Pure Art Water by BRUNO BILLIO at the Toronto Hearts Japan Silent Auction

OPENING RECEPTION
Friday April 1st 7-10pm

Venue: Gladstone Gallery (2nd Floor)

Fundraiser, Special Event, Visual Arts

http://www.torontoheartsjapan.com/

International artist BRUNO BILLIO has made a name for himself around the city for his interior design works and installation practices. These two aspects of his career tend to co-mingle. On Friday April 1, at the Gladstone Gallery's silent auction you will have the opportunity to aquire a bottle of BRUNO BILLIO'S 'Pure Art Water' poured from the taps at the Gladstone Hotel. Your support at this event will help raise much needed funds that will be donated to The Red Cross.

Narwhal Art Projects, Invisible-Friends, the Galdstone Hotel and friends are excited to host Toronto Hearts Japan, a fundraiser for our far-away loves.

Our hearts have been broken by news of devastated towns and people separated from their homes and families, and we want to help. This event lets all of us who feel a special connection to Japan lend a hand in our own way. All proceeds will be donated to The Red Cross and to helping rebuild the Birdo Flugas Artist Centre and Community in Shiogama.

Toronto Hearts Japan is an exhibition, silent auction, and two (count them!) parties at the beloved Gladstone Hotel (with DJ Paul E. Lopes and DJ Jun). Featuring works from local to international artists (and other surprises too), everybody can find a way to offer our hearts to Japan and help them soldier on.

 OPENING RECEPTION
GLADSTONE HOTEL, Second Floor
Friday April 1st
7-10pm

$20 suggested admission (includes raffle ticket)
*Special one night only auction and raffle with art gifts and surprises*

 CLOSING RECEPTION
Tuesday April 5th 5-8pmWinners of our silent art auction will be announced at 7pm. Art pickup from 7-8pm.

Silent Art Exhibition from:
Thurs March 31 - Tues April 5, 2011
Gladstone Hotel, 2nd Floor
12-5pm daily

http://www.gladstonehotel.com/events/event-listings/todays-events/event-detail?eid=3416

PARTICIPATING ARTISTS:
Sonja Ahlers, Paul Aloisi, Nicholas Aoki, Stephen Appleby-Barr, Andrew Remington Bailey, Ashley Barron, Marc Bell, Diego Bergia, Katie Bethune-Leamen, Shary Boyle, Mat Brown, Robin Cameron, Tyler Clark-Burke, Trudie Cheng, Mark Connery, Robert Dayton, Taku Dazai, Brett Despotovich, Yuri Didrichsons, Nicholas DiGenova, Brian Donnelly, Dave Dyment, Shayne Ehman, Matthew Feyld, Melissa Fisher, Brendan Flanagan, Theo Gallaro, James Gardner, Shannon Gerard, Dana Gils, Heather Goodchild, Adrian Hayles, Heydon Park Artists, Sachi Hirano, Derrick Hodgson, Jay Isaac, Melinda Josie, Nathan Jurevicius, Adrienne Kammerer, Kozyndan, Nobuo Kubota, Chris Kuzma, Patrick Kyle, Christy Langer, Aaron Leighton, Tessar Lo, Amy Lockhart, Jamiyla Lowe, Derek Mainella, Chris Martin, Megan McKenzie, Jason Mclean, Alex McLeod, Julie Moon, Jennifer Murphy, Alicia Nauta, Tibi Tibi Neuspiel, Noel Middleton, Luke Painter, Roula Parthenou, Sandy Plotnikoff, Brad Phillips, Katherine Piro, Andrew Pommier, Lauchie Reid, Tony Romano, Kathryn Ruppert-Dazai, Tania Sanhueza, Jennifer Rose Sciarrino, Seth Scriver, Emiko Sekiguchi, German Shible, Lisa Smolkin, Jordan Sonenberg, Jennie Suddick, Derek Sullivan, Team Macho, Jon Todd, Michael Toke, Celeste TooGood, Karen Tracanelli, Howie Tsui, Brett Tyler, Lara Vincent, Andrew Waite, Meichen Waxer, Jacob Whibley, Billy Bert Young, Hyun-Chung Yu and Balint Zsako.

