For Immediate Release

Photo: Agata and Lucas Piskunowicz

Photo: Gareth Bate, 2012.

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Come Up to My Room

Gareth Bate's "Jewel Net of Indra" installation for Come Up To My Room 2012 at Toronto's Gladstone Hotel.

Come Up To My Room 2012

Dates:
Friday, Jan 27: 12 pm - 8 pm
Saturday, Jan, 28: 12 pm - 10 pm
Sunday, Jan 29: 12 - 5 pm

"Jewel Net of Indra" Installation

Gareth Bate's "Jewel Net of Indra" installation for Come Up to My Room 2012 at Toronto's Gladstone Hotel, is a cosmology representing the interconnectedness of all things. It is based on a Mahayana Buddhist metaphor of an infinite net of jewels, each representing an individual. Every jewel is a reflection of all others. For this ongoing project, Gareth is interpreting the metaphor as a meditation on the variety of lives-lived, and our relationships to the individuals who shape history. What aspects of these people are within us?

The installation is a wall of over one thousand acrylic mirrored discs which Gareth had manufactured.. Three hundred mirrors contain hand-painted miniature portraits of iconic individuals. The accumulation of discs fragments the viewers as they move through the empty room. The negative space creates the net.

Gareth chose to paint iconic individuals who all have well-known stories. (Scroll down for the complete list of names) This highly idiosyncratic mix of people were chosen to represent types of lives beyond their own particular ones. Gareth found that the act of painting their portraits made them feel less inaccessible. The three hundred portraits depict an equal amount of men and women. Considerable effort was made to find people of a wide range of backgrounds. There are philosophers, artists, writers, musicians, poets, politicians, kings and queens, tyrants, scientists, activists, journalists, doctors, nurses, celebrities, slaves, murderers and victims etc.

The installation is an attempt to represent the totality of lives lived. It is "everyone." This goal is inevitably impossible and forever incomplete.

Special Thanks: Marina Guglielmi, Graham Jackson, Dawne Rudman.

OPENING: Saturday, January 28, 2012, 7 - 10 pm.

Dates:
Friday, Jan 27: 12 pm - 8 pm
Saturday, Jan, 28: 12 pm - 10 pm
Sunday, Jan 29: 12 - 5 pm

Curators:
David Dick-Agnew, Deborah Wang & Noa Bronstein.

Come Up To My Room Website

The Gladstone Hotel
2nd Floor: Room 202
1214 Queen Street West
Toronto, ON M6J 3K6
(416) 531-4635
The Gladstone's Website

Facebook Invite:
https://www.facebook.com/events/322135427817971/

Admission Fee:
NOTE: The Gladstone charges an admission fee for this event. Regular: $10, Student: $5 with student card.

Gareth's Bio: Gareth's principle themes are our relationships with nature and our place in the universe. He was the winner of OCAD's prestigious 401 Richmond Career-Launcher Prize, a free studio for a year. He is Festival Curator for the 2012 World of Threads Festival.

About Come Up To My Room:

Come Up To My Room (CUTMR) is the Gladstone Hotel's annual alternative design event. This year's show, curated by Noa Bronstein, David Dick-Agnew and Deborah Wang, invites artists and designers to show us what goes on inside their heads. Coming together in dialogue and collaboration, participants are limited only by their imaginations, making CUTMR one of the most exciting shows in Toronto. This is the 9th year at the Gladstone Hotel, featuring 11 rooms and 14 public space installations, design talks and curatorial tours.

CUTMR is comprised of room installations and public space projects that literally take over the Gladstone Gallery and other public spaces of the hotel. Curators select participating designers and artists based on their past work and experience. Curators consult and discuss public space projects with their makers, but know next to nothing about the room installations. This approach, inherited from CUTMR founding curators Christina Zeidler and Pamila Mathru, ensures that the artists and designers are given the freedom to rock out – creating new, site specific installations that are the ultimate artistic, inventive and/or spatial expression. The final results are art and design mash-ups that challenge our pre-conditioned notions of both disciplines. In this show, participants are pathfinders, continually pushing the limits and exploring new territories, opening up new worlds for every one to inhabit.

2012 Participants:

Room installations:
Gareth Bate, DarkLab, Wendy W. Fok, Fugitive Glue, merk, Sam Mogelonsky & Bruno Billio, RAD LAB, uA in collaboration with Robert Eland and Thomas Nemeskeri, vÆry Studio, Janna Watson and Katrina Tompkins for Tinsel & Sawdust, WE-3

Public space projects:
archiTEXT, Katrine Barnstaple, Matthew Blunderfield & Skanda Lin, Matthew Davis & Aurelia Adams, Carolyn Fearman & Robin Porter, Hyung-shin Hwang, Interstice Studio, John Mestito & Roland Ulfig, Metropolis Living, TOMA, Sonia Tyagi, Void Engineering, Wes Wilson & Matthew Peddie, University of Waterloo Chair Projects

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