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exhibitions / programs / events Summer 2011 June – September 2011 OVERVIEW 3 Summer at The Power Plant The cornerstone of Summer at We encourage you to check out New York-based The Power Plant is our aLL sUMMER, curator Christopher Eamon’s 20 July lecture as he discusses the genesis and themes of the exhibition aLL FREE program sponsored for lecture, while participating Polish-born artist Anna the sixth year running by the Hal Ostoya delivers her enthralling performative talk Jackman Foundation and media Jiggling and Rustling on 2 July. We are also excited to partner with the Art Gallery of Ontario to present a partner now Magazine, to whom film screening by Polish artist Wilhelm Sasnal on 10 we are extremely grateful. August. Our popular Sunday Scene series this season features a roster of fascinating guest speakers, many Once again all sUmmer, all Free sees the gallery of whom are experts in the field of contemporary open its doors free of charge to all visitors through- Central and Eastern European art. Families are out the season, including the many thousands who invited to check out our Power Kids, which takes its are on-site for Harbourfront Centre’s weekly festivals. cues this season from artists’ uses of everyday We invite you to come down to see the major objects in Rearview Mirror. Also note that artist Kevin group exhibition Rearview Mirror, guest-curated by Schmidt’s billboard project A Sign in the Northwest Christopher Eamon, which launches with an opening Passage continues through the summer on the party on Thursday, 30 June, and to keep coming gallery’s south façade, where it will oversee our back for our lineup of public programs. second annual Canada Day Book Sale, a live DJ set by Playing with ideas of inside and outside the Nino Brown on the August long weekend and gallery, and giving new form to everyday materials, performances of Slovak artist Roman Ondák’s The the 22 artists included in Rearview Mirror join Stray Man, all taking place on our lakefront terrace. together in an eclectic and groundbreaking survey of Central and Eastern European art from the last decade. Seeking to resist the idea of the former Eastern Bloc as a cultural monolith, the exhibition instead focuses on the bold, distinctive practices of younger artists from throughout the region. exhibition 5 1 2 paRtiCipating aRtists In a rearview mirror Rearview Mirror is a large thematic exhibition that Rearview Mirror Paweł Althamer (Poland), Anetta Mona Chişa I suddenly saw brings together the work of a new generation of New Art from Central and Eastern Europe (Romania/Czech Republic) with Lucia Tkáčová the mass of the cathedral in Beauvais; artists from Central and Eastern Europe. Looking (Slovakia), Gintaras Didžiapetris (Lithuania), large things inhabit small, briefly. both to the past and to the future, the works by the 1 July – 5 September, 2011 Dušica Dražić, (Serbia), Igor Eškinja (Croatia), 22 artists in the exhibition engage post-conceptual Opening Reception: 30 June, 8 – 11 PM Johnson & Johnson (Estonia), Anna Kołodziejska – adam ZagajEwski strategies and forms, and collectively challenge (Poland), David Maljković (Croatia), Ján Mančuška “Rearview Mirror” from Going to Lwow, 1985; translated by Marysia Pilatowicz accepted notions of Eastern Europe as a social, CuRatEd by ChRistOpher EamOn (Czech Republic), Dénes Miklósi (Romania), Alex political and art historical monolith. In an attempt Mirutziu (Romania), Anna Molska (Poland), Ivan to alter stereotypes of Eastern Art and Easternness COVER Anna 1. Anna Ostoya, Work by 2. David Maljković, Out Moudov (Bulgaria), Ciprian Mureşan (Romania), Kołodziejska, Untitled an Artist Inspired by a of Projection, 2009. in general, the exhibition is a kind of preliminary Deimantas Narkevičius (Lithuania), Roman Ondák (Suitcase with Under- Theory About Modernity, Courtesy the artist, Metro experiment and dialogue in the post-socialist shirt), 2008. Courtesy the 2007. Courtesy the artist. Pictures (New York), Annet (Slovakia), Anna Ostoya (Poland), Taras Polataiko artist and Galerie Bernd Gelink Gallery (Amster- period. Twenty years after the fall of the Berlin wall, (Ukraine), Wilhelm Sasnal (Poland), Sislej Xhafa Kugler, Innsbruck. dam), Georg Kargl Fine one might expect great changes in the cultural Arts (Vienna), and Sprüth (Kosova), Katarina Zdjelar (Serbia) Magers (Berlin/London). practices in the region known since the Yalta exhibition 7 3. Roman Ondák. Freed Doorway, 1998. Courtesy the artist, gb agency (Paris) and Johnen Galerie (Berlin). 4. Anetta Mona Chişa & Lucia Tkácová, still from Manifesto of the Futurist Woman (Let‘s Conclude), 2008. Courtesy the artists and Christine König Galerie, Vienna. 