Tag: exhibition
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Can I get a Witness?
Through large-format photographs, and over the course of several decades, Edward Burtynsky has chronicled the massive impact of manufacturing on the environment. Since the early 1980s, he has been documenting sites in Ontario, across Canada and internationally. Most recently, he has focused on global oil fields as well as the dramatic impact increasing demands for…
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There’s no one refugee experience
Located on the second floor of the Art Gallery of Hamilton, Abedar Kamgari gathers an intimate crowd to give us a behind the scenes tour of her exhibition Journey West. We learn that this specific space is set up so a connection between the AGH’s collection and contemporary artists can emerge.
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Kapwani Kiwanga – A wall is just a wall
As we go about our daily lives, we encounter spaces designed to shape and regulate our behaviour. In A wall is just a wall, Kapwani Kiwanga exposes the mechanisms of these underlying structures through wall paint inspired by colour theory and targeted fluorescent lighting.
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Maria Hupfield – The One Who Keeps On Giving
Objects contain meanings beyond their materiality, meanings that we bring to them or receive from them. Objects are the result of an action, entail traces of human gestures and evoke reactions or memories. They have the potential to be read collectively or personally. Maria Hupfield’s artistic practice reveals the way objects can trigger relationships between…
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Johnathas de Andrade – On Fishes, Horses and Man
A fish dying in the arms of a man is what first strikes us upon entering Jonathas de Andrade’s exhibition. The film O peixe (The Fish) depicts in ten vignettes fishermen cradling their catch, the two species merged in a morbid embrace of sinew and scale. The scenes in the film, simultaneously brutal and tender, confront the…
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Come Up To My Room, part 2
THE LONG, TEDIOUS TASK OF WATING – Amanda Gresik Many people have experienced what it is like to go into a hospital waiting room, either for themselves or to accompany a friend or family member. While trying to pass the time by flipping through magazines and filling out forms, it is hard to not feel…
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Come Up To My Room 2017, part 1
Come Up To My Room, is a main event during the Toronto Design Offsite Festival. Located in the Gladstone Hotel, on the Queen West West strip of Toronto, this is the alternative event to the much popular Interior Design Show. Taking up the second and third floor of the hotel, artists transform the rooms into…
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Reflections: Unwritten Histories of Toronto’s Waterfront
Tonight, the student of George Brown College, Institute without Boundaries program presented their exhibit for the TO DO festival entitled: Reflections: Unwritten Histories of Toronto’s Waterfront. Located in an abandon warehouse on the Lakeshore avenue, the students presented an interactive installation/research project to help them in their design process for the waterfront.
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Evolution: Can human intelligence design better than nature?
“What do you think of the exhibit?” a nice lady asks me outside of the exhibition space. “I think there’s too much text”, I tell her. “Yeah, you really have to think through it.”
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Things TO DO: Toronto Design Offsite Festival 2017
The Toronto Design Offsite Festival (TO DO) is Canada’s largest cultural celebration of design with over 100 exhibitions and events forming Toronto’s design week, January 16-22, 2017. Going into its 7th year, TO DO transforms Toronto into a hub for creativity, taking design and art out of the studio and into the urban sphere, bringing people…
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Legacy at the Chicago Architecture Biennial
Chicago has a long history of reinvention. After the Great Fire of 1871, the city has had to think big, dream boldly and push the boundaries of what is possible in the urban landscape. From the world’s first modern skyscraper to the iconic bungalow, Chicago has always used architecture and design to continually transform itself…
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IDS14 – Creative Class
The students of Ryerson School of Interior Design examine climate change at this year’s 2014 Toronto Interior Design Show. The interior of the booth showcases quotes to provoke a dialogue about climate change, while the felt represents the friction we have about the subject matter. Design = Change @ IDS14.
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IIDEX Celebrating Canadian Design
To me, IIDEX has always been the kick-off to the Canadian design season. As Canada’s National Design and Architecture Expo and Conference, this is the place where designers and architects gather to see the latest in building products, technology and materials. Taking place at the Direct Energy Centre, as most trade shows go, the majority…
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Light is Falling
28.280 is a massive vertical installation by Vancouver-based designer Omer Arbel. Located in the main atrium of the Victoria and Albert Museum for the 2013 London Design Festival, the exhibition features lighting by Canadian design brand Bocci. The intent of the installation is twofold; On the one hand, it is a pure celebration of the…
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Flask by Tom Dixon
British design and manufacturing company Tom Dixon has design GEM. Part of the Rough and Smooth collection, presented at this year’s 2013 Salone del Mobile in Milan, Italy, like a mysterious chemistry experiment FLASK is a spherical object made up of two, hand-blown, glass components, with a ridged and rounded base and a smoked-glass hood.
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BLACK.SEE by J. Mayer H.
EIGEN + ART Lab in Berlin, Germany, is showcasing the works by Jürgen Mayer H. BLACK.SEE is an installation of free standing black sculptures with accompanying wall paintings that are also dark and mysterious. The three-dimensional components are made out of panels which have been milled out into lattice-like, irregular forms that seem rudimentary and…
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There’s no place like home
The plaza hosted several dozen red shoes (both painted and patent) in long rows extending the length of the square. The static soles ranged from pumps to sneakers offering the once fashionable items a final platform on the sidewalk.
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Arum by Zaha Hadid
Inspired by Russian Suprematism, Zaha Hadid Architects’ pays homage to the historical lineages of collective research that has led to the major works of today’s contemporary architecture
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52nd International Genoa Boat Show
Featuring total luxury on the seas. James Cameron goes deep and captures some new creatures from the depths of the sea.
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Mobius Playground
The structure looks at the mobius strip, where there is no clear interior or exterior space, just one continuous surface that turns and twists, surfaces flowing into one other.
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Cafe Cuba
The design takes influence from the old city streets of Havana, Cuba, drawing from the rich cultural history and night life.
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Scent of a City
It pays homage to perfumery and the perfumer’s know-how, their material and process.
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Perfect Curve
The experiential environment explores the flowing forms found in Antoni Guadí’s Sagrada Familia Church in Barcelona, Spain, in which the Spanish Art Nouveau architect’s goal was to find nature’s purest, most perfect curve.
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Crystal Palace
The immersive installation invites visitors to experience the infinitely reflected crystalline interior, the dynamic visual display constantly changing.
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Desired Crisis
An experimental of people’s desire and efforts to resolve current global concerns, which then would be able to surmount when social systems, public realm and design professionals are synchronized together.
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Kigi Trees
The work on display spans across all genres and looks into new approaches in graphic illustrations to date.
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Dead Garden
The installation departs from the existing lush landscape and pruned foliage to feature lifeless horizontal elements.
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Manhattan of South America
Strong themes of history and culture echoed throughout the collections, new views and perspectives materialized to spark a modern development in the current industry standard.
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Superstar Retrospective
The worlds created have an architectural focus on emotion and context, provoking the virtual which explores a new dimension in contemporary culture.
Richelle Sibolboro 