| Flavio Trevisan MUSEUM of the REPRESENTED CITY January 19 to April 8, 2012
Koffler Gallery Off-Site at 80 Spadina Ave. (between Adelaide and King), Suite 501
Curator: Mona Filip
OPENING RECEPTION: Thursday, January 19, 6 - 9 PM | Artist Talk at 7 PM | FREE
For Museum of the Represented City, his first solo exhibition at a public gallery, Toronto artist Flavio Trevisan takes an entirely new approach to his creative practice, articulating a conceptual context for his main body of work. Staging an immersive environment, he creates an ephemeral "museum of the present" that reflects on the current state of the city. The resulting installation conveys a fragmented yet revealing cartography of Toronto's built history, inviting the visitors to explore different ways of engaging with the cityscape. Trevisan's three-dimensional maps and playful objects expose the city as a collection of places successively shaped by and reshaping public ideals. Reduced to