Wednesday, June 1, 2011

Congratulations, Charmaine!

We are pleased to announce the winner of the "5 x 7 Easel Back Frame" is Charmaine Gooden.

Charmaine attended the gallery and participated in the contest by either drpping off a business card or by filling out a ballot which happens to take place every three months, showing once again that it can be you.

For her participation, she is the winner of the 5 x 7 Easel Back Frame, made by Roma. We wish her our best. Enjoy.

We also want to thank all of you who entered; we received many entries. Our only regret is that there can only be one winner. 

Our next frame contest / draw begins on Thursday, June 16, 2011
~ Reception Night.


If you wish to participate and cannot attend the gallery to fill out a ballot and/or drop off a business card. You may also submit your entry by mail or e-mail. 
Subject: "5 x 7 Easel Back Frame" with your contact information where you may be reached. (Please read contest rules posted, June 1, 2011 on this blog.)
Get ready, the next winner may be you.
(a photo will be posted at a later date)
de luca fine art | gallery

1153-A Queen Street West, Unit 203
Toronto, Ontario, Canada M6J 1J4

T: 1-416-537-4699
info@delucafineart.com

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Gallery Hours
Tuesday to Saturday 11:00 am to 6:00 pm 
by appointment or by chance

ROMA 5 x 7 Easel Back Frame Draw (the “Contest”) – Official Rules - NO PURCHASE NECESSARY TO ENTER OR WIN.

