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Summer 2011 June – September 2011 OVERVIEW 3 Summer at

The cornerstone of Summer at We encourage you to check out -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 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 ’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

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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/). practices in the region known since the Yalta exhibition 7

3. Roman Ondák. Freed Doorway, 1998. Courtesy the artist, gb agency () 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.

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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 , 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 -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 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. She holds an ma in Art rary art within the context of new Ihor Holubizky is the Senior Curator Erin Canning is the coordinator of National Gallery of Canada, York History from York University, and and renewed regionalisms and of the McMaster Museum of Art, START Gallery, the editor of Sackville University, the City of Toronto, and recently completed the Gwangju emerging art markets. Hamilton. He has previously held Arts Magazine and a student of art the University of Toronto. Biennale International Curator curatorial positions at a number of history at Mount Allison University. Course. Her writing has appeared in institutions in Canada and Australia Marino Imperio is an artist who holds and C Magazine and including The Power Plant, Museum a BFA from the Ontario College of Art she is Associate at Jessica Bradley London and the Museum of & Design. Both are Curatorial Interns Art + Projects. Contemporary Art, Sydney. at The Power Plant. summer programs and events summer programs and events 13

July Lecture live dj hip hop/dancehall party, YES YES Christopher Eamon Nino Brown Y’ALL. Nino is no stranger to making Book Sale crowds across the GTA slow whind, on Rearview Mirror head nod, flash a lighter, or just plain Saturday, 30 July, 6–8 pm old 2-step. Nino provides resident Friday, 1 July, 2–6 pm Wednesday, 20 July, 7 pm DJ duties all over Toronto (More The Power Plant Terrace Times, Business Woman’s Special and The Power Plant Terrace FREE The Power Plant YES YES Y’ALL) as well as guest spots Rain or shine Join us for a live DJ set on August $4 Members in New York (Totally and Slow Grind). long weekend with Nino Brown, $6 Non-Members Looking for fantastic deals on art founder of Toronto’s biggest queer books and exhibition catalogues? Visit thepowerplant.org or call the Harbour- front Centre Box Office at 416.973.4000 to Join us on our terrace for our second purchase tickets. annual Canada Day Book Sale. Rain or shine, come down to the lakefront Come see Rearview Mirror and then for great sales not only on the hear guest curator Christopher gallery’s own publications but on a Eamon discuss his thinking behind wide array of titles featured in our the exhibition, focusing on how Store during past exhibitions – all at Eastern Europe has been figured deep discounts of up to 75% off! in the Western imagination. Eamon will address such themes and artistic strategies as stealing, appropriating or claiming space; referencing popu- lar culture and the entertainment industry; investigating modernity and/or modernism; acting as prank- sters or mythologists; and revisiting 3 conceptualism by taking it to the street and other imagined publics. August sic videos and “personal cinema,” and For over a decade Eamon was curator highly sensitive to the juxtaposition of Film of the renowned Pamela and Richard image and music, Sasnal chronicles Kramlich Collection in San Francisco, Wilhelm Sasnal the reality around him in his short 1 guiding acquisitions and curat- films. However, what could be a mun- ing exhibitions such as Video Acts Wednesday, 10 August, 7 pm dane reality is always filtered through Live /Lecture of idealism and utopia, Ostoya draws (2002–2003) and Beyond Cinema the prism of his subjective vision. on art history, theory and literature, (2006). More recently, his exhibitions Jackman Hall “Swineherd is loosely based on the Anna Ostoya: using text as the primary inspiration A Rictus Grin (2008) and Acciden- 317 West 1842 Hans Christian Andersen fable, Jiggling and Rustling for her practice. In conjunction with tal Modernism (2008) combined (entrance on McCaul) with Sasnal using it as a framework her participation in the exhibition historical and contemporary works in $6 Students/Seniors/Members upon which to hang a series of beau- of The Power Plant & AGO tifully composed but often stark and Saturday, 2 July, 7 PM Rearview Mirror, Ostoya presents a diverse media. free-associative performative lec- $8 General disconcerting black-and-white im- ages. Set on a decrepit farm in post- The Power Plant ture discussing the notion of failure Visit tickets.ago.net or call the Art Gallery of war Poland, Sasnal evokes emotion $4 Members in relation to artistic practice, the Ontario at 416.979.6608 to purchase tickets. from the fusion of image and action, $6 Non-Members concept of nothingness, painting, and the legacy of women artists, Wilhelm Sasnal (born in Tarnów, 1972) and the consequent tension created Visit thepowerplant.org or call the Harbour- among other ideas. A graduate of by the difference between percep- front Centre Box Office at 416.973.4000 to is a Polish artist equally focused on purchase tickets. the Städelschule, , and the painting and on filmmaking. We are tion and reality” (adapted from Shaun Whitney Independent Study Pro- very pleased to present a screening of Barry, Bath Film Festival). Anna Ostoya (born in Kraków, 1978) gram, New York, Ostoya’s work has his work that includes his 2008 35mm is a New York-based artist work- been exhibited internationally. feature filmSwineherd preceded by ing in such media as sculpture and a selection of his short 16mm films. performance. Interested in themes 2 Drawing equally on the history of mu- summer programs and events 15