RAFFLE PRIZES FROM:
The Arcade Fire, Art Metropole, The Beguiling, Bikram Yoga Toronto, Cabaret, Carte Blanche, Coupe Bizarre, Dark Horse, Fieldguided, Films We Like, Honeybea Designhive, Hunter & Cook, Jayna Corbett, Joel Tellier at FUS Studio, Kid Icarus, Klaxon Howl, Koyama Press, Lady Marmalade, Life is Sweet, Liz Milkau, Lost and Found, Magic Pony, The Ministry of Artistic Affairs, Ministry Of the Interior, Moksha Yoga, Monster Factory, Robber, Rodney’s Oyster House, Sweet Bliss Baking Company, Sydney�s,The Ten Spot, Turning Point Training Methods/SBG Toronto, Warriors, (and the list keeps growing!)

Art Agenda: Bruno Billio at De Luca Fine Art, Stephen Appleby-Barr at Nicholas Metivier, Ronald Boaks at the Moore Gallery

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This installment of the Art Agenda features two younger artists and one that's more established, all with radically different styles.

This week:

• "Stacked" Bruno Billio in Retrospect at at DeLuca Fine Art
• Stephen Appleby-Barr at Nicholas Metivier
• Ronald Boaks at The Moore Gallery 

 

   
Bruno Billio at DeLuca Fine art from March 10-April 10.

Bruno Billio has made a name for himself around the city for his interior design works and installation practices. These two aspects of his career tend to co-mingle. Found objects are simplified by vibrant or matte monochromes and held in vitrines or on mirror paneled platforms, stacked up. The show trades heavily on his work at the Gladstone, with a bottle of 'Pure Art' water poured from its taps. It's kind of a Piero Manzoni gag, much like the jeweled anuses that can be found on the yellow rhinos that flank one wall of his show at De Luca Fine Art. It's full of humour and a giddy leaping between notions of scale. But it's the constant production of fake depths thanks to his use of mirrors that really rules the day. The presence of some not-so-luxurious items in spaces with deceptive recessions could have been a joke about the economic situation, conscious or not. Maybe that's why Belinda Stronach seemed a little put off by the whole thing when she brushed by me on her way out.

Stephen Appleby-Barr at Nicholas Metivier from March 10-April 2.

Stephen Appleby-Barr is probably best known as a member of the city's comic art troupe Team Macho. He is now having his first solo show at Nicholas Metivier. Rather than the usual crowd of hipsters I encounter when seeing any work by the Team, the galley seemed to be full of old women with malfunctioning hearing aids. One jokingly said that the strangeness of his paintings was causing it. The paintings in his new show display the odd characters from a personal mythology which have become synonymous with his work. Based mostly on old daguerreotypes, he replaces human heads with animals when he isn't tying masks over the figures' eyes. This time around, the brush work of his oil on linen pieces is more accomplished, the backgrounds richer, full of lustre and a soft textural richness. His scope of references has also expanded with a few surprise dabs of Impressionism here and there. The subtly erotic "The Traditional Pit," a relatively large painting of a group of masked and kilted men stands out.

Ronald Boaks at the Moore Galley from March 12 - April 2, 2011.

I stumbled into a rather nice showing of the abstract paintings of Ronald Boaks at the Moore Gallery. Taken from the last decade or so, they show him working in that vein of abstraction that seems more or less unique to Toronto. Large swaths of paint take precedence at the centre, with big blocks of colour offset by elongated garish blocks to the side. Naked swirls crown the top. While most of the works follow this method, a few break from it with some startling results, relishing in dense waves of delicately articulated waves of paint.

 
Also this week:

Dan Bazuin has a new show of his digital art work opening up at Propeller, Tim Zuck's show of prints ends its run at Barbara Edwards Contemporary and Meryl McMaster has an intriguing photo show running at Leo Kamen until Saturday.

Images courtesy of Bruno Billio, Nicholas Metivier and the Moore Gallery.

OPENING NIGHT SpotLight.Italy at The Canadian Stage Company

The Berkeley Street Theatre complex was transformed into an Italian salon where audiences can see four groundbreaking Italian contemporary dance and theatre productions, along with a series of free events featuring Italian fashion, music, food and art that will create a festival atmosphere. Between performances, guests can relax over Italian antipasti and a glass of wine in the Berkeley lobby while enjoying live music, contemporary light installations by BRUNO BILLIO and fashions by Versace and Carlucci, with different events taking place each night.

"LA NATURA DELLE COSE"

LA NATURA DELLE COSE 
Choreography by Virgilio Sieni, collaboration on dramaturgical writing and translations Giorgio Agamben, with Ramona Caia, Massimiliano Barachini, Jacopo Jenna, Csaba Molnar, Daniele Ninarello.

