Montreal-born artist David Hoffos presented a multi-media installation, titled Catastrophe, as an expression of collective millennial anxieties around the transition to year 2000. A miniature model of a suburban city becomes the backdrop for a series of dreaded, projected disasters such as fires, airplane crashes, and hurricanes. Catastrophe has been shown in Calgary, Alberta, and in Barcelona, Spain. This was the first major exhibition of David Hoffos' work in Central Canada.
Nov 12, 1999 – Dec 10, 1999
Past
Catastrophe
David Hoffos
- Curator
- Barbara Fischer
Barbara Fischer was the first curator of the Blackwood Gallery, from 1999–2008. She is currently Executive Director/Chief Curator of The Art Museum at the University of Toronto, as well as an Associate Professor, Teaching Stream and the Director of the Master of Visual Studies program in Curatorial Studies at the John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design at the University of Toronto. Fischer has curated award-winning solo and group exhibitions in the area of contemporary art and its histories, including the internationally circulating retrospective exhibition General Idea Editions 1967-1995 (Kunstverein Munich, Kunsthalle Zurich, Kunst-Werke ICA Berlin, CAAC Seville, Henry Art Gallery Seattle, and the Andy Warhol Museum Pittsburgh, among others), and Projections (2007), the first major survey (and touring exhibition) on projection-based works in the history of contemporary art in Canada.
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