More Than Two Exhibition Analysis
A portrait of Toronto art community:
Review of Michal Lexier’s “More Than Two” exhibition
VISA 1000 Critical Issues in the studio
Professor Brandon Vickerd
November 21, 2013
For the exhibition review project, I went to the Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery for the One, and Two, and More Than Two exhibition, which is curated by Toronto-based artist Micah Lexier. The show has been divided into three parts, “One” and “Two” reviewed “Lexier’s conceptually measured take on personal existence in a selection of sculpture works, and archival installation, new video and collaborative installations with writers Christian Bok, Derek McCormack and Colm Toibin” (“Canadian …show more content…
It indicated that this subtitle is his guiding principle and the dominant aesthetic tendency he found driving the work he chose for the exhibition. Lexier said that, “it was the idea of the artist becoming attuned to what a certain material, artwork, or exhibition even, wants to be” (“The power plant” Micah Lexier: one, and two, and more than two. Web). Under this principle, the artworks in “More Than Two” could be pleasure enough merely to enumerate the variety of ways in which these simple, elegant objects achieve their unique forms of beauty. Besides, the artworks have a delicate touch in a wide range of forms and materials. Lisa Neighbour’s steamship (2009, see picture 1) is a perfect example - Carved a pattern of ship on the dried skin of pomelo fruit. It is reminiscent of my carved pattern on eraser when I was a child. The wrinkles on the dried skin represented the waves and worked as a perfect connection with the carved ship. The creative material provided a unique surface resulted in a specific …show more content…
He wasn’t working “for the history books”. Instead, he decided it was important to place the work of these young artists within a larger context of professional and aesthetic relationships. With this as its framework, his exhibition provides a cogent and compelling image of the current state of “a continuum of concerns that is intricately woven together across generations of local artists” (Christina Ritchie Micah Lexier: Making it Make Itself .Web). Lexier’s show reflects the artist’s diverse and dynamic practice in the contemporary art world. Moreover, it reveals and broadens our understanding of artists working at the same time as it connects disparate practices with a keen fascination for how things are made.
All in all, Lexier’s “More Than Two” exhibition enables audiences to see and experience the artists’ multi-faceted practice. It presents a wide-ranging, multi-generational portrait of the robust Toronto art
Review of Michal Lexier’s “More Than Two” exhibition
VISA 1000 Critical Issues in the studio
Professor Brandon Vickerd
November 21, 2013
For the exhibition review project, I went to the Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery for the One, and Two, and More Than Two exhibition, which is curated by Toronto-based artist Micah Lexier. The show has been divided into three parts, “One” and “Two” reviewed “Lexier’s conceptually measured take on personal existence in a selection of sculpture works, and archival installation, new video and collaborative installations with writers Christian Bok, Derek McCormack and Colm Toibin” (“Canadian …show more content…
It indicated that this subtitle is his guiding principle and the dominant aesthetic tendency he found driving the work he chose for the exhibition. Lexier said that, “it was the idea of the artist becoming attuned to what a certain material, artwork, or exhibition even, wants to be” (“The power plant” Micah Lexier: one, and two, and more than two. Web). Under this principle, the artworks in “More Than Two” could be pleasure enough merely to enumerate the variety of ways in which these simple, elegant objects achieve their unique forms of beauty. Besides, the artworks have a delicate touch in a wide range of forms and materials. Lisa Neighbour’s steamship (2009, see picture 1) is a perfect example - Carved a pattern of ship on the dried skin of pomelo fruit. It is reminiscent of my carved pattern on eraser when I was a child. The wrinkles on the dried skin represented the waves and worked as a perfect connection with the carved ship. The creative material provided a unique surface resulted in a specific …show more content…
He wasn’t working “for the history books”. Instead, he decided it was important to place the work of these young artists within a larger context of professional and aesthetic relationships. With this as its framework, his exhibition provides a cogent and compelling image of the current state of “a continuum of concerns that is intricately woven together across generations of local artists” (Christina Ritchie Micah Lexier: Making it Make Itself .Web). Lexier’s show reflects the artist’s diverse and dynamic practice in the contemporary art world. Moreover, it reveals and broadens our understanding of artists working at the same time as it connects disparate practices with a keen fascination for how things are made.
All in all, Lexier’s “More Than Two” exhibition enables audiences to see and experience the artists’ multi-faceted practice. It presents a wide-ranging, multi-generational portrait of the robust Toronto art