PAST EXHIBITIONS | 2003

Fall 2003
LIAM GILLICK:
Communes, Bars and Greenrooms
One of the 2002 finalists for the prestigious Turner Prize, the transatlantic British artist Liam Gillick, who works between London and New York, has been a creative force on the European scene. The Power Plant exhibition will be his first solo museum exhibition in North America. Gillick's ambitious installations combine the look of corporate architectural design and office supergraphics with the colouristic formalism of minimal art. The sculptural environment of screens and objects made of anodized aluminum and coloured Plexiglas physically engage the spectator and offers itself as an open site for dialogue or discussion, informed as Gillick's work is by an examination of the ecosystems of art and the management theories of business.
Curated by Philip Monk
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RODNEY GRAHAM
Phonokinetoscope
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JOÃO PENALVA
Penalva, exhibiting widely in Europe and with upcoming major retrospectives in Budapest and Oporto, Portugal in 2003, the Power Plant exhibition will be the first opportunity for Canadians to see his work.
Penalva's film installations have been compared to the Russian film master Andrei Tarkovsky. At the Power Plant, Penalva will exhibit several of these film projections.
Penalva's films are narratives of translation. Set against a lyrical landscape backdrop, several stories are told in voice-over and translated subtitles, some conflicting, others evoking different memories, all blurring the truth in imaginative misinterpretations.Curated by Philip Monk.
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Summer 2003
STRETCH
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Spring 2003
LIZ MAGOR :
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GUY MADDIN:
Cowards Bend the Knee
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THE ROYAL ART LODGE:
Ask the Dust Curated by Wayne Baerwaldt, Director of the Power Plant, and Joseph R. Wolin, an independent curator in New York.
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Winter 2002/2003
LEE BUL:
Live Forever
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ART OF THE GREAT PROLETERIAN CULTURAL REVOLUTION
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