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SULPLICE - The Never-Ending
Notebook by Gary Michael Dault
Suplice (definition): An overslop or surplice (Late
Latin superpelliceum, from super, "over" and pellis, "fur") is a
liturgical vestment of the Western Christian Church. The surplice is in
the form of a tunic of white linen or cotton fabric, reaching to the knees
or to the ankles, with wide or moderately wide sleeves... (Gary Michael
Dault)
Exhibition runs through June 23,
2013
VPUBLIC - Exhibition of A
Publication
An exhibition of VPUBLIC - a suite of 20 current issues of
the poster-look publication will be on wall at INDEXG main gallery
Exhibition runs through July 7,
2013 This print-on-demand publication is available for
purchase during the exhibition
New work from Z FICTION
series by Lee Ka-sing
Exhibition at HK XPECIAL, INDEXG
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Opening Reception - Saturday, 15
June (3-6 pm) 2013
Recent Work by
Leslie Thompson
What is it about the view that is so mesmerizing?
The street below holds both the cat's and my attention for what seems like
long stretches of time.
In 2012 I began to photograph the streetscape in my
downtown Toronto neighbourhood from a fixed vantage point- my attic
window. The images presented in this exhibition are a small selection of
the photographs in this series. The subject, a residential urban street,
is framed by the open window at all times of the day and night and in
every season. This intersection is neither a landmark nor an icon. Its
significance lies in the subtle changes and the flow of time that the
image records. There is a history of artists repeatedly photographing
from their studio windows (e.g. Josef Sudek) or from their front porches
(e.g. Richard Misrach). Sometimes the images document a moment of
spectacular cloud formations; sometimes the artist is simply the observer
of small changes or subtle transformations of their own environment. For
"My Local" it is precisely the contextual ordinariness of the window frame
and street that transforms the shadow of man crossing the street, or a
tree in bloom into an energizing and sometimes a sublime event as time
stretches. This is a series. It is on-going. (Leslie Thompson)
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Claw Script by Holly Lee
In the Chinese philosophical anthology Huainazi
(139 B.C.), it says that "in ancient times, when Cang Jie invented
writing, Heaven rained down millet and ghosts wailed at night". People
felt blessed and cursed at the same time, seeing that writing had a
certain power over them. China's first writing system - known as the
Oracle Bone Inscriptions, was made up of characters inscribed on turtle
shells and animal bones. First discovered and unearthed in the late 19th
Century, the inscriptions consist primarily of records made during
divinations, sacrificial hunting, wars or natural disasters.
Chinese writing has continued to evolve. The
characters' unique, formal beauty developed into a highly distilled art
form - Chinese calligraphy. It is through a revision of the origin of
Chinese writing that I've come to fully aware of the history, beauty and
the cultural significance of calligraphy.
This mini series of new work did not happen by
chance. When I saw the scratches on the floor, many of them made by Suki,
my cat, they conveyed a familiar and strong feeling, almost with aesthetic
qualities parallel to the Bone Script. In a way, Suki expresses his
feeling of anxiety, curiosity and perhaps even joy and pain through these
incredible markings. The Claw Script series, as I entitled this work,
serves as my playful response and tribute to the archaic, sophisticated
and spellbinding Oracle Bone Script. (Holly Lee)
View more work of Holly Lee's CLAW SCRIPT series
Both exhibitions open on June 15 and run
through July 7, 2013
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