September 26, 2015The Magical Space of Suspended MeaningBy rennie museumby Denise Holland Puzzled, speechless, searching for meaning: Lara Favaretto’s work leaves us feeling groundless and grasping for hints. The need to find the artists’ meaning is often the primary agenda of visitors as they walk through the doors of the Wing Sang Building. At some museums, visitors find comfort with large explanatory signs, brochures or audio recordings that describe… Read more.
August 22, 2015rennie Speaker Series: Courtney J MartinBy rennie museumDid you miss our most recent rennie Series talk with Courtney J Martin? Here’s your chance to watch the talk! Art Historian and Curator Courtney J. Martin gave a talk on artist Lara Favaretto, who exhibited at the rennie museum between May 30 – October 31, 2015. Watch it below: Read more.
August 20, 2015Why can’t I touch it?By rennie museumby Abbey Hopkins Walking through Lara Favaretto’s exhibition at the rennie collection, one must confront the urge to touch her works. Ranging from revolving carwash brushes to stand-alone confetti cubes, most of the works in the exhibition exude tactile tension. It is specifically because one must not touch the artworks that a tension builds. From young children to retirees who… Read more.
July 8, 2015rennie collection Speaker Series: Courtney J. Martin (Brown University)By rennie museumThursday, July 23rd at 6:30pm SPACE IS LIMITED, doors at 6:00pm FREE and open to the public rennie collection is pleased to announce a talk on Lara Favaretto by art historian and curator Courtney J. Martin on July 23rd at 6:30pm. This will be the second rennie collection Speakers Series talk to take place within the museum. Courtney J. Martin… Read more.
July 4, 2015The Courage of Coming UndoneBy rennie museumby Denise Holland Many of the pieces in Lara Favaretto’s first Canadian solo show at rennie collection this summer are constantly in flux. Crumbling, spinning, floating—the pieces often flirt with their own destruction. The show runs until October 31st and will likely not be the same show you came to see in June. Favaretto surrenders her work to chance and… Read more.
May 14, 2015New rennie collection Exhibition: Lara FavarettoBy rennie museumrennie collection is pleased to announce the first Canadian solo exhibition by Italian artist Lara Favaretto, from May 30 to October 3, 2015. Through her installations of mundane objects, Favaretto’s art practice explores the absurdities of modern life, consumer culture, and obsolescence. Her large-scale installations and interventions will find new meaning in the historic Wing Sang building. Coppie Semplici/Simple Couples (2009)… Read more.
April 18, 2015Glenn Brown | Rebecca Warren catalogue now available!By rennie museumWe are pleased to announce our Glenn Brown and Rebecca Warren catalogue is now available for purchase. Featuring essays by John Chilver and Dominic Eichler, the publication commemorates the first time the two Turner Prize-nominated artists have exhibited together. The British artists willfully interrogate and refashion standards from the art world’s multiple histories. Brown’s canvases offer a nightmarish review of… Read more.
April 16, 2015Extracting the Essence of ThingsBy rennie museumby Madeleine Tranter “Extracting the essence of things” is a broad statement yet common idea. It is a notion best understood as searching for meaning, something we are all familiar with and may have struggled with. For Mircea Cantor, it is one of the many themes he plays with wherein he dissects simple topics and pushes their boundaries and functions…. Read more.
April 1, 2015Setting the MoodBy rennie museumby Jaclyn Guse The gallery experience’s structure, the techniques, the objects, the people, the discourse has all altered through time. A key aspect in the gradual and continuing shift of that experience however, is sound. We walk through the gallery spaces now, talk amongst ourselves, read dialogue on walls, listen to headsets, or in the case of the rennie collection… Read more.