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OCTOBER 24 – OCTOBER 27, 2014METRO TORONTO CONVENTION CENTREOPENING NIGHT PREVIEW OCTOBER 23

15TH ANNIVERSARY FEATURE EXHIBITIONBGL, CANADA DE FANTAISIE / CANADA FANCYSPONSORED BY RBC WEALTH MANAGEMENT

BGL’s Canada de Fantaisie/Canada Fancy is an urban carousel made from steel security fences suspended from a lamppost. It explores notions of control and freedom, and engages viewers in breaking down barriers as they climb on and enjoy the ride. This installation continues BGL’s ongoing investigation of security fences and their relationship with collective values and cultural patterns. Usually a tool for crowd control, the modern security barrier becomes a symbol of transcendence and creativity.

The Québec City-based artists who make up BGL—Jasmin Bilodeau, Sébastien Giguère and Nicolas Laverdière—have been collaborating for almost twenty years to create ambitious and often humorous works of art. Their elaborate sculptures, installations and performance works offer an original take on social and political issues, including consumer culture, con-temporary values, the art establishment and the environment. Reacting to the increasingly digital age, BGL takes a distinctly DIY approach, tinkering, playing and enjoying the “poetry of materials”.

With its appearance at Art Toronto, Canada de Fantaisie/Canada Fancy is making a return visit to this city. First conceived for the exhibition Oh, Canada, held at MASS MoCA in North Adams, Massachusetts in 2012-2013, the work was assembled at York University, where BGL was sculptor-in-residence. The group will be heading to Venice next year to represent Canada at the 56th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia 2015, in a presentation organized by the National Gallery of Canada, along with guest curator Marie Fraser of the Université du Québec à Montréal. The Presenting Sponsor of the Canada Pavilion is RBC Wealth Management, with major support provided by Aimia.

Canada de Fantaisie/Canada Fancy is sponsored by RBC Wealth Management, and presented by Art Toronto and the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa. BGL would like to thank the Odette Sculpture Center at York University, Toronto for helping to make Canada de Fantaisie/Canada Fancy a reality.

AMALIE ATKINS, THREE MINUTE MIRACLEOffering a glimpse of prairie upbring- ing, a love of story- telling, and an affection for whimsy and darkness together, Three Minute Miracle is a

thorough introduction to Amalie Atkins’ artistic practice. MASS MoCA’s Oh, Canada exhibition featured the installation, which Atkins created after her move to Saskatoon. New places, cold weather, and creative necessity inspired the 16mm film exploring themes of loneliness and community with felt creatures, rotting teeth and dancing bears.

Amalie Atkins is represented by dc3 Art Projects, Edmonton. Booth #1212

VSVSVS NAP STATIONVSVSVS, a seven-person collective and artist-run centre based out of a warehouse in the portlands of Toronto, presents Nap Station, a much-needed respite from the stress of art. Lay your weary head to rest and let the buzzing of the crowds become a gentle, soothing white noise. Day won’t turn to night but there will be curtains.

Schedule an appointment; drop-ins welcome.

Décor provided by VSVSVS members.

BREAK ROOM, THE NEXT LOUNGE BY THRUSH HOLMESAccording to Holmes he is “creating an activated construction site. It’s a bit macho. I built

mansions in Muskoka, the building sites of which would become environments for introspection. The workers would invariably bro-down and discuss their real interests and ideals, their vulner-abilities, art, music, books, sex, existence. We’d also seek to impress by one-up-man-ship through building items with scraps --- benches, tables, outhouse scenarios, lamps. There was a lot of decoration too.”

Thrush Holmes is represented by Mike Weiss Gallery, New York. Booth #1010

FEATURE EXHIBITIONS & PROJECTS

MARMAN AND BORINS, PAVILION OF THE BLINDPavilion of the Blind by Marman and Borins (Jennifer Marman and Daniel Borins) is a large-scale kinetic installation, featuring a colourful array of window blinds, panels and shades. Pavilion of the Blind arranges and rearranges itself into a series of constantly changing abstract compositions. Movement is triggered by a motion detector and controlled by a microcomputer housed within the structure.

Courtesy of Cristin Tierney Gallery, New York.

SELECTED 15TH ANNIVERSARY FEATURE PROJECTS

Marman and Borins, Pavilion of the Blind, 2013. Mechanized vertical blinds, shades, and panel systems (custom coloured), motors, micro controller, 10’ x 32’ x 4.’ Courtesy of Cristin Tierney Gallery, New York.

