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17/7/2013

Two exhibiton

Diaz Contemporary, Toronto

Kim Adams
Caboose

Caboose continues Kim Adams’ exploration of miniature worlds and exemplifies his long-term fascination with model building. Nine new works re-imagine train cabooses in ordinary, yet impossible realities. Adams’ model cabooses idle on small islands of train tracks amidst garages, gardens and parking lots. Most have cranes attached to their roofs, as if they were the sites of new condominium developments. Yet any people depicted in these curious worlds are occupied in mundane activities such as yard work or cycling and seem unaware that such strange occurrences surround them.

The caboose originally was the last car found at the end of a freight train, and functioned as living quarters for the train’s crew members. Since the 1980s, improved railway technology has rendered cabooses obsolete and consequently most have disappeared from use. Adams has re-imagined the caboose with new domestic life whilst commenting on their iconic status reminiscent of a previous era of rail transport and lifestyle.

Within the past year, Kim Adams has been honoured with a 2013 Guggenheim Fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation and the 2012 Gershon Iskowitz Prize from the Art Gallery of Ontario. In addition to an extensive international exhibition history, Museum London recently presented a survey exhibition of Adams’ work entitled One for the Road. Other solo exhibitions include the Art Gallery of Ontario, The Power Plant, Oakville Galleries, Musée d’art contemporain, and Centraal Museum in Utrecht, Netherlands. Adams’ work is featured in numerous private and public collections, including National Gallery of Canada, Art Gallery of Ontario, Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, Vancouver Art Gallery, Musée d’art contemporain, and Mendel Art Gallery in Saskatoon. Adams is currently based between Toronto and Grand Valley, Ontario.

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Rodney LaTourelle
Chromakenón

Rodney LaTourelle’s installations occupy an intersection of architecture and visual art and explore affective relationships between colour and space. Chromakenón repurposes a myriad of display structures to explore how colour can manipulate and re-create spatial experience. Viewers are invited to reposition the angles of Chromakénon’s numerous coloured panels, with each adjustment changing the light and colour reflected into the surrounding space. Also dependent on current lighting conditions and viewing angle, each experience of Chromakénon is consequently unique.

Chromakenón, which combines the Latin word for ‘colour’ with the Greek word for ‘endless space’, offers at once a visual, physical and social viewing experience. LaTourelle explores the created relationship of our own presence and perception within an architectural space whilst also situating this contemporary moment of experience within a canon of art historical concerns, such as painting optics, abstraction, and projection of painting into a three dimensional space.

Rodney LaTourelle is originally from Winnipeg, but is currently based in Berlin. He received his Masters of Landscape Architecture from the University of Manitoba. In addition to an extensive art practice, LaTourelle is also an accomplished writer, critic, exhibition designer and art director. Previous solo exhibitions include: Mendel Art Gallery in Saskatoon, Optica in Montreal, Centre de design at Université du Québec à Montréal, Gallery 1C03 at University of Winnipeg, PlugIn ICA in Winnipeg, SKC Belgrade in Serbia, and Program in Berlin. LaTourelle has also been involved in numerous public art projects, with recent projects at the HOFA Hotel School in Berlin and the Higgins Underpass in Winnipeg. His work is represented in private and public collections such as the National Gallery of Canada and the Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean in Luxembourg.

Image: Kim Adams, Truck Container II - 2009. HO plastic models (1/87), 5.5” x 7” x 7”

Opening Thursday 18 July from 6 to 8

Diaz Contemporary
100 Niagara Street (at Tecumseth) - Toronto, ON M5V 1C5
Summer Hours:
Tuesday to Thursday 11-6 pm,
Friday & Saturday 11-5 pm, or by appointment

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