Presented by: Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art
You may already have seen all you can of these 30 Toronto artists or you may still worship the canvas, celluloid, technology, wood and everything else they create with. Either way, our city’s prolific contemporary art icons exhibit their wares in a circus like show befitting this menagerie. Image Credit: Mark Ashley (2007)
The Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art welcomes the arrival of the Summer of Love and Hate with our spectacularly contentious blockbuster exhibition Love/Hate: New Crowned Glory in the G.T.A.
Curated by MOCCA partners in crime Camilla Singh and David Liss, the exhibition features over 30 of some of Toronto's most loved and despised artistic icons, including those who we see and hear far too much from and others who deserve to be seen more often. This exhibition is full of contenders - and it'll be up to audiences to decide who is who in that regard.
Traditionally it is the role of museums to sort through a particular theme, idea or art scene or movement and arrive at a proposition that will distill an idea down to a palatable, life-force sucking antiseptic theory that assumes an audience's need for clean, easily definable and consumable product. But that approach is, like, sooooo last century and naturally compels MOCCA to peel off into the completely opposite direction. And, more importantly, the best thing about the current Toronto art scene is that it is anything but a neat, clean, easily definable, generic mass or school like the scenes in other Canadian cities that won't be mentioned here. The Toronto scene is far too complex and far too interesting to be tagged by branding geniuses, marketing focus groups or pointy-headed academics. It's a big, contentious, eclectic, messy and confusing scene filled with as many armchair curators and critics as there are Maple Leaf coaches and that's what's so great about it! And that's what this sprawling exhibition celebrates - the unruly spirit, the gnarly soul, the dirt in the grooves, the talent, the eccentricity, the beauty and the unappealing splendour of it all!
And just to get a little extra blood and oxygen flowing to the brain to enhance the viewing experience - and to promote good health and active cultural engagement - exercise machines, a pool table and a foosball game will be available in the gallery for your recreation and relaxation. To live in Toronto and be able to stay abreast of the art scene here, you have to be in good shape.
Love it, hate it, hate to love it or love to hate it. It's bold, it's loud, it's unwieldy, its flamboyant - and this exhibition is proud to state that it's... TORONTO!!
All exhibitions and activities at the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art are supported by Toronto Culture, the Ontario Arts Council, BMO Financial Group, individual memberships and private donations.
Starts: Jun 21, 2007 Ends: Aug 19, 2007
At: Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, 952 Queen Street West, Toronto
Playing: Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Saturday
Sunday
Times: 11 am - 6 pm
Cost: Pay What You Can
Getting there:
For more information contact:
Camilla Singh
Phone:
(416) 395-0067
Email:
csinghSPAMFILTER@toronto.ca