Photo: Dan Dabrowski

BGLCanada de Fantaisie/Canada Fancy, 2012Mixed mediaCourtesy of the artists, Diaz Contemporary, Toronto, and Parisian Laundry, Montréal.Installation view from the exhibition Oh, Canada, from May 26, 2012 to April 2013, MASS MoCA

Photo: Timothy Harrison Raab

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 24THE CURATOR SERIES2-3pm Info Booth

Join Rachel Gotlieb, Chief Curator of the Gardiner Museum, for a tour that looks at artists who engage with craft processes such as ceramics, glass and textiles in their practice.

TRUST THE EXPERTS4-5pm ADAC Booth #1302PRESENTED BY THE ART DEALERS ASSOCIATION OF CANADA (ADAC)

Trust the Experts is a program of tours for both the experienced and novice art buyer and collector. Senior art professionals will engage audiences and explore the complexities of Canadian art from past to present. Join Jeanette Langmann, Director of Uno Langmann Limited Fine Arts in Vancouver, for a tour examining historical art.

THE CURATOR SERIES5-6pm Info Booth

In Focus: Georgina Jackson and York Lethbridge of Mercer Union will highlight engaging and emerging practices by artists living and working in Toronto.

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 25THE CURATOR SERIES2-3pm AGO Booth #1308

Andrew Hunter, Fredrik S. Eaton Curator, Canadian Art at the Art Gallery of Ontario leads a tour highlighting significant Canadian works on display throughout the fair with an emphasis on contemporary art that engages with history and “traditional” Canadian subject matter.

TRUST THE EXPERTS4-5pm ADAC Booth #1302PRESENTED BY THE ART DEALERS ASSOCIATION OF CANADA (ADAC)

Trust the Experts is a program of tours for both the experienced and novice art buyer and collector. Senior art professionals will engage audiences and explore the complexities of Canadian art from past to present. Join Joseph Rumi, Director of Fine Art at Rumi Galleries in Mississauga, for a tour highlighting post-war modern works.

THE CURATOR SERIES5-6pm Info Booth

Philip Monk, Director and Curator of the Art Gallery of York University, leads a tour that looks to the “between” of the art fair—to between the booths, even to their closets— to discover the conviviality of artworks and how they live together.

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 26THE CURATOR SERIES2-3pm Info Booth

The Trend is Your Friend: A survey of popular aesthetic and conceptual tendencies currently influencing international contemporary art practices, led by Lucas Soi, Independent Curator and Founder, Soi Fischer.

TRUST THE EXPERTS4-5pm ADAC Booth #1302PRESENTED BY THE ART DEALERS ASSOCIATION OF CANADA (ADAC)

Trust the Experts is a program of tours for both the experienced and novice art buyer and collector. Senior art professionals will engage audiences and explore the complexities of Canadian art from past to present. Join Shelli Cassidy-McIntosh, Executive Director of Olga Korper Gallery, as she explores the world of contemporary art.

ART TOURSJoin one of Art Toronto’s engaging art tours. Tours are included with admission and last approximately 45-60 minutes. Arrive early as space is limited.

MOCCA BENEFIT EDITIONArt Toronto and the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art (MOCCA) have commissioned Montréal-based artist Valérie Blass to produce  Ne regarde pas II, 2014, a limited edition digital print on matte paper, to benefit programming initiatives at MOCCA. Ne regarde pas II will be available for purchase onsite at the MOCCA Booth #1314 for $1,800 CDN.

Art Toronto MOCCA Benefit Edition | Valérie Blass, Ne regarde pas II (detail), 2014. Courtesy of the artist & Parisian Laundry, Montréal. © Valérie Blass.

