TT here. Had a wonderful afternoon with Ms Fiona Reid at the above establishment. I particularly loved the Henry Moore retrospective and the magnificent edifice itself designed by Frank Gehry. 
This is the Italian Gallery which was sponsored by the Italian community. It housed a fantastic sculpture exhibit which reminded me of the Michaelangelo works in Florence..the ones I think called The Slaves...pieces of bodies trying to free themselves from the white marble. The sculptor, Guiseppe Penone, has created branches and limbs trying to break out of huge planks of wood mostly on the wall opposite the windows but we were not allowed to photograph them. The main feature in the corridor was a tree trunk which has been carved to reveal a tree inside.
The Frank Gehry staircase that climbs seven stories up the interior of the gallery.
There was one artist who really moved me with his work. His name is Lawren S Harris. He was a Theosophist and hence fascinated by the triangle. The Trinity. So icebergs are ideal subjects.
But there was one in particular which hit a chord. This is very strange and other worldly. The print does not capture the real power but here it is.
Why would we frightened of this?
Shary Boyle is a ceramic artist who creates beautiful nightmares. This is particularly disturbing piece. It is a sort of spider woman caught at exactly the time she has spotted her next meal. Me? Boy do you know how fast she can move!!
Occasionally the projections on this figure would stop and she would become benign and calm and almost friendly. Then on would flash the weird garden, the wheeling bat and the eerie mask of a dangerous fairy.
The Henry Moore outside the gallery. Toronto has the largest collection of Moore's external pieces in the world.
The rear of the gallery looking out onto Grange Park. The blue is actually the glass wall of the building and the second of the Gehry staircases hangs on the outside.
The 10th shot down here is a great one!
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