Chris Temple: Infrastructure
Essay by David Macfarlane.
Published in 2010 by Nicholas Metivier Gallery, Toronto.
17 colour plates. ISBN 978-0-9738198-8-5.
Available through the gallery.
Publications Books
Edward Burtynsky: OIL
A Steidl book release and touring exhibition organized by the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington DC. surveys a decade of photographic work that explores the subject of oil. Edward Burtynsky has traveled internationally to chronicle the production, distribution, and use of the most critical fuel of our time.
In addition to revealing the rarely-seen mechanics of its manufacture, Burtynsky captures the effects of oil on our lives, depicting landscapes altered by its extraction from the earth, and by the cities and suburban sprawl generated around its use. He also addresses the coming “end of oil,” as we confront its rising cost and dwindling availability.
Published in 2009, by Steidl. 213 colour plates. ISBN 978-3-86521-943-5.
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Robert Polidori – Transitional States
Transitional States is Robert Polidori’s attempt to visually portray aspects of historical revisionism as seen through various stages of the restoration of the Palace of Versailles. What does it really mean to restore a room? Is it about the precise duplication of something which is now showing the wear and tear of its age, to renew it and make it again as it once was? Or does it involve entirely redefining the room’s epidermis to a completely different state, a state that it may once have had in an earlier epoch? The curatorial decisions that control this process reflect a political will and esthetic tastes which have altered over the period of the restoration.
Photographed over a period of 25 years, the transient and temporary situations which the labors of these restorations afford, present temporal paradoxes that engage layers of history and power.
Published in 2009 by Steidl. 480 colour plates. ISBN 978-3-86521-702-8
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Michael Smith – Wresting Vision Conjuring Place
Published in 2009 by Art Gallery of Peel, Brampton, Ontario, and Nicholas Metivier Gallery, Toronto.
18 colour plates.
ISBN 978-0-9738198-7-8
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Joanne Tod – Kingdom Come
Published in 2009 by Nicholas Metivier Gallery, Toronto.
19 colour plates.
ISBN 978-0-9738198-6-1
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Invention & Revival – The Colour Drypoints of David Milne and John Hartman
Published in conjunction with the exhibition Invention & Revival, The Colour Drypoints of David Milne and John Hartman at Carleton University Art Gallery in Ottawa, November 17, 2008 to February 1, 2009. Milne’s invention of the multiple-plate colour drypoint led to a gorgeous body of work and John Hartman adopted the technique early in his career, creating colourful depictions of the stories and history of the places and people of Canada, particularly northern Ontario, where he lives.
The hardcover book includes 40 colour plates, essays by Rosemarie Tovell and
Anne-Marie Ninacs and an interview with John Hartman and David Milne Jr. by
Diana Nemiroff. Design by Barr Gilmore. 145 pages.
ISBN 978-0-7709-0526-2.
Available through the gallery.
Reverspective Versus Perspective – Patrick Hughes
This catalogue features 12 paintings from Hughes’ first exhibition at Nicholas Metivier Gallery. “The point of it is that Patrick Hughes has created a new way of comprehending reality by introducing an original range of apparitions into the world of art.”
Published by Flowers and Nicholas Metivier Gallery, 2008 Introduction by Murray McDonald. 34 pages, 15 colour plates. ISBN 978-906-4120-5-0
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Tom Hopkins
This catalogue features paintings from two concurrent exhibitions in 2008: Sorting Territories, new works at Nicholas Metivier Gallery and Traversing the Visible, works from 1985-2007 at Le Musée des beaux-arts de Sherbrooke. With an essay by David Dorenbaum, in French and English.
Published 2008 by Nicholas Metivier Gallery in conjunction with Le Musée des beaux-arts de Sherbrooke. Design by Gottschalk + Ash. 48 pages, 26 colour plates. ISBN 978-973-8198-5-4
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James Lahey
This self-titled catalogue was published for James Lahey’s first european exhibition at Flowers Central in London. There are 15 colour plates of recent works from Lahey’s Skull series. The unique text in the catalogue provides the original correspondence between Lahey and Ihor Holubizky, Curator for the Confederation Center for the Arts in Prince Edward Island, about the work.
Published 2008 by Flowers, London. 15 colour plates.
ISBN 978-1-906412-11-1
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Event Horizon – John Scott
John Scott’s much anticipated 2008 catalogue features essays by Toronto psychoanalyst David Dorenbaum and David Liss, Director/Curator of the Museum of Contemporay Canadian Art in Toronto. Included are colour plates of recent drawings plus his monumental sculpture projects Apocalypse Trans Am, 1998-2000, in the collection of the National Gallery in Ottawa and Prayer Wheel, 2008, collection of Nicholas Metivier Gallery.
Published 2008 by Nicholas Metivier Gallery. Design by Barr Gilmore. 46 pages. ISBN 978-0-9738198-4-7
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Twice Removed – Brent McIntosh and Edward Burtynsky
The age-old dialogue between painting and photography is given renewed vitality in this collaborative endeavor between Edward Burtynsky and Brent McIntosh. Burtynsky revisited landscape photographs he took in the early 1980s, producing them in large scale. McIntosh created a series of paintings based on the photographs, which they jointly selected in light of their interest in Abstract Expressionism.
Essay by Claude Baillargeon. Design by Barr Gilmore. 54 pages.
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Quarries – Edward Burtynsky
Published by Steidl in 2007, Quarries brings together all of Edward Burtysnky’s series on the subject from Vermont in 1991 to Iberia in 2006. The 168 colour reproductions include some of Burtynsky’s most recognized and iconic imagery. The catalogue essays are by Michael Mitchell, a Toronto-based writer, photographer and filmmaker.
