Tasman Richardson, Memorial, Necropolis installation excerpt, 2011. Courtesy of the artist © Tasman Richardson.
Main Space
Tasman Richardson
Necropolis
Curated by Rhonda Corvese. Presented by the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art
Opening reception: February 4, 2-5pm
Necropolis is an immersive video and new media installation. It will realize the translation of over a decade of ethereal video experiments and theorizations into a real world, tactile, audience experience. Necropolis will consist of six new works contained within context-specific spaces, housed inside a single super-structure.
Sarah Anne Johnson, Explosions (detail), 2011. CMCP Collection. Photo © © Sarah Anne Johnson
Project Room
NGC@MOCCA
Spectral Landscape
Peter Doig, Tim Gardner, Sarah Anne Johnson
Organized by the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art and the National Gallery of Canada
Opening reception: February 4, 2-5pm
The expression “losing yourself in the wilderness” takes on new meaning in works by Peter Doig, Sarah Anne Johnson and Tim Gardner. Here ambiguous, hallucinatory vistas collide with sublime, pastoral scenes and the idea of the ruggedness of the hinterland clashes with its ultimate fragility. In each case, the realism of the works is interrupted by a sense of sheer uncanny. These multifarious landscapes mix autobiography with illusion and the banal with the extraordinary, offering striking images that suggest a shift in our perceived relationship with the natural world.
Daisuke Takeya, Kesennuma (detail), 2011. Courtesy of the artist. © Daisuke Takeya
Media/Retail Space
Daisuke Takeya
GOD Loves Japan
Opening reception: February 4, 2-5pm
Organized by the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art
God Loves Japan is a time-sensitive installation memorializing the earthquake/tsunami disaster that took place in Japan on March 11th, 2011. This installation intends to raise awareness of Japan’s long-term recovery needs and will encourage viewers to re-evaluate the meaning of love and empathy in our time.
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Pascal Paquette, Mon Petit Chou (Lego Haircuts), (detail), 2011.
The MOCCA building is currently closed for set-up and will re-open on Saturday, Feb 04, 2012 at 2 p.m.
Meanwhile, this exhibit can be seen on the Courtyard Mural at the outside of the building.
Courtyard Mural
Pascal Paquette
Mon Petit Chou (Lego Haircuts), 2011.
MOCCA is pleased to present the latest in our ongoing series of murals on the east wall of our courtyard. Mon Petit Chou, (Lego Haircuts), by Toronto artist Pascal Paquette, can be considered a trans-media hybrid image that blends vocabularies related to abstract painting, graffiti and cartoon animation to create a wholly original image that points to the similarities and relationships between disciplines that are rarely imagined to be related.
