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| - Ah, I will always remember The Power Plant for installing a statue of Lenin with his immortal words "Let all things be temporary" spelled out in flowers at his feet. This was shortly after the fall of the Soviet Union. Toronto people were up and arms and demanded the Lenin statue be torn down. (Someone eventually snapped off a foot.) The irony escaped them. People largely didn't get the irony back in the early 1990s. Irony had yet to make the leap from art gallery to the faces and torsos of hipsters in the form of ironic mustaches and tshirts.
$6 buys you admission to roughly 3 or 4 gallerias with different installations of modern art. Always something fun and most of the art has boobies or men's winkies. Or winkies being inserted between boobies. Sometimes the art moves. Sometimes there's some interaction. I got to climb a ladder and touch a book.
Guide for seeming knowledgeable about modern art when you're with your slinky date:
- Always note the work is a metaphor for the plight of one or more indigenous people.
- Use the term "hollowed out" when describing the emotional impact of the work.
- Point out some aspect of the piece is a sly wink at the art establishment and the gallery system.
- If the work of art uses a lot of empty gallery space (like just fills one corner with shredded newspaper or a sanitary napkin) or is largely an empty canvas, comment it's very zen. It's the artist's answer to "what's the sound of one hand clapping." The artist is clearly suggesting if a tree falls in the forest, it may not make a sound but it surely makes art.
- If there's a mirror or some reflective surface, comment how the mirror shatters the barrier between art and viewer and brings the viewer into the art, making him/her an integral part of it.
- Note the artist mixes organic and non-organic themes, creating a dissonance that subtly resonates with you. It's a string plucked. It's a note meant to be held until you absorb the next piece in the collection.
- Note, astutely, "cynics will look at this piece and say their five year old could have done it but they never say their five year olds HAVE done it."
- If you can't make sense of something, study the piece for a long time and then comment "I think the artist's playful inconsistency is the message."
- Of the whole experience, claim "It's an antidote to Facebook. It's artists seeking apotheosis, not a Like button."
You will see her nipples that night. Guaranteed.
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