UWAG opening reception | Balint Zsako and Susy Oliveira | Thursday January 13, 5:00-8:00 pm

[Jurakic, Ivan]

January 13-March 5, 2011
Opening Reception: Thursday, January 13 from 5:00-8:00 pm


Gallery One
Balint Zsako
Works on Paper 2000-2010
Featuring Drawings from the Bernardi Collection

Collecting over one hundred works on paper by Balint Zsako, this exhibition reprises and expands upon Drawings from the Bernardi Collection, an exhibit that debuted at the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art in Toronto (2008). Expanding on the original, this exhibition includes a broader view of the scope of the artist's work on paper, including his series of painted Heads, a selection of recent collages, and a rarely exhibited selection of the artist's sketchbooks and journals. Zsako’s works on paper hover between existentialism and eroticism without ever losing sight of the humanist thread that runs throughout his artwork. From figures indiscretely intertwined with vegetation, Meccano-like scaffolding and each other, to surrealist cut-and-paste art historical mash-ups, Zsako's works illustrate the absurdity, complexity and messiness of earthly relationships. This survey exhibition celebrates the versatility and depth of this gifted artist’s work.

Balint Zsako (Hungary, 1979) has exhibited his work nationally and internationally. He has recently exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Toronto; Galerie de L'UQAM, Montreal; Kenderdine Art Gallery, Saskatoon; d.u.m.b.o. arts center, New York; Fringe Gallery, Hong Kong and MuveszetMalom, Szentendre, Hungary. His work is in several public and private collections including MONA, Museum of Old and New Art, Tasmania; Glenbow Museum, Calgary; Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt Collection, Toronto and Seneca College, Toronto. His first monograph Balint Zsako: Drawings from the Bernardi Collection, was published in 2008 by MOCCA, Toronto. He is the recipient of numerous grants and awards, including grants from the Ontario Arts Council, Canada Council for the Arts and the du Maurier Arts Council. He lives and works in New York City.
www.balintzsako.com


Gallery Two 
Susy Oliveira 
Your face, like a lone nocturnal garden in Worlds where Suns spin ’round! 

Susy Oliveira’s artwork fuses her interest in sculpture and photography with the varied forms and fauna of a garden. Titled after a passage from Jean Genet’s Our Lady of the Flowers, Oliveira’s multifaceted fictional landscapes elicit poetry, passion and entropy. Her simulated garden exaggerates the unnatural quality of most gardens and greenspaces to draw our attention to the increasingly manufactured environments that we occupy and their effect on the commodification of our desires, both real and imagined. This body of work has recently been exhibited at the PLATFORM Centre for Photography + Digital Arts in Winnipeg (2010), The New Gallery in Calgary (2010) and The Khyber in Halifax (2010).

Susy Oliveira (Canada, 1977) lives and works in Toronto. She received her MFA from the University of Waterloo and is a graduate of the Ontario College of Art & Design.  She has exhibited her work nationally and internationally with recent exhibitions at the Khyber, Halifax; PLATFORM centre for photographic + digital arts, Winnipeg; Graphic Design Festival Breda, The Netherlands; The New Gallery, Calgary and Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Toronto.  She is the recipient of numerous grants and awards, including grants from the Ontario Arts Council and Canada Council for the Arts.  She lives in Toronto. Susy Oliveira is represented by Peak Gallery, Toronto.
www.susyoliveira.ca

Please join us for the shared opening for both of these exciting exhibitions and the relaunch of our website: uwag.uwaterloo.ca
The artists will be present at the reception.


UWAG
University of Waterloo Art Gallery
East Campus Hall | ECH 1239
519.888.4567 ext. 33575

Hours:
Tuesday-Saturday 12:00-5:00 pm
or by appointment

Contact:
Ivan Jurakic, Director / Curator
519.888.4567 ext. 36741
ijurakic at uwaterloo.ca 
uwag.uwaterloo.ca 

Driving:
263 Phillip Street, Waterloo, ON
-Located in East Campus Hall on Phillip Street off of University Avenue West, behind the University Shops Plaza
-Use South entrance to ECH across from new Chemical Engineering 1 building site, please excuse the construction

Parking:
Limited meter parking is available behind ECH
Visitor Parking is available at Lot N and Lot UWP or Lot B after 3:45 pm
http://www.uwaterloo.ca/map/index.php 

Mailing Address:
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200 University Avenue West
Waterloo, ON, Canada N2L 3G1


Images (from left to right): Balint Zsako, Untitled (Man in Tree), (detail), 2008, watercolour and ink on paper. Courtesy of the artist. Susy Oliveira, Your face, like a lone nocturnal garden in Worlds where Suns spin 'round!, (detail), 2009, collage. Courtesy of the artist and Peak Gallery, Toronto
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