Exhibition Walkthrough: Rui Pimenta on Glorious Catastrophe | Gillian Iles

Join Rui Pimenta, writer of texts about the exhibition, for a walkthrough of by Toronto artist Gillian Iles. Pimenta will share his insights about the whole installation and specific artworks so visitors can engage more deeply with the metaphors and dualities presented in Iles’s work.

Rui Pimenta has been connected to the arts for close to 30 years, including a visual art practice from 2000-2014 during which time he exhibited his work extensively in Canada and Europe. Since then his creative focus has shifted towards programming and curation. In 2009 he founded Art Spin, an arts organization now in its 16th year of presenting site-specific, multidisciplinary programming in unique/alternative spaces and best known for its bicycle art tours. He was the Co-Director for the artist run Median Contemporary (2008-10) and has curated projects for Eastern Front Gallery, Toronto Artists Project, the Toronto Outdoor. Exhibition, and the Government of Portugal. He has served on various arts council juries, was a member of the City of Toronto’s Public Art Strategy Advisory Committee and The Bentway’s Advisory Committee. His curatorial aspirations are largely motivated by the enthusiastic pursuit of creating engaging and accessible ways to present art in public space.

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