CANADIANART Art Toronto Edition Inside Fair Highlights Special Projects Talks and Tours How to Survive an Art Fair Art Outside the Fair Explore Toronto ART Toronto_Fall16_27TS_LR.indd 65 08/05/16 7:47 PM OPENING NIGHT LOCATION PREVIEW Metro Toronto A benefit for the Art Gallery of Ontario Convention Centre Thursday, October 27 255 Front St. W. Purchase tickets at North Building, Toronto Art Toronto is Canada’s only international art fair. This year, the fair brings more than ago.net/art-toronto-2016 arttoronto.ca 100 galleries from across the country and around the world under one roof, along (1-800) 663-4173 TICKETS with collectors, curators, artists and art enthusiasts. Art Toronto reprises its successful General: $20 (online); $22 (on-site) PUBLIC HOURS FOCUS: LATIN AMERICA section, launched last year, and presents a panel hosted by Students and seniors: $15 Friday, October 28 Groups: $15 12–8 p.m. Canadian Art on the notion of Canadian artists as satellites, living and working abroad. Three-day POWER TALKS pass: $45 Saturday, October 29 Children under 10: Free 12–8 p.m. Purchase tickets at arttoronto.ca Sunday, October 30 or at the door. 12–6 p.m. Monday, October 31 12–6 p.m. FOCUS: Latin america Seven artists from across North, South and Central America address urban culture and civic change in playful installations. New York–based curator Isabela Villanueva talks about how Toronto’s cosmopolitan city vibe guided her selections. Hammocks hang between public buildings and traffic lights. Tapestries are woven out of construction-site debris. Mobiles are created from the bent rebar and busted concrete of demolished buildings. These are just some of the works made by artists featured in a special section of FOCUS: LATIN AMERICA at Art Toronto 2016. Curated by New Yorker Isabela Villanueva, this attention-grabbing series of installations is not only designed to delight and surprise—it’s also intended to connect with a Canadian populace that is increasingly city-based in general, as well as a Toronto context that has embraced urban activism and engagement in recent years. “I think when you are presenting works, it needs to be something the viewer can relate to and understand,” Villanueva says. “And I think this theme of the city and urban space, and how the city is constantly evolving and changing, 1 is being discussed in Toronto.” Among the artists Villanueva has selected for FOCUS: LATIN AMERICA are Guatemala City’s Buró de Intervenciones Públicas, which is 1 Buró de Intervenciones responsible for the hammocks hanging throughout Públicas the fair; São Paulo’s Vivian Caccuri, who shreds COURTESY PROYECTOS ULTRAVIOLETA, GUATEMALA materials from construction sites and transforms CITY/EMILIANO VALDÉS them into large geometric designs; and Bogota’s 2 Hernán Paganini Frederico Ovalles-Ar, who has travelled to Toronto QUIMERA DEL ARTE, to create an installation that refers to architecture BUENOS AIRES 3 in a fragile or provisional way. 3 Miguel Angel R Íos Also watch for a map-based installation by SICARDI GALLERY, HOUSTON influential Cuban artist Carlos Garaicoa, benches 4 Luciano Figueiredo GALERÍA LEME, RIO DE JANEIRO by Argentinian Luciana Lamothe, mobiles by PHOTO VICENTE DE MELLO Mexico’s Mario Novarro and art pieces by Peru’s Ishmael Randall Weeks. COVER: Shawn Kuruneru Dy’er Mak’er 2016 COURTESY COOPER COLE 2 4 CANADIAN A RT • A RT T ORONTO ART Toronto_Fall16_26TS_LR.indd 66 08/05/16 11:07 AM LOCATION Power Talks Metro Toronto Convention Centre ART TORONTO STAGE 255 Front St. W. North Building, Toronto POWER TALKS presents influential figures arttoronto.ca from the art world and beyond discussing (1-800) 663-4173 their projects, preoccupations and ideas in the context of this year’s FOCUS: LATIN PUBLIC HOURS AMERICA program. Presented by the Friday, October 28 Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery. 12–8 p.m. Saturday, October 29 12–8 p.m. REEM FADDA Sunday, October 30 Friday, October 28, 4 P.M. 12–6 p.m. 1 2 Monday, October 31 Reem Fadda is currently based in 12–6 p.m. New York, where she is associate curator, art Book Fair Middle Eastern art for the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum’s Abu Dhabi Project. edition Toronto: The City’s She has curated many art exhibitions 1. David Shrigley in the Middle East, including the COURTESY NOTHING ELSE PRESS 6th Marrakech Biennale, the UAE Pavilion Newest art Book Fair 2. Dean Baldwin COURTESY NOTHING ELSE PRESS at the 55th Venice Biennale and Liminal Spaces. She has worked with several Dedicated to promoting art-book publishing as well as art multiples, Edition Toronto 3. Ryan Quast COURTESY WIL ABALLE institutions, such as the Palestinian is located within Art Toronto—and is an exciting arrival to the city’s art scene. ART PROJECTS A raft of publishers, galleries and artists are on-site, as