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✖As you were: Maryanne Casasanta
September 16th - October 16th, 2010
As You Were is an ongoing series of work by Toronto-based artist Maryanne Casasanta that contemplates the exchange between art and the commonplace. Casasanta approaches the act of documenting her personal living environment in a democratic fashion. She variously rearranges objects, alters their function, forges new connections between them, or simply takes their portraits. Through this process, Casasanta reacts to a desire to connect more deeply with her surroundings. As You Were is also concerned with the presentation of the body as an object or form, the poetic associations that cling to materials, and the merging of photography and conceptual art.
www.maryannecasasanta.com
Curated by Nicholas Brown and Catherine Dean
Opening reception, Thursday September 16th 9pm
After Party to follow at The Shop with selected music by Mark K MarkMark and Benjamin Gabriel.
Parts & Labour
1566 Queen St W Toronto, ON
Facebook: event page
Yesterday I sold a box of over 700 found slides from the 70’s to a woman over craigslist.
She told me about an archival project of hers where she scans the slides and tags them by category:
Then she wiped out a beautiful polaroid camera and snapped a photo of me. Here we are in front of the Bloor/Gladstone Toronto Public Library.
Long live film!!
richard long
“I ASSURE YOU THERE WAS FIRE AROUND US IN THE AIR!”
(book for the cottage)
EldridgeCleaver (Aug. 31, 1935 – 1998) was an author, most famously of Soul on Ice, and a prominent leader of the Black Panther Party…
“You don’t have to teach people how to be human. You have to teach them how to stop being inhuman.” — E.C.
Bernd and Hilla Becher, Framework House 1961
THIS is so beautiful
“Ronald Clyne, who died in 2006, made over 500 sleeves for the Folkways label, which was founded by Polish-born Moses ‘Moe’ Asch in New York in 1948. Under Asch’s direction, the label evolved into a fascinating repository for field recordings, spoken word, poetry and indigenous compositions.” Creative Review - Art for anything that is sound)
via folkobject:
Richard Hamilton: Marcel Duchamp
colour offset lithograph with collage, 1967(via yama-bato)
yayoi
Bernard Voita
(via emmacooper)
Found Sculptures, 2010
Moyra Davey
Interview I participated in over at photography blog, MULL IT OVER.
Thank you Jonathan!
Rolling Pine Cone
My dude.
Carl Gustav Jung (July 26, 1875 – 1961) was a Swiss psychiatrist, an influential thinker and the founder of analytical psychology…
Photo of Jung, sitting on stone wall overlooking Lake Zurich, Switzerland, 1949 - Dmitri Kessel (LIFE)
Emmet Gowin
Emmet Gowin
Keith Arnatt
Keith Arnatt
Robert Morris
Box for Standing 1961
Courtesy Sonnabend Gallery © Robert Morris
SIMON GRANT: You have described Passageway ‘is a kind of tomb’ and Box for Standing as ‘coffin-like’ and have said that there is something ‘paranoid’ about the grey plywood works of the 1960s. What did you mean by these comments?
ROBERT MORRIS: Art as a closed space, a refusal of communication, a secure refuge and defense against the outside world, a dead zone and buffer against others who would intrude.
For Matt.
Bernd and Hilla Becher, Water Tower, Youngstown, Ohio 1980
right on brother (thanks, matt!)
“All my life I’ve looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.” — Ernest Hemingway
(Some of the People)
later on
the house went smaller and smaller
and green moss grew on the shingles
and vegetable things in red and yellow
flowed orange and gold into women
and the grey child
went searching for one more colour
beyond blue eyes and brown hair
past the red tremble of leaves in October
and the silver women
beyond the death - black forest
to where all colours begin