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Paola Poletto, Tania Kitchell & Kamila WozniakowskaJuly 1998 |
 Paola Poletto Rose Architecture |
 Tania Kitchell Girls on the Go-Go nylon, metal, wood, plexi-glass |
 Kamila Wozniakowska Manipulation of History acrylic on board |
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From June 25 to July 18 three Canadian artists will be exhibiting their work at Artcore. Tania Kitchell, Paola Poletto and Kamila Wozniakowska are all emerging artists whose work continues to explore ideas of communication and reality as they are presented to us. Paola Poletto, also Toronto-based, uses roses in the least "capitalistic" way that she can - appreciating their literary and poetic significance without relying on their sentimentality and commercially constructed implications. Using objects of such overburdened significance comes for her not out of sentimentality but out of a dislike of such cheapened tokenism and manufactured emotion. Taking the roses apart and remaking them allows us as viewers to see them as the artist does - as an objective medium one step removed from intrinsic subjecthood. Tania Kitchell, who is based in Toronto, produces objects that speak very much of the handmade - using materials such as wool, soap and mechanized magazine cut outs, she toys with our notions of production and of what constitutes a "useful" object. Handmade, they mimic objects of mass production and play on our notions of propriety and functionality. Cleverly constructed, they beckon the viewer to come closer and establish a dialogue of meaning and mode of relating to the work. Kamila Wozniakowska is a Montreal-based painter who creates scenarios that serve as alternatives to the officially presented version of a situation or a historical position. Her works, painted on board, present in multiple images official versions of fictitious events shadowed by the reality which they have superseded. Disturbing and astute, they force us to acknowledge the gap between what we see and what we think we know. Gallery hours: Tuesday - Saturday 11:00 - 5:00 For information, telephone (416) 920 3820 |