well as the Canadian premiere Association of Contemporary Art and the 4. Maria Hupfield International Academy of Art, Palestine. of New Yorker rutherford chang’s project “we Buy white Albums,” comprised and Jason Lujan of more than 1,500 first-pressing copies of the Beatles’ iconic 1968 release. Don’t COURTESY GALERIE Fadda’s talk will address the political HUGUES CHARBONNEAU reality in the Middle East and the role of miss “Book Club”: a public “show and tell” of rare artist’s books by nine of Toronto’s art and artists in navigating that terrain. most dedicated art-book collectors. To learn more, visit editiontoronto.com. CARLA FERNÁNDEZ Saturday, October 29, 4 P.M. Solo GallerieS Mexico City–based artist and fashion designer Carla Fernández will speak about her extraordinary approach to preserving 12 Booths Put the spotlight the rich cultural heritage of Mexico’s Indigenous communities. Fernández travels on Individual artists throughout Mexico visiting artisans who specialize in handmade textiles, using The 12 artist visions that make up this year’s SOLO Galleries section centuries-old techniques. In the face of promise to leave a strong impression. Among the highlights are today’s “fast fashion,” she is helping young Stephen Bulger Gallery’s Vivian Maier mini-exhibition, drawn from artisans understand they can earn a its 17,000-image Maier archive (the world’s largest); Ruth Cuthand’s livelihood by continuing their family’s beadwork-based installation that decries water contamination traditions instead of migrating to the big on First Nations reserves, brought to the fair by dc3 Art Projects; city and eventually losing their trades. everyday household objects sculpted entirely out of paint, carefully crafted by Ryan Quast for Wil Aballe Art Projects; and Chris Millar’s DIEGO BIANCHI maximalist fantasia by way of TrépanierBaer Gallery. Sunday, October 30, 3 P.M. 3 Argentinian artist Diego Bianchi will share his perception of artistic practice as a ProjectS space of experimentation. He is interested in re-examining the ideas of progress, value, law, education and beauty. Ghost Trophy He writes, “I understand the artist to be Born in Georgian Bay and based in New York, a social actor who, by means of his Maria Hupfield is currently participating in the or her practice, is capable of observing, prestigious SITE Santa Fe biennial. But you manipulating and liberating things and can see one of her haunting, incisive artworks persons from their specific conditions right here at Art Toronto. Her video and so that they can be others. This practice installation Ghost Trophy, created with Jason can reorganize and revert the form Lujan, activates a lavish historical interior of the given.” In this talk, Bianchi will in a way that speaks to 19th- and 20th- discuss how art can continue to come up century “gentlemen’s clubs,” where women with findings that challenge meaning were usually not allowed. Known for drawing or bottle it at an embryonic state, and how from Anishinaabe traditions and the history to generate acts of communication that of performance to create actions and objects do not rely on digital technology. that mediate between the body and the natural or urban environment, Hupfield is also due for a solo show in 2017 at the Power Plant. 4 CANADIAN A RT • A RT T ORONTO ART Toronto_Fall16_26TS_LR.indd 67 08/05/16 12:16 PM ad layout blank page.indd 1 08/05/16 11:16 PM ad layout blank page.indd 1 08/05/16 11:18 PM Canadian Art at Art Toronto Artist Project, Talks and Tours Canadian Art partners with artist Gareth Long to present a booth installation that acts as a monument to remedial learning. Long has also created a benefit edition to support Canadian Art’s cross-country educational, publishing and programming initiatives. He knew many things, but he knew them all badly (counting waves) by Gareth Long Before The Illiad and The Odyssey, Homer wrote a comedy, called Margites. From the scant surviving remnants of this lost text, we learn that Margites, the eponymous character, was something of a fool. One day, he went down to the sea to count the waves—an impossible task for anybody, but even more so for Margites, who couldn’t count past five. In this project, the edges of Margites’s numerical universe are paired with rudimentary shapes, cresting and crashing on a wave-like curtain. In the age of the smartphone, what does it mean to be stupid? Here, stupidity is understood as a mode of cultural production, an innovative approach to making art and an emancipatory means of sidestepping the utopian end-game of modernism and progress. Canadian Art Benefit Edition Gareth Long, He knew many things, but he knew them all badly (And misfortunes often occur, so that it would be best to live [if at all] like Homer’s Margites, doing nothing and knowing nothing.), 2016, Graphite on paper, Ed.