Front Gallery: DIANE BORSATO | Back Gallery: TAKU DAZAI

Front Gallery: DIANE BORSATO | Back Gallery: TAKU DAZAI

Diane Borsato, Chinatown Foray, 2009.

Taku Dazai,Snake vs. Owl, 2009.

September 11, 2009 - October 24, 2009
Opening Reception: 11 September 2009, 7PM

Front Gallery
DIANE BORSATO: THE CHINATOWN FORAY

In this exhibition, Diane Borsato will present a new series of public actions and discreet interventions. In works such as The Chinatown Foray (2008), Borsato invited the Mycological Society of Toronto to hold one of their weekly mushroom identification excursions in Markham supermarkets and medicinal shops; and in Italian Lessons (2009), Borsato is finding unconventional ways to learn a second language, by playing ping pong, learning First Aid, and engaging the subject of primordial black holes with a graduating Italian physics student. Through acts of theft, play, grocery shopping and knowledge swapping; the new works respond to the natural world in critical and surprising ways, while proposing alternative models for conducting research and acquiring knowledge.

Back Gallery
TAKU DAZAI: NATURE MORTE

In this solo exhibition of installation-based works, Taku Dazai employs a taxidermied cast of characters—a rattlesnake, an owl, a mountain goat and a mouse—in order to explore boyhood fascination with animals in battle.

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