Catherine Ishino
TBC 2Week 6: Michael Snow @ Power Plant Info
Harbourfront Centre www.harbourfrontcentre.com
http://www.thepowerplant.org/
“RECENT SNOW: PROJECTED WORKS BY MICHAEL SNOW
11 December, 2009 – 7 March, 2010
‘Recent Snow: Projected Works by Michael Snow’ is the first hometown survey of the legendary Canadian artist’s screen-based work of the past decade. A pioneer particularly in avant-garde film, Snow has broken ground in a vast array of media… The exhibition attests to the ongoing relevance of Snow’s playful and experimental moving-image practice, and the influence that it continues to exert internationally. ‘Recent Snow’ presents seven works never before exhibited in a Toronto public gallery… It marks Snow’s return to The Power Plant fifteen years after the epic retrospective ‘The Michael Snow Project’ (1994) was co-organized with the Art Gallery of Ontario.
The product of a restless intelligence and a sharp wit, Snow’s work deftly juggles and juxtaposes the sensorial and the cerebral. Snow’s video projections manipulate the space between the moments of recording and of reception, the surface of the world and the surface of the screen to stage the dynamic play between a video camera and material reality. Snow uses the camera as an instrument capable of shaping and altering what it is pointed toward: in his hands, realism becomes far from realistic and the familiar takes us by surprise.
Michael Snow (born in Toronto, 1928) has exhibited internationally for over five decades.”
GALLERY ADMISSION:
$3 Students / Seniors
GALLERY HOURS:
Tuesday to Sunday / 12–6 PM
OMNI FIELD TRIP POSTPONED.
MEET AT POWER PLANT ON HARBOURFRONT CENTRE, TUES, FEB.6TH, 430P.
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