Paesler's graphic aesthetic

Susanne Paesler at Museum Ludwig, Köln 2012:

L'Arsenal

Arsenal Toronto I visited last week is a satellite gallery of L'Arsenal in Montreal I visited two weeks ago.  L'Arsenal's previous life as a shipyard provides a stunningly huge exhibition space to accommodate even the most ambitious art shows:

My favourute James Carl and Wanda Koop's large-scale works are in the foreground.

Order and (calculated) disorder at the Arsenal

The end of my summer holidays was highlighted by another good exhibition I saw at Arsenal Toronto last week.  The order and (calculated) disorder of Barry Allikas, Yves Gaucher and Daniel Buren's geometry-based paintings are really cool treats on a hot summer day.

Allikas at Arsenal Contemporary/Division Gallery, Toronto 2012:

Gaucher at Arsenal Contemporary/Division Gallery, Toronto 2012:

Buren at Arsenal Contemporary/Division Gallery, Toronto 2012:

Thank you, T, for sharing your knowledge and insight about the paintings.

Albers and Dávila

Josef Albers at MOCCA (Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art), Toronto 2012:

Josef Albers at Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin 2012:

Jose Dávila at Daniel Faria Gallery, Toronto 2012:

New Meditations

The current group show New Meditations at Daniel Faria Gallery seeks to continue, through contemporary investigations, the conversation Russian avant-garde painter Kazimir Malevich started and minimalist artists like Josef Albers and Sol LeWitt further developed.  To me, it's one of the best shows Toronto is showing this summer.

Derek Liddington:

Jose Dávila:

Elizabeth Zvonar:

Jessica Eaton:

Frisinger's stairwell (made in Hannover)

Featured in the show Made In Germany Zwei, Max Frisinger's installation over the main stairwell of Kunstverein Hannover, 2012:

Crash

Lothar Götz's stairwell wall painting Crash at Künstlerhaus Hannover, 2012:

Zobernig spectrum

Heimo Zobernig at Museum Ludwig, Köln 2012:

Portikus Printing Plant And Portikus Sounds

Being less interested in the finished work than in how images and objects come into being, Nora Schultz turned the gallery space into a printing plant, with her exhibition Portikus Printing Plant And Portikus Sounds revealing the physical traces that the printing process has left behind.

Schultz at Portikus, Frankfurt 2012: