TYPOLOGY

Author: Shani K Parsons

  • “Tales From The Gimli Hospital” Comes Back to Haunt You


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    In New York this past weekend, Guy Maddin’s cult classic experienced a rebirth and transformation in its new incarnation, Tales from the Gimli Hospital: Reframed. As part of the Performa 11 New Visual Art Performance Biennial, Maddin’s frankly bizarre first film was screened to the accompaniment of new narration and singing by Kristín Anna Valtýsdóttir (formerly of múm, and also known as Kria Brekkan), and live orchestration and sound effects directed by the filmmaker himself.

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  • Actual size: the sculptural drawings of Jannick Deslauriers and Joan Linder


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    Jannick Deslauriers’ recent exhibition at Show & Tell Gallery is a study in contrasts. Utilizing the lightest of materials–crinoline, tulle, lace, and organza, she constructs life-sized sculptures of physically and/or politically weighty objects such as a pair of hand grenades, a sewing machine, a typewriter, a tank. Suspended from above, the objects exert a spectral presence on the space, appearing as literal materializations of creative or destructive human impulses. Seen through this lens, an unassuming brick, rendered in terracotta-coloured crinoline and black thread, becomes a symbol of both our collective capacity to build society, and–when taken in hand and thrown through the scapegoat-of-the-moment’s window–to destroy it in turn.

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  • Surface Detail


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    Hypnotic and visceral. By Tom Beddard aka subblue.

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  • Art by number: Ken Nicol (and Mel Bochner, and Mary Temple, and Roman Opalka)


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    On the tweeted advice of Leah Sandals, we stopped by MKG127 gallery for the last day of Ken Nicol’s show. Aside from an irrational desire for Cy Twombly books and a penchant for Bic four-colour pens, we personally share with Nicol a complete and not unwelcome inability to multitask. Perhaps this explains our delight in his show, titled Hundreds of Things, Volume 1, for which he executes extremely well-crafted permutations of the number 100 in a wide range of seemingly mundane, normally discarded materials. From his gallery’s website:

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  • What’s next for TYPOLOGY


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    Timed to coincide with Artscape’s groundbreaking and press announcements this past week, TYPOLOGY made its online debut. With the project space still under construction and a website in the works, it was admittedly the softest of openings, but we are thrilled to be official at last, and thankful for all the interest and support we’ve received so far.

    Now that the proverbial dust has settled a bit, you may be wondering what’s in store for the coming year. We’ve been hard at work developing our programming for the first few seasons, and will continue to seek out artists, architects, designers, performers, writers, and curators with whom to collaborate on future exhibitions and events. Proposals and submissions will be accepted online once we launch our full website; in the meantime, please get in touch — we’d love to know what you’re working on.

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  • Fred Tomaselli at the 2011 Editions/Artists’ Book Fair


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    Over a packed four days in New York doing research for a future show, we managed to briefly stop by the Editions/Artists’ Book Fair taking place in Chelsea this past weekend. Occupying two floors of the former Dia building on West 22nd, the fair was intimate, friendly, and filled with surprises, not least of which were the many strong showings by non-New York exhibitors such as Clay Street Press (Cincinnati), Western Editions (Chicago), and High Point Center for Printmaking (Minneapolis). We’ll profile each of these organizations separately in a series of future posts, as well as New York-based standouts Specific Object and Forth Estate.

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  • The Wind Paintings of Bob Verschueren


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    Following up today’s sublime nature theme, here are some exquisitely beautiful works from the late 1970s that blur boundaries between Land Art, painting, and photography. Utilizing terre verte, burnt umber, iron oxide and other powdered substances, Verschueren worked with the land, water, and wind to create these ephemeral images.

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  • Murmuration


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    The embodiment of exhilaration.

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  • Scenes from a groundbreaking


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    Today Artscape celebrated the groundbreaking and naming of their new arts centre currently being renovated on Shaw, future home to 20+ artists and organizations including TYPOLOGY Projects. More photos after the jump!

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  • Announcing Toronto’s newest not-for-profit project space


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    Here it is, our first official postcard to the world, announcing the virtual launch of TYPOLOGY, a not-for-profit experimental project space in Toronto’s West End.

    This photo was taken from the windows of our future physical home, a heritage school building currently being repurposed into a centre for the arts by Artscape. Slated for completion in the Fall of 2012, the centre will house an exciting mix of arts, cultural, and social mission organizations.

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