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26/6/2014

Three exhibitions

The Power Plant, Toronto

The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery opens three provoking and exciting exhibitions by international artists Pedro Reyes, Vasco Araújo and Akram Zaatari, united in the way they uniquely question and explore ideas about ourselves, others and the world

Opening with a FREE party on Friday, 27 June, 2014

The Power Plant is pleased to present three solo exhibitions by Mexican artist Pedro Reyes, Portuguese artist Vasco Araújo and Lebanese artist Akram Zaatari, including new work commissioned by the gallery and work premiering for the very first time in Canada. In compelling ways, these projects explore the relationship between ourselves and the larger sociopolitical arena.

The Power Plant opens the exhibitions with a FREE Opening Party for all on Friday, 27 June, 2014 from 8– 11 PM. A cash bar will be available all evening.

The entire Summer season is made possible by a very generous donation from the Jack Weinbaum Family Foundation. “The Power Plant is indebted to the Jack Weinbaum Foundation for the financial support needed to present all three outstanding international exhibitions and related programs,” states Director of The Power Plant Gaëtane Verna. “It is this kind of local support for projects by international artists that enables the gallery to execute its mission. In this vein, the gallery is also thankful to the Support Donors of the Pedro Reyes exhibition, Elena & Jorge Soni and Marla & Larry Wasser.

“The gallery collaborated with the Consulate General of Mexico who assisted us in bringing Pedro Reyes and his work here to Toronto. My thanks to Consul General Mauricio Toussaint and his team at the Consulate. Bringing the work of leading, international artists to Toronto is part of our core mandate, and we are extremely grateful to everyone who helped us to do it once again this Summer.”

Pedro Reyes: Sanatorium
Making its Canadian premiere at The Power Plant, Sanatorium is an artwork by Mexican artist Pedro Reyes. It is a transient clinic that provides visitors with brief, unexpected therapy sessions in an effort to cure ills associated with urban living. First presented by the Guggenheim, New York in 2011, Sanatorium has since traveled to venues including Whitechapel Gallery, London (2013) and dOCUMENTA (13), Kassel (2012). For its iteration at The Power Plant, Reyes offers a new therapy entitled The Extraction of the Cop in the Head, an exercise devised to curb self-censorship in the face of oppressive situations. The procedures for each session are always prepared by Reyes and carried out by volunteer participants who are trained by the artist. It is through this involvement of non-professionals that Reyes challenges the notion of hierarchy, in the process transforming the gallery into a site for democratized psychological processes.

This exhibition is curated by Gaëtane Verna.
Enjoy the exclusive opportunity to see Pedro Reyes talk about his work and his practice on 25 June at 7:30 PM.

LEAD DONOR: Jack Weinbaum Family Foundation
DONOR: Consulate General of Mexico, Toronto
SUPPORT DONORS: Elena & Jorge Soni and Marla & Larry Wasser

Vasco Araújo: Under the Influence of Psyche
This exhibition of new and recent work by Portuguese artist Vasco Araújo explores the artist’s ongoing interest in the human condition. Working across media, Araújo draws upon Western traditions in opera, dance, theatre, and literature in order to introduce divergent readings on such cultural histories. In so doing, Araújo wrests and confronts these historical references in order to question both contemporary notions of representation and the writing and canonization of history. He offers instead a body of work that suggests that history, rather than closed or finished narrative, has the ability to be renewed and reread. The exhibition is comprised of six works including the Canadian premiere of Araújo’s newest video Retrato (2014), a special commission by The Power Plant that appropriates portraits by 20th-century painter and writer Eduardo Malta.

This exhibition is curated by Julia Paoli.
LEAD DONOR: Jack Weinbaum Family Foundation

Akram Zaatari: The End of Time
Akram Zaatari examines how individual experiences are deeply intertwined with specific cultural and political histories. A founding member of the Arab Image Foundation, Zaatari has worked to collect more than 600,000 photographs from the Middle East, North Africa and the Arab diaspora. He then recontextualizes these archival documents in order to propose new scripts for how we catalogue both individual experience and communicate specific cultural and political histories. For his exhibition at The Power Plant, Zaatari explores questions of memory, time and radical preservation through his installation Time Capsule Simulation (2013) and his video The End of Time (2013), an allegory of the birth and disappearance of desire, enacted by three men caught in a successive cycle of beginnings and endings. Together, the works highlight human connection to preservation: of life, love and desire.

This exhibition is curated by Valerie Velardo.

LEAD DONOR: Jack Weinbaum Family Foundation
The Power Plant celebrates all three exhibitions, bringing new work by outstanding international artists to Toronto. Each exhibition continues through 1 September 2014.

Please send all requests for images and interviews to rboyko@thepowerplant.org.

