Review: Toronto Art Now
I have been to a few art shows in Toronto, not many…but I must say that beside Rebecca Belmore’s at AGO and Edward Burtynky’s I have seen nothing but milk-toast. It seems that artists here feel guilty if their painting actually has some quality of a good painting in terms of succulent paint, great colours something to communicate. They take special pains to show the viewer that he/she was not really trying to paint. It is a kind of jaded approach to art. The Gladstone show had a title for it, „Why the F*ck Do I Paint“…and honestly after seeing maybe a couple of reasonably painted works I honestly can answer that I don’t know why they bother..
And yet I am pretty sure if they put some enthusiasm and life into their work, and lost the cynical attitude, they would probably all be pretty good artists.
Link to Eva’s original article here.