MKG127 Artists On Magazine Covers

The new issue of Canadian Art features Sky Glabush on the cover with an article by David Balzer inside. There is also an online exclusive that can be read here.

The new issue of C Magazine features Kristiina Lahde on the cover with an article by Kristin Campbell inside.

A Biennale, A Film Festival And An Important Collection - Bill Burns

Bill Burns is presenting classic works from his Safety Gear for Small Animals series and his recent Triage Tents at the Biennale International Saint Etienne in Saint Etienne, France. The biennale takes place from March 14-31, 2013.

Burns presented his short film Dogs and Boats and Airplanes Children’s Choir Video Sessions at the Festival International DU FILM SUR L’ART  in Montreal on Friday March 22, 2013.

The Dogs and Boats and Airplanes Children’s Choir Video Sessions are vignettes of members of the Dogs and Boats and Airplanes Children’s Choir. The choir has recently produced a high fidelity 33 RPM vinyl LP and the 100 voice choir will be featured at the Junction Arts Festival in Tasmania, Australia in September 2013. 

The Getty Center in Los Angeles  recently acquired  Burns’ limited edition called Guard Tower Plans, Prison Cell Plans and the Songs of Guantanamo Bay. All proceeds from this edition benefit Art Metropole.

Dave Dyment in Volume: Hear Here at Blackwood Gallery

Dave Dyment has two works included in the exhibition Volume: Hear Here opening at the Blackwood Gallery at the University of Toronto Mississauga campus tonight from 5 - 8 PM. The exhibition also takes place at the Justina M. Barnicke Gallery at U of T's Toronto Campus with an opening there tomorrow from 7 - 9 PM. The exhibition is curated by Christof Migone and some of the other artists included are John Oswald, Ian Skedd, Marla Hlady, Rafael Lozano - Hammer, Sylvia Matas, David Merritt, Ryan Park and John Wynne. 

The exhibition continues until March 10.

Adam David Brown Part of Blackwood Gallery's Door to Door Project This Week

Adam David Brown's project, There’s No Place Like Home is part of Blackwood Gallery's 5th edition of it's Door to Door series this week.

This series of off site interventions which has included projects by Micah Lexier, Germaine Koh & Gordon Hicks is curated by Blackwood's director/curator, Christof Migone.

Instant Coffee Commission in Richmond BC, cover of c magazine

Congratulations to Instant Coffee for completing Perpetual Sunset a new public commission, which fills the west-facing wall of the Camino Development Project in Richmond BC. Spanning over 80 feet wide and 40 feet high, the mural made of nearly 40,000 individual reflective coloured sequins is designed to catch the natural light, most directly echoing the setting sun.

IC also makes an appearance on the cover of the current issue of c magazine  and is featured in the article, Communities and Antagonism: Looking for Art in All the Wrong Places by Amy Fung

Article on Bill Burns from Saturday's Globe and Mail

This article on Bill Burns appeared in the Globe and Mail on Saturday, September 1.

Dave Dyment Project At The Power Plant

Dave Dyment has created two new works in response to the Power Plant's archive as part of their Dissenting Histories: 25 Years of the Power Plant project. The first work, shown above, Is It What It Is and Other Questions is a 10 foot LED sign  that contains a series of one thousand questions taken from the Power Plant Gallery's archives, including correspondences, contracts, interviews, guestbook comments, questionnaires, and inter-office communiqués. These vary from the philosophical ("Does that mean time is a figment of our imagination") to the practical ("Will there be a dinner?"). 

The second project, shown below, HÖFER CRATE consists of an eBook of 100 pages, boxed with a nine-panel accordion fold print of polaroids from the Power Plant archive. The project documents works by Candida Höfer that arrived for exhibition at the Power Plant damaged. 

These works will be exhibited until August 26th.