MainSandra Ainsley Gallery TORONTO 247Angell Gallery TORONTO 800AREA Gallery HAMILTON 253Art Mûr MONTRÉAL 812Back Gallery Project VANCOUVER 919Bau-Xi Gallery / Bau-Xi Photo TORONTO & VANCOUVER 400Beaux-Arts des Amériques MONTRÉAL 342Galerie Anita Beckers FRANKFURT 710Galerie De Bellefeuille MONTRÉAL 422, 518Galerie Jean-Claude Bergeron OTTAWA 107Bicha Gallery LONDON 913Stephen Bulger Gallery TORONTO 824Caviar20 TORONTO 842CFA Gallery TORONTO 112Contempop Expressions Galleries TEL AVIV 251Galeria Contrast BARCELONA 626Jonathan Cooper, Park Walk Gallery LONDON 209Corkin Gallery TORONTO 820Christopher Cutts Gallery TORONTO 608Galerie D’Este MONTRÉAL 522Bruno Dahl Gallery EBELTOFT 109Diaz Contemporary TORONTO 720Galerie Division MONTRÉAL & TORONTO 900

Barbara Edwards Contemporary CALGARY & TORONTO 618Espace40 MONTRÉAL 428Fazakas Gallery VANCOUVER 1020Feheley Fine Arts TORONTO 600Flowers Gallery LONDON & NEW YORK 215Jill George Gallery LONDON 612Michael Gibson Gallery LONDON 602Mira Godard Gallery TORONTO 410Galerie Mark Hachem PARIS 440Halcyon Art International LONDON 200Han Art MONTRÉAL 316Hazelton Fine Art Galleries TORONTO 237Herringer Kiss Gallery CALGARY 1012Rebecca Hossack Gallery LONDON & NEW YORK 306Initial Gallery VANCOUVER 1018Gallery Jones VANCOUVER 620K+Y Gallery PARIS 100Olga Korper Gallery TORONTO 706Jennifer Kostuik Gallery VANCOUVER 730Anna Kustera NEW YORK 1014Lacerte art contemporain QUÉBEC CITY 506Galerie Claude Lafitte MONTRÉAL 338LE Gallery TORONTO 911Loch Gallery TORONTO, WINNIPEG & CALGARY 328

Lonsdale Gallery TORONTO 828Victor Lope Arte Contemporaneo BARCELONA 626Julie M. Gallery TORONTO & TEL AVIV 830Mayberry Fine Art TORONTO & WINNIPEG 204Messum’s Fine Art LONDON 231Nicholas Metivier Gallery TORONTO 700MKG127 TORONTO 908Modernbook Gallery SAN FRANCISCO 1016MULHERIN TORONTO & NEW YORK 1006Pari Nadimi Gallery TORONTO 1004O’Born Contemporary TORONTO 834Pierre-François Ouellette art contemporain MONTRÉAL & TORONTO 1000p|m Gallery TORONTO 822PARISIAN LAUNDRY MONTRÉAL 902Christina Parker Gallery ST. JOHN’S 434parts gallery TORONTO 334Paul Petro Contemporary Art TORONTO 906Postma Fine Art CALGARY 114Praxis NEW YORK 614Project Gallery LOS ANGELES 915Quantum Contemporary Art LONDON 103Marcia Rafelman Fine Arts TORONTO 628Galerie Raphael FRANKFURT 310Roberts Gallery TORONTO 438

Nikola Rukaj Gallery TORONTO 500Rumi Galleries MISSISSAUGA 219Georgia Scherman Projects TORONTO 802Miriam Shiell Fine Art TORONTO 716SLATE Fine Art Gallery REGINA 845Studio 21 Fine Art HALIFAX 207Gallery Tableau SEOUL 526Thompson Landry Gallery TORONTO 243Thompson’s Galleries LONDON 332TrépanierBaer Gallery CALGARY 808UNIX Gallery NEW YORK 738Galerie Van Der Planken ANTWERP 300Vision Neil Folberg Gallery JERUSALEM 722Odon Wagner Contemporary TORONTO 416Mike Weiss Gallery NEW YORK 1010Winsor Gallery VANCOUVER 726Zemack Contemporary Art TEL AVIV 7343D Gallery VENICE 430

Not-For-ProfitFogo Island Arts FOGO ISLAND 1202Open Studio TORONTO 255Propeller TORONTO 346The Red Head Gallery TORONTO 344

NEXT: Dedicated to emerging art + artistsWil Aballe Art Projects | WAAP VANCOUVER 1112Actual WINNIPEG 1102Antena Estudio | Red Truck Gallery MEXICO CITY & NEW ORLEANS 1208Artspace Warehouse LOS ANGELES 1118Galerie BAC MONTRÉAL 1106dc3 Art Projects EDMONTON 1212The Dopamine Collective OWEN SOUND 1214Gurevich Fine Art WINNIPEG 1114Renann Isaacs Contemporary Art GUELPH 1204Robert Kananaj Gallery TORONTO 1216MA2Gallery TOKYO 1104Neubacher Shor Contemporary TORONTO 1210Galerie Nicolas Robert MONTRÉAL 1116São House MONTRÉAL 1206Catinca Tabacaru Gallery NEW YORK 1108

