Roepstorff extravaganza

Kirstine Roepstorff at Justina M. Barnicke Gallery, Toronto 2013:

Roepstorff at Saatchi Gallery, London 2011:

Fabric Gilges

Simone Gilges at Justina M. Barnicke Gallery, Toronto 2013:

Restitching III

Thea Jones's cleverly composed series of embroidered drawings, Restitching III, from Justina M. Barnicke Gallery's group exhibition Coming To Terms offsite currently at the Jackman Humanities Institute, University of Toronto:

CounterIntelligence

This show is a surprise.  It's closing this week.  So I must write about it before flying to London tonight.  The ambitious exhibition CounterIntelligence curated by Charles Stankievech at Toronto's Justina M. Barnicke Gallery reveals the seemingly unlikely connection between art and secret intelligence/military surveillance from historic to the most recent times.  Close to 100 items are on display.

Anna-Sophie Springer's Cleve Backster Interrogates To Janet Craig:

El Lissitzky's Proun Room drawing:

Edward Snowden's Public Encryption Key:

Harun Farocki's Serious Games IV: A Sun With No Shadow:

Trevor Paglen's NOYFB:

Abbas Akhavan's Study For Blue Shield:

Yves Klein's book Peintures: 10 Planches En Colours:

Canadian Forces' CADPAT Camouflage Design:

Site (Specific): Satellite Images Of Earthworks:

Paul Virilio's book Bunker Archéologie:

Charles Stankievech's redacted postcard 89°29'58"N 62°20'5"W:

Screen And Décor

The group exhibition Screen And Décor at Toronto's Justina M. Barnicke Gallery revealed the effects of digital media on art making.  It's an exhibition in two layers: in addition to the various artists showing, the exhibition space itself is an installation with panes of coloured plexiglas designed by Louise Witthöft & Rodney LaTourelle.  I had to double the time I spent inside the gallery: first look at the individual works on view, then the works behind Witthöft & LaTourelle's layers of coloured screens.

Bernhard Kahrmann:

Simone Gilges:

Emmy Skensved:

Shannon Bool:

Sanaz Mazinani:

Kirstine Roepstorff:

Cue

Janice Kerbel's solo exhibition Pre at Justina M. Barnicke Gallery featured Cue, a series of 36 silkscreen prints which chronicled a sequence of theatrical light events, enacting the language of modernist abstraction in black & white.

Kerbel at Justina M. Barnicke, Toronto 2012: