Located in the heart of Canada’s most diverse arts community, MOCCA will, for the 4th year in a row, be the location of the Primary Exhibition. CONTACT and MOCCA have co-produced a first-rate international group exhibition, which will act as the focal point of the citywide festival. Artists featured at the Primary Exhibition include Vancouver-based Stan Douglas, Idris Khan from the UK, Trevor Paglen and Martha Rosler from the USA and South Africa’s Mikhael Subotsky. The exhibition and festival opening will take place
at MOCCA on May 1st.
Public Installations
CONTACT’s high impact Public Installations, are strategically placed in various public spaces throughout the city. This year, there will be six public installations located at the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto Pearson International Airport, MOCCA and all TTC subway locations. Once again the courtyard wall of MOCCA will feature a large-scale mural. Replacing the extremely successful work of the Robert Burley, Quebec artist Gwenael Belanger’s “Le Grand Fatras” (The Grand Jumble) will grace MOCCA’s courtyard. Objects like washing machines, pianos and living room furniture appear to be simultaneously falling, resulting in whimsical mayhem.
Feature Exhibitions
Various venues across the city such as the Art Gallery of Ontario, the CONTACT Gallery and the Drake Hotel will hold feature exhibitions. Approximately 25 exhibitions will host the works of key photographers such as Toronto-based Jeff Harris at Brookfield Place, internationally renowned Canadian photographer Lynn Cohen at Olga Korper Gallery, New York-based photographer Hank Willis Thomas at Georgia Scherman Projects and the Yoko Ono/John Lennon Bed-In-inspired exhibit by Gerry Deiter at Stephen Bulger Gallery to name a few.
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