Main Space:
Luis Jacob | Pictures at an Exhibition
Curated by David Liss
Organized by the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art

February 4 - March 27, 2011
Opening Reception: February 4, 8 - 11 p.m.

Pictures at an Exhibition is the second chapter in a solo multi-city mid-career survey exhibition of Luis Jacob's work. The exhibition features work produced in recent years, such as the large-scale canvases from the series They Sleep With One Eye Open (2008), and a new work from his Album series Album X (2010), both being exhibited in Canada for the first time. Click here to read more.

National Gallery of Canada at the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art:
Cabinet (NGC Toronto)
Walter S. Allward, François Bonvin, Eric Cameron, Michel Campeau, Murray Favro, Dan Flavin, General Idea, Richard Gorman, Emanuel Hahn, Jenny Holzer, Michael Morris, Ron Mueck

Curated by Luis Jacob
Organized by the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art and the National Gallery of Canada
February 4 - March 27, 2011
Opening Reception: February 4, 8 - 11 p.m.

Luis Jacob has been invited to curate an exhibition for the recently inaugurated National Gallery of Canada at the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art program. For Cabinet (NGC Toronto) Jacob combines objects drawn from various collection areas of the National Gallery of Canada not ordinarily displayed together, extending the thematic notions of viewership, perception and the light of artistic inspiration embodied in Pictures at an Exhibition. This Cabinet, like others in the series that Jacob has curated for other venues, can be seen as a "model" or "performance" of a museum – a museum within a museum – presented as a coherent work of art in its own right.

Together these exhibition projects consider the essential components and fundamental dynamics of aesthetic experience: light, color, pictorial form, the context of the exhibition. Jacob conjures a vision that is about vision; that is about looking, seeing and understanding. Click here to read more. (Image Credit: Elaine Yau, 1988.)

Special Project:
Geoffrey Pugen | Sahara Sahara
February 4 - March 27, 2011
Opening Reception: February 4, 8 - 11 p.m.

In the face of the global resource shift, Geoffrey Pugens' Sahara Sahara depicts speculative pre-apocalyptic myth-making. The 2-channel video follows a small organized group of misfits that are vandalizing local technologies and the fossil fuel industry. Cinematic and absurd, the video occupies the heist, action and dance genres to seductively address machismo and the recent economic crisis. Click here to read more.

BMO Financial Group present The MOCCA Award in Contemporary Art 2011 to Edward Burtynsky
April 14, 2011
Edward Burtynsky has been selected as recipient for the 2011 MOCCA Award in acknowledgement of his extraordinary body of photography documenting the human impact upon the landscape and the environment of our planet for which he has received widespread national and international recognition. For more information or to purchase tickets please visit www.moccaaward.ca
 

Presenting Sponsor: BMO Financial Group
Gold Sponsor: Scotiabank Group | Susur Lee
Silver Sponsor: Bennett Jones | Cisco | Rogers | The Rosedale Group – ScotiaMcLeod

Upcoming Member Events

January 27-30, 2011
MOCCA Travel Opportunity, Art and Architecture in Havana - Sold Out!

February 3, 6 - 9 p.m.
Members' Dinner with Luis Jacob. Join artist Luis Jacob and Artistic Director & Curator, David Liss for an intimate dinner. Ticketed event for Associate Members and up ($500+).To purchase tickets contact Nicole Neufeld at (416) 395-7613 or nneufeld@mocca.ca

February 4, 6 - 8 p.m.
Special Members' and VIP Preview of Pictures at an Exhibition, Cabinet (NGC Toronto)
and Sahara Sahara, Available to Contributing Members and up ($250+)  

March 2, 12 - 1 p.m.
Members' Lunchtime Exhibition tour of Pictures at an Exhibition, Cabinet (NGC Toronto) and Sahara Sahara with MOCCA Artistic Director & Curator, David Liss At MOCCA, free for all members.

From the Ground Up: A Biennial Platform for International Contemporary Art in Toronto

Release of Report

On 17 April 2010, the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art and The Power Plant held a one-day symposium entitled From the Ground Up: A Biennial Platform for International Contemporary Art in Toronto. Over 270 people attended the event and a lively discussion about the potential for a major recurring contemporary art event in Toronto ensued.

Now we are pleased to announce the release of the report by independent critic and curator Peggy Gale on the proceedings, followed by a recommendation by the organizers. The report can be downloaded from the MOCCA website.

We will announce in the coming weeks the date of a follow-up meeting at which time the leadership group will put forward for public discussion several potential models for what such an event in Toronto could look like.

The National Gallery of Canada at the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art is generously supported by Cineplex Media, Porter Airlines, and The Ouellette Family Foundation. Additional support is provided by AXA Art Insurance. The Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art is also grateful for the patronage of THE ART DEPT., a leadership circle of MOCCA patrons.

All programs and activities at the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art are supported by Toronto Culture, the Ontario Arts Council, the Canada Council for the Arts, BMO Financial Group, individual memberships, and private donations.
 

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