Our approach partly draws from the Afterall book series: “each title focusing on a single artwork that has significantly shaped the way we understand art and its history. The books insist that a single contemporary work of art (in all its different manifestations) can affect our understanding of art in general. More than that, these books suggest that a single work of art can literally transform, however modestly, the way we look at and understand the world.”
It also echoes the in-depth, four-hour critiques with Professor Willem de Rooij at Staedelschule, where conversation focused entirely on one work.
The following works been commissioned or created in close collaboration between the artist and the gallery, often involving months or even years of development.
Sam Lipp
Copyrights of Man, 2024
Video, 3 min, 44 s.
Edition of 3 + 1 AP
Simon Shim-Sutcliffe
A Suitcase Full of Soil, 2024
Asphalt, bricks, chicken wire, cinder blocks, compost, composted manure, concrete, copper, copper pipes, iron, mortar, moss, mulch, oil barrels, osb wood, painters canvas, parging cement, plastic, plumbing pipes, plywood, recycled wood, road signs, seeds, shingles, steel, tarpaulin, tin sheeting, tree branches, twine, weeds, wild flower seeds.
15 x 20 x 8 m / 49.21 x 65.61 x 26.25 ft
East end, Toronto
Rob Kulisek
12 Variations, 2023
Video, 7 min, 49 s.
Edition of 3 + 1 AP
Dani Leder
Energy Crisis (1) & (2), 2022
Charcoal, oil, paper, adhesive, print, acrylic, and archival plastic sheet.
132 x 160 cm / 52 x 63 in
Nik Geene
Family is a 3-Letter Word, 2019
Curing concrete, rebar.
Place de la Republique, Paris
Bonny Poon
Conditions, 2017-Present
Commerical gallery.
Tour Rubis, Paris & Chinatown, Toronto