Showing posts with label Commerce By Artists. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Commerce By Artists. Show all posts

Saturday, March 17, 2012

Art Metropole invites you to our launch of 'Commerce By Artists' and Ben Kinmont's 'Sometimes'

 
Commerce By Artists

Edited by Luis Jacob
2011 Art Metropole
$ 65.00

Book Launch and Public Conversation
Fri., March 23, 5-7pm

Hart House, second floor, South Dining Room
University of Toronto, 7 Hart House Circle
moderated by Luis Jacob with:
Ben Kinmont
Jon McCurley (Life of a Craphead)
Condé +Beveridge
Mammalian Diving Reflex

Jointly sponsored by the Justina M. Barnicke Gallery at Hart House, University of Toronto 


....And the After Party

Fri., March 23, 9-2am

Double Double Land
209 Augusta Ave. (down the alley, first door on your right)
Kensington Market

***as always, Metropolitans get privileges***

with DJs Produzentin, Luis Jacob and a performance by Gentlelady Regina














At the bar, a project by Hannah Jickling and Helen Reed


Then, Saturday March 24th from 2-5pm,
Art Metropole will launch our latest edition....


Ben Kinmont Sometimes
published by Art Metropole

at Art Metropole
788 King Street West


The artist will be present

Sometimes a nicer sculpture is to be able to provide a living for your family 
consists of twelve catalogues, selected ephemera, and an original photograph, in a covered cardboard box.

5.9" × 5.3" x 7.9", letterpressed title, inlaid Bugra paper, hot-embossed stamp on two sides by Axel Friedrich, signed and numbered by Ben Kinmont on a letterpressed certificate printed by Urs Jost.


Wednesday, November 23, 2011

What's On is What's Here

Pascal Paquette's mural can currently be seen in the courtyard of the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art (MOCCA), Toronto. Click image to purchase or learn more about Paquette's Bricks.

 Mat Brown's series depicting natural history and deep time can currently be enjoyed at the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art (MOCCA), Toronto. Click image to purchase or learn more about his work Temptations of Cryogenian Thermal Genesis.


 Derek Sullivan was recently commissioned by the Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery in Toronto to produce Albatross Omnibus, new artist books, and a drawing and installation project. Peruse Sullivan's artist books at our shop in Toronto or click on any image of his books to take you to his listings on our site.

 Art Metropole will launch its latest 'By Artists' publication, Commerce by Artists, edited by Luis Jacob in December at Art Basel Miami with a Toronto launch to take place in early 2012. But purchase your copy now by clicking on the image of our book.

Antonia Hirsch and her project The Surplus Library On Affect & Economic Exchange will be featured at Art Metropole's booth at the KW Institute for Contemporary Art MISS READ art book fair in Berlin (November 25 - 27). Click on the image of Hirsch's Komma (after Dalton Trumbo’s Johnny Got His Gun) to find out more about this artist's work.

General Idea are the focus of the major retrospective exhibition Haute Culture: General Idea - A Retrospective 1969 to 1994 at the Art Gallery of Ontario. Click General Idea's crest above to purchase or learn more about this Canadian art collective's highly desirable editions.