B/D 24

A gallery artists' showcase brings out all the heavyweights currently at Blouin Division, Toronto ...

Caroline Monnet's Worlds Apart:

Wanda Koop's Sightline (Pale Green Pine):

François Lacasse's Spectres VI:

Koop's Reed Reflection and Breaking News (Black Out):

Nicolas Baier's Constellation Hiver:

Nicolas Lachance's Barrage, TG, 1921:

Pierre Dorion's MET B II:

Francine Savard's Vue De Echo, Grant Et Landfall (Anne Truitt):

An Te Liu's Title Deed (19 Leona Drive):

La Durée

An Te Liu from his solo exhibition La Durée at Division Gallery, Toronto 2018:

Mono No Ma*

Exploring the space around things, An Te Liu created ceramic sculptures out of discarded styrofoam packing from consumer goods.  These sculptures, strangely, appear ancient and contemporary at the same time.

Liu at Gardiner Museum, Toronto 2013:

* The title of the exhibition Mono No Ma in Japanese = space of the thing in English

White Dwarf

An Te Liu's contribution to Toronto's Nuit Blanche this year was his installation White Dwarf.  His slowly revolving dying star proclaims that the end is near:

Douglas Coupland's signage reassured us:

Blast

I went to see An Te Liu's Blast at MKG127 on Saturday.  It is a vortex-like sculptural arrangement, suspending in mid-air and filling the gallery space, of common household devices like air purifiers, humidifiers and fans:

It is a sequel to Cloud, a hanging assemblage of 136 air purifying appliances, I saw at the MOCCA (Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art) last year:

Image courtesy of MKG127