Sympathetic Connections
in the Young Gallery of the AGO,
317 Dundas St. Toronto, Ontario
Saturday June 11, 2 - 5 and running until September 11th.
curated by Michelle Jacques
FREE ADMISSION
list of components:
28 wide soft trees
2 bags paper cloud-chains
2 boxes multicolored streamers
2 bags assembled paper components
1 bag flowers
1 bag very misc. items
1 pkg. clouds
1 nuclear power plant
about a dozen reinforced trees
2 large packages thin birch trees
hangers
clothespins
tools
paste
...
The Art Gallery of Ontario is pleased to announce that the Toronto Now series continues with an exhibition by local artist Libby Hague.
For her Toronto Now exhibition, Libby Hague will animate the Young Gallery by connecting paper and print elements across the architecture of the space. Representational and abstract forms will be combined in a three-dimensional narrative that describes the natural world and our often troubled relationship to it. While the natural forms of Hague’s woodblock prints and paper sculptures appear outwardly light-hearted, closer observation reveals a nuclear power plant – with all its impending allusions – looming on the landscape’s horizon.
Inspired by anime, comic books and science fiction, Hague’s playful, yet often foreboding narratives give physical form to imaginative worlds. Her sculptural manipulation of print creates environments for investigation that hover between dystopia and utopia – spaces that present both inevitable disaster and possible solution.
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