New'ish & Noteworthy

Mike Billington - Free Money $ 5.00

Soner Ön - Richie Rich $ 20.00

Soner Ön - The Light In The Dark, With The Neon Arms
- $ 10.00

Ryan Dodgson - Paper Bag/Canvas Bag - $ 15.00

Ryan Dodgson & Matthew King - Libary Bag - $ 20.00

 
VSVSVA - Accidental Ashtrays - $ 20.00

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.

$ 1,500.00 

Welcome to the Club!

Join the Metropolitans, Art Metropole's Membership Club open to all who want to show their support of our activities and programming. 

The Metropolitans is a new initiative designed by Art Metropole as an invitation to enter more fully into the fold of Art Metropole's programming, activities and projects. It also doubles as an incentive club that includes a host of enticing privileges. 

 

THE OFFER

Your privileges as a Metropolitans affiliate include: 

• Notice of all upcoming Art Metropole projects and events
• 15% discount off all shop items, and 25% off of more than 150
  Art Metropole-published titles
• Free delivery of Art Metropole's printed shop + distribution catalogue
• Advance invitations to artist talks, conversations, workshops, performances, reading groups, artist-directed tours and calls for submission or participation
• Invitations to special Metropolitans events
• Invitation to submit artist proposals for the annually commissioned
  Metropolitans Edition
• A $65 charitable tax receipt for $100 membership
• Plus, a Metropolitans Membership Card to make everything official

THE FEE

$35 gets you in with a basic Metropolitans membership.
Make me a Metropolitan! (Basic Membership)

$100 awards you all the benefits of the basic Metropolitans
membership, plus a $65 charitable tax receipt.
Make me a Metropolitan! (Charitable Membership)

THE BONUS

The inaugural 2012 Metropolitans Edition marks your permanent presence at Art Metropole in the form of a glass tumbler bearing an ambigram conceived by the Art Metropole Board of Directors Membership Committee. We invite you to invert your 'Absence' and make your 'Presence' known by using your glass whenever you visit Art Metropole. At the end of the year, the tumbler relocates to your home. 

Psst! GIFTS BY ARTISTS is coming soon. Watch out for upcoming event announcements and our preview page...

Christy Langer, Untitled,2011

 

Peanut Brittle

Katie Bethune Leamen, Robert Dayton, Sarah Nasby, Miyo Takeda, Pascal Paquette, Colette Urban, Kika Thorne, Heather Goodchild, Kerri Reid, Laurie Kang, Anitra Hamilton, Hanna Hur, Lyndsey Cope, Chrysanne Stathacos, Liz Knox, Paul Kneale, Janice Gurney, Christy Langer, Matt King and Ryan Dodgson, Maryse Larivière, Petrina Ng, Emily Smit-Dicks, Jennie Suddick and Cole Swanson, Anitra Hamilton, Sarah Nasby, Derek Sullivan and Christy Thompson, Charlie Murray, Annie Dunning, Christine Baigent, Julius P. Manapul, Cary Leibowitz, XXXX collective, David Horvitz, Lex Vaughn, Alicia Nauta, Garry Neill Kennedy, VSVSVS collective, Bill Burns, Ron Benner, Tonik Wojtyra, Sandy Plotnikoff and Swintak. Performance by Peanut Brittle.

Anitra Hamilton, Blue Balls: The Multiple, 2011

Sandy Plotnikoff - Blank CD, 2010

A print of a blank compact disc on paper. Medium as content Signed by artist  $50

Ulysses Castellanos - Alien 3, 2010

The customarily cheerful-looking nesting dolls usually personify contentment and abundance. 'Alien 3' transforms these dolls into all-surveilling and coy creatures that no longer represent the power of robustness and prosperity but rather an ambiguous forcefulness.

Signed by artist 

$50 each or entire set for $400 

Jeremy Laing - Funnel Jabot, 2010

Neckpiece made of silk organza with hand-sewn leather sequins. From Fall/Winter 2010 collection

Edition of 12

$ 1,095.00

Lyndsey Cope - Leather & Lace, 2010

Cope's leather and a lace necklaces are is inspired by the Stevie Nicks song 'Leather and Lace':

Stay with me stay
I need you to love me
I need you today
Give to me your leather…
Take from me…my lace. 

$ 45.00 each

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:

Sebastian Butt - "Call Me Flexible" Special Edition tote, 2011

Reverse side

The latest in Art Metropole's "Shopping Bag by Artists" series. Silver screen printed soft-touch non-woven tote bags.

Reverse side text lists ART METROPOLE and the 2011 dates of Art Basel 42 and Art Basel Miami Beach.

Edition of 50
$10

Stephen Wicks - Ten Foot Towel, 2010

For those who like to share not only their summer days but also their summer towels at the lakeside or poolside.

Signed and numbered edition of 5

$75

planet GIANT - Shadescapes, 2010

Sunshades that come with their own view. Mini vistas created with model figurines attached to a pair of sunglasses. Shades and figurines vary.

$25

Janis Demkiw - Double U Turn Necklaces and Bracelets, 2009/2011

Even without a laptop or smart phone you can take the office anywhere with Janis Demkiw's Double U-Turn Jumbo Paperclip bracelets and necklaces of varied lengths.

$10 - $20

Sebastian Butt - Cheetoh with Snow, 2011

Sebastian Butt's Cheetoh Pin with a little season-specific adornment. 

$40

Jennifer Rose Sciarrino - Marble Samples, 2010

 




The artist plays with the inherent properties of various materials and the viewer's response to form with her series of plaster Tromp l'Oeils.

Graphite on plaster. Various sizes and colours.Signed by artist 

$75

Kerri Reid - Drips (Porcelain), 2010

Various shaped drips of porcelain that eloquently illustrate the result of variances in gravity, time, material and chance.

Individually packaged. Shapes and sizes vary.

Edition of 140

$5

Michael Snow - Walking Woman, 1994

Negative-outline cutout of the Walking Woman in sterling silver mounted as a lapel pin, from a numbered. The Walking Woman lapel pin is also available as a positive-outline cutout.


Edition of 800


S175.00