Sponsors & PartnersADAC 1302AGO 1308Artsy 1306AXA Art 1312Inuit Art Foundation 1300McMichael Canadian Art Collection 1304MOCCA 1314Superframe 1200The Drake 1100

PublicationsAkimboThe Art NewspaperBorder CrossingsC MagazineCanadian ArtCV: Ciel VariableesseEspaceThe New York TimesSculpture Magazine

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 24IMAGO MUNDI INUIT ART PROJECT1-2pmPRESENTED BY THE INUIT ART FOUNDATION

Luciano Benetton’s Fondazione Benetton Studi e Ricerche of Treviso, Italy began Imago Mundi several years ago as a massive international art project involving the enthusiastic voluntary assistance of artists from around the world. In different countries, over one hundred artists are invited to create small two or three dimensional works which are then documented in illustrated catalogues and shown in international exhibitions. Verona–based Imago Mundi curator, Jennifer Karch Verze will speak about this important global art project as well as about the forthcoming spotlight on Inuit Art.

COLLECTORS SPEAK3-4pmPRESENTED BY AXA ART

Established collectors in conversation with Christiane Fischer, President and CEO of AXA Art Americas. The panellists represent members of the community who have built impressive collections over years, including David Angelo, a collector of contemporary art, Beverly Creed, who began collecting photography in 1979, and Alan Schwartz, whose passion is international. Join as they share stories, ideas and advice on building collections. As moderator, Fischer continues AXA ART’s tradition of conversations with collectors from around the world on their motivation and passion for collecting. A Q&A segment with the audience will be part of the discussion.

BGL IN CONVERSATION WITH MARIE FRASER 4:30-5:30pmSPONSORED BY RBC WEALTH MANAGEMENT

Québec-based trio BGL – comprised of artists Jasmin Bilodeau, Sébastien Giguère and Nicolas Laverdière are renowned for cheeky, critical and explosive works, and self-referential, site-specific installations that seek to re-contextualize the gallery space. For almost two decades, the collective has presented major installations and performances and participated in innumerable group and solo exhibitions nationally and internationally, and will represent Canada at the 2015 Venice Biennale. BGL join Marie Fraser, Pro-fessor of Contemporary Art History and Museology at the Université du Québec à Montréal and Curator of the 2015 Canadian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale, to discuss their practice, their recent work and their plans for Venice.

POWER TALKBISI SILVA: CURATING AFRICA? THE SHIFTING CURATORIAL PARADIGM6-7pmPRESENTED BY THE POWER PLANT

Bisi Silva is an independent curator and the Founder and Director of the Centre for Contemporary Art, Lagos, which opened in Nigeria in December 2007. She has co-curated many inter-national exhibitions, was one of the curators for the 2006 Dakar Biennial in Senegal and was a member of the international jury for the 55th Venice Biennale in 2013. Silva will use the art sector in Nigeria and the activities of the Centre for Contemporary Art, Lagos, as the point of departure to engage with the evolving art dynamics on the continent.

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 25AN ARTIST RESIDENCY ON FOGO ISLAND1-2pmPRESENTED BY FOGO ISLAND ARTS

Join Fogo Island Arts founder Zita Cobb and Fogo Island Arts/Kunsthalle Wien Artistic Director Nicolaus Schaf-hausen in conversation with recent Fogo Island artist-in-residence Edgar Leciejewski about living and working on Fogo Island, the ideals of Cobb’s project, and how they relate to the experience of being an artist in the early 21st century.

POWER TALKSASKIA BOS: NOT QUITE MEANT FOR ABOVE THE COUCH3-4pmPRESENTED BY THE POWER PLANT

Saskia Bos has been the Dean of the School of Art at Cooper Union in New York City since 2005. Previously, she served as Artistic and Managing Director of de Appel arts centre in Amsterdam for more than two decades. Known for her achievements in art history and critical theory, Bos has also produced many international projects and major exhibitions. Bos will discuss the need to support young artists in the development of their practices outside of the market economy, and the need to avoid getting into it too early.

PLATFORM 2014PRESENTED AT THE ART TORONTO STAGESPONSORED BY CANADIAN ART

CANADIAN ART GENERATION(S)2-3pm LOCATION: Canadian Art BoothJoin Canadian Art Editors Bryne McLaughlin, Leah Sandals and Richard Rhodes as they discuss their favourite artists and artworks at Art Toronto 2014.

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 24 Managing Editor, Bryne McLaughlin

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 25 Online Editor, Leah Sandals

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 26 Editor, Richard Rhodes

C MAGAZINE: CONVERSATIONS5-5:30pm LOCATION: NEXT Lounge

C Magazine will host 30-minute discussions on Friday, Saturday and Sunday, focusing on experi-mental platforms for art production and criticism, including artists books, live art criticism and alternative exhibition spaces.

Hear from leading art professionals about modern and contemporary art. Learn from some of Canada’s top collectors about what they buy and how they got started. Discover what’s happening on the international scene from artists, writers and curators. Get inspired to build or start your own collection of original art.

VALÉRIE BLASS IN CONVERSATION WITH DAVID LISS4:30-5:30pm

Montréal-based artist Valérie Blass explores tensions between form, figure, materials and art-historical tropes. She has been the subject of solo institutional exhibitions in Montréal, Québec City and Calgary, as well as at the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art (MOCCA), Toronto, in 2009. In 2012, Blass was commissioned by the Public Art Fund New York for a year-long group exhibition at the MetroTech Center and was selected to participate in the major survey exhibition Oh, Canada at MASS MoCA. Blass has created the MOCCA benefit edition that will be sold exclusively at Art Toronto 2014. She joins MOCCA’s Director David Liss for a conversation about her practice.

THE CURATED MARKET6-7pmPRESENTED BY CANADIAN ART

Art fairs used to be environments thought anathema to curators. Now, a “curatorial” sensibility is present at art fairs across the world. In this panel discussion, Canadian Art Associate Editor David Balzer, author of Curationism: How Curating Took Over the Art World and Everything Else, speaks with a group of artists and collectors about the benefits and challenges of working in a millennial art market—where curating is now often synonymous with value. Panellists include artist Thrush Holmes, curator and collector Stefan Hancherow and writer and specialist at Artsy, Elena Soboleva.

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 26TO MARKET — REFLECTIONS ON THE 21st-CENTURY ART ECONOMY1-2pmPRESENTED BY THE ART DEALERS ASSOCIATION OF CANADA (ADAC)

The past decade has seen dramatic changes in the contemporary art market, with technology in particular enabling a much broader reach. In celebration of Art Toronto’s 15th anni- versary, we take a look at the changing landscape of the art market both nationally and internationally. The panel of art-world insiders describes their relationship to the catalysts of change. Moderated by Andrea Carson Barker, Founder and Publisher of culture blog VoCA. Panellists include economist Don Thompson, author of the 2008 bestseller The $12 Million Stuffed Shark, collector Matthew Evans, and Jane Corkin, Owner and Director of Corkin Gallery in Toronto.

POWER TALKHARO CUMBUSYAN: PRIVATE COLLECTIONS IN PUBLIC(COLLECTING COLLECTIONS)3-4pmPRESENTED BY THE POWER PLANT

Haro Cumbusyan is a collector of contemporary art with a special interest in the moving image. He is the Founding Director of Collectorspace, a non-profit organization that brings private art collections to public view, and promotes critical discussions and writing on contemporary-art collecting practices. Given the increasingly visible role private collectors play in the art ecosystem, Cumbusyan will take a critical look at different collecting practices, and create reference points for new and existing collectors. He will survey several private collections with a special emphasis on how collectors fulfill their responsibility to the artworks, the artists and the public at large.

Dates and HoursMetro Toronto Convention Centre North Building255 Front Street West

Friday, October 24 12-8pmSaturday, October 25 12-8pmSunday, October 26 12-6pmMonday, October 27 12-6pm

AdmissionGeneral: $18 (online); $20 (on site)Students and seniors: $14Groups +10: $143-Day Power Talk Pass: $40Children under 10: Free Catalogue: $28

Opening Night PreviewA benefit for the Art Gallery of OntarioThursday, October 23

SPECIAL COLLECTORS’ PREVIEW4:30-10pmTicket: $300.00Includes access to Opening Night Preview

OPENING NIGHT PREVIEW6:30-10pmTicket: $200.00

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