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*ANNIE DUNNING* | FOOLPROOF FOUR: SUPERHEROES OF THE FOREST FLOOR
*Foolproof Four: Superheroes of the Forest Floor*, 2011 (Detail). Photo
courtesy of the artist.
Canadians have an understandable fixation with surviving in the natural
world. This is evident in cultural production ranging from *Roughing it in
the Bush*, Susanna Moodie's 1852 account of survival in Duro, Ontario, to
Mimio's own *Survivorman*, which airs on the Outdoor Life Network and
Discovery Channel. Foraging for edible and medicinal gems has, for most
Canadians, become quite removed from our actual means of survival, yet it
persists as a pursuit for some, and part of a dream of self-sufficiency for
many.
*Foolproof Four: Superheroes of the Forest Floor* is an installation of four
large ceramic sculptures of mushrooms, each sitting on its own plinth. On
the walls are four different posters of blank, speech bubble templates,
which are downloadable, freeware graphic tools for comic book designers.
Around the base of each mushroom and on the floor are over 8000 custom-made
buttons. There are three sets of buttons. One illustrates superhero logos
for each of the mushrooms and another features empty speech bubbles in four
different styles taken from comic book templates. The third set suggests
possible «superpowers» of the Four with terms taken from scientific
descriptions of the life-cycle of mushrooms: Autodeliquescence, Telemorph,
Spore Liberation and Cytoplasmic Fusion. Perhaps Shaggy Mane with its
curious character of autodeliquescence (self-digestion) is a force to be
reckoned with. And surely they have the united power of spore liberation.
The buttons themselves look like mushrooms multiplying and popping up from
the floor, spreading and intermingling with the buttons of the other
mushrooms. Viewers are invited to take a button, allowing the project to
travel spore-like outside of the gallery to other locations.
*ANNIE DUNNING* received an undergraduate degree in Fine Arts from Mount
Allison University and a MFA from the University of Guelph. Her work has
been exhibited across Canada and abroad in Japan, Germany and the United
States. Dunning’s practice includes collaborative projects, teaching, artist
residencies and lectures and has been funded by the Ontario Arts Council and
the Canada Council for the Arts.
The artist gratefully acknowledges the support of the Ontario Arts Council.
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*DIL HILDEBRAND* | BACK TO THE DRAWING BOARD
*Cranking*, 2011, oil on canvas, 30.5 x 25.5cm.
Photo courtesy of Pierre-Francois Ouellette art contemporain.
For this, his first solo exhibition in Toronto, Dil Hildebrand presents a
new body of work. *Back to the Drawing Board *represents a focal shift away
from the photographic and toward a diagrammatic approach to the image; an
incarnation that abandons the image altogether.
*DIL HILDEBRAND* was born in Winnipeg, Canada, and obtained his MFA from
Concordia University, Montreal in 2008. In 2006 he won the RBC Canadian
Painting Competition and has since participated in many exhibitions
throughout Canada, the United States and abroad. Upcoming exhibitions
include group shows at OBORO, Montreal (curated by David Elliott) and Espace
Virtuel, Chicoutimi. In 2010, Hildebrand participated in the 4th Beijing
International Art Biennale 2010 in Beijing, China, and produced *Long Drop:
The Paintings of Dil Hildebrand*, a monograph by Anteism Press. With
critical texts by Louise Déry, Richard Rhodes and Christine Redfern. *Long
Drop* surveys a selection of Hildebrand’s paintings on canvas and paper from
2006 to 2009. His work has been collected by major museums throughout
Canada, including the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, the Musée
national des beaux-arts du Québec, and the National Gallery of Canada. Dil
Hildebrand is represented by Pierre-François Ouellette art contemporain. He
lives and works in Montréal.
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*DAVID COURT + JOSH THORPE |*
AROUND YYZ
*Around YYZ*, 2010. Image courtesy of the Artists.
*YYZUNLIMITED* invites artists to imagine and reinvent YYZ as a site of
opportunity through a series of “interventions”. These interventions engage
potential sites outside of YYZ’s regular programming. YYZ is pleased to
introduce an audio intervention by David Court and Josh Thorpe.
Court and Thorpe present the last in a series of four audio tours of the
area surrounding YYZ. This tour features a conversation with Scott Sørli
and Flavio Trevisan about YYZ itself.
This audio tour is part of the year-long project, Around YYZ, for the
YYZUNLIMITED programme. These audio walks are informal, meandering
conversations, offering a casual but analytic inquiry, beginning at YYZ and
moving out from there. Each lasts approximately an hour and can be
encountered in three ways: 1) on an MP3 player borrowed from YYZ (allows the
listener to walk the tour while listening), 2) over a set of speakers at the
threshold to YYZ, and 3) on the YYZ website. Taking YYZ as the point of
departure, the walks extend the mode of attention of the gallery into its
surrounding contexts, seeking to draw attention and add complexity to the
experience of public space.
*DAVID COURT *is an artist and writer living in New York. He has exhibited
solo and collaborative projects across Canada and in New York, with current
and upcoming projects for Printed Matter (with Josh Thorpe) and the 2011
CAFKA Biennial. David was involved as a contributor for the publication
«Gordon Lebredt: Nonworks 1975 – 2008,» co-published by the Center for
Contemporary Canadian Art and Plug In Editions. He has written reviews and
catalogue texts for publication in Canada, China and the US, including C
Magazine, Fillip, and Art Papers. In 2008 he participated in the residency
«Making Artistic Inquiry Visible» at the Banff Center. David holds a Masters
in Visual Studies from the University of Toronto (2009) and a BFA from NSCAD
University (2006).
*JOSH THORPE* is an artist and writer living in Toronto. He has a Master’s
in Visual Studies from University of Toronto and he teaches at Ontario
College of Art and Design and U of T. His work has been shown in Canada, the
US, and Europe. His involvement in publishing has produced interviews,
articles, and books, including Dan Graham Pavilions: A Guide (Art Metropole)
and a monograph on the unrealized proposals of Gordon Lebredt (CCCA and Plug
In ICA).
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*SHANNON GERARD |* UNSPENT LOVE, OR, THINGS I WISH I TOLD YOU
*UNSPENT LOVE, or, Things I Wish I Told You*, 2010. (Detail). Image courtesy
of Shannon Gerard.
Originally drawn and written as a series of online vignettes for the comics
publisher Top Shelf Productions, *Unspent Love* addresses themes such as
hope, fear, and human frailty. The project was later produced as a
multi-media bookwork with the support of Open Studio’s Nick Novak
Scholarship (2010).
This third iteration at YYZ will evolve the project in a series of narrative
images, unfolding between November 2010 and November 2011 as part of its
YYZUNLIMITED program. The experimental space of the wall allows imaginative
storytelling possibilities to develop through layering, time-lapse animation
and wheat pasting. Gerard will modify the wallwork on a weekly basis for
the duration of the project.
*SHANNON GERARD* received her Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Education
Degrees from York University in 1996, where she completed her Masters Degree
in 2007. In 2008 she received the Visual Arts (Emerging) Grant from the
Toronto Arts Council. Gerard has exhibited her work in Canada and the United
States including Green Lantern Gallery in Chicago (2009), Open Studio in
Toronto (2008), and also took part in the MoCCA Festival in New York City in
2007. Gerard currently teaches courses in print media and nano-publishing at
OCAD University.
UNSPENT LOVE has been generously supported by the Ontario Arts Council.
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