Luis Jacob, Anri Sala & More

You are receiving this email because the email address omsstraffic.2222@blogger.com was subscribed to our email list. Click here to unsubscribe. If you have been forwarded this message by a friend opt in here. Having trouble reading this email? View it on our website. -- Advertisement -- -- Advertisement --           GIVE A GIFT Subscribe, renew or give a gift subscription for only $15 and save 60% off the cover price! Follow Canadian Art on Facebook FORWARD TO A FRIEND Want your friends to be in the loop? Forward up to five copies of the Weekly at once. SIGN UP Were you forwarded the Weekly by a friend? Sign up now to get it free in your inbox each Thursday. SUBMIT A LISTING Our weekly event listings are selected from press material sent to preview@canadianart.ca. To ensure inclusion of your information, please send notices at least two weeks in advance of your event. IMAGE CREDITS (From top to bottom) LUIS JACOB Album X 2010 Detail Courtesy the artist and Birch Libralato ANRI SALA Answer Me 2008 Film still Courtesy Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal JEAN-PIERRE AUBÉ ELECTROSMOG S.J.s.R. 2011 Video still COLIN SMITH The artist's photograph Seebe is showing at Weiss Gallery during Exposure 2011 JOHN KISSICK The opening spread of the feature article “Painter, thinker, scribe” by Pete Smith, Canadian Art, Winter 2010–11, pp. 114-117     Luis Jacob: Connecting the Dots The excitement of a new Luis Jacob show for Torontonians rests not only on the artist’s recent successes abroad—from Documenta to the Guggenheim to Art in General and beyond—but on the wait the city has had to see these successes in person. Read more…   Anri Sala/Young & Giroux Modern Days A poet of sound and image, Albanian artist Anri Sala has been a standout in major international exhibitions in recent years. This week, his first solo exhibition in Canada—and his largest-ever exhibition in North America—opens in Montreal. Read more…     Jean-Pierre Aubé Subliminal Frequencies Broadcast waves from radio and cellphone towers may be invisible, but they still fill the contemporary Canadian atmosphere. Montreal artist Jean-Pierre Aubé likes to turn up the volume on these oft-overlooked frequencies—a tendency on striking view in his latest show. Read more…     Exposure 2011 A Place for Photographs Annual photo fest Exposure kicks off this week with the theme “Where We Are: A Sense of Place” and 30-plus exhibitions across Calgary, Canmore and Banff—an area which, given its beauteous Rockies, is one of the most photographed places on earth. Read more…     John Kissick Painter, Thinker, Scribe He paints. He writes. He teaches. He administers. John Kissick is the busiest person critic Pete Smith has ever met. Now, Smith takes a closer look at Kissick (his past professor and “Guelph Mafia” don) in a feature from the Winter issue of Canadian Art. Read more…   Openings & Events Highlights February 3 to 9 03.02.11 TORONTO Susan Buck-Morss talk 7pm OCAD 100 McCaul St 03.02.11 CALGARY Eleanor Bond/Stephen Andrews openings 6pm ACAD 1407 14 Ave NW 03.02.11 VANCOUVER Alex Morrison opening 7-9pm Catriona Jeffries 274 E 1Ave 04.02.11 VANCOUVER Oliver Laric & Aleksandra Domanovic talks 6:30pm Western Front 303 E 8 Ave 05.02.11 TORONTO Annie Cohen-Solal talk 3pm AGO 317 Dundas St W Continue here for our listings of art openings and events happening this week from coast to coast.   Get up close and personal with the filmmakers, producers and personalities featured in the Reel Artists Film Festival Wednesday, February 23 World premiere of KOOP Including an opening-night conversation with artist Wanda Koop, director Katherine Knight and critic and urban planner Jane Perdue Thursday, February 24 Canadian premiere of Sol LeWitt: Wall Drawings Followed by a conversation with director Edgar B. Howard and Mercer Union director of exhibitions and publications Sarah Robayo Sheridan Friday, February 25 Free student screenings including KOOP Director Katherine Knight and artist Wanda Koop will be present Toronto premiere of Aakideh: The Art and Legacy of Carl Beam Meet directors Robert Waldeck and Paul Eichhorn Toronto premiere of Ghost Noise featuring Inuit artist Shuvinai Ashoona Introduced by curator Nancy Campbell and discussed by director Marcia Connolly Festival passes and single tickets on sale now at canadianart.ca/raff/tickets Clockwise from top right: Picture Start production image courtesy Laughing Mountain Communications with photo by Rosamund Norbury; Sol LeWitt installation photo by Edgar B. Howard; Ghost Noise image courtesy Marcia Connelly; Wanda Koop photo by Katherine Knight; Aakideh image courtesy W.E. Productions   This email was sent to omsstraffic.2222@blogger.com Click here to unsubscribe.   Canadian Art 215 Spadina Ave, Ste 320 Toronto, ON M5T 2C7 (416) 368-8854 canadianart.ca