Veit Laurent Kurz: The Weeping Demon: Happening | Toronto

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Veit Laurent Kurz: The Weeping Demon, Happening | Toronto

 

Marking Veit Laurent Kurz' Canadian debut, The Weeping Demon reveals a personal set of drawings that have long acted as a hidden guiding compass for Kurz' diverse practice.

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These drawings, in alchemy with the last years of his artistic works and exhibitions, materialize an evolving, elastic, spongey storyboard for a future film. Narrative themes feed on radioactive paranoia, illuminating post-industrial sludge, genetic mutations, and magical transformation.

Kurz' title, The Weeping Demon, quotes an eponymous chapter of Akira Kurosawa's 1990 magical-realist movie, Dreams. In the fall out of a nuclear Armageddon, overblown dandelions tower over humans.

 

Veit Laurent Kurz (b. 1985, Germany) is an artist based in Berlin. Recent solo and two-person exhibitions include Weiss Falk, Zurich (2022); Commercial Street, Los Angeles (2022); XYZ Collective, Tokyo (2022); Liste Art Fair, Basel (2022); Miguel Abreu Gallery, New York (2020); Kunstverein Nürnberg, Nuremberg (2019); Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi, Berlin (2019).

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