Invisible Gift to the AGO / Istvan Kantor

INVISIBLE GIFT
Donation to the new AGO,
by Istvan Kantor

I'm happy to inform the Art Gallery of Ontario
that I will mix my blood into the concrete
used in the construction of the new building.
This simple sculptural gift will become an integrated part
of the walls of the new AGO as an invisible monument.

It will signify that every museum worldwide
was built with the blood of artists.


NEWS: BLOOD FOR THE ART GALLERY OF ONTARIO


ISTVAN KANTOR


Invisible Gift / Invisible Monument,
designed for the newly constructed Art Gallery of Ontario.

Invisible Gift / Invisible Monument presents Kantor's ideas through a
guerilla action that is critical, conceptual, and monumental at once.
Kantor proposes to integrate his own blood into the foundation and
walls of the new AGO by mixing it with the concrete to be used for
the construction of the new museum. He insists that art must question
institutional authority and refer to creative autonomy within the
historical context of today's social reality.

Writer/critic Daniel Baird and curator/writer Linda Feesey will
accompany Kantor at the press conference to comment on his work.

Slides of the new project photographed by Miklos Legrady as well as
video documentation of previous works will be part of the visual
presentation.

Toronto based Istvan Kantor, the founder of Neoism (1979), is known
as Canada's number one controversial artist, recipient of the 2004
Governer General's Award for Visual and Media Arts. His work has
always been described as rebellious, confrontational,
anti-authoritarian, as well as highly innovative and radically
experimental. Kantor has been arrested and jailed for his blood
interventions many times and he is banned from the National Gallery
of Canada since 1991.

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Background Info:
Making of Invisible Gift
http://www.ccca.ca/mikidot/istvansite/making_inv_gift.html

Meaning of Invisible Gift
http://www.ccca.ca/mikidot/istvansite/meaning_inv_gift.html

Blood Campaign Introduction 2005
http://www.ccca.ca/mikidot/istvansite/blood_intro05.html

I Am Istvan Kantor the Neoist
http://www.ccca.ca/mikidot/istvansite/i_am.html

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http://www.ccca.ca/mikidot/istvansite/press_ago.html

For more information on Istvan Kantor's work please visit
www.istvankantor.com

contact:
[email protected]
(416)516-3688

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