Pedro Reyes (born Mexico City, 1972) lives and works in Mexico. He studied architecture at the Ibero-American University, Mexico City. Reyes has exhibited extensively across the globe including exhibitions at the University of South Florida Contemporary Art Museum (2014), Queens Art Museum, New York (2013), Galeria Luisa Strina, São Paulo (2013), Boston Museum of Fine Arts (2013), Lisson Gallery, London (2013), Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (2011), Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York (2011), CCA Kitakyushu (2009), Bass Museum, Miami (2008), Yvon Lambert Gallery, Paris (2008), San Francisco Art Institute (2008), and Galería Heinrich Erhardt, Madrid (2007). Reyes’ work has also been presented in numerous group exhibitions and festivals including the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne (2013), Carnegie International, Pittsburgh (2013), Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (2013), White Chapel Gallery, London (2013), Kadist Art Foundation, San Francisco (2013), Liverpool Biennial (2012), dOCUMENTA (13), Kassel (2012), Istanbul Biennial (2012), CCA Wattis Museum, San Francisco (2012), Serpentine Gallery, London (2010), Banff Centre, Alberta (2010), and the 50th Venice Biennale (2003). Reyes is represented by Lisson Gallery, London; and LABOR, Mexico, D.F.

Vasco Araújo (born Lisbon, 1975) lives and works in Lisbon. He studied sculpture at the University of Lisbon and attended the Advanced Plastic Arts at Lisbon’s Maumaus School of Fine Arts and Photography. He has taken part in residency programs, such as The University of Arts, Philadelphia (2007), Récollets, Paris (2005) and the Core Program (2003-04), Houston. In 2003, he was awarded the EDP Prize for New Artists. Araújo has participated in various solo exhibitions and festivals both in Portugal and abroad including Museu de Arte Popular, Lisbon (2013), Théâtre de la Ville, Paris (2013), Pinacoteca do estado de S. Paulo (2013), Museu Geológico- LNEG, Lisbon (2013), Galeria Horrach Moya, Palma de Mallocra (2012), Fundação Carmona e Costa, Lisbon (2011), Musée d’art de Joliette (2011), Porta 33, Funchal (2010), Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon, Museu da Cidade – Pavilhão Branco, Lisbon (2010), The Boston Center for the Arts (2008), 28th Bienal de Sao Paulo (2008), 1st Moscow Biennale (2005), and the 51st Venice Biennial (2005). His work is in several institutional collections, such as the Georges Pompidou Centre, France, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, EUA, Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo, among others.
Araújo is represented by Baginski Galeria / Projectos, Lisbon.

Akram Zaatari (born Saida, Lebanon, 1966) lives and works in Beirut. He studied architecture at The American University of Beirut as well as media studies at The New School University, New York. In 2011, he was awarded the Grand Prize of the SESC Videobrasil Festival, São Paulo. His work has been presented internationally in solo exhibitions and festivals including the 55th Venice Biennial (2013), Museum of Modern Art, New York (2013), Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (2012), Galerie Sfeir-Semler, Hamburg (2012), MUAC, Mexico City (2012), Liverpool Biennial (2012), and Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo (2011). His work is in numerous public collections including Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Tate Modern, London, Museum of Modern Art, New York, Arco Foundation, Madrid, and Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris. Zaatari is represented by Sfeir-Semler Gallery in Beirut / Hamburg; Kurimanzutto, Mexico and Thomas Dane Gallery, London.

Upcoming Programs and Events

PRIMARY EDUCATION SPONSOR: CIBC
ADDITIONAL SUPPORT: Jack Weinbaum Family Foundation

ARTIST TALK: Pedro Reyes
Wednesday, 25 June, 7:30 PM
Studio Theatre, Harbourfront Centre
FREE Members, $12 Non-Members
Pedro Reyes will discuss his current exhibition Sanatorium within the context of his larger practice.

OPENING PARTY
Friday, 27 June, 8 – 11 PM
FREE
Be one of the first in the city to see the new exhibitions and meet the artists.
Party on the lakeside patio under the stars. A cash bar will be available all evening.

SUNDAY SCENE: Vicky Moufawad-Paul
Sunday, 29 June, 2 PM
FREE
Vicky Maufawad-Paul is a Toronto-based curator and the Artistic Director at A Space Gallery. She will lead a tour of the exhibition Akram Zaatari: The End of Time.

IN CONVERSATION: Jen Delos Reyes & Diane Borsato
Socially Engaged Art
Wednesday, 13 August, 7:30 PM
Studio Theatre, Harbourfront Centre
FREE Members, $12 Non-Members
Are artists service providers? Are institutions experience generators? In tandem with the exhibition Pedro Reyes: Sanatorium, artists Jen Delos Reyes and Diane Borsato will discuss issues surrounding socially engaged art.

The Power Plant is Canada’s leading public gallery devoted exclusively to contemporary visual art. It is a vital forum for the advanced artistic culture of our time that offers an exceptional facility and professional support to diverse living artists while engaging equally diverse audiences in their work. The Power Plant pursues its activities though exhibitions, publications and public programming that incorporates other areas of culture when they intersect with visual art.

Image: Akram Zaatari, The End of Time, 2012, 16mm film, b-w, silent, 13'30"

Media Contact
Robin Boyko
Head of Marketing & Communications
The Power Plant
+1.416.973.4927
rboyko@thepowerplant.org

The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery at Harbourfront Centre
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