Art Metropole

19 Sep. 2024

Reactivating the Archive 1: Luis Jacob on Colin Campbell's Invention

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6:00-8:00

Art Metropole is excited to announce Reactivating the Archive, a new series of artist talks beginning this fall. Reactivating the Archive expands Art Metropole’s past lecture series Activating the Archive, which ran from 1989–1995. A part of the celebrations for Art Metropole’s 50th anniversary, this reanimation puts forward a series of artist talks and performance lectures by artists and curators responding to works published by Art Metropole over our 50 year history.

The first Reactivating the Archive talks will take place on the following dates with Luis Jacob, Cason Sharpe, and Daniella Sanader:

September 19: Luis Jacob on Colin Cambell’s Invention: Selected Works 1972-1990
October 17: Cason Sharpe on Greg Curnoe’s Blue Book no. 8
December 5: Daniella Sanader (Art Metropole work to be announced)

Please join us on Thursday September 19th from 6–8PM for the first event in this series, in which Luis Jacob will give a talk on Canadian video artist Colin Campbell’s Invention: Selected Works 1972-1990. Published by Art Metropole in 1993, Invention accompanies a selection of works by Cambell and features an essay by Peggy Gale. Luis Jacob’s talk will explore Campbell’s work’s relationship to notions of an “art scene” and Art Metropole’s role as an art scene entranceway for multiple generations of artists.

Luis Jacob (b. 1971 in Lima, Peru) is a Toronto-based artist whose work destabilizes viewing conventions and invites collisions of meaning. Since participating in documenta12 in 2007, he has achieved an international reputation — with exhibitions at the Museum der Moderne Salzburg, Austria; Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart, Germany; and the Toronto Biennial of Art (all 2019); La Biennale de Montréal (2016); Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York (2015); Taipei Biennial (2012); Generali Foundation, Vienna (2011); Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York (2010); Hamburg Kunstverein and the Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery (both 2008).

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Colin Campbell Invention, front.

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