation and memory.” - Kristina TiekeThe photographs of German artist Grit Schwerdtfeger are enigmatic, distanced meditations on everyday places, landscapes and sites of social engagement. Proudly presented at the Corkin Gallery, the images in Schwerdtfeger's body of work Distanz 2006 reveal the unusual beauty of familiar public spaces. Balanced, symmetrical and controlled, to the point of near abstraction in some images, these serene, harmonious scenes belie the often chaotic nature of tourist and recreational sites.
Schwerdtfeger distances herself from her subject matter by employing a central perspective and rigidly controlled composition, in effect removing any specificity of place or time. The viewer is left to contemplate the somewhat troubled relationship between human activity and the domesticated landscape.
Born in Berlin, Schwerdtfeger completed her studies at the Academy of Visual Arts in Leipzig, where she currently lives; her work is included in corporate and private collections in England, France, Austria, Belgium, Germany and Canada.
Schwerdtfeger distances herself from her subject matter by employing a central perspective and rigidly controlled composition, in effect removing any specificity of place or time. The viewer is left to contemplate the somewhat troubled relationship between human activity and the domesticated landscape.
Born in Berlin, Schwerdtfeger completed her studies at the Academy of Visual Arts in Leipzig, where she currently lives; her work is included in corporate and private collections in England, France, Austria, Belgium, Germany and Canada.
Friday, February 22, 2008
Presence of Portraits Extended until April 27th
Due to increased demand, Presence of Portraits has been extended until April 27. The exhibition provides the public with a rare opportunity to see 80 original prints by some of the greatest photographers of the 19th and 20th centuries. Showcasing images of famous writers, musicians and artists, the exhibit examines portraiture as a representation of identity, with a particular focus on the emergence of modernism in 1920s and ‘30s Europe.
Early works in the show include an 1856 portrait by Julia Margaret Cameron of playwright Henry Taylor and an introspective image of Victor Hugo, 1852, made by his son Charles Hugo while exiled in Jersey. Playfully exploring unconventional representation, Dadaist and Surrealist works include Sophie Tauber Arp’s self-portrait behind her Dada head, Raoul Ubac’s mannequin portrait, a quietly poised Salvador Dali by Horst P. Horst and a grotesquely disproportioned portrait by Dora Maar, the muse of Pablo Picasso and inspiration for his Guernica.
Famous Ukrainian cellist Gregor Piatigorsky, in a work by Germaine Krull, is pictured at his last concert in Monte Carlo, before leaving Europe with Toscanini and Horowitz for the Metropolitan in New York City. Described by some as the greatest string player of his time, this portrait shows an intimate, pensive Piatigorsky on the eve of his departure. Edward Weston’s striking portrait of Imogen Cunningham, the experimental self-portraits of André Kertész and the street documentaries of Walker Evans and Paul Strand are all outstanding examples of modernist photography.
Mid-century American works consist of both the taste-defining fashion photography of Richard Avedon, Erwin Blumenfeld and Francesco Scavullo as well as the social documentary explorations of Nan Goldin, Diane Arbus and Lisette Model. Contemporary artists in the exhibit, including Barbara Astman and Lori Newdick, investigate issues of gender, identity and transformation that reflect upon the work of earlier women photographers, such as Claude Cahun's Portrait of Suzanne Malherbe.
Friday, February 8, 2008
The Presence of Portraits
On Now. The Presence of Portraits featuring works of over 80 established artists from North America and Europe. The Corkin Gallery is proud to present unique works by Brancusi, Andre Kertesz, Diane Arbus and many others.
Exhibition runs until April 27.
Getty Museum Acquires Penn Photographs
from www.artinfo.com
The J. Paul Getty Museum has acquired Irving Penn’s most
extensive body of work, The Small Trades, a set of 252 full-length
portraits of tradespeople in natural lighting taken in 1950 and 1951.
The museum plans to exhibit the portraits in September of 2009, displaying
the set in its entirety for the first time. Getty Director Michael Brand
said the museum will "fulfill Mr. Penn’s hopes of keeping the collection
intact and displaying it as a whole work."
One of the most important living photographers, Penn photographed 215
subjects from London, New York, and Paris for the project. It started as an
assignment for Vogue to photograph workers in Paris during the summer of
1950, and he returned to it over many decades to produce ever more exacting
prints.
The acquisition will add to the Getty's collection of portrait photography
and complement a major exhibition of 20th-century German photographer
August Sander's work that will be mounted in May.
extensive body of work, The Small Trades, a set of 252 full-length
portraits of tradespeople in natural lighting taken in 1950 and 1951.
The museum plans to exhibit the portraits in September of 2009, displaying
the set in its entirety for the first time. Getty Director Michael Brand
said the museum will "fulfill Mr. Penn’s hopes of keeping the collection
intact and displaying it as a whole work."
One of the most important living photographers, Penn photographed 215
subjects from London, New York, and Paris for the project. It started as an
assignment for Vogue to photograph workers in Paris during the summer of
1950, and he returned to it over many decades to produce ever more exacting
prints.
The acquisition will add to the Getty's collection of portrait photography
and complement a major exhibition of 20th-century German photographer
August Sander's work that will be mounted in May.
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