Monday, December 26, 2011

Reflections on a Recent Issue of Modern Painters by Eric Farache


When was the last time you went into a magazine shop? If you haven't done so lately, you should make the time. We always hear that print is dead and it probably is, but after spending some time in Presse International on College St, I really thought it was just awesome how many magazines are left and that there was some great stuff - especially Modern Painters

Like many people, I get a lot of art info off the web, but holding a copy of Modern Painters is something else. The cover has a very specific texture and smell and the colour rendition in the magazine is terrific. My interest is not nostalgic, although I used to order the magazine when I ran a camera store, knowing it would not sell and I would get to take them home, this magazine, this thing, places art and its contents in a world of its own.  I loved it all over again.

The November 2011 issue is full of a fairly diverse content and includes an interview with Maurizio Cattelan talking about his retrospective at the Guggenheim (it is a mounting of his sculptures hanging from the centre of the gallery) and an article on the painter Michael Borremans (some people will really enjoy his style of painting). The artist Byron Kim, director Julia Leigh , writer and Director of Sleeping Beauty are also featured.



Can you find more content online? Absolutely, but there is something great and altogether optimistic about buying a magazine -- seeing what is featured, wondering about how some truly bad art has the money to advertise, all that good stuff.

So this holiday season, whatever your interest, treat yourself.

You can read about that Guggenheim show here

Friday, December 23, 2011

A Loop


I made a Loop. I'm posting it here and I challenge every Looper to make a loop too, and post it, unless of course people feel it interferes with whatever this webpage that Ingrid pours so much time and care into, is supposed to be doing. I don't want to mess with peoples show announcements.

Maybe we can pick a day to hold an online auction of these 'loops', sell them here, make it a fund raiser. We should pick an auspicious date, like on an eclipse. A day when our art will blot out banal culture for an hour, OK, maybe for a few seconds. I think every piece should be sold, must be sold, so anything should go as far as price is concerned. Make sure you can accept it selling for 1 cent! That's all I'd bid for an Eric Farache.

All the work not sold at the online auction should get tied into one big loopy note and hung from our Loop sign until the winter kills it and then we ceremoniously burn what's left of the big loop in the alley. We can do it in an oil drum and warm our hands and shuffle about as the work combusts and we pass a little paper bagged sacrament around. Our art loving Loop supporters must save the art from death and dismemberment, which is no big loss anyways really, after all, let's face it, there's just way too much inventory out there as it is.

Thursday, December 22, 2011

Loop Highlights from 2011

 As the year draws to a close, it seemed appropriate to feature photos from two of the highlights of Loop programming from 2011 which included Nuit Blanche and also a live performance piece by Two Gullivers at Nathan Phillips Square.

Nuit Blanche at Loop

Nuit Blanche at Loop



Nuit Blanche at Loop

Nuit Blanche at Loop

Nuit Blanche at Loop

Nuit Blanche at Loop

Nuit Blanche at Loop

Nuit Blanche at Loop
On October 8, 2011 the Two Gullivers realized a performance called drawingmovingtable, a mobile reenactment of Marina Abramovic and Ulay’s Nightsea Crossing.  This performance took place at Nathan Phillips Square, the site of the original performance in 1982, in conjunction with the Gullivers' exhibition at loop: Gullivers’ Rehearsal: Drawing into Performance.
 
drawingmovingtable by Two Gullivers on October 8, 2011



Two Gullivers on October 8, 2011

Two Gullivers on October 8, 2011

 2012 promises to be another exciting year at loop. Stay tuned!