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Avant garde/ambient three-piece Absolutely Free have scored the soundtrack for Two Cares Due None, an indie flick from Chris Boni and Melissa Fisher. The film itself is on the avant garde edge and was shot in location in Iceland, Italy and Canada. The film premieres Friday May 13 at Toronto's Royal Cinema. There will be a matinee screening on the following Sunday May 15 and Mike Hoolboom will mediate a Q 'n A after both presentations.
An exhibition of the land featuring Janet Read, John Visser Julie Gladstone, Laura Culic, Lori Richards, Melanie Day, Mike Svob, Myles McDonald, Peter Fischer, Philip Sybal and Tom Kerwin. As we move towards the virtual plains of the digital world our physical scapes recede in importance but as ever the artist looks ahead, to a future where we are nothing without the land, where we will see our surroundings as art. See it now.
What has always struck me about Edward Falkenberg's works was they seem unfinished. They are of course far from incomplete, but there is something of the belief that nothing is ever really finished anyway in them; nothing is ever fully connected, nothing ever truly touches. Falkenberg includes in the majority of his creations a gap. The gap is a remarkable element of his creations, its inclusion demonstrates his ability to rework the possibilities of balance when nothing ever truly touches. It is also perhaps a possibility of hope and as Leonard Cohen says its how the light gets in. For an artist so interested in opening things up, its of interest Falkenberg has titled this latest exhibit Dark Matter.
Vitas Luckus “Self portrait with Tanya.”
The Charlotte Hale and Assoc. Art Gallery in Mirvish Village, Toronto will host the first ever selling show of the photographs of the "King of Soviet Photography" Vitas Luckus. The "Prince of Obscurity" show runs Apr 6 to Apr 30. There is a reception Saturday Apr 23 at 5 p.m. Tanya Luckiene-Aldag will be in attendance. The North American premiere the award-winning documentary by Giedre Zickyte, "Vitas Luckus and Tanya" will be screened.
An exhibition of abstract and semi-abstract works by Monique Ra Brent will be on display at Clarington Town Hall/ Visual Art Centre gallery space. The exhibit, Meditations, runs until the end of June 2016 features a range of methods and materials. The work showcases Ra Brent's growth as an artist. The VAC has curated the town hall gallery space since 1989 to spotlight small exhibits and community artists. It is located at 40 Temperance Street, in Bowmanville.
