Stephen Bulger Gallery

<body topmargin="0" leftmargin="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0"> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse" bordercolor="#111111" id="AutoNumber2" height="100%"> <tr> <td width="100%" valign="top" height="100%" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2"> <tr> <td class="pagetitle"><a href="exhibit.asp">Exhibition Page</a></td> <tr> <td class="pagetitle">Exhibitions</td> </tr> </table> <table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td class="artistname" align="left" valign="top">Platforms</td> </tr> <tr> <td class="artistname" align="left" valign="top">Vid Ingelevics   </td> </tr> <tr> <td class="bodytext" align="left" valign="top"></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="bodytext" width="100%"></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="bodytext" width="100%"></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="bodytext" align="left" valign="top"><FONT face=Arial size=2>Vid Ingelevics<BR>Platforms <BR><BR>February 18 – March 25, 2006<BR>Opening reception for the artist: Saturday, February 18, 2-5 PM<BR><BR></FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2>We would like to invite you to our second solo exhibition of Vid Ingelevics, e</FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2>ntitled <EM>Platforms</EM>. The exhibition features photographs based upon an earlier project exhibited in 2004 during the Contact Toronto Photography Festival. In its earlier guise, the work appeared as the installation of a set of large-scale photographs of Ontario deer-hunting platforms in the Museum subway station. Effecting "station domination" (as it is called in the advertising sales world), the photographs occupied all of the frames usually reserved for advertisements in the station. In that installation, close perusal of the images was impossible without risking death from electrocution.<BR><BR>The current incarnation of this exhibition presents several photographs of hunting platforms in conjunction with photographs of the Museum subway station itself. The hunting platforms exist as a form of rural, vernacular architecture often mistaken by city dwellers for children's treehouses; the subway station platform is a vernacular artifact of the city itself. Significantly, this station is slated to be remodeled in the near future as part of a plan to have certain stations reference the cultural institutions that they happen to serve. The station's austere modernist design will undoubtedly give way to a far more theatrical enactment of a committee's idea of what the Royal Ontario Museum represents.<BR><BR>A commonality found between these two kinds of platforms lies in a particular aspect of their social usage - the shared (in)activity of waiting. One form is carried out in rural Ontario (the Beaver Valley) and the other in what might be seen as the epitome of urban space - an underground subway platform. Also present is the allusion to a barely acknowledged history of hunting at the Royal Ontario Museum as, over the years, expeditions were sent out to gather "specimens". Finally, the exhibition generates questions around the status of the photographic document as art with the final image in the show that takes as its subject the 2004 Museum subway installation itself.<BR><BR><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial" times="" new="" roman="" mso-ansi-language="" mso-fareast-language="" en-us="" mso-bidi-language="" ar-sa=""><BR> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><B><I><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><BR>En attendant Godard </SPAN></I></B><B><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">(2004)<BR><BR></SPAN></B>In conjunction with this exhibition, we are pleased to present the video<SPAN> </SPAN><I>En attendant Godard</I> (Ingelevics, 2004), screening at Camera, 1028 Queen Street West (connected to the gallery). <BR><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><BR>During the past 15 years Vid Ingelevics has frequently, visited the small Swiss town where celebrated film maker Jean-Luc Godard has lived since the 1960s. Ingelevics' wife is Swiss and her family resides nearby. On each arrival, Ingelevics' mother-in-law would note her frequent sightings of Godard in the midst of mundane tasks such as buying groceries, going to his tennis lesson, or having his morning coffee. Not knowing what Godard looked like, Ingelevics would visit the sites of the sightings, so to speak, hoping to recognize the iconic film maker, based on descriptions of him by his mother-in-law. <BR><BR></SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">In 2004, Ingelevics decided to set up his video camera at various well-frequented spots around the small lakeside town, capturing its quotidian activity, with the hopes that Godard might just walk into his frame. To this day, Ingelevics still does not know what Godard looks like</SPAN><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>. <BR><BR></FONT><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt" times="" new="" roman="" mso-ansi-language="" mso-fareast-language="" en-us="" mso-bidi-language="" ar-sa="" mso-fareast-font-family="" ?times=""><FONT face=arial,helvetica,sans-serif size=2>The screening will run on Saturday February 18<SUP>th</SUP>, starting at 3 PM. The video is approximately 24 minutes in length. Tickets are free and will be given out on a first come-first-serve basis. Please note that there is limited seating. Entrance to the theatre will be through Stephen Bulger Gallery.<BR><BR><BR></FONT></SPAN>Vid Ingelevics is an artist, curator and educator based in Toronto. He has exhibited his art and curated exhibitions across Canada and in the U.S. and Europe at both private galleries and public institutions. He has written numerous articles and reviews that have been published in various periodicals. He is the recipient of various awards, including grants from the Canada Council, the Ontario Arts Council, and the Toronto Arts Council. His photographs can be found in private and public collections, including the Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, Ottawa; The City of Toronto Archives; the Museet for Fotokunst, Odense, Denmark and the Kunstmuseum Thun in Switzerland.. He is currently completing his Masters of Fine Art at York University, Toronto.</P></SPAN></FONT></td> </tr> </table> <table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td align="center"> <a href="fr_artwork_display_exhibit.asp?ArtworkID=1052&ExhibitID=116"> <img src="../images/thumbnail/Vid_Ingelevics_Platform_5A_2002_1052_55.jpg" border="0" width=85 height=47></a> </td> <td align="left" valign="top"> <table width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td class="artworktitle" width="0" align="left"> <a class="grey" href="fr_artwork_display_exhibit.asp?ArtworkID=1052&ExhibitID=116">Platform 13A, 2005</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="artworktitle" align="left"></td> </tr> <tr> <td nowrap class="artworksize" align="left">30 x 50 Inches  Chromogenic Print / Dye Coupler Print</td> </tr> <tr> <td class="artworkprice" align="left"></td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table> </div> </td> </tr> </table> </body>