UPDATE: as of noon August 30, 2011, we will close the random draw for this next three month series. Winners will be announced soon.
The Contest is for residence of Ontario only.
1. How to Enter. Visit our blog and follow the directions to enter or simply attend a gallery reception and fill out a ballot or drop off and/or mail in a business card. All entrants must have a valid email address. Online ballot contains: contestant’s name, mailing address, phone number, and email address. Limit one (1) completed entry per person/email address (or per reception). No automated entry devices and/or programs permitted. All entries become the sole and exclusive property of de luca fine art | gallery (the “Sponsor”) and receipt of entries will not be acknowledged or returned. Delivery of prizes requires a street address (no P.O. Boxes). Sponsor is not responsible for lost, late, illegible, stolen, incomplete, invalid, unintelligible, misdirected, technically corrupted or garbled entries, which will be disqualified, or for problems of any kind whether mechanical, human or electronic. Only fully completed entry forms are eligible. Proof of submission will not be deemed to be proof of receipt by Sponsor.
2. Start/End Dates. Contest begins at 6:01 p.m. EST on June 01, 2011 and ends at 11:59a.m. EST on August 30, 2011.
3. Eligibility. Participation open only to legal residents of Ontario who have reached the age of majority as of their date of entry. Employees, officers & directors of Sponsor and its subsidiaries, affiliates, partners, dealers, advertising and promotion agencies, or members of the same household (whether related or not) of such employees/officers/directors are not eligible to enter. Subject to all applicable federal, provincial and local laws and regulations.
4. Random Drawing/Odds. One (1) winner will be selected in a random draw from all eligible entries received on or about August 30, 2011 at 12 noon in Toronto, Ontario. Odds of winning depend on the number of eligible entries received during the contest period. The Sponsor will notify selected entrants before September 15, 2011. By entering the Contest, entrants fully and unconditionally agree to be bound by these rules and the decisions of the judges, which will be final and binding in all matters relating to the Contest.
5. Prizes. One (1) prize will be awarded to the eligible winner. Prize must be accepted as awarded and cannot be transferred, substituted or redeemed for cash. Sponsor reserves the right, in its sole discretion to substitute a Prize for another prize of equal or greater value should the Prize be unavailable for any reason due to circumstances beyond their control.
6. Notification. The Selected entrant will be notified by email. If any selected entrant cannot be contacted within five (5) calendar days of first notification attempt, if any prize or prize notification is returned as undeliverable, if any selected entrant rejects his/her prize or in the event of non-compliance with these Contest rules and requirements, such prize will be forfeited and an alternate winner will be selected from all remaining eligible entries. Upon prize forfeiture, no compensation will be given. Limit one prize per person, or household.
7. Conditions. Participation in Contest and acceptance of prize constitutes each winner’s permission for Sponsor to use his/her name, address (city and province), likeness, photograph, picture, portrait, voice, biographical information and/or any statements made by winner regarding the Contest or Sponsor for advertising and promotional purposes without notice or additional compensation, except where prohibited by law. By participating, entrants, and winners agree to release and hold harmless Sponsor, its advertising and promotion agencies and their respective parent companies, subsidiaries, affiliates, partners, representatives, agents, successors, assigns, employees, officers and directors, from any and all liability, for loss, harm, damage, injury, cost or expense whatsoever including without limitation, property damage, personal injury and/or death which may occur in connection with participation in Contest, or possession, acceptance and/or use or misuse of prize or participation in any Contest-related activity and for any claims based on publicity rights, defamation or invasion of privacy and merchandise delivery. Entrants who do not comply with these Official Rules or attempt to interfere with this Contest in any way shall be disqualified. There is no purchase or sales presentation required to participate. A purchase does not increase odds of winning.
8. Additional Terms. In case of dispute as to the identity of any entrant, entry will be declared made by the authorized account holder of the email address submitted at time of entry. “Authorized Account Holder” is defined as the natural person who is assigned an email address by an Internet access provider, online service provider, or other organization (e.g., business, educational, institution, etc.) responsible for assigning email addresses or the domain associated with the submitted email address. Any potential winner may be requested to provide Sponsor with proof that such winner is the authorized account holder of the email address associated with the winning entry. Any other attempted form of entry is prohibited; no automatic, programmed; robotic or similar means of entry are permitted. Sponsor, its affiliates, partners and promotion and advertising agencies are not responsible for technical, hardware, software, telephone or other communications malfunctions, errors or failures of any kind, lost or unavailable network connections, website, Internet, or ISP availability, unauthorized human intervention, traffic congestion, incomplete or inaccurate capture of entry information (regardless of cause) or failed, incomplete, garbled, jumbled or delayed computer transmissions which may limit one’s ability to enter the Contest, including any injury or damage to participant’s or any other person’s computer relating to or resulting from participating in this Contest or downloading any materials in this Contest. Sponsor reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to cancel, terminate, modify, extend or suspend this Contest should (in its sole discretion) virus, bugs, non-authorized human intervention, fraud or other causes beyond its control corrupt or affect the administration, security, fairness or proper conduct of the Contest. In such case, Sponsor will select the winners from all eligible entries received prior to and/or after (if appropriate) the action taken by Sponsor. Sponsor reserves the right, at its sole discretion, to disqualify any individual it finds, in its sole discretion, to be tampering with the entry process or the operation of the Contest or website. Sponsor may prohibit an entrant from participating in the Contest or winning a prize if, in its sole discretion, it determines that said entrant is attempting to undermine the legitimate operation of the Contest by cheating, hacking, deception, or other unfair playing practices (including the use of automated quick entry programs) or intending to annoy, abuse, threaten or harass any other entrants or Sponsor representatives.
9. Sponsor. de luca fine art | gallery, 1153-Queen Street West, Unit 203, Toronto, Ontario Canada M6J 1J4   T: (1) 416-537-4699     info@delucafineart.com

Monday, May 30, 2011

INSTALLING "PADIGLIONE ITALIA"

