{"id":46115,"date":"2013-10-23T16:11:43","date_gmt":"2013-10-23T20:11:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/?p=46115"},"modified":"2013-10-24T12:26:21","modified_gmt":"2013-10-24T16:26:21","slug":"event-art-deco-style-moderne-toronto-photo-exhibit-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2013\/10\/23\/event-art-deco-style-moderne-toronto-photo-exhibit-2\/","title":{"rendered":"EVENT: Art Deco and Style Moderne in Toronto photo exhibit"},"content":{"rendered":"

WHAT:\u00a0<\/strong>Smart Address: Art Deco, Style Moderne and Their Contemporaries in Toronto<\/em>
\nWHEN:<\/strong>\u00a0Oct.\u00a0 26-Jan. 25, Tuesday to Friday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Saturday from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m
\nWHERE:<\/strong>\u00a0Market Gallery, second floor of St. Lawrence Market
\nLINK:\u00a0<\/strong>City of Toronto news release\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

From the competing influences of Art Deco and Style Moderne on the skyline, to the way electricity and the automobile have shaped the streetscape, a new exhibit shows the changing face of architecture in Toronto between the world wars.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe tried to widen the focus of the exhibit and to be as inclusive as possible so that as many different types of people from different walks and different interests can come to the gallery and see something that amazes them,\u201d said Alec Keefer, curator of the\u00a0Smart Address<\/em>\u00a0exhibit.<\/p>\n

For Keefer, the roaring development of the \u201820s and the Depression in the \u201830s create an interesting juxtaposition, one that he thinks has broad appeal.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou want a topic where you have contrast and you want a nice conflict, and these two decades \u2014 more than any other period in the country \u2014 were so aggressively opposite each other,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

By looking at the architecture of the day, the exhibit explores the tumultuous time period. While some of the featured buildings are still standing, others, including the\u00a0Toronto Star<\/em>‘s old Art Deco building at 80 King. St. W., live on in the images Keefer has collected for display.<\/p>\n

The exhibit is mostly made up of black-and-white photos from the era, many of which were culled from the pages of periodicals such as\u00a0Construction Magazine<\/em>\u00a0and the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada Journal.<\/p>\n

On putting the exhibit together, Keefer said, \u201cWe didn\u2019t want to insert our subjectivity when choosing buildings.\u201d<\/p>\n

So in an effort to avoid this, he said a critic must have reviewed a structure favourably around the time of its completion to be considered eligible for inclusion.<\/p>\n

Among his goals for the exhibit, Keefer said he wants to \u201cget a dialogue flowing on how we build cities.\u201d He said he hopes people \u201cwill think about the buildings and the city that they love and that they will communicate their enthusiasm for them.\u201d<\/p>\n

Pamela Wachna, a spokesperson for Market Gallery, said she\u2019d like the exhibit to help people see past the recent influx of condos when considering the city\u2019s architectural landscape.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think a lot of people think [Toronto\u2019s] all high rises and glass towers, but when you look at some of the work that\u2019s been done, how progressive they were and innovative, I mean, this is state-of-the-art architecture in the \u201820s and \u201830s, and we had all that here,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Check out a sampling of photos from the exhibit in the gallery below.<\/em><\/p>\n

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