Inspired by Lucretius’ ancient Roman text On the Nature of the Universe, this compelling dance theatre piece was conceived and choreographed to examine and explore the idea of the origin of things, vacuousness and nothingness.

Mar 15 – 19 at 7:00 pm

Berkeley Downstairs 



 "NUNZIO"



NUNZIO Text by Spiro Scimone, Directed by Carlo Cecchi, with Francesco Sframeli and Spiro Scimone.

A dialogue takes place between an ailing man who is happy merely to “wait and see” and his tough nomadic hero who is soft at heart – both alone in the world and partners in misfortune.

Mar 15 – 17 at 8:30 pm, 

Mar 18 – 19 at 9:15 pm

Berkeley Upstairs

Dominic Mancuso  

Tuesday, March 15, 8:30-10:30 pm

2010 Juno Award winner for "World Music Album of the Year" and 2010 Canadian Folk Music Award winner for "World Solo Artist of the Year" Dominic Mancuso weaves in the warmth and passion of Sicilian folk sensibility, with the sliding quarter notes of the myriad sounds of the Mediterranean rim, with the vibrant elasticity of the idiom of soul and the wild swing of jazz and Romani freedom. Mancuso is an artist that transcends cultures and borders making old world new.



Everyday: Internationally acclaimed Italian artist BRUNO BILLIO uses light to transform the Canadian Stage Company's Berkeley location for Spotlight on Italy. At once an installation artist, a sculptor, and a designer, Billio's centrepiece will be an 18' tall Black and Yellow Tower. Everyday: Pieces from Versace's and Carlucci's latest collections will be on display.

 

 

Francesco Sframeli and Spiro Scimone cast of NUNZIO







BRUNO BILLIO with a performer from
LA NATURA DELLE COSE



This International theatre festival, Spotlight on Italy, is a two-week celebration of Italian arts and culture at the Berkeley Street Theatre (26 Berkeley Street) from March 15 to 26, 2011. Tickets are $22 or $32, with Spotlight 4-packs available at $80 to $116 at 416.368.3110 or www.canadianstage.com

This is a must see event!

For more information regarding this show
or for BRUNO BILLIO's work:

T: (1) 416-537-4699
contact@delucafineart.com

 

de luca fine art | gallery
1153-A Queen Street West, Unit 203
Toronto, Ontario, Canada M6J 1J4

Preview Photography's of BRUNO BILLIO's and Giovanni Cerri's work at The Canadian Stage Company

De Luca Fine Art | Gallery with The Italian Institute of Culture presents an installation by BRUNO BILLIO, at The Canadian Stage Company in occasion of “SpotLight on Italy” in honour of the 150th anniversary of the reunification of Italy. Tonight is the opening night of "La Natura Delle Cose", Berkeley Location.



Staging the front of the enterance of the
Canadian Stage Company by BRUNO BILLIO



"Black and Yellow Tower" by BRUNO BILLIO

"Black and Yellow Tower" by BRUNO BILLIO along side
CARLUCCI ~ by Fashion Desinger Juliana Carlucci

Courtyard staged by BRUNO BILLIO

 

Oil on Canvas by Giovanni Cerri


There is still time for you to get tickets for the opening night. Join us there at 6:00 when the doors open. "La Natura Delle Cose" starts at 7:00 p.m.
http://www.canadianstage.com/italy

 

BRUNO BILLIO

This installation consists in a 24-foot black and yellow sculpture and a transformation of the exterior and the interior of the building using The Canadian Stage Company's signature colour “yellow” in the mediums of light and yellow stripes. BRUNO BILLIO has exhibited in Milan, London, Miami, New York and Los Angeles.

De Luca Fine Art | Gallery is currently exhibiting “Stacked = Retrospect” a retrospective of over 15 years of works by BRUNO BILLIO. The show will run from March 10^th to March 31^st, 2011.

For More information on this event, BRUNO BILLIO or Giovanni Cerri, please contact the gallery: contact@delucafineart.com 

CARLUCCI is a women’s wear luxury brand.  Canadian born designer, Juliana Carlucci, is a recent graduate of Canada’s premiere Fashion school, Ryerson University. Her collections are practical, elegant and sophisticated, always striving to make women look and feel beautiful.
Please contact: Juliana Carlucci
info@julianacarlucci.com
http://www.julianacarlucci.com/

BRUNO BILLIO at The Canadian Stage





Spotlight on Art

Everyday: Internationally acclaimed Italian artist BRUNO BILLIO uses light to transform the Canadian Stage Company's Berkeley location for Spotlight on Italy. At once an installation artist, a sculptor, and a designer, Billio's centrepiece will be an 18' tall Black and Yellow Tower.