“The concept of the landscape as architecture has become for me, an act of imagination. I remember
looking at buildings made of stone, and thinking, there has to be an interesting landscape somewhere out
there because these stones had to have been taken out of the quarry a block at a time. I had never seen
a dimensional quarry, but I envisioned an inverted cubed architecture on the side of a hill. I went in
search of it, and when I had it on my ground glass, I knew that I had arrived.”
— Edward Burtynsky
Hardcover, 38.1 cm x 30.4 cm, 978-3-86521-456-0
Available through the gallery or online.
Malcolm Rains
“It may come as no surprise to viewers familiar with the poetic reflections of Malcolm Rains that his paintings have always been beautiful. But the true surprise may be the realization that he has always been a conceptual painter, one who harmonizes mind and matter and celebrates it visually.” (excerpt from Sight Unseen, essay by Donald Brackett).
This catalogue introduces Rain’s Sunyata series and discusses his previous work, including early sculpture and the “classical” series of crumpled paper.
Published 2008 by Nicholas Metivier Gallery. Design by Barr Gilmore. 46 pages, 15 colour plates. ISBN 978-0-9738198-2-3
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CITIES – John Hartman
CITIES surveys John Hartman's recent paintings that explore urbanity. Hartman is regarded as one of Canada's premier painters. This book features his paintings of cities including New York, London, Toronto, Halifax, Vancouver, Hamilton and Parry Sound. The book feature 40 colour plates and show his process working in watercolours, pastels and oils. Essays are by Canadian journalist and author Noah Richler and Stuart Reid director of the Tom Thomson Art Gallery in Owen Sound, Ontario.
Winner: 2007 OAAG Award for Best Book Design.
Design by Barr Gilmore.
Hardcover, 26.9 x 26.2 x 1.8 cm, ISBN 1-55153-312-X
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David Shapiro
This 55 page catalogue accompanied David Shapiro's three exhibitions at Metiver Gallery Perimeter and Bobbie Greenfield in October 2006. The catalogue essay is by Carter Ratcliff, leading art critic and contributing editor of Art in America. Featuring 21 color plates of paintings and works on paper from the Clearing, Origin & Return, Seer Actor Knower Doer, Savasan and Mudra series.
Design by Barr Gilmore. Soft cover, 23 x 23 x 0.5 cm
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After the Flood – Robert Polidori
Robert Polidori’s recent series of photographs, After the Flood, documents the aftermath of hurricane Katrina in New Orleans, from September 2005 to May 2006. A selection of images from the series were selected for his exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum New York in December 2006 as well as the February 2007 exhibition at Nicholas Metivier Gallery.
Published by Steidl. Hardcover, 336 pages, 581 colour plates, 26.9 x 26.2 x 1.8 cm. ISBN 3-86521-277-8
Available online.
China – Edward Burtynsky
China, Edward Burtynsky’s second major publication after Manufactured Landscapes, was published by Steidl in October 2005. The catalogue surveys 80 images from the China series.
Published by Steidl. Hardcover, 37 x 29.6 x 2.4 cm. ISBN 3-86521-130-5
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James Lahey – Index
Lahey breaks new ground both materially, with his use of discarded paint and design of new painting tools, and artistically, by distilling the aesthetic practice of his earlier work into powerful studies of proportion, perspective and colour. With essays by Ihor Holubizky and Mark Kingwell.
Published in 2005 by MacLaren Art Centre. Softcover, 86 pages, 67 colour illustrations, 12.5 x 8.5 inches. ISBN 0-9738829-0-5
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José Manuel Ballester
Co-published with Charles Cowles in New York, this catalogue accompanied the artists exhibitions at both galleries in May 2005. For the first time, Spanish artist José Manuel Ballester's large scale photographs were brought to Canada in May 2007. This catalogue was a collaboration with Charles Cowles Gallery in New York featuring the complete works from both exhibitions. Twenty reproductions and catalogue essay by Barbara Rose.
Design by Barr Gilmore.
Soft cover, 30 x 23 x 0.5 cm, ISBN 978-0-973819-1-6
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Zones of Exclusion: Pripyat and Chernobyl – Robert Polidori
Fifteen years after Reactor number 4 exploded at Chernobyl, in 2001, Robert Polidori photographed the wasteland of Chernobyl and surrounding areas. Nicholas Metiver Gallery debuted these works in May 2004. The catalogue contains over 100 pages of colour plates.
Published by Steidl. Hardcover, 38.8 x 30.6 x 2.2 cm. ISBN 3-88243-921-1
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Havana – Robert Polidori
In 1997 and 2001, Polidori photographed the magnificently decaying buildings of Havana. The catalogue contains over 100 images of interiors and exteriors ranging from grand residences and national buildings.
Published by Steidl. Hardcover, 38.4 x 30.4 x 2.2 cm. ISBN 3-88243-333-7
Available online.
Manufactured Landscapes – The Photographs of Edward Burtynsky
This catalogue was produced for the touring exhibition Manufactured Landscapes, organized by the National Gallery of Canada in 2003. The fully illustrated catalogue includes essays by Lori Pauli, Mark Haworth-Booth and Kenneth Baker and an interview with the artist by Michael Torosian. Images are from the Nickel Tailings, Shipbreaking, Oil Fields and Oil Refineries, Urban Mines, Quarries and Railcuts series.
Hardcover, 33.2 x 28.2 x 2 cm, ISBN 0-300-09943-6
Available online.