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The .07% Show
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Catherine McIntosh Jeffery, Molly Moldovan and Judith Myers of the smART Collective will bring Impact Aids to Toronto's Rebecca Gallery. They are three Kawartha area artists who make and exhibit art both individually and collaboratively. Their collaborative exhibitions focus on the socio-political issues that are important to them as individuals of conscience and as citizens of the world. |
Stephen Lewis's Massey Hall Lecture Series, Race Against Time, inspired the artists to create works illustrating the need to deliver inexpensive medicine to help those in Africa fight HIV/AIDS. Lewis is the UN Secretary-General’s Special Envoy for HIV/AIDS in Africa
Among the works is a 12' wire mesh cylinder containing pill bottles labeled "anti-retroviral". Each bottle has an August 13, 1996 expiry date, reflective of the ten years of waiting for the these necessary medications to become affordable. These works are meant to provoke thought and spark conversation about this issue.
Transcendent:
Serafino Catallo & Anne Barkley
Leonardo Gallery, Yorkville, Toronto
through August 26, 2006
Title: Post War Rain
Artist: Serafino Catallo (Canadian)
Medium: Mixed Media on Canvas
Dimensions: 49.5 x 56"
Image Courtesy: Leonardo Gallery, Toronto
Serafino Catallo has his first gallery show currently on view in Toronto's Yorkville district at the Leonardo Gallery. Post War Rain and other of his works in Transcendent are, as Serafino describes, "reflective of my current style: landscape abstracts where I try to get that minimal quality and suggest the landscape in a very minimal way. It's reminiscent of sky and the earth below. It's intended to be both atmospheric and transcendent just like the show." The artist adds, "the minimal style is what I'm going for now.
Pedro Izstin:
In Situ
Pitko, Distillery District, Toronto
Building 59, Studio 103
August 1-31, 2006
Title: Apolonia, U.S.A., 1999
Artist: Pedro Izstin
Dimensions: 20" x 15"
Image Courtesy: Pitko
Exploring the often tenuous connection between individuals and the environment took photographer Pedro Izstin across North and South America. Isztin photographed friends and family members in Canada, USA, Cuba, Peru and Colombia. The artist found a connection between all who had a common human spirit regardless of their culture, habitat or circumstances.
Pedro said, "In Situ was created in 1998 and finished in 2001. I've gotten a lot of mileage out of this exhibit because it is a timeless theme; nature and humanity where each constantly mirrors the other. I think that's why it is able to stay in the limelight. My new work is on the theme of human destiny called Destino"
SummerWorks 2006
47 Plays over 11 Days
Various Venues, Toronto
August 3-13, 2006
Title: Seann Gallagher and Amanda Brugel
Play: Ten Things presented by StampWorks written by Nicole Stamp
Photographer: Nicole Stamp
The 16th Annual SummerWorks festival is the place to catch some of the best independent theatre productions in the country. Encompassing both local and national talent over the course of a week and a 1/2 47 plays will be on offer. There is something for everyone in this eclectic mix in the largest Canadian juried theatre festival.
On July 23rd seven companies participated in a sneak peek held at the Alchemy Theatre. Five minutes snippets gave a glimpse into the outstanding quality of the plays, writers and actors. Among the standouts will be The Finish Line, a dramatic exploration between three estranged friends and their therapist, each of whom has agonized with the question of when and if to have children. This play manages to be humorous and poignant as the friendships alter based upon their struggles. Don't miss Spin Kitchen, written and directed by Anthony Reid asks what happens when the rules of public politics invade your private home? The personal lives of a suburban couple and their day-to-day domestic issues take on political overtones.
The preview beggared the question, 'what happens next?', and that was for only seven of the performances on offer at SummerWorks 2006.
Michael Taglieri
Wearing a Raincoat in Case it Begins to Rain
LE Gallery, Toronto
August 9 - September 3, 2006
Title: "t for thomson", 2006
Artist: Michael Taglieri
Medium: C-type Print
Dimensions: 40" x 50"
Image Courtesy: Michael Taglieri
Opening at LE Gallery will be Michael Taglieri's photographic series Wearing a Raincoat in Case it Begins to Rain. The artist documented the actions of individuals clad in yellow raincoats who had been placed in outdoor settings.