Blog #4(MOCA Toronto Fall 2023 Exhibitions Offer Bold Approaches to Sculpture and Black Portraiture) HaleyB.



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In the fall and in the winter, Toronto’s Museum of contemporary Arts was the most visited destination of the main art excursions. There was a new place made in the latest gallery district in the west towards the end of the city. MOCA Toronto is easy to get to. Most people use the subways, buses, cars, or even bikes. At this specific museum, visitors will experience the work of two internationally celebrated artists, named Phyllida Barlow and Liz Magor, whose upcoming exhibitions offer a very wide variety and even bold approaches to sculptures. On view is a selection of works from The Wedge Collection, based in Canada, as one of their largest private collections, which is based on Black identity and African diasporic culture. Most of these collections will be able to be viewed starting September 7th, 2023, and it will end Feb 4th, 2024. British artist Phyllida Barlow’s immense sculptures and bold drawings will be able to be viewed in “Eleven Columns”(Newarts), a solo exhibition that will be presented on the museum's ground floor. For over 50 years, Barlow had taken inspiration from surrounding.

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   Phyllida Barlow, untitled: eleven columns; standing, fallen, broken, 2011. © Phyllida Barlow

 

Artists create creative installations that can be one of many feelings, whether it was menacing or playful. She had even created anti-monumental sculptures for inexpensive, low-grade tools, any material that can be recycled or reused, like fabric and cardboard. These constructions were often portrayed as paintings in industrial or vibrant colors; their constructions have left time visible, revealing the means of their making. Barlow ended her art by passing away at the beginning of 2023; she was very close with MOCA on the specific installation of her show. Having visited the building sometime earlier. Barlow was taken by the industrial vigor of the impressive columns paced all over the museum's ground floor. The curators tried to follow some of the ideas that Barlow had chosen to be displayed by the MOCA team.

Liz Magor, The Stream (detail), 2023         Exhibition “The Separation”

Acknowledging her enthusiasm for the museum's distinct architecture, the show included untitled: eleven columns, standing, fallen, broken (2011), and a collection that was worked on paper. Canadian artist named Liz Magor produced one of her best significant commissions to date, “The Separation,” in her solo exhibition, which was viewed on MOCA’s second floor. Major folds of organic and synthetic materials into artworks provoke melancholy. They mainly focus on the physicality of an object, casting and organizing found material that can intensify and narrate the piece to share its dependency, which gives it its own desire. Most of Magor's pieces sparked the public about the emotions and beliefs and the investment 4in the material world. But “The Separation” emphasizes the tensions in Magor’s work, playing rough against modern, sturdy, mass-produced products.

 

          Questions: What comes to mind when they create Art with reusable materials.

Why is this art style not recognized as much as if it were a painting?

 

Source

ARTnews, T. E. of. (2023, September 22). MOCA Toronto Fall 2023 exhibitions offer bold approaches to sculpture and black portraiture. ARTnews.com. https://www.artnews.com/art-news/sponsored-content/moca-toronto-fall-2023-exhibitions-offer-bold-approaches-sculpture-black-portraiture-1234677895/?mvt=i&mvn=aedf8a6863fd413cb60ce1769b5be553&mvp=NA-ARTNEW-11240451&mvl=Default+%5BAN+ROS+Native+River%5D

 

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