Modern Fuel’s latest exhibition “Sadderday Night” is an immersive experience of light, sound, and colour. Mike Murphy and Anders Oinonen have collaborated on a full-scale installation that transforms and unfolds the space of the gallery. Both artists have been pursuing new tactics in abstraction, and the show is revelatory. Murphy brings into his work ideas from a wide range of sources, including the French Support/Surface group and Latin American artists such as Gego, while Oinonen focuses on conscious and unconscious assumptions about images. Their collaboration makes abstraction literally kinetic.
For 'Sadderday Night,' clock din Sound System returns after a two-year hiatus to explore a "din of disappointment' in the immersive environment at Modern Fuel on the evening of the opening at 9pm. clock din is the ongoing collaboration of artists from Canada, Europe and Japan, curated by Gord High, that fuses "dada with dubplates" on-line (http://clockdin.com) and in house. Admission is free for gallery members, $5 for non-members.
Sadderday Night Photos
Mike Murphy (Toronto) received his MFA from the University of Waterloo. His exhibitions include “There’s nothing there at all” at Greener Pastures, and “LOVE/HATE: New Crowned Glory in the GTA” at MOCCA (Toronto).
Anders Oinonen (Toronto) received his MFA from University of Waterloo. He has had numerous exhibitions in Canada and abroad, including “Conceptual Figures” at Deitch Projects (New York) in 2008, and the 2007 RBC Painting Competition Exhibition.
Mike’s Bio
Meandering, manifesting manifold misshapen Malevich’s, Mr. Murphy mixes metaphors moreover manifesting multiple meaning. Methinks Mike’s misleading meanings might’ve made Marcel Marceau mumble. Maelstrom music makes Mike’s mind manufacture molecular magic. Mike Murphy is an alliteration living and working in Toronto.
Anders’ Bio
I have known Anders Oinonen (aka Antler, Anderpants, Onionskin, Anti, Onion bread, Adorn Neon Sine, Sander etc) real well for quite a while now. He is pretty light on his feet. Onionskin has these broad shoulders, like some buddy in an Aki Kaurismäki movie, but he is real subtle - and that's what I mean by light. Kind of sensitive to the situation in front of him. Anders can move around a problem the way Larry Bird could, and he can foresee the future the way Gretzky used to could. He is light because he is moving all the time. Onion bread is real open. When we came up against some trouble with this show, Antler sat down like a big stone cold boulder and thought the problem out. Pretty heavy. It takes a closed mind to elbow through the garbage I threw at him. Anti deals with dark ideas in a real light way – the guy is a total heavyweight. Anderpants is kind of heavy, kind of light, kind of open and kind of closed. I don’t think I know anything about him at all.
Anders Oinonen is exactly the same as an Ensnared Onion.