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OPENING RECEPTION NOBUO KUBOTA | SONIC SCORES RANDI NYGÅRD | CAREFUL MANAGEMENT AND STUDY OF RELATIONS EVENT
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NOBUO KUBOTA | SONIC SCORES
Nobuo Kubota: Score for Double Bass, 2001. Nobuo Kubota’s exhibition Sonic Scores represents a continuing engagement with sound that goes back to 1962 with the formation of the Artists’ Jazz Band, the improvising orchestra the CCMC between 1974 & 1990, the formation of the Music Gallery by the CCMC in 1975, and his introduction to sound poetry in 1984. In 1985, he constructed the Sound Cage within which he performed with the CCMC. Kubota also performed Mouth Mechanics at YYZ in 1992. The exploration and experimentation of “phonics” was followed by intermedia works of three dimensional phonics titled Phonic Slices, Deep Text, and Phonic Traces. He created a video titled Loop Holes in 2002, an installation of vocal sound poetry on nine randomly arranged monitors. These events have in common his search for free expression and free improvisation in music and sound. Kubota began to develop a personal style of calligraphy more suited to new vocal sounds, electronic vocal manipulation, and noise related sounds which belonged more to the term “sonics” around 2002. In early 2013, as he was examining some of these calligraphic scores drawn around the year 2004, his attention focused on three scores titled Sonic Scores for Double Bass, Cello, and Violin. These scores were drawn with a fine Chinese calligraphy brush on a 10” x 13” size paper, almost in miniature. He examined these scores under magnification and discovered a world of details and attitudes that were not obvious with the naked eye. As sonic scores, these details were important as suggestions for improvisation. Kubota also discovered another set of drawings that had been exposed to toner manipulation. This exhibit is about the discovery and revelation of aspects of the 2006 Sonic Scores and its relationship to improvisation. NOBUO KUBOTA is a multi-media artist whose work includes sculpture, installations, video, music, and sound poetry. He received his Bachelor of Architecture from the University of Toronto (1959), and Doctor of Fine Art, Honoris Causa, from OCAD University (2011). He recently exhibited at the "LIVE" International Performance Art Festival, Vancouver, British Columbia. (2011), the Kelowna Art Gallery, Kelowna, British Columbia (2010), and at the Art Gallery of Peterborough, Peterborough, Ontario (2009). He received the Governor General's Award in Visual and Media Arts (2009). Kubota currently lives and works in Toronto, Ontario. RANDI NYGÅRD | CAREFUL MANAGEMENT AND STUDY OF RELATIONS Randi Nygård: A System Is More than the Sum of Its Parts 4 El Gran Deshielo/Corea del Norte/Minerals en Conflicto, 2013, Magazine, 46 * 43 * 14 cm. Photo by Randi Nygård EXHIBITION WALK-THROUGH WITH RANDI NYGÅRD The main work in the exhibition is titled “Ecology and Economy, Careful Management and Study of Relations” which consists of a series of collages of text and images departing from the definitions of the terms ecology and economy in the Oxford Etymological Dictionary. By defining the words and then combining them, sentences are formed that function both as titles and guidelines for the work. The sculpture of layered mirrors and photos of patterns in nature is an attempt to manifest the hypothesis which explains that time is not a fundamental structure, but that it appears between things in the universe; so if you imagine cutting the world into pieces, the different parts may function as clocks for each other. Some people can learn a new language in two weeks. They say they can do it by applying an intuitive understanding of what a word means depending on its sound, length, and rhythm. Words starting or ending with the same sound will stand for similar visual forms to them. As such, in the drawing titled “Strek – Struktur” each line follows the former, starting with a straight line that is then repeated by hand creating bumps, cracks, and a complex structure. It is a visual and bodily meditation on the fact that in Germanic languages most words that contain Str stand for something long and thin, such as strek, stripe, strøk, which all can mean “line”, in Norwegian. The work titled “To Imagine the Real -Climate Change and The Atlas of Human Brain Connections” consists of two books sliced into each other uniting and opening images of the climate change seen in landscapes and the human brain. In these intersections, between the flat and the spatial, the figurative and the abstract, the scientific and the poetic, there is a wish to see the world in a more open and interconnected manner. RANDI NYGÅRD received her Masters of Fine Art from the Kunstakademiet i Trondheim, NTNU, Norway (2006). She has exhibited her work internationally with recent exhibitions at Kunstverein Springhornhof, Germany (2013), Akershus Kunstsenter, Lillestrøm, Norway (2013), and Performa 13, New York (2013). In the fall of 2013, Nygård participated in the URRA Artist-in-residence program in Buenos Aires. Her work was recently acquired by The Collection of Stockholm Laen in Sweden. Nygård currently lives and works in Berlin, Germany and Oslo, Norway. Randi Nygård would like to acknowledge the generous support of the Office for Contemporary Art Norway.
