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.

So many New Things, we had to build more shelves!!!!

                                     

                                        

Miles on the job

Art Met at the NY ArtBook Fair 2011

Booth #C01

Sept. 30–Oct. 2, 2011

Preview:

Thursday, Sept. 29, 6–9 p.m.

MoMA PS1

(check back soon for pics from the fair)

Special Projects at Art Basel: Sebastian Butt

Here is what it looked like when Sebastian Butt and visitors to the Art Metropole booth engaged in all things Cheetoh at Art Basel this month.

 

Special Projects at Art Basel: Sebastian Butt

 

Canadian artist Sebastian Butt has been asked to participate in Art Metropole's new initiative Special Projects at Art Basel within their booth at Art 42 Basel, June 15-19, 2011. This year's Shopping Bag By Artists series has also been designed by Butt, along with a special edition tote bag.

Building upon the artist's previous works "Cheetoh Pin" and "Cheetohs Revised" Sebastian intends to actualize a new on-site project at Art Metropole's booth. For the duration of the fair the artist will be accepting commissions from the public. Your small to medium sized objects will be infected with Cheetoh and returned at a later date. A pricing structure based on a square inch rate will be determined by the size of the object submitted.

Sebastian Butt, Dreamcatcher, 2011 (left), and Die Kanadischen Rockies, 2011 (right)

Sebastian Butt's sculptural objects produced while in residence at the Banff Centre will be on display and available for sale alongside multiples and books from Art Metropole's shop. On this occasion, the Cheetoh "travels from hyperreal to surreal, with a dominating force akin to a fungus, a parasite that takes over anything it touches. The objects accrued in Banff, have been tainted, alongside objects representative of Banff Idealism"¹. The Cheetoh envelops these objects partially, and in some cases, entirely, ruining the objects contained within them. The work of Cheetoh (or Cheezie) will be leaning, displayed on shelves and hanging, retaining the look of merchandise, while re-presenting the artificial snack food as an organic growth.

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1. Kari Cwynar from "It Doesn't Know: New Work By Sebastian Butt", The Other Gallery, Banff, 2011

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Booth: Art|Basel Art Edition Sector 2.1, stand Q21
Preview: Tues. June 14, 2011
Fair: Wed. June 15 to Sun. June 19, 2011 

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Art Metropole is grateful to the Basel Art Fair for their support: