One of the most iconic of anti-authoritarian performance and installation artists that Canada (and Hungary) has ever produced, Istvan Kantor, opens with his new exhibition, The Life and Times of Istvan Kantor, on September 25 at 7pm at Fountain Gallery (652A Queen West, entrance off Palmerston). The exhibition runs until October 5. At both the opening on September 25 and on Nuit Blanche (Oct 4) also at 7pm, Kantor will engage in a performance.
Many will know Kantor for his action-art interventions in various museums around the world from Cologne to Montreal to New York to Toronto to Ottawa: Blood Campaign. His most recent action was an unsolicited gift to the AGO in 2005, following which the Art Gallery of York University gave Kantor a show of his unique and compelling "robotics" installation-performance art.
In 2004, Kantor won a Governor-General's Award for the Visual Arts, the most coveted award for an established Canadian artist apart from the Sobey (although the Sobey is limited artists under 40) and perhaps just below the honour of representing Canada at the Venice Biennale. Click here for a glorious photo of Kantor with then Governor-General Clarkson and John Ralston Saul.
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