“I kept thinking about the uneven
quality of time–the way it was almost always so empty, and then with no warning came a few days that felt so dense and alive and real that it seemed indisputable that that was what life was, that its real nature had finally been revealed. But then time passed and unthinkably grew dead again, and it turned out that that fullness had been an aberration and might never come back.”
The Idiot, Elif Batuman
If you’re like most people, you fill your days with the somewhat mundane tasks of life. Getting up in the morning, consuming food to sustain and nourish yourself, keeping house, going to
and from work, – even if that work is your own artistic practice, meeting with friends, etc. This quiet domesticity and work-a-day activity are simply the rhythm of modern life. But, as Elif Batuman says, do you occasionally find yourself in the midst of a stretch of days or weeks when life seems to burst through in full color? Does it make you wonder why more of life can’t be big and loud like that? Or perhaps we relish these times because of their scarcity.
Riley Holloway joined us to talk about Love Galore, his recent show at Massey
Klein Gallery. The figurative works in the show demonstrate poses of closeness and intimacy. Friends of the artist inspired the paintings with their love for each other. Holloway has painted on themes of love before, whether nurturing love or self love. In this show, he focused on the gestures of love within a couple. To learn more, listen to the
complete interview.
Marek Wolfryd spoke with us about his recent show at Swivel Gallery. Entitled The Great Logic of Contents that Bind the World into Existence or “Season’s Greetings!”, the show centers on Wolfryd’s research over the last few years into the Chinese concept of shanzai, a term that was coined to name the phenomenon of how the Chinese culture understands the idea of originality within a global economic or commercial context. To hear more about this concept and the work it inspired for Wolfryd, listen to the complete interview.
