The Power Plant’s fall show, all about documenting and reinforcing the aura of the fabled Cologne, Germany, art scene of the 1980s, was a bit frustrating to my Spacing-self. It prompted the question “Don’t we have a great art scene here in Toronto? Like, right now? Why not focus on that instead of pretending that all things important happen elsewhere?”
Well, the gallery’s winter show, which opens tonight, shows that some kind of magical art fairy must have heard our cries and ferried them into the sleeping ears of gallery director Gregory Burke and senior curator Helena Reckitt. We Can Do This Now, which runs until February 9, features a downright prickly rash of Toronto-only artists from magical-snow-performance-photog Tania Kitchell to smarty-conceptual-art-pants Kelly Mark. Probably even better from the Spacing POV are the lectures and forums associated with the exhibition, like January 27th’s Making a Scene, on how cultural communites in our city are generated and (hopefully) sustained, and February 3rd’s Creative Cities: Hype or Hope?, on whether Richard Florida is a dork or not – uh, my words, not theirs.
Opening party: We Can Do This Now
Tonight (Friday, December 15), 7pm-11pm, Free
The Power Plant, 231 Queens Quay West
For more info click here.
Photo of Yonge/Dundas Square courtesy of the City of Toronto.
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I forgot how pretty the north entrance of the Eaton Centre used to be.