gallery arcturus

kathedra, is the name of the new exhibition at Gallery Arcturus til April 16, with opening reception to be held on Saturday, March 12, from 2:30 to 5:30pm.

Seven artists willing to take a seat, not for comfort but for inquiry ... what is the gesture of chair?

These seven Toronto based artists: Jo Forbell, Colleen Costello, Deborah Harris, Roger Chow, Sarah Hunter, Terri Quinn, Gilles Goyotte, agreed to explore over a two day period, working together in the gallery space of Arcturus, the question of what is the gesture of chair?

They came together on a Friday evening and set up materials; canvases, paper, easels, drop cloths, in the gallery itself, returning on Saturday morning with the commitment to work throughout that day and the next. One other time was set aside for hanging. What emerged from this marathon of shared attention is real ‘art work’, that is, examples of the work that an artistic process is able to facilitate. As viewers of the exhibition we are invited to enter into the space which inspired and made accessible this inquiry. There is an immediacy and unity to the different forms which this search has revealed. It initiates something which wants to be continued. Chairs will never appear the same or as mundane again.

For those who acknowledge art as a necessary call to being present in the world, and artists as those who have the job of dismantling our assumed notions of what is, this is an exceptional and not to be missed art event.