September Open House Join The Power Plant Hourly Tours + Become a Member of The Power Plant and receive: The Power Plant is very grateful to the The Stray Man following Institutional Supporters: FREE Monday, 5 September, 1 – 6 pm institutional donor gallery admission (plus free admission to many The Power Plant other public galleries across Ontario) Nancy McCain & FREE On Labour Day, the last day of the FREE exhibition, come down to The Power entry to the International Lecture Series, featuring primary education sponsor Plant for an afternoon of free hourly world-renowned artists and curators, and to a number tours focusing on different artists and works in the exhibition led by of other public programming events. The 2011 ils 4 The Power Plant’s trained Anima- includes Mona Hatoum, Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle and teurs. Also catch a glimpse of Slovak Power Players Power Kids Day teach kids to play with shape, space Martha Rosler. artist Roman Ondák’s The Stray Man and scale, and how to create everyday Project: Object (2006), who will walk by the gallery objects using various common artistic and peer in the windows once in a FREE and domestic materials. Participants Sunday, 21 August, 3–5 pm while throughout the day, as well as publications, including the magazine Switch, will partner up to explore how their on other occasions over the course new creations can be transformed ­— delivered straight to your door. The Power Plant of the exhibition. altering the objects’ meaning and $4 Members context ­— to make new, imaginative DISCOUNTS $6 Non-Members (per child) and surprising compositions. Finally, For children ages 8–12 and their adult on tickets, merchandise and more. through photography, kids will have image credits companions. Visit thepowerplant.org or 1. Anna Ostoya, slide from Jiggling and Rustling. call the Harbourfront Centre Box Office at the chance to create narratives with 2. Christopher Eamon. To become a Member and for a full list of membership levels 416.973.4000 to purchase tickets. their arrangements. Parents are 3. Wilhem Sasnal, still from Untitled (Elvis), 2007. All Summer, All Free Sponsor Courtesy the artist, Hauser & Wirth (Zürich) and and their associated benefits, visit thepowerplant.org expected to join their children in Anton Kern Gallery (New York). Inspired by artist Anna all activities. Led by artist-educator 4. Power Kids, Winter 2010. Kołodziejska’s post-conceptual 5. Kevin Schmidt, A Sign in the Northwest Pas- and Animateur at The Power Plant, sage, 2010. Courtesy the artist and Catriona sculpture practice, this workshop will Anna Bouzina. Jeffries Gallery, Vancouver. The Power Plant - Refresh Supported by Ongoing Support The Power Plant Public installation Kevin Schmidt The Power Plant is Canada’s leading public gallery devoted exclusively to contemporary art. A non-profit organization renowned for its A Sign in the Northwest exceptional facility, global vision and commitment to Canadian art, The Passage (2010) Power Plant reaches a diverse audience and acts as a vital forum for the advanced artistic culture of our time. The Power Plant depends on Government Funders This billboard project by Vancouver its supporters to realize its mandate through exhibitions, publications artist Kevin Schmidt, located on the and public programs, and offers many ways to contribute. south facade of The Power Plant, For more information, visit thepowerplant.org continues through the summer, co-presented with the Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival 2011: Figure and Ground. More information at thepowerplant.org. 5 The Power Plant is Canada’s leading public gallery devoted exclusively to the art of our time.

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