At a certain point, Kapuściński, was Poland's only foreign correspondent and was responsible for 50 countries. An amazing writer who can make you giggle the water up your nose and has a such a keen eye for description that can completely creep you out. I'll have to get reading more of his work...
Everything you wanted to know.
30 January 2007
29 January 2007
Canadian Diaspora and Art: Tonight!
**Should I Stay or Should I Go? Canadian Artists in the Diaspora**
*Alissa Firth-Eagland, Pierre Tremblay, Gareth Long, Will Kwan, Stephen
Fakiyesi*
Panel Discussion: *Monday, January 29, 2007 at 6pm*
Justina M. Barnicke Gallery, Hart House, University of Toronto
A panel discussion on the migration of Canadian visual artists into the international context. The discussion will focus on the effects of international residency opportunities and graduate programmes, artdealership in art market cities, and consider national representation through expatriot artists at major art events and biennials. The relationship between economic and cultural migration will be addressed to gauge the position and options available to Canadian visual artists and students.
*Panelists:*
*Alissa Firth-Eagland *has initiated artistic and curatorial partnerships between Scandinavia and Canada. She recently completed a curatorial residency at the Nordic Institute for Contemporary Art. In 2007, she will present Finnish and Swedish video works at the 20th Images Film and Video Festival in Toronto.
*Pierre Tremblay *is a coordinator of le Fresnoy, a postgraduate residency in Tourcoing, France. He currently teaches in the Image Arts Department of Ryerson University, Toronto and has previously taught at Parsons School of
Design in Paris.
*Gareth Long *is currently completing his MA in Fine Art at Yale University. Exploring the formal space between video and sculpture has been a focus of his independent work and projects with the 640 480 collective. He has translated video in books and lenticular photographic prints.
*Will Kwan *is the Snider Lecturer in Humanities at University of Toronto-Scarborough. His work is included in the 2007 Biennale de Montréal and was recently a resident researcher at the Jan van Eyck Academie in Maastricht, Holland. He has presented work at the 2003 Venice Biennale.
*Stephen Fakiyesi *will be included in AAHLuminex show at the Art Gallery of Mississauga and is collaborating on a childrens book. He recently completed his MA in Fine Art at the University of California-Los Angeles where he focussed on print making.
The panel will be moderated by *Tejpal S. Ajji*, curator in residence at the Justina M. Barnicke Gallery.
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Afterall, it's a small place.
25 January 2007
23 January 2007
The New Leipzig School
This New York Times article, though about a year old, details the rise of European painting in the German city of Leipzig. Hailed as the first significant art movement of the 21st century, the painters led by Neo Rauch have taken quite a traditional approach to painting and in doing so have created something new and fresh. Or at least the art world thinks so. I have mixed feelings. Though ever since seeing Tim Eitel's work, I've been quite seduced by it. Austere, quiet and dreary - it has a specific type of Eastern European poetic that rhymes just right.
Image: Tim Eitel's Liegender courtesy of Eigen + Art
22 January 2007
Comet McNaught
The brightest comet ever can be easily seen be the naked eye especially by those in the southern hemisphere. Check the wiki page for instructions how to see it for yourself.
Photo: Wikipedia
18 January 2007
11 January 2007
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