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Artist Talk
February 12, 2009 | 10:30 AM
Room 595 | ACAD

Supported by the ACAD Visiting Artist Fund.

Since 2001, visual artists Daniel Young and Christian Giroux have developed a collaborative practice that investigates sculptural form and materiality within the expanded field of architecture and landscape design. Using industrial materials, including IKEA furniture components, they employ prototyping methodologies to produce works that reflect upon the history of abstraction, modernist generative models and the relationship between social meaning and phenomenal experience.
 
Although primarily object makers, they also deploy maquettes, drawings and film to explore the structural logic of objects and spaces. Their first major public commission, Reticulated Gambol, will be unveiled at Lee Centre Park in the fall of 2008, and their first film, Every Building, or Site, that a Building Permit was Issued for a New Building, premiered this fall, at the Cinematque Ontario and showing at Pacific Cinematque this Winter. Represented by Diaz Contemporary, Toronto, their work has been exhibited at the Power Plant in Toronto, Aceartinc In Winnipeg and through the Public Arts Projects Initiative of the Scope Miami Art Fair.

Presented by the Illingworth Kerr Gallery.