Arty Christmas Gifts Part Two

6. PLUG IN ICA – WINNIPEG


Neil Farber, Farber Drawing 683, 1999. Image: plugin.org

One of the members of the Royal Art Lodge, Neil Farber's work features an odd cast of characters that includes waif-like children, cats, dogs, and ghosts, combining innocence with a complicated and often foreboding sense of the absurd. Farber's drawings remind us that among the range of emotions, humor is arguably the most complicated – and perhaps the most human.


Jeanne Randolph, Ethics of Luxury. Image: plugin.org

In Ethics of Luxury, renowned Canadian thinker and artist Jeanne Randolph gives us a magnum opus focusing on one of the most pressing issues facing us today - how we act morally and ethically while participating in a culture of abundance, opulence and consumerism. Randolph argues that when we use our imagaintion, as we do when we create, appreciate and live with art, we are acting ethically, expressing our sense of morality in a practical, material way.

Buy art work or multiples at the gallery shop.

Farber Drawing 683, Mixed media. Signed by Neil Farber, 1999.

Ethics of Luxury, 144 pp., softcover, 5x7 inches, b/w illustrations. $19.95 CDN

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7. ART METROPOLE - TORONTO


Jaime Sin, 14kt pop tabs, 2007. Image: artmetropole.com


General Idea (Ghent Scarf), 1984. Image: artmetropole.com

A miniature version of General Idea’s Ghent Flag screenprinted on nylon. Based on the flag of the City of Ghent, with a poodle replacing the rampant lion, the original flags were flown around the city during the exhibition “General Idea” at Musuem Van Hedendaagse Kunst, Ghent 1985 where the scarf was featured. Housed in a black card box with hot gold stamping with two title sheets providing a short introduction by Jan Hoet in English and Flemish.

Jaime Sin, 14kt pop tabs, 2007. 2.5 x 1.5 x cm, 14 karat gold. $279 CDN
Comes with an envelope and certificate of authenticity from the artist.

General Idea (Ghent Scarf), 1984, Museum Van Hedendaagse Kunst Ghent Belgium. Edition of 500, signed and numbered. $525 CDN

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8. DAVID MIRVISH BOOKS ON ART - TORONTO


Roald Nasgaard, Abstract Painting in Canada. Image: dmbooks.com

Lavishly illustrated with 200 works of art, this is the first comprehensive history of abstract painting in Canada from the 1920s right up to the present.

The story begins in the 1920s and 1930s with the work of such pioneers as Kathleen Munn, Betram Brooker, Lawren Harris, and Jock MacDonald. Then in the 1940s Montreal saw the emergence of the Automatistes, Canada's first truly avant-garde movement. In the 1950s abstraction spread across the country, with regional variations. In the 1960s Vancouver artists cultivated their own hard-edge Pop version of geometric abstraction. By the 1970s Halifax led by the Nova Scotia School of Art and Design, became a hub of international conceptual art and concrete painting.

The book concludes in tthe twenty-first century, with abstract painting alive and well.

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9. NSCAD UNIVERSITY PRESS - HALIFAX


Claes Oldenburg, Raw Notes (2005) Deluxe Edition. Image: nscad.ns.ca

In 1972, Oldenburg scrupulously assembled every bit of textual material relating to four performances of the sixties: Stars, Moveyhouse, Massage, and The Typewriter.

According to his specifications, the text in the book was typed rather than set and appears on only one side of the page. Examples of the original manuscript are reproduced in sixty-three script plates, including stage plans, scores, sketches for programs and posters. More than two hundred annotations by the author expand the text.

The 2005 reprinting of Raw Notes has meticulously followed the original design and is a cased edition of 90, including a signed and numbered copy of Raw Notes (554 pages, 53 bw plates) and an original signed and numbered lithograph by Claes Oldenburg entitled The Office. A Typewriter Print. Ghost Version. A six-coloured print on 33” x 27.5" Arches Book Text, signed and numbered by Claes Oldenburg. $1250 CDN


10. INTERNATIONAL

Some of VoCA's favorite international online art shopping:

Nieves is an independent publishing house based in Zurich, Switzerland.
Founded in 2001, Nieves' focus is on publishing Artist Books and Zines.

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Iconoclast is a project-based studio working in collaboration with artists and institutions to produce exhibitions, publications, artists’ editions and more.

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Parkett is published in direct collaboration with important international artists, whose oeuvre is explored in several essays by leading writers and critics. Each artist also creates a special signed and numbered edition exclusive to Parkett, which may take any form, from unique works of art to prints and multiples.

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London's Whitechapel Gallery produces artist editions, Whitchapel editions, documents of contemporary art, CDs and more.

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For more information on international art shopping at museum stores, please read this article HERE