BRUNO BILLIO (left) at the Berkeley location.





For more information regarding this show
or for BRUNO BILLIO's work:

T: (1) 416-537-4699
contact@delucafineart.com
de luca fine art | gallery
1153-A Queen Street West, Unit 203
Toronto, Ontario, Canada M6J 1J4

The Canadian Stage offers up Italian talent with “Spotlight”Program salutes anniversary of Italy’s unification,
shows by Sieni, Simone and Sagna
By Letizia Tesi

La natura delle cose.

The stylistic refinement of Virgilio Sieni, the tragic depth of Spiro Scimone, and the suggestive and the talents of Caterina Sagna, for an in-depth look at Italian contemporary theatre and dance, while also offering a taste of Toronto’s variegated multiculturalism. This is the objective Canadian Stage has set for itself, which from March 15 to 26 will present at Berkeley Street Theatre, in collaboration with the Italian Cultural Institute, “Spotlight on Italy”, an international theatre festival centred completely on Italy, both on and off the stage.
“‘Spotlight’ was conceived to reflect on the artistic and cultural diversity of Toronto,” says Matthew Jocelyn, Artistic and General Director of Canadian Stage. “We’re honoured to bring these artists to Canada – who with their art and talent will contribute to make the festival period unique.” Two weeks during which Berkeley Street Theatre will be completely transformed into an Italian pavilion where the public will not only get first opportunity to watch shows by Sieni, Simone, and Sagna, but also to enjoy a series of satellite events that fully reflect Italianità, from contemporary art and music, to cuisine and fashion.
Between shows in fact, audiences will be able to enjoy a glass of wine and a carefully planned selection of antipasti while strolling through installations by artist BRUNO BILLIO who took care of set-up and lighting.
Among music groups performing will be Domenic Mancuso’s ensemble, – he won a Juno last year – jazz guitarist David Occhipinti, the Antonio Ciacca Trio, best bass-player award-winner Roberto Occhipinti, Michael Occhipinti with his Sicilian Jazz Project, Vesuvius Ensemble with its repertoire of Neapolitan Baroque music, and Marco Calliari from Montreal. The fashion show – another expression of “Made in Italy” – will feature Versace and Carlucci, along with various other events each evening.
Italy is the first country to be highlighted by Canadian Stage, but the theatre company’s idea is to organize a biennial festival that displays the best of contemporary culture from communities that make up the variegated Toronto mosaic.

To Read more: http://www.corrieretandem.com/section.php?subsection=theatre&sectionno=10

Reception Night "STACKED=RETROSPECT"

BRUNO BILLIO

Running March 10 to March 31, 2011



Photographs taken Thursday, March 10th, 2011 Opening Reception by Carolyn Patricia Grisold who is the Director and Sr. Writer for Innings Gate Co. a communication firm which handles De Luca Fine Art | Gallery's Public Relation needs.

Innings Gate Co.

Brand Communications and Publicity Events for the Arts
"creativity...unlocked"

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carolyn@inningsgate.com

SpotLight.Italy Schedule at the Canadian Stage Company

The Canadian Stage with the assistance of the De Luca Fine Art | Gallery and Istituto Italiano di Cultura, in honour of the 150th anniversary of the reunification of Italy, is proud to present  SPOTLIGHT.ITALY, running March 15 - 26, 2011. This two-week festival features productions by innovative Italian companies and an abundance of artistic events, classes and experiences that honour modern Italian culture and art.

A BRUNO BILLIO and Jade Rude collaboration.

SPOTLIGHT ON ART

Everyday: Internationally acclaimed Italian artist BRUNO BILLIO uses light to transform the Canadian Stage Company's Berkeley location. Billio's centrepiece will be an 18' tall Black and Yellow Tower.

SPOTLIGHT.ITALY 10.11 marks the first year of our international Spotlight series, which will see the entire Berkeley complex transformed into a celebration of the groundbreaking contemporary theatre and culture of a particular foreign country.