THE 54TH INTERNATIONAL ART EXHIBITION 
VENICE BIENNALE

PADIGLIONE ITALIA  

WORKS BY TONY CALZETTA, VINCENZO PIETROPAOLO, FRANCESCA VIVENZA




As the curator of the De Luca Fine Art | Gallery, I have focussed on introducing Italian artists to Canadian audiences for over 10 years. This experience has allowed me to explore and contribute to the “internationalization” of the art world in Canada.
When the Italian Institute of Culture of Toronto invited me to collaborate and co-curate this extraordinary exhibition, I was ecstatic. This year is the 150th anniversary of Italy and for the first time the Venice Biennale – Vittorio Sgarbi’s Padiglione Italia – is reaching out beyond its borders to feature select artists of Italian descent, living and working in many countries around the world. For Italy, it’s vital to know and cherish the talents that represent Italian culture abroad.
Selecting the three artists for this exhibition has been a challenging “mission”. I am delighted to be able to present works by practitioners of three different artistic disciplines: Francesca Vivenza creates site-specific installations; Tony Calzetta is a painter; and Vincenzo Pietropaolo is a photographer.  Interestingly, however, although these artists primarily pursue very different artistic disciplines, they are united not only by their Italian heritage but also through their creation of utterly fascinating book-works.  This exhibition at the Italian Institute of Culture in Toronto features three “mini-retrospectives” of these artists’ works.

~ Corrado De Luca,
owner of De Luca Fine Art | Gallery 

Duration: 
June 6 – November 27, 2011

Istituto Italiano di Cultura
496 Huron Street,
Toronto, Ontario

Gallery Hours
Mon - Fri: 2:30pm - 4:30pm
Free admission

For more information regarding
this event and/or our services,
consultation, and art rental program
please visit

 de luca fine art | gallery

1153-A Queen Street West, Unit 203
Toronto, Ontario, Canada M6J 1J4

T: (1) 416-537-4699

Gallery Hours
Tuesday to Saturday 11:00 am to 6:00 pm 
by appointment or by chance

 





Thursday, May 26, 2011

INSIDE "BEHIND THE WHIP: DOMINATRIX"

Welcome to the artwork of Maria Coletsis. Primarily using photography, Maria is an artist who also incorporates in her diverse works: painting, digital media and computer installations. She has exhibited her work in galleries around the world and has had her work published in many international magazines and newspapers. Working from Vancouver, Maria continues to investigate and photograph subculture themes. She has been documenting Vancouver's Burlesque community for a decade and has exhibited that work internationally, creating marijuana pin-ups for countless magazines and calendars and exploring the fetish scene of London. She is currently promoting her photo book and short film entitled, Behind The Whip : Dominatrix. To view the Behind the Whip video trailer Click here. "Behind the Whip" is a photography book of portraits and interviews taken on location, in the city and dungeon of each participating global Dominatrix. To do so, Maria traveled to the City's of London, Berlin, Paris, Tokyo, New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Sidney, Hong Kong,.Bangkok, Montreal and Glasgow to interview and photograph the Mistresses.
 

PHOTO EXHIBITION
May 26th to May 30th, 2011

BOOK LAUNCH AND SIGNING
May 26th, 2011 6 to 10 p.m.

A short film of the making of the book will be shown on the opening night.

Book: $40 (plus HST)
To purchase copies, please contact Corrado De Luca:
or order by phone 416-537-4699
 
Payments can be made by Visa, Mastercard, American Express or by cash.

With our apologies, this is NOT a wheel chair access event. 

For more information regarding this event and/or our services, consultation, and art rental program please visit http://www.delucafineart.com/ or follow us on www.twitter.com/delucafineart

Wednesday, May 25, 2011

54TH INTERNATIONAL ART EXHIBITION – VENICE BIENNALE



Monday, June 06, 2011 - Sunday, November 27, 2011

AT THE 54TH INTERNATIONAL ART EXHIBITION – VENICE BIENNALE
PADIGLIONE ITALIA  


WORKS BY TONY CALZETTA, VINCENZO PIETROPAOLO, FRANCESCA VIVENZA


The Italian Cultural Institute is proud to present Padiglione Italia at the 54th International Art Exhibition of the Venice Biennale. On display works by Tony Calzetta, Vincenzo Pietropaolo, Francesca Vivenza.

June 6 – November 27, 2011
Istituto Italiano di Cultura 496, Huron St., Toronto
Gallery hours Mon - Fri: 2:30pm - 4:30pm
Free admission
Infoline: 416-921-3802 ext. 221


To celebrate the 150th anniversary of the Unification of Italy, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry for Cultural Heritage and Activities have launched a special event. For the first time ever the Padiglione Italia at the 54th International Art Exhibition of the Venice Biennale has been extended over the national boundaries to include the Italian Cultural Institutes in the world.
  
