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Eye Candy: LoVe/HaTe
"LoVe/HaTe: New Crowned Glory in the G.T.A."
July 05, 2007 11:07
MOCCA's "LoVe/HaTe: New Crowned Glory in the G.T.A." has curators David Liss and Camilla Singh's stamps all over it, and that's a good thing. Like Singh's "Demons Stole My Soul" a couple of years ago, or Liss' "Darkness Ascends" last summer, "LoVe/HaTe" is big and messy. It's not always great, but that doesn't necessarily matter; certainly it's more entertaining than The Power Plant's "We Can Do This Now," against which it implicitly positions itself. Indeed, even the most jaded of attendees at "LoVe/HaTe" would have to admit that, if nothing else, Toronto artists are having a blast: the show's sound is literal proof of this, from Mike Hansen's installation which greets people at the door by putting them in the places of celebrities on the red carpet, to a huge, blaring projection by Istvan Kantor, to Dyan Marie's nerdy YouTube video in which she insists her Vine People aren't terrorists. But Liss and Singh are also about the less squeaky wheels, claiming in their statement that this is a mix of "those who we see and hear far too much from" with "others who deserve to be seen more often." In this respect, "LoVe/HaTe" belongs to Peak Gallery (located, thank heaven, outside the West Queen West ghetto), whose Raffael A. Iglesias and Susy Oliveira steal the show Ñ especially Oliveira, whose giant sculpture of a man lying on the ground, constructed of C-prints and foam, is just flashy enough to hold its own amid the fracas, and just creative enough to knock most of its better-known, and considerably more sloppy, cohorts clear out of the ring.
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