Tannis Nielsen, “mazinbii’igan / a creation,” 2020, digital video, artist’s own footage and derivative (photo by Aly Manji, courtesy of Tannis Nielsen)
Bringing People Together Through Art, Light
Light: Visionary Perspectives, opens this week at the Aga Khan Museum in Toronto and features installations by renowned artists including Anish Kapoor, Olafur Eliasson, Anila Quayyum Agha, Tannis Nielsen and Kimsooja.
The show opens July 13 and runs until March 17, 2025.
The museum’s associate curator Bita Pourvash and special projects curator Marianne Fenton co-curate the exhibition, which explores “all realms of light — the light of eye, mind, and heart,” according to the news release.
“This exhibition reminds us of light’s power over darkness and the crucial role of creativity in showing us new, hopeful horizons,” says Dr. Ulrike Al-Khamis, the museum's CEO and director, adding that it serves “as a luminous reminder that art has the unrivalled power to shine a light on all that we share, bringing us together in peace and hope.”
Erik Olson, “Pain (The Second Stage of Migraine),” 2024, oil on carved wood, 26" x 9" x 3.5" (courtesy of Pierre-François Ouellette Art Contemporain)
Erik Olson at Pierre-François Ouellette Art Contemporain
Calgary artist Erik Olson has a new solo exhibition, Hēmikrāníā, at Pierre-François Ouellette Art Contemporain in Montreal. Based around the subject of migraine aura — something he suffers from — the show is on now through Aug. 24. It is Olson's first solo exhibition in Montreal.
Olson graduated from the Emily Carr University of Art and Design in 2007 and then continued to study painting at residencies in Canada, Italy and India. He curated his first solo show himself in 2008, staging it in an abandoned gas station. Since then, his work has been on view at the Glenbow Museum, MOCA Calgary, Art Gallery of Calgary and the University of Wisconsin/Milwaukee Union Gallery. His painting, The Skateboarder, was included in the BP Portrait Award exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery in London, United Kingdom. ■
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