The aim of the project, which has been devised by Vittorio Sgarbi, art director of Padiglione Italia, is to map out Italian creativity abroad.

Each Institute has elected a number of Italian artists or artists of Italian descent living and working in its own jurisdiction, active in various disciplines, from painting to sculpture, photography, video, design, graphics. Over 400 artists’ portfolios have been submitted to a special commission made up of art historians and critics and chaired by Vittorio Sgarbi and 219 have been chosen.

The artists selected for Toronto are Tony Calzetta, Vincenzo Pietropaolo, Francesca Vivenza.
A collective exhibition of their works will be on display from June 6 until the end of the Venice Biennale, November 27 at the Institute. The exhibition has been filmed in a video which will be screened at the Padiglione Italia on a multimedia installation created by Benedetta Miralles Tagliabue. The accompanying music, “Da Pitagora e oltre”, has been composed for the occasion by Ennio Morricone. The exhibition has been curated by Adriana Frisenna (IIC Acting Director) and Corrado De Luca, (from De Luca Fine Art Gallery)


A special bilingual catalogue edited by Skira and curated by Francesca Valente (project coordinator) will accompany the exhibition.

Tony Calzetta
Over the last 30 years, since graduating from York University with an M.F.A., Tony Calzetta has exhibited continually in solo and group exhibitions. He works mainly on canvas and paper and occasional in the areas of sculpture and printmaking. He published two major livres d’artiste, Acts of Kindness and of Love in collaboration with writer John Metcalf, and more recently How God Talks In His Sleep and Other Fabulous Fictions with writer Leon Rooke. In addition to commissioned works he is represented in public and private collections in Canada, U.S. and Europe and in 2004 was elected as a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts (R.C.A.).

Vincenzo Pietropaolo is an independent documentary photographer who lives and works in Toronto. He is internationally best known for his empathetic social documentary photo essays on immigration, work, and labour movement. He has published 8 photographic books, among which Making Home in Havana, Not Paved with Gold and Harvest Pilgrims. His latest large documentary project, Invisible No More (Rutgers University Press, 2010), deals with Canadians with intellectual disabilities.

Francesca Vivenza graduated at the Academy of Fine Arts of Brera, Milan, Italy. Vivenza has been living and working in Toronto since1970, and has exhibited since 1966. Her practice consists of mixed-media works, which include bookworks, cut-out collages and site-specific installations, that she calls Tentative Itineraries. Vivenza addresses themes of travel, distance, disorientation, and questions the stability of taken-for-granted sites of personal identity as home, nation and native language. 

For additional information regarding this event and/or our services, consultation, and art rental program please visit www.delucafineart.com/ or follow us on www.twitter.com/delucafineart

PHOTO EXHIBITION, BOOK LAUNCH AND SIGNING


Come celebrate Maria Coletsis exceptional exhibition and book launch for: 
BEHIND THE WHIP: DOMINATRIX
PORTRAIT AND WORDS


“Behind the Whip: Dominatrix, Portraits and Words” is a series of photographs and interviews involving dominatrix taken on location in major cities in North America, Europe and Asia. These photo essays present an intimate look at the women, their words, and their dungeons. These women discuss in the interviews why they choose to do what they do, who their clients are, and the services they provide as well as how their services uniquely represent the city in which they work.


Maria Coletsis at De Luca Fine Art Gallery

Pages from the new book by Maria Coletsis,
"Behind The Whip: Dominatrix Portraits and Words"

PHOTO EXHIBITION
May 26th to May 30th, 2011

BOOK LAUNCH AND SIGNING
May 26th, 2011 6 to 10 p.m. 

A short film of the making of the book will be shown on the opening night.

Book: $40 (plus HST)
To purchase copies, please contact Corrado De Luca:
corrado@delucafineart.com or order by phone 416-537-4699
 
Payments can be made by Visa, Mastercard, American Express or by cash.

