OPENING RECEPTION & A PANEL DISCUSSION AT YYZ
Mallory Wilkinson
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OPENING RECEPTION DANIEL HUTCHINSON | PAINTINGS FOR ELECTRIC LIGHT EVENTS GALLERY HOURS FOR INTERVIEWS
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| DANIEL HUTCHINSON | PAINTINGS FOR ELECTRIC LIGHT
Daniel Hutchinson: Study for Paintings for Electric Light, 2013, graphie and coloured pencil on axonometric paper, 8 ½” x 11.” Image courtesy of the artist. For his solo exhibition at YYZ, Daniel Hutchinson has produced a series of site-sensitive paintings with coloured fluorescent light components under the title Paintings for Electric Light. Seeking contingency rather than autonomy and emphasizing the primacy of perceptual experience, these pictures are produced considering carefully composed external relations–the gallery's architecture and the relative positions of pictures and lights–and the moving spectator who perceives new conditions at every spatial location. The internal compositions of the paintings are geometric patterns that draw formal cues from the light fixtures, as well as the shapes of the supports, and the shapes of the cast light or shadows inside and outside of the picture plane. These paintings for electric light continue the artist’s interest in the métier of painting, the tradition of the monochrome, and the interactivity of retinal opticality, but depart from the critical relationship to pictorialism his paintings have always maintained. Representing a completely new approach to painting for the artist, these works embrace the necessity of total non-objective abstraction and sculptural relationships. DANIEL HUTCHINSON is a visual artist based in Toronto, Ontario. He received his BFA from the Emily Carr Institute, Vancouver in 2004 and his MFA from NSCAD University, Halifax in 2008. He has exhibited across Canada, in the U.S., Australia and Sweden. In 2009 he received Honourable Mention for the Halifax Mayor’s Award for Contemporary Visual Art and was twice named a semi-finalist in the RBC Canadian Painting Competition. In 2013, Hutchinson’s work will appear in The Painting Project, a survey of contemporary Canadian painting curated by Louise Déry and Julie Bélisle and organized by L’Université du Québec à Montréal as well as the group show Imaging Disaster, at Museum London. Hutchinson is represented by Angell Gallery, Toronto. The artist gratefully acknowledges the support of the Ontario Arts Council.
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Jean-François Côté: The Chorus. Image courtesy of the artist. THE CHORUS: A PANEL DISCUSSION YYZ ADMISSION YYZ is pleased to host a panel discussion between Toronto artists Yam Lau, Andy Patton, and Québec artist Jean-François Côté. The panel will discuss Côté’s The Chorus, a video installation currently on view at YYZ. Shot in Beijing, China in 2010, The Chorus stages the performance of “Snow,” a popular Chinese song transcribed from Mao Zedong’s poem of the same title. In this work Côté explores the psychological and spiritual impact of China’s recent transformation on its citizens. The performance of a song that signals the revolutionary sentiment of a bygone era is intended to gauge and also reveal the affective responses of the singers in the present. The panel will provide contextual information on the production of The Chorus and explore a number of relevant topics arising from the work. The topics include: JEAN-FRANÇOIS CÔTÉ earned his Ph.D. in visual arts and art history at Université Laval with a grant from the Fonds québécois de recherche sur la société et la culture. Solo exhibitions include presentations at the Studio d’essai of Méduse; at VU; at the Museo de Arte Contemporaneo in the context of the 8th Bienal de Video Y Nuevos Medios de Santiago, Chile; in the context of the Mois Multi; and at the Yuanfen Gallery of Beijing, China. Côté was Professor in Time-Based Art and Photography at York University in Toronto. He is now Professor in Media Art at Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières. He received support from the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec and from the Canada Council for the Arts. YAM LAU was born in Hong Kong and received his MFA from the University of Alberta. His most recent works combine video and computer-generated animation. Lau also publishes regularly on art and design and has exhibited his work widely in Canada, USA, Europe, and China. He is a co-founder of the community based art project “Donkey Institute of Contemporary Art” in Beijing, China. Lau is now based in Toronto where he is an associate professor of painting at York University ANDY PATTON is a painter and writer who teaches at OCAD University. He recently went back to school to study the calligraphy of China's Northern Song dynasty and the aesthetic thought that accompanied it. Patton has lived and worked in Toronto since 1977.
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