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Sunday, September 04, 2022

Hi, Art!

Sunday, September 04, 2022

Hi, art lovers!

 
Film still from Something You Said Last Night. A thin white person rides in a car's passenger seat at daytime, throwing their head back in laughter.

Still from Something You Said Last Night (TIFF)

 

Our TIFF countdown keeps on keeping on. Remember that thing I was talking about last week — a series of essays written by Canadian filmmakers? (It’s called Cutaways, FWIW.) We’ve already published the first round. So, what did you miss? 

The story of a journalist (Brian D. Johnson) finding a second act in film. His TIFF entry, The Colour of Ink, is a story about urban forager Jason Logan (previously seen here). Nisha Pahuja (director of To Kill a Tiger) revealed how she connected with the heart of her doc: a 13-year-old girl from Jharkhand, India. And director Sean Garrity (The End of Sex) has a story about a 40th birthday party that’s guaranteed to make you cringe. 

Coming soon: essays from director (and former CBC Arts employee!) V.T. Nayani (This Place), Luis De Filippis (Something You Said Last Night) … and many, many more. 

Long after Taylor Swift’s stopped traffic on King Street (which she will surely do All Too Well), we’ll be publishing these first-person missives. A new Cutaways article is slated to appear every day, taking us from TIFF’s lead-up to the very end of the festival (Sept. 18). 

We’ve got movie picks too — and we’ll be publishing even more this week. Stoke your FOMO with our CBC Arts staff selections (find that list after today’s batch of eye candy), plus these must-see movies for music lovers.

 

And because we promised you eye candy ...

 
Photo of a wall mural being painted. It says

Wall-to-Wall Mural & Culture Festival

Love street art? The Wall-to-Wall Mural & Culture Festival is happening in Winnipeg until Sept. 25, so keep an eye on their Instagram for event and artist announcements.

 
Surreal photo of a lush green field under a blue sky dotted with clouds. At centre is a humanoid figure, all red, whose arm is stretched to the sky. Their face is enveloped in brambly and leafy twigs and flowers. The foliage is so tall it reaches their chest.

Uýra, Série Retomada – Florescer, 2021. (Matheus Belém)

Imagine seeing a supersized version of this image on your next trip to the Toronto waterfront. The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery has announced its fall 2022 exhibition, Arctic/Amazon: Networks of Global Indigeneity. It opens Oct. 1, and as part of the show, they’ll be installing work by this artist (Uýra) on the outside of the building.
 
Closeup detail of a colourful ceramic form of what appears to be an obese scowling blonde baby. A tny dancing panda rests on its clasped hands. 3D forms, including a round smily face and speckled cartoon daisies, appear on its skin like boils.Trails of colour in pink and blue, drip down its face.

Sami Tsang

Across the way at Harbourfront Centre, Sami Tsang is a current artist-in-residence. Every square centimetre of her work is jam-packed with action. This is just a detail of a piece called Rebellion From Tub.
 
Abstract paingin in shades of blue with tiny bursts of origin. Radial intersecting forms.

Sasha Pierce

Painting by Sasha Pierce. Her new solo exhibition (Shippo) opens at Toronto’s Zalucky Contemporary Sept. 10.
 
Realist fantasy painting of a female figure balancing on top of an open red blossom at night time. She appears to be consumed by flame, and dances blissfully as fluttering moths, the same size as her, surround the scene.

Olivia Di Gregorio

Astrum Ardenti by Toronto’s Olivia Di Gregorio.
 
 

You've got to see this

 
 
 
Film still of Quinta Brunson as Oprah and Daniel Radcliffe as Weird Al Yankovic in Weird: The Al Yankovic Story.
TIFF

13 must-see movies at TIFF

 
Will any of us actually score tickets? Fingers crossed! Still, these are the buzzworthy films our team can’t wait to see.
 
Square colour photo installed on a white wall. It depicts a Black woman with red lipstick. She holds a white-gloved hand in front of her. The composition is cropped to obscure the top of her face.
Farihah Aliyah Shah

Who was meant for Kodak moments?

 
Artist Farihah Aliyah Shah turns her lens on Kodak’s Shirley Cards and the racial bias that shaped the history of colour photography.
 
Photo of the artist Cassils, shirtless to expose sclupted muscular shoulders, and wearing glossy red lipstick, shot against a white backdrop

Cassils

 

AGO puts 150 years of Canadian queer art in the spotlight

 
Curator Renata Azevedo Moreira offers an inside look at Blurred Boundaries: Queer Visions in Canadian Art, on now through Sept. 25.
 

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Sydney St. Mars

@landofhands
Close-up photo of a painted thumbnail, decorated with nail art of the CBC gem with smiley face and floral embellishments. Colour palette is pastel yellow, coral and blue. Photo taken against a peach backdrop. Bubbly pink letters spell out

Sydney St. Mars

Hailing from Winnipeg, Sydney is our logo artist for September, and as you can see, she totally nailed the assignment. (Way more mani puns, plus a Q&A with Sydney at the link.)
 

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