ART SALON

HARVEY NICHOLS, DUBAI PRESENTS JANET BELLOTTO

Join The Tour! Corrado De Luca owner / curator of De Luca Fine Art Gallery is attending this unique installation. Join him and others as they experience the 10 window installation.
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Calling all art lovers and enthusiasts; Harvey Nichols -Dubai presents an exclusive window installation in collaboration with contemporary Italian-Canadian artist Janet Bellotto.
The unique window displays can be viewed across all three levels of the Harvey Nichols –Dubaistore windows starting March 22 2012. The window installations magically move with the viewer with the full visual impact only experienced in person. “The opportunity to collaborate with Harvey Nichols–Dubai on the window installations at Mall of the Emirates is a riveting and challenging experience” says Janet, “I hope the installations will intrigue people’s curiosity and submerge them in a wave of experiences.”
Janet Bellotto is an artist fromTorontocurrently based inDubaiwhere she holds a position as an Associate Professor and co-chair of the Department of Art & Design at theZayedUniversity,Dubai. She graduated from the Sculpture and Installation program from theOntarioCollegeof Art & Design,Torontoand received an MFA in Sculpture and Studio Arts fromConcordiaUniversity,Montreal,Canada.
The Harvey Nichols –Dubaiwindow displays in collaboration with Janet Bellotto will run from March 22 until the end of April 2012 where the installations will be available to be viewed by the public.


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Janet Bellotto: “The Lure”

November 3 –  November 27, 2011
Opening: Thursday, November 3,  6 - 9 pm.
 

De Luca Fine Art | Gallery
217 Avenue Road
Toronto, ON, M5R 2J3
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Hours: Tuesday-Saturday 11-5pm

The The Lure emerges from olfactory investigations borrowing from fact and fiction. Inspired by the mirage of aromas from perfume salons that attempt to seduce passers-by, Janet Bellotto entertains the gallery with an installation of illuminating and fragrant objects and scintillating video. At a time when illnesses travel instantaneously around the globe, scent emerges and vanishes like a mirage, and yet resonate memories and emotions. The objects in Bellotto’s work acts in the tradition of aromatherapy while entertaining how certain smells can conjure up memories of place. The Lure attempts to tap into the history of per fumum (Latin) – which translates as “through the smoke”, where aromatic smells have been used for medicinal and cosmetic purposes.

Janet Bellotto is an artist from Toronto, who splits her time teaching in Dubai at Zayed University. She graduated from the Sculpture/Installation program from the Ontario College of Art & Design, Toronto, and received an MFA in Sculpture/Studio Arts from Concordia University. Her practice encompasses sculpture, installation, photography, video and performance. She continues to write and curate, while exhibiting both locally and internationally.
Recent exhibitions include: 2011 Untitled Original, CDA Projects, Istanbul Contemporary Crosscurrents: Portraits and Electronic Arts, Streaming Museum in Dubai  (www.streamingmuseum.org); A Cozy Lie, Redhead Gallery, Toronto; 2010 – 12th Cairo Biennale, Cairo, Egypt; Drowning Ophelia, Stratford Gallery, Stratford; 2009 – Point of Encounter, Tashkeel, Dubai; 2008 – In-Situ, The JamJar, Dubai; WAVE, The LAB, New York City; 2007 – Dehisce, kkprojects, New Orleans, USA.

De Luca Fine Art | Gallery, established in 2004, is now located at 217 Avenue Road. The gallery represents and introduces Italian and International Artists to Canadian audiences. In collaboration with select Italian Galleries, De Luca Fine Art | Gallery introduces established and emerging Canadian Artists to Europe.  

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