Posts Tagged ‘Art Gallery of Ontario’
‘Reconnecting us to the wastelands’: AGO’s new photo exhibit shows what humanity’s doing to the planet
By Trevor Dunn | CBC News A new exhibit at the Art Gallery of Ontario seeks to reveal the way human activity is transforming the planet. Just how the cumulative action of seven billion people is shaping the environment may be difficult, if not impossible, to grasp. But the oversized photographs by Canadian photographer Edward Burtynsky…
Read MoreApocalypse Now
By Mark Pupo | Toronto Life Over the past 40 years, the photographer Edward Burtynsky has hunted down the world’s largest marble quarries, clear-cut forests and solar power fields. His super-sized shots showcase our ravenous appetite for Earth’s resources—Burtynsky is a war photographer of natural landscapes. For his latest project, Anthropocene, he reunited with his frequent collaborators, filmmakers…
Read MoreBurtynsky’s Anthropocene coming to the AGO in September 2018
By Kevin Ritchie | NOW Magazine The photographer’s sprawling collaboration with filmmakers Jennifer Baichwal and Nicholas de Pencier will open simultaneously in Toronto and Ottawa The latest collaboration between photographer Edward Burtynsky and filmmakers Jennifer Baichwal and Nicholas de Pencier is the Art Gallery of Ontario’s (AGO) major fall 2018 exhibit. The trio, who previously worked…
Read More[PRESS RELEASE] Art Gallery of Ontario and National Gallery of Canada to co-present major exhibitions detailing the impact of humans on Earth
Lithium Mines #1, Salt Flats, Atacama Desert, Chile, 2017. Inkjet print, 58 ½ x 78 inches. Courtesy of the artist and Nicholas Metivier Gallery, Toronto. © Edward Burtynsky, 2017. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: NOV. 15, 2017, 12 P.M. EST #AnthropoceneProject unveils new works by the artist collective of Edward Burtynsky, Jennifer Baichwal and Nicholas de Pencier…
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