TYPOLOGY

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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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  • Marina Abramovic curates online exhibition for Paddle8


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    Paddle8 is an incredibly professional (verging on slick) platform for art exhibition and sales online. Beautifully designed, at times powerful, possibly groundbreaking presentation. With names like Marina Abramovic behind you, how can you fail — but a champagne bottle for scale… really? At any rate, it will be interesting to see how this platform evolves.

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  • Susan Hiller at Prefix Institute of Contemporary Art


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    Presented as a wall-sized video projection, Susan Hiller’s The Last Silent Movie is a beautifully simple and deeply moving testimony to the ongoing obliteration of linguistic and cultural diversity in the wake of accelerating industrialization and globalization. Featuring simple white text on a black field accompanying words and phrases being uttered by the last speakers of twenty-five endangered or extinct languages, the video surprises and delights with the remarkable and unfamiliar sounds of languages such as Manx, Jerrais, Livonian, Potowatomi, Yao Kimmien, and Ubykh.

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  • Homebase for graffiti art on Camden


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    One thing that surprised me when I first got to Toronto was how great the graffiti is. All those empty laneways must make Toronto a perfect breeding ground for innovative, immersive street art on a scale and level of consistency that doesn’t seem possible in New York.

    As typophiles, the above mural on Homebase’s wall is a particular favorite of ours. Homebase is a storefront on Camden Street carrying graffiti art supplies, clothing and accessories. Click below for images of the retail space, with its eye-candy spray paint display.

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  • Willem de Kooning in New York


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    What’s not to love about the net when you can hear Peter Schjeldahl talk in your ear about de Kooning in New York while drinking tea in Toronto?

    Hear about de Kooning’s Untitled (The Cow Jumps Over the Moon), pictured above, and other paintings selected by Schjeldahl on the New Yorker’s website. Link from there to his full review as well (paywall).

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