IN MAY (AFTER OCTOBER) at Gallery TPW (56 Ossington), to June 13. 416-645-1066. Rating: NNN
These mostly European conceptual works supposedly “express refusal and critique in art,” but unfortunately most are way too obscure for those of us not in graduate school.
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Duncan Campbell’s film clips of 60s Northern Irish youth with a soundtrack of despondent philosophical musings must be saying something about the Troubles, while Nora Schultz’s quote of Sherri Levine’s reworking of Walker Evans’s Depression portrait has a few too many levels of references.
However, I enjoyed French collective Claire Fontaine’s brick wrapped in a Guy Debord book cover sitting on the floor like an abandoned juice box and their wicked 9/11 assemblage, two U.S. coins commemorating the Wright brothers’ flight attached to box-cutter blades.
