Pari Nadimi Gallery
254 Niagara Street M6J 2L8 Toronto, ON, Canada

A collection of fabulous glass masks by Lucy Orta are still on view @berengostudio in Murano, Italy until Jan 7, 2021. In the exhibition Unbreakable: Women in Glass Lucy Orta brings life to mask drawings she began in response to the COVID-19 lockdown in her Parisian studio this March. Drawing was an antidote, a way to overcome the anxiety sparked by the pandemic. Lucy had been archiving images of masks from a diverse range of cultures and rituals for several years and she u...sed this intense period of questioning to reflect on ways to embrace the mask in a more positive way. Observing their characteristics more closely, she began by extracting the defining features from the original source, to recompose drawings of new masks with infinite variations. The playful hybrids redefine the mask’s identification with fear. They are objects that connect us across continents, rooted in ancient rituals and spirit belief systems. Thanks to an invitation by Berengo Studio, in August Lucy was able to give form to the drawings in the Murano glass furnaces. Using the medium of glass to express the duality of transparency and opacity, two densities that emphasize the concept of masking. To conceal and reveal at the same time, to express an inner identity, a mask as a metaphor of transformation of material reality into spiritual essence #lucyorta #berengostudio #womeninglass #sculpture #contemporaryart #artworld #drawing #femaleartist #groupexhibition #parinadimigallery #studioorta #italy #canadianart

Lucy + Jorge Orta will be screening their latest film A Symphony For Absent Wildlife in Paris until January 31st 2021 at Green Currents, a group exhibition curated by Paul Ardenne. The film Symphony for Absent Wildlife draws together four performances staged in the Banff National Park, Calgary, Milan and London to weave a story of loss through the history of the point-blanket. The felt point-blanket was an exchange commodity between First Nations peoples and the early European trappers. You can also follow the link to watch the full 18min film on Lucy + Jorge’s website https://www.studio-orta.com///Symphony-for-Absent-Wildlife

ON VIEW NOW @trinitysquare the 2020 Emerging Digital Artists Award Finalist Exhibition featuring works by Jawa El Khash, Kanika Gordon, Alison Postma, Camila Salcedo, and Lisa Smolkin! Open by appointment, Tuesday to Saturday, 11am-5pm now until 03 October 2020. Presented in partnership with the EQ Bank! Lisa Smolkin’s Life’s lil Bitch is a video that investigates ancestral trauma, social failure, and the frustration of limited social status in today’s world. Featured as ...the main character in the narrative, the artist must deal with internalized ideas of social and professional binaries of success. Through farce and comedy, she brings us on an existential journey marked by deep personal inquiry and the confusing hells of both interpersonal and intrapersonal exchange. The dreamscape anti-narrative driving the work mirrors the experience of going down an internet rabbit hole, where a simple keyword search leads from one thing to another (to another). #lisasmolkin #videoartist #trinitysquare #401richmond #contemporaryart #digitalart #torontoartscene #artistrunspace #newmediaart #parinadimigallery #torontogallery

Xuan Ye will be premiering an audio-visual performance All Tomorrow’s Oceans Live online at Send+Receive Festival. Follow the link to watch Machine generated moving images, algorithmic composition and live improvisation converge into a sensorial landscape. The contradictory connotation of the title lies in that the ocean is an idea beyond space time. ‘All Tomorrow’s’ expresses a timeless vision of symbiosis with nature, from the past to the present, and an ultimate nostalgia towards the ocean. - Xuan Ye https://sendandreceive.org/v22-oct-2nd-all-tomorrows-oceans/

#repost @pursuitsinc Salesforce Tower CLAP FOR FRONTLINERS! If you’d like to show your support for frontline workers fighting Covid-19 and participate in an amazing work of art by Jim Campbell at the same time, we’re going to explain how! Each evening, just before 8:00 pm, the top of the Salesforce Tower in San Francisco displays a series of clapping hands, which honor the heroic frontline medical professionals. ... Jim Campbell is the artist behind this beautiful show of kindness. Now, the public has been invited to submit video of themselves clapping, with the chance that they may end up seeing their own hands atop the Salesforce Tower! This week-long video series celebrating national EMS (emergency medical services) week will run from May 17th until May 23rd. A few things to keep in mind when making your video Raise your hands high above your head and record a 10-20 second clip against a well-lit solid color wall that contrasts your skin color. Make sure your arms are visible in the frame at all times while clapping. (Your face will not be included, however.) As long as the video file size is under 25 MB, and you keep the camera still as you record, feel free to use any device you like. Send your applause video to [email protected], and make sure you submit before the end of this week! . . . . . . . #jimcampbell #salesforcetower #salesforce #publicart #video #parinadimigallery #sanfrancisco #california #clapping #art #artist #frontline #frontlineworkers #ems #emergencymedicalservices #covid19 #covid19support #participatoryart #closedbutopen #contemporaryart #artviewer #canadianart #artnet #blogto #instaart #artistspotlight #ArtGallery #Artoftheday See more

George Legrady, Nirvana - Montréal, 2013, lenticular, 31.5 x 47.5" The exhibition title, "On the Road", cannot escape reference to the defining work of the Beat Generation: Jack Kerouac’s portrait of the search for personal meaning during the Cold War. But a referential title is just the beginning. Over forty-years ago Legrady embarked on a yearlong journey, searching for meaning himself, during the Vietnam War, October Crisis and hippie counterculture movement. He explains:... I boarded a plane in Montreal on October 7, 1970 to Paris with $200 in my pocket, two jean shirts in my backpack, my Nikon F and Kerouac’s On the Road in my hand. I lasted a year by quickly getting down to the Middle East, spending time in the Negev on the border of the Gaza, old Jerusalem, the Sultanahmet in Istanbul where I met a Turkish artist who took me to his town near the Syrian border. After running out of money, I took a train to Budapest to revisit the country where I was born. . . . . . #tb #archive #closedbutopen #2013 #georgelegrady #contemporaryart #photography #lenticular #artistspotlight #mixedmedia #jackkerouac #collage #artviewer #canadianart #artnet #blogto #toronto #instaart #montreal #toronto #artist #ArtGallery #Artoftheday #blackandwhite #cultureinquarantine See more