With our apologies, this is NOT a wheel chair access event. 
For more information regarding this event and/or our services, consultation, and art rental program please visit http://www.delucafineart.com/ or follow us on www.twitter.com/delucafineart

Sunday, May 15, 2011

PHOTO EXHIBITION

MARIA COLETSIS

BEHIND THE WHIP: DOMINATRIX
Portraits and Words

PHOTO EXHIBITION
May 26th to May 30th, 2011

BOOK LAUNCH AND SIGNING
May 26th, 2011 6 to 10 p.m.

A short film of the making of the book and photography series will be shown.




This is a must see event!

For more information regarding this show
or for Maria Coletsis'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

Tuesday, May 10, 2011

PRESS RELEASE

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE



Photography Series Exhibition and Book Launch:
“Behind the Whip: Dominatrix, Portraits and Words” by Maria Coletsis
 
Toronto, May 10, 2011 – This exhibition is a startling collection of photographs and book launch of one of Canada's freshest new voices in contemporary photography by Maria Coletsis. The exhibition will run from May 26th to May 29th, 2011. De Luca Fine Art | Gallery is hosting the Photography Series Exhibition and Book Launch: “Behind the Whip: Dominatrix, Portraits and Words” on Thursday, May 26th, 2011 from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. at 1153-A Queen Street West, Unit 203, Toronto. Please R.S.V.P. to invite@delucafineart.com

“Behind the Whip: Dominatrix, Portraits and Words” is a series of photographs and interviews involving dominatrix taken on location in major cities in North America, Europe and Asia. These photo essays present an intimate look at the women, their words, and their dungeons. These women discuss in the interviews why they choose to do what they do, who their clients are, and the services they provide as well as how their services uniquely represent the city in which they work.

Bondage and fetish photography are associated with ritualized role-playing but also with a kind of religious intensity that longs for immortality. The relatively recent popularity in the west of fetish events and clubs have acquired an acceptable air of social approval due in part to writers like Foucault, Baudrillard, George Bataille and others, who see this as a necessary outlet for suppressed imagination.

The origins of the erotic rituals of Bondage, Domination and Sadomasochism are obscure. We have records of ritual flagellations called “Diamastigosis” at the shrine of Artemis Orthia in Ancient Sparta (in Greece) in the ninth century BCE.  It is from the archaic period of pre-Olympian Greece and appears to be a replacement for the ritual of human sacrifice itself.

Maria Coletsis presents this world clearly in photographs, which are entirely from an observer’s standpoint without being seduced by its fantasy elements or attempting to present the participants as anything other than what they are pretending to be. This book is about our time and some of our current inflexions of both so old and new activities.

Maria Coletsis works with issues concerned with identity and sexuality. Since receiving her MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute, she has exhibited her artwork in galleries internationally. Her photographs were included in the 2010 East London photography festival and have been published in many international magazines and newspapers. Her work has been featured on CBC Radio3, webzine. She continues to investigate and photograph subculture groups. Her work will also be exhibited at book launches in three other cities, London, England on May 5th, Vancouver, British Columbia on May 18th and at the De Luca Fine Art | Gallery in Toronto, Ontario on May 26th, 2011.

De Luca Fine Art | Gallery, established in 2004, is located at 1153-A Queen Street West, in the heart of the Queen West Gallery District in Toronto and is dedicated to representing and introducing Italian and International Artists to Canadian. In collaboration with select Italian Galleries, De Luca Fine Art | Gallery introduces established and emerging Canadian Artists to Italy. De Luca Fine Art | Gallery’s mandate is “representing a bridge between Cultures”.

For more information regarding this event and/or our services, consultation, and art rental program please visit www.delucafineart.com or follow us on www.twitter.com/delucafineart or www.delucafineart.blogspot.com

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Sunday, April 10, 2011

Solo Exhibition of International Artist Juno Youn

MADE IN MONTREAL

En considérant le monde différent by


JUNO YOUN

 

  De Luca Fine Art | Gallery hosted the solo exhibition of International artist Juno Youn “MADE IN MONTREAL En considérant le monde différenton Saturday, April 9th, 2011, from 6 pm to 9:30 pm.









For more information regarding this event and/or our services, consultation, and art rental program please visit http://www.delucafineart.com/ or follow us on www.twitter.com/delucafineart