3 agreement as the “Eastern Bloc” even though the political cultures and histories of the various na- tions comprising it greatly diverge. Indeed this is the case in many practices that have been selected mainly for the artists’ choices of non-traditional forms that range in media from video, installation and performance to sculpture and painting. Many of the artists are self-taught or have worked out- side of the academy (where their non-traditional approaches would not have been supported). Other artists worked through academic channels where previous avant-gardes maintain their posi- tion within official institutions. Although the specific political histories of the countries of the East are inextricably linked to past aesthetic practices, in many exhibitions based largely on a political geography there is a tendency to expect art to demonstrate something about the relation between East and West, to demonstrate something about its Easternness or to general- ize the unique political situations from which they 4 exhibition 9 5. Gintaras Didžiapetris, Study of a Curtain, 2009. Installation view at Tulips & Roses, Vilnius. Courtesy the artist and Tulips & Roses, Brussels. Photo: Gintaras Didžiapetris. may have derived. Instead this exhibition does not do this and does not attempt to be all-inclusive or encyclopedic. Rearview Mirror brings together the work of artists from diverse backgrounds and his- tories to look at the non-traditional practices of a younger generation of artists from the last decade, presenting an opportunity to view artworks by relative newcomers such as Ciprian Mureşan, Gin- taras Didžiapetris and Anna Molska in the context of some of their contemporaries already known through international art circuits such as Paweł Althamer, Roman Ondák and Wilhelm Sasnal. Christopher Eamon is a Canadian-born, New York-based independent curator who has curated numerous international exhibitions and edited and written for a wide number of publications. For over a decade Eamon was curator of the internationally respected Pamela and Richard Kramlich Collection in San Francisco. The exhibition is a co-presentation with the Art Gallery of Alberta, where it will be on view from 27 January – 29 April, 2012. Rearview Mirror will be accompanied by a substantial publication with commissioned texts, 5 co-published by The Power Plant and Art Gallery of Alberta. sUmmer programs anD events sUmmer programs anD events 11 Sunday Scene July the poWer Plant Clara Hargittay free Sunday, 3 July, 2 pm Every Sunday, speakers from the Clara Hargittay is a Toronto-based world of art and beyond offer their independent curator currently responses to the current exhibi- serving as Public Art Officer at the Bojana Videkanic Marie Collier Carlos Granados-Ocon cheyanne turions tions. Whether focusing on a single City of Toronto. In 1991 she co-curat- work/artist or on the entire ed the exhibition Free Worlds: Bojana Videkanic Marie Collier Carlos Granados-Ocon cheyanne turions exhibition, guest presenters draw Metaphors and Realities in Contem- & Caoimhe Morgan-Feir provocative connections between porary Hungarian Art at the Art Sunday, 17 July, 2 pm Sunday, 31 July, 2 pm Sunday, 28 August, 2 pm our programs and broader cultural Gallery of Ontario and directed a Sunday, 14 August, 2 pm Bojana Videkanic was born in Sara- Marie Collier recently completed her and intellectual debates. Toronto-wide Hungarian multidisci- cheyanne turions is a writer and jevo, and is an artist, curator and edu- MA in Art History at the Courtauld plinary arts festival that drew Carlos Granados-Ocon received an curator with a degree in Philosophy cator. She teaches at the University of Institute of Art, where she specialized attention to the intellectual forces Honours ba in Art and Philosophy from Ubc. Conceptualizing curation Waterloo, curates and writes about in Soviet architectural photography behind the social/political changes in from McMaster University, and has as a social gesture and a forum for contemporary East European and and avant-garde artistic production Central and Eastern Europe. shown his work internationally. He is critical analysis, she was the Canadian diasporic art, and has par- under Stalin. She is currently an starting a Masters of Information 2010–2011 Curatorial Resident at the ticipated in a number of exhibitions. Animateur at the Power Plant. degree at the University of Toronto Images Festival and Gallery tpW, in Fall 2011. Caoimhe Morgan-Feir is Toronto. August an aspiring curator and essayist in the Contemporary Art History ma September program at ocadu. She received an Honours ba in Art History and English Literature from Queen’s University. Both are Curatorial Interns at The Power Plant. Jennifer Marman & Daniel Borins Erin Canning Inga Untiks Jennifer Marman Sunday, 21 August, 2 pm & Daniel Borins Leah Turner Erin Canning Ihor Holubizky Inga Untiks is a phD candidate at York Sunday, 10 July, 2 pm & Marino Imperio Leah Turner University and a Sessional Instructor Sunday, 24 July, 2 pm at the University of Toronto Scarbor- Ihor Holubizky Jennifer Marman & Daniel Borins Sunday, 7 August, 2 pm practice sculpture, installation and ough. Her current research investi- Sunday, 4 September, 2 pm Originally from Vancouver but media art. Both graduates of ocaD, Leah Turner is a Toronto-based writer gates the globalization of contempo- currently based in New Brunswick, their work is in the collections of the and curator.