Marc Adornato’s Ruined Landscapes Vernissage

Join Marc Adornato‘s Ruined Landscapes Vernissage, on Thursday April 5, 2018, from 7 – 9 pm, in the Allard Gallery of the Diefenbunker.

EVENT TICKETS: Free.
Tickets must be reserved in advance through eventbrite.
8pm highlights tour. Space is limited. Reserve at checkout

Cash bar 🍺 (No ATM onsite)

🚍 SHUTTLE BUS – SOLD OUT!
Round-trip shuttle provided by Brew Donkey
Shuttle tickets must be reserved in advance through the Brew Donkey website: https://www.brewdonkey.ca/products/ruined-landscapes-vernissage-shuttle-april-5th-2018
6 pm – meeting time at Brew Donkey in Hintonburg – 987 Wellington Street West
6:15 pm – departure to the Bunker.
7 pm – vernissage start time
9 pm – departure back to Brew Donkey in Hintonburg.

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Ruined Landscapes exhibition is on display from April 5 until July 15, 2018.

Artist Statement:
One hundred years ago, Tom Thomson and the Group of Seven artists made a name for themselves painting the pristine Canadian landscape. One hundred years later, I am creating contemporary artwork that reflects the new Canadian landscape. I embody Marshall McLuhan’s phrase “the medium is the message” by ruining other people’s landscape paintings with toxic accidents.

Ruined Landscapes is a painting series whereby I ‘hijack’ vintage, mass-produced, Bob Ross-style landscape paintings found in thrift stores and antique shops, and I paint in hazmat cleanup crews and man-made environmental disasters. Many of the painting titles are appropriated from actual news headlines from real accidents that have occurred in Canada. Train derailments, fuel truck rollovers, oil tankers running aground, and illegal chemical dumping are just some of the toxic disasters reflected in these truly Canadian landscape paintings.

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About the Artist:
Marc Adornato (1977 – not dead yet)

Adornato (BFA, NSCAD) is a Canadian contemporary artist, satirist, reformed antique hoarder, and occasional shit-disturber. His provocative art practice usually consists of sharp socio-political critique, with themes of wealth inequality, terrorism, state surveillance, technology, pollution, and plagiarism – with a hint of dystopian sarcasm or dark humour. Adornato explores a wide range of mediums and disciplines including painting, sculpture, assemblage, performance, ready-mades, video, and sound.

“I don’t have stylistic loyalty. That’s why people perceive me changing all the time. But there is a real continuity in my subject matter.” – Adornato

He received a degree in Fine Arts from NSCAD University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Bragging rights over the past decade include exhibits in the Canadian War Museum, the Bank of Canada’s Currency Museum, the Ottawa Art Gallery, the Canada Science and Technology Museum, and the Diefenbunker Museum. His work resides in the permanent art collections of the City of Ottawa, the Diefenbunker Museum, as well as several private and celebrity collections in Canada and abroad.

For more information about the artist, visit http://www.ADORNATO.com

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