Top of the A list on any art-minded visit to Toronto should be Galerie Lausberg. If indeed the modes of minimal and optical art are in eclipse, you’d hardly know it, standing in the chaste shimmer of the current show, a succinct belles lettres of the field. What’s more, pristine taste is equaled by the congeniality of the personnel Find that, if you can, in Chelsea! The following is extracted from the brochure of their current group show, “Beyond Painting”:
Lausberg contemporary's mandate to serve as a forum for innovators in the minimal and optical art realms finds its ultimate expression in the forthcoming 25-artist international group exhibition. Beyond Painting brings to the forefront less traditional, more 3 dimensional forms utilizing unusual media or materials, such as adding machine rolls, aludibond, brushed steel, glass, plexiglas, resin, and silicon.
Nice, by Carlos Estrada Vega, employs a list of ingredients worthy of a mayonnaise by Alain Ducasse. Each square has a magnet which fixes it to a steel plate. You can change the arrangement, if Rembrandt aspirations overtake you.
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