CAROL WAINIO & BARBARA KLUNDER OPEN FRIDAY JAN 17, 7-10PM

Name: CAROL WAINIO & BARBARA KLUNDER OPEN FRIDAY JAN 17, 7-10PM
Start: 2025-01-17T19:00:00-05:00
End: 2025-01-17T22:00:00-05:00
Location: 980 Queen St West, Toronto, ON, Canada, Ontario M6J 1H1

Schedule

Fri Jan 17 2025 at 07:00 pm to 10:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

980 Queen St West, Toronto, ON, Canada, Ontario M6J 1H1 | Toronto, ON

Paul Petro Contemporary Art is pleased to present an exhibition of new paintings by Carol Wainio and Barbara Klunder's paintings and paper-cuts in a first-time exhibition of Klunder's work at our gallery.
From a longer text by Carol Wainio:
"Fables differ from fairy tale in being primarily allegories of the human condition expressed dispassionately with little detail, psychological shading, or heroes/villains with which to identify (perhaps why they have endured and been applied to moral and political questions while fairy tale could be well suited to cunning advertising). Though morals were applied at various times, fables often leave sober, open questions: The Dog and the Wolf both may each have a valid point about freedom versus security. The Fox and The Stork both lose something in being unable to share sustenance (a parable of the current media diet). Fables seem less polemical than current cultural and political braying."
And from Barbara Klunder:
"Painting on wood, as Hieronymus Bosch did, seemed appropriate to me with these medieval fables. My delight was to combine various biblical, folkloric and modern elements into one image, such as Adam & Eve as the Tortoise & the Hare. The Lion & the Lamb blend in with the Three Blind Mice and subversively suggest the Aesop’s fable of the Lion & Mouse’s unusual contract. The knife floating above reveals the probable outcome for all."
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