ESSAY | "THE AMBIGUITIES": TORONTO'S PICTURES GENERATION BY ADAM LAUDER "The Ambiguities" revisits battles over identity and representation that defined the early 1980s art scene in Toronto in light of recent work on the Pictures Generation that sees it as grappling with the ambivalence of images following the eclipse of Conceptual art's prohibitions on visual pleasure. Through a close reading of Philip Monk's Struggles with the Image (1988), YYZBOOKS's first monograph, "The Ambiguities" troubles the critic-curator's early efforts to develop a representational politics to counter the perceived threat posed by the "return of painting" and its flirtations with mass-media imagery and personal expression. In retrospect, the compulsive doublings of painters Joanne Tod and Shirley Wiitasalo are seen to have had more in common with the contemporaneous pop-cultural appropriations of General Idea than Monk could admit. These suppressed affinities and misrecognitions are read through the intertext of Herman Melville's dizzying allegory of mistaken identity and misplaced family romance, Pierre; or, The Ambiguities (1852). Read it here. ADAM LAUDER is a doctoral student at the University of Toronto. Formerly he was W.P. Scott Chair for Research in e-Librarianship at York University. Lauder has contributed articles to the journals Art Documentation, Future Anterior, The Journal of Canadian Art History, Technoetic Arts, TOPIA and Visual Resources (with Marcia Salmon) as well as features to magazines including Border Crossings, C, Canadian Art and Hunter and Cook. He is the editor of a book published by YYZBOOKS, H& IT ON (2012), and curator of the exhibitions It's Alive! Bertram Brooker and Vitalism (2009-11) and Imaging Disaster (with Cassandra Getty, 2013). YYZUNLIMITED
Photo credit: Kevin Rodgers. The role of these three papers is a respectful challenge to the perpetuation of the myth of a lack of continuity in the Toronto art community and acknowledge the ardent work of cultural producers who challenged the scope of respectable and accepted histories in the 1980s and influenced artists and writers today. The full three-part print project will be on view and available for pick up at the gallery. KEVIN RODGERS is a visual artist whose practice draws upon provisional formalism and political philosophy. In 2012, Rodgers received his PhD in Art and Visual Culture from Western University, and is a 2008 graduate of the master of fine arts program at the University of Guelph. Rodgers has shown in several group exhibitions across Canada, the United States and Belgium, and his upcoming projects include Neutral Ground in Regina and at Dazibao in Montreal. His recent solo exhibitions include McIntosh Gallery, London; goodwater gallery, Toronto; and Galerie Tatjana Pieters, Ghent, Belgium. He has also written for numerous magazines, including FUSE, C Magazine, Border Crossings, and ART PAPERS, as well as curated two exhibitions: THE FOX (2011) and IF DESTROYED... (2010). In 2014, Rodgers will participate in a three month residency at the FLACC workspace in Genk, Belgium. He is currently the Artistic Director of Modern Fuel Artist-Run Centre in Kingston, ON. YYZ ARTISTS' OUTLET T: 416.598.4546 |
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