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<strong>Art</strong> Gallery of Ontario<br />
317 Dundas Street West, <strong>Toronto</strong> ON M5T 1G4, Canada<br />
Tel: 416 979 6648 Web: www.ago.net<br />
Closed for reinstallation as of October 8<br />
The Power Plant<br />
231 Queens Quay West, <strong>Toronto</strong> ON M5J 2G8, Canada<br />
Tel: 416 973 4949 Email: thepowerplant@harbourfrontcentre.com Web: www.thepowerplant.org<br />
With a permanent collection of more than 68,000 works of art, the <strong>Art</strong> Gallery of Ontario is among<br />
the most distinguished art museums in North America. In 2002, the Gallery began an extraordinary<br />
chapter in its 107-year history when it launched Transformation AGO. Multi-faceted in scope,<br />
Transformation AGO involves the unprecedented growth of the permanent collection, an innovative<br />
architectural expansion by world-renowned architect Frank Gehry, and the strengthening of the<br />
museum’s endowment resources. As the imaginative centre of the city, the transformed AGO will<br />
dramatically enrich our visitors’ experiences and provide new access to the full vibrancy of the art<br />
museum. Boldly declaring that art matters, the new AGO will reopen fully in 2008.<br />
Gallery School<br />
Throughout the closure period, the AGO’s Gallery<br />
School will provide a full slate of classes for adults<br />
and children at its temporary location just down<br />
the street from the AGO at 60 McCaul. Starting<br />
in October, a new session of the “Side by Side”<br />
class will take place every Saturday and Sunday,<br />
offering parents, grandparents, caregivers and<br />
children the chance to discover art and creativity<br />
together.<br />
Another highlight of the Gallery School is a<br />
30-week intensive program targeted at students<br />
from ages 14 to 18 who are considering<br />
post-secondary studies in fine arts or design.<br />
The program is run by professional artists and<br />
educators who teach fundamental skills in a wide<br />
variety of materials and processes while exploring<br />
traditional and contemporary artistic concepts,<br />
enabling students to build strong portfolios for<br />
post-secondary institutions. Schools around the<br />
city are also invited to enjoy studio visits to the<br />
Gallery School, while March Break camps and<br />
Teens Behind the Scenes youth programs will<br />
continue to be available.<br />
Education Partners at the AGO<br />
Supporting Partner:<br />
Education Programs generously supported by: smART women<br />
Teens Behind the Scenes<br />
Supporting Sponsor:<br />
Generously supported by:<br />
The Lloyd Carr-Harris Foundation<br />
S.M. Blair Family Foundation<br />
AGO Online<br />
If you are feeling nostalgic and yearn to see some<br />
of your favourite artworks, you can now explore<br />
the AGO’s permanent collection online through<br />
an innovative web project called Collection X<br />
(http://www.collectionx.museum). This fully<br />
interactive website allows users to explore works<br />
from the Gallery’s collection and curate their own<br />
exhibitions, as well as showcase their own work<br />
and connect with other users.<br />
Our AGO website, www.ago.net, will provide live<br />
updates of ongoing construction on the building<br />
with two webcams, one facing north and the<br />
other south. The AGO blog will allow you to<br />
bring forward cultural issues that matter to you,<br />
and you can also stay connected by subscribing<br />
to our e-newsletter, which will provide you with<br />
the latest Gallery news on a monthly basis. To<br />
join e-news, email us at membership@ago.net.<br />
Collection X is a part of <strong>Art</strong>sAccess<br />
Lead Partners:<br />
Generously supported by:<br />
<strong>Art</strong> Rental + Sales<br />
J.P. Bickell Foundation<br />
The Salamander Foundation<br />
Over the last 40 years, the AGO’s <strong>Art</strong> Rental and<br />
Sales Gallery has displayed the works of such<br />
celebrated Canadian artists as Jean-Paul Riopelle,<br />
Michael Snow and Ed Burtynsky. This tradition<br />
will continue in the gallery’s current location<br />
at 481 University Avenue, where you’ll find an<br />
extensive selection of contemporary art from<br />
Canadian artists, galleries and dealers. <strong>Art</strong>work is<br />
available for sale to the public, or can be rented<br />
out by AGO members for as little as $20 per<br />
month.<br />
<strong>Art</strong> Rental + Sales Gallery at University Avenue generously<br />
supported by Vivian & David Campbell.<br />
SPECIAL HOURS DURING THE FAIR<br />
Thursday to Sunday, 12–6pm<br />
OPEN Monday 29 Oct, 10am–6pm<br />
FILM SCREENING /<br />
francesco vezzoli: selected films<br />
Sunday 28 October, 6pm<br />
$4 Members and TIAF ticket<br />
holders, $6 General Admission<br />
The Power Plant<br />
POWER TALKS AT TIAF<br />
Louise Déry, Commissioner of<br />
Canada’s 2007 Venice Biennale<br />
Pavilion, Hou Hanru, Curator of<br />
the 2007 Istanbul Biennale, and<br />
Jerry Saltz former senior art critic<br />
for The Village Voice, now art<br />
critic at New York Magazine.<br />
Anni v. Marlene (Double Feature), 2006, Courtesy Galerie Neu, Berlin<br />
The Power Plant is Canada’s leading public gallery devoted exclusively to the art of our time<br />
and is recognized as an important centre for contemporary art in North America. Over the past<br />
20 years, The Power Plant has gained an unparalleled reputation for presenting cutting edge<br />
exhibitions, superior catalogues and editions, and challenging special events.<br />
Francesco Vezzoli: A True Hollywood Story!<br />
This major survey of the work by the celebrated Italian artist includes film, embroideries, and<br />
poster/paintings. The centerpiece is Vezzoli’s hyperbolic self-parody Marlene Redux: A True<br />
Hollywood Story!, 2006, a tabloid-style mock documentary lampooning the artist’s meteoric<br />
rise and demise. Part fact, part fiction, this pseudo-documentary uses Vezzoli’s failed directorial<br />
attempts to remake Maximilian Schell’s 1984 film Marlene and Bauhaus textile designer Anni<br />
Albers as a melodramatic backdrop. An art installation masquerading as a documentary,<br />
Marlene Redux epitomizes Vezzoli’s fascination with celebrity, sensationalistic spectacle, and the<br />
deconstruction of artistic persona.<br />
Paul P.: Dusks, Lamplights<br />
The first solo show at The Power Plant by the <strong>Toronto</strong> painter who is gaining international<br />
recognition, ‘Dusks, Lamplights’ brings together recent oil paintings, pastels, watercolours,<br />
drawings, and prints. Known for his portraits of sexually ambiguous and androgynous young<br />
men, Paul P.’s new pictures are linked by their atmospheres of dim and glimmering light, and<br />
employ Venice as a recurring backdrop—a sinking, impossible city that embodies doomed<br />
romanticism. By uniting the work of 19th-century painter and dandy James McNeill Whistler<br />
with the naturalism of 1970s gay soft porn photography, P. captures the exhausted beauty<br />
of two chronologically disparate ‘golden ages’ of sexuality—Europe before WWI and North<br />
America before AIDS.<br />
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