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- 12:00 pm - 6:00 pm
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- 12:00 pm - 8:00 pm
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- 12:00 pm - 6:00 pm
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Current Exhibitions and Programming: Recent Snow: Projected Works by Michael Snow
11 December, 2009 - 7 March, 2010
Curated by Gregory Burke, Director
Nothing to Declare: Current Sculpture from Canada
11 December, 2009 - 7 March, 2010
Valerie Blass / James Carl / Liz Magor / Luanne Martineau / Tricia Middleton / Gareth Moore / Michael Murphy / Kerri Reid / Brendan Tang / Kara Uzelman / Rhonda Weppler & Trevor Mahovsky
Curated by Helena Reckitt, Senior Curator of Programs
About Us: The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery at Harbourfront Centre opened in 1987 and has since established a reputation as Canada’s leading non-collecting contemporary art gallery. The gallery supports the development of international and Canadian contemporary art through a dynamic mix of exhibitions, commissions, public programs, publications, and events. The gallery’s exhibitions feature the most exciting art being made today while its publications are renowned around the world.
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Location:The Power Plant
Time:2:00PM Sunday, January 3rd
The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery This weekend: Dec. 24 open 12-3, Dec. 25-26 CLOSED, Dec. 27 open 12-6 + Sunday Scene / R. Bruce Elder 2 PM
The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery This afternoon!
Location:The Power Plant
Time:2:00PM Sunday, December 20th
The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery Upcoming: 2 PM December 20 Sunday Scene / Michael Zryd on Michael Snow
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At 81, the Toronto artist continues to deliver humorous jolts and off-the-wall ideas, forcing us to rethink our relationship to art, and turning conventional understanding on its head, Sarah Milroy writes
The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery Winter exhibitions opening reception tonight 8-11 PM! Forum / Making Do and Getting By - Saturday at 6 PM!
Featuring artists from 'Nothing to Declare'
Location:The Power Plant
Time:6:00PM Saturday, December 12th
'Recent Snow' and 'Nothing to Declare' exhibitions
Location:The Power Plant
Time:8:00PM Thursday, December 10th
The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery updated its Extended Info.
Current Exhibitions and Programming now includes Recent Snow: Projected Works by Michael Snow
11 December, 2009 - 7 March, 2010
Curated by Gregory Burke, Director
Nothing to Declare: Current Sculpture from Canada
11 December, 2009 - 7 March, 2010
Valerie Blass / Jame...s Carl / Liz Magor / Luanne Martineau / Tricia Middleton / Gareth Moore / Michael Murphy / Kerri Reid / Brendan Tang / Kara Uzelman / Rhonda Weppler & Trevor Mahovsky
Curated by Helena Reckitt, Senior Curator of Programs.
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The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery updated its Extended Info.
Current Exhibitions and Programming now includes CANDICE BREITZ: FACTUM
Commissioned by The Power Plant for the exhibition ‘Candice Breitz: Same Same,’ with the support of Toronto benefactors Partners in Art, this spectacular new work was one of the most acclaimed and ...popular features of the Breitz exhibition. Because the work was made in Toronto, and in celebration of the brilliant Toronto arts community that is yet again in the international spotlight as a result, The Power Plant offers this extended presentation of Factum free of charge to all visitors.
This new work, Factum, made in Toronto and focusing on identical twins, is the fifth installment of The Power Plant’s Commissioning Program, launched in 2006. Breitz’s work consistently explores the performance of identity, the tension between what she has termed “the scripted life” and self-fashioning.
Its title references Robert Rauschenberg’s 1957 set of near-identical paintings, Breitz finds in identical twins a fascinating case study of how we negotiate the “script” of genetic inheritance and social conditioning. Interviewing several sets of twins – and one set of triplets – in Toronto, each separated from their sibling but asked the same questions, Breitz created a series of dynamically edited video portraits. Factum explores the myriad ways that twins
differentiate themselves in a world that values nothing more than the individual.
Woven together, their recollections and opinions both collide and harmonize,
thereby conveying the simultaneous senses of sameness and difference experienced
not only by twins but by ‘singletons’ (as twins call non-twins) too. Staging the
relationship between the individual and the double, Factum shows how one’s subjective integrity is both threatened and affirmed by the presence of a mirror image that is never an exact duplicate.
Candice Breitz (born in Johannesburg, 1972) studied fine art in Johannesburg
before pursuing graduate studies in art history in the United States. Breitz has
participated in biennials in São Paulo, Istanbul, Taipei, and Venice, and been
the subject of numerous solo exhibitions including at the New Museum, New York
(2000), Modern Art Oxford (2003), Castello di Rivoli, Turin (2005), and the Temporäre Kunsthalle in Berlin (2008), where she lives.
11TH ANNUAL RBC CANADIAN PAINTING COMPETITION
21–29 NOVEMBER, 2009
The Power Plant concludes the fall season with a special exhibition of artwork by the semi-finalists in the 11th Annual RBC Canadian Painting Competition. During this week, thanks to the Royal Bank of Canada, The Power Plant will offer free admission to all visitors.
Established in 1999, the RBC Canadian Painting Competition, with the support of the Canadian Art Foundation, is a unique initiative that helps to nurture and support promising new artists in the early stages of their careers, a time when they need both recognition and financial support. The Power Plant, Canada’s leading public gallery devoted to contemporary art, with a mandate to foster the conditions for the production and reception of contemporary art and to develop new possibilities for artists within contemporary culture, is a natural venue for this competition and celebrates its second year as host.
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Every Sunday at 2 pm, The Power Plant invites guest speakers to share their responses and insights to current gallery exhibitions with the public, relating the work to their practice and a broader cultural context.
Please check The Power Plant's events and website for upcoming Sunday Scene programming.
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responses to the current exhibition
Location:The Power Plant
Time:2:00PM Sunday, November 15th
