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PUNCH 3
Miles Collyer, Robyn Cumming, Katyuska Doleatto, Erica Eyres, Adam Harrison, Davida Nemeroff, Elise Rasmussen, Tim Saltarelli, Simon Willms, Balint Zsako
12/13/2006 - 1/31/2007
G+ GALLERIES
OPENING RECEPTION: Friday, December 15, 2006 - 6-9 pm |
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From mid December 2006 to end of January 2007 LEE Ka-sing gallery and G+ GALLERIES are co-presenting PUNCH 3 - an exhibition of 10 inspiring young Canadian lens-based artists' work.
The history of the "PUNCH" series of exhibitions dated back to early 2002, when LEE Ka-sing gallery invited artist Stefan Schmuhl as guest curator to organize an exhibition of emerging Toronto photographers. The list of photographers in the exhibition was mainly students studying or graduated from Ryerson University. The exhibition was a successful one and had brought in further attention for these budding artists. The participating artists were Chris Curreri, John Fiorucci, Jennifer Long, Hugh Martin, Lindsay Page, Tim Saltarelli and Balint Zsako.
Two years later, in the winter of 2004, LEE Ka-sing gallery organized PUNCH 2. The intention was to re-unite and re-establish the links between these photographers, who were busy in their different paths of development. And indeed most of them had moved on to another stage of their careers.
In the PUNCH 3 exhibition, LEE Ka-sing gallery is collaborating with G+ GALLERIES to host a bigger and richer show. Co-curated by Holly Lee (G+) and Natalie Matutschovsky (Walruns Magazine), it covers ten Canadian artists working on themes that span across portraits, landscape to the contemplation of the photo image and video narratives. The ten participating artists are Miles Collyer, Robyn Cumming, Katyuska Doleatto, Erica Eyres, Adam Harrison, Davida Nemeroff, Elise Rasmussen, Tim Saltarelli, Simon Willms and Balint Zsako.
Vancouver photographer Adam Harrison re-examines the relationship between the medium of photography and two elements crucial to their creation: light and liquid. The locations of the three large photographs were set dramatically in the back room of the Vancouver Aquarium and a printing darkroom.
Robyn Cumming's current work uses construction and fabrication to question reality by offering a completely staged and constructed environment. It explores tragedy and comedy while simultaneously embracing the performative nature of our everyday existence.
Katyuska Doleatto debuts her new work Jill and The Holiday Fair in the exhibition. Using vintage display dolls that she has collected; she re-styled and posed them as celebrities. The work portrays a type of social and aesthetic value imposed upon young woman today, as well as the desire and submission to these values.
In a series of masked portraits, Miles Collyer questions representation and the act of presumption. By putting on a different balaclavas and tracksuit on a person every time, it eliminates the personality and results in creating a "new" and "presumed" identity.
Davida Nemeroff's series El Presidenté consists of seven photographs evoking the political figures of world history. Not seeking to create a replicated image of these figures, Nemeroff lets the spectators use the stereotypes in order to see Castro or Mao, while the squirrels appearing in these photographs symbolize conspiracy and murder.
Elise Rasmussen is interested in how aspects of truth become distorted through an outside-in perspective. In the series Love and the French Revolution, the historic event serves as an overarching theme tying together fractured pieces of a re-worked history as expressed through the staging of her camera.
Simon Willms documented the landscape of domestic swimming pools in Lousiana after the catastrophic footprints of Hurricane Katrina. The destructive power left in the scenes still overwhelms our eyes with horrifying details.
Tim Saltarelli's photography is abstract and thoughtful. The photographs present a phrase formed by a band of magnetic tape, a "strange loop," drawn out with two hands. They are of a drawing made without a utensil to leave a permanent mark, a ribbon moving across an empty space. The words create the situation where they are repeated and in so doing, create multiple iterations that are topologically equivalent.
Balint Zsako's Details is a collection of moments created with the film function of a digital still camera. The flaws of this medium add unintentionally expressionistic rendering and impressionistic colour to scenes taken from everyday life, referencing the paintings of Seurat, surveillance camera recordings, family pictures and documentary photography.
Erica Eyres's highly fictitious and performative film invites the viewer into an uneasy world of disenchanted youth and beyond. The characters she created in her films are often borrowed from a range of conflicting sources such as television, film, the Internet, history and current events. As an actor and a draughtsman she skillfully addresses the bleak facts of contemporary life with empathy and humour.
PUNCH 3 is proud to exhibit seminal work from these artists. The seriousness and on-going examination towards the power of the image, what it can convey and represent have added much weight to their work. The exhibition continues through January 31, 2007. |
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G+ GALLERIES
50 Gladstone Avenue
Toronto, M6J 3K6 Ontario
Gallery Hours: 1-6 pm (Tuesday to Sunday)
416.535.6957
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