Hard to Pronounce, Spring 2012 - CSA Space, Vancouver

CSA Space is pleased to announce an exhibition of works by Tonik Wojtyra. Please join us for the opening on Thursday, March 29, 2012 at 19:00. The show continues until April 19th, 2012.

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Ciężka jest praca górnika, niełatwa jest praca kelnera...
Tak pieśń się moja zaczyna, pieśń o zachodnich bankierach.
Motyl wiosenny przeleciał - o! siadł! już nurza się w kropli rosy,
a tam zachodnim bankierom za wcześnie siwieją włosy...

Miner's work is difficult, waitresses don't have it the best,
That's how my song starts, this song about bankers out West.
A spring butterfly has flown by — oh! it's landed! And soaking in dew so purely,
and the bankers out West are going grey prematurely...

– Andzrej Rosiewicz, Piosenka o zachodnich bankierach

CSA Space - #5–2414 Main Street Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. V5T 3E2.

Open 7 days a week during normal business hours. Closed Christmas and New Year's Day. See Pulpfiction Books (2422 Main Street) for admission.

stung haiku

that bee that stung me
in the morning, at 4 AM?
i thought it was you

Homesick

Homesick - October 2 - October 31, 2008


The Cousins (2007) 30.5 x 35.5cm

Rockonski is happy as a pair of boobs to present Homesick, Tonik Wojtyra's first solo exhibit ever. The show opens October 2 and runs to October 31. Please join the artist for the opening the morning of October 2 at 8 am - 11 am. The show takes place at 71 Havelock St. Toronto, ON - M6H3B3 KANADA

In Homesick, Tonik presents a multifarious chronicle culminating 30 months of painting at 71 Havelock Street in Toronto. Produced and presented in situ, the works on exhibit explore painting's relationship to architecture, abstraction, genealogy, dreams, promises, lies and it's ability to affect. Tonik explains:

>"It sucks ass but I have to move. Man, I learned to cook here. I wrote a book here. I mastered paint here. What haven't I done here? I have the best balcony, to boot. And although the tide has turned for the better and all? I feel sick about it. I really love this place, man. I don't wanna go but I can't stay either. The best way for me to talk about it is to show my Art within its first frame as Daniel Buren calls the studio. Let's have a cup of tea, a cookie, a chat, a smoothie, some eggs, oatmeal, sausages, yogurt, let's get high or whatever. I'm inviting you. I miss you."

A book will be published to accompany the show.

About the artist

Tonik Wojtyra is probably taller than you are... but maybe not as smart. Mos def maybe.

or 416-879-5077


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None of the above

Herzog and de Meuron (a slight intro)

They number and hardcover bind their projects for studio reference? Inspiring.

Maurizio Cattelan's Good versus Evil

A 2003 chess set by the Italian contemporary master where the artist posits "the figures of Adolf Hitler as the Black King against Martin Luther King, Jr. as the White King. I like.

Piotr Uklanski