LA NATURA DELLE COSE 
Choreography by Virgilio Sieni, collaboration on dramaturgical writing and translations Giorgio Agamben, with Ramona Caia, Massimiliano Barachini, Jacopo Jenna, Csaba Molnar, Daniele Ninarello.
Inspired by Lucretius’ ancient Roman text On the Nature of the Universe, this compelling dance theatre piece was conceived and choreographed to examine and explore the idea of the origin of things, vacuousness and nothingness.
March 15-19, 2011 Berkeley Downstairs

NUNZIO 
Text by Spiro Scimone, Directed by Carlo Cecchi, with Francesco Sframeli and Spiro Scimone.
A dialogue takes place between an ailing man who is happy merely to “wait and see” and his tough nomadic hero who is soft at heart – both alone in the world and partners in misfortune.
March 15-19, 2011 Berkeley Upstairs

BASSO OSTINATO
Choreography by Caterina Sagna, Text by Roberto Fratini Serafide,with Alessandro Bernardeschi, Antonio Montanile, Mauro Paccagnella.
Following an evening meal, three men converse with words, fragments, and gestures in this criticism of contemporary human efforts to mask decay and death under virtuosic form.
March 22-26, 2011 Berkeley Downstairs

LA FESTA
Text by Spiro Scimone, Directed by Gianfelice Imparato, with Francesco Sframeli, Spiro Scimone, Gianluca Casali.
La Festa is a brilliant examination of the family microcosm. Set in a small, abstract kitchen while preparing for a party, a father, mother, and son act out one day — amongst many — in a cruel but delightfully funny game of reciprocal intolerance.
March 22-26, 2011 Berkeley Upstairs

For more information regarding this show or for BRUNO BILLIO's work:
T: (1) 416-537-4699 contact@delucafineart.com
de luca fine art | gallery
1153-A Queen Street West, Unit 203
Toronto, Ontario, Canada M6J 1J4

CHIN Radio interviews Corrado De Luca

Set your clocks and your radios to Listen in on Monday, February 28, 2011 at 10:00 a.m. Eastern Standard Time as CHIN Radio FM 100.7 interviews Corrado De Luca the owner of De Luca Fine Art | Gallery to discuss the current exhibition "Stacked = Retrospect" by Bruno Billio as well as issues and topics of art and culture of the day. 

The CHIN Italian section broadcasts over 80 hours of Italian programming every week on CHIN AM1540 and FM100.7. Listen for news, entertainment, popular Italian music now and the hits from the 70′s, 80′s and 90′s. Be sure to check out the current top 10 Italian Songs list and programming schedule http://chinradio.com/radio-programs/italian/ 

"Stacked = Retrospect" by Bruno Billio exhibition runs from March 10 to March 31, 2011

Opening Reception is on Thursday, March 10th, 2011 from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. ~ This is an R.S.V.P. Requested event!

de luca fine art | gallery
1153-A Queen Street West, Unit 203
Toronto, Ontario, Canada M6J 1J4 R.S.V.P. to:
T: (1) 416-537-4699
invite@delucafineart.com

Bruno Billio

 

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R.S.V.P.

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“Spotlight on Italy” at the Canadian Stage

De Luca Fine Art | Gallery with The Italian Institute of Culture will present an installation by Bruno Billio, at the Canadian Stage in occasion of “Spotlight on Italy”, from March 15^th to March 26^th, 2011.


In honour of the 150th anniversary of the reunification of Italy, Canadian Stage Company presents Spotlight on Italy. This two-week festival features productions by innovative Italian companies and an abundance of artistic events, classes and experiences that honour modern Italian culture and art.

Spotlight on Art
Everyday: Internationally acclaimed Italian artist Bruno Billio uses light to transform the Canadian Stage Company's Berkeley location for Spotlight on Italy. At once an installation artist, a sculptor, and a designer, Billio's centrepiece will be an 18' tall Black and Yellow Tower.
http://www.canadianstage.com/italy/fashion-art


Canadian Stage Company was founded in 1987, and is one of Canada’s leading not-for-profit contemporary theatre companies. Led by Artistic & General Director Matthew Jocelyn, CanStage produces and showcases innovative theatre work from Canada and around the world, allowing its audience to encounter daring work guided by a strong directorial vision and a 21^st Century aesthetic. The company reinforces the presence of Canadian art and artists within an international context through work that mirrors the cultural diversity of Toronto.
For more information or to purchase tickets, refer to: http://www.canadianstage.com/italy