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Fall 2001 |
Special Visitors at the Grange
This year the Art Gallery of Ontario celebrates its 100th birthday. It all began in a lovely old, red brick mansion called the Grange, built in 1817. It was bequeathed to the newly founded Art Museum of Toronto upon the death of its last private owner, Harriet (Dixon Boulton) Smith. The AMT eventually evolved in to the AGO, which is housed behind the Grange and connected to it through a glass covered gallery court, where sculptures grace one side and the AGO's restaurant Agora the other.
By Alidė Kohlhaas
To celebrate this 100th birthday, the AGO has created a special exhibit at The Grange called House Guests: Contemporary Artists in The Grange. These guests are seven contemporary artists, who have integrated their works into the stately mansion so that they appear to be part of it rather than being intruders. I found it quite enchanting the way the artists' melded their ideas into the various rooms of this home, in fact capturing its spirit in a variety of ways.
In the upstairs music room of this Georgian house, now emptied of its chandelier and a few of its furnishings, is the installation by Peruvian-born Canadian artist Luis Jacob. It consists of a long, horizontal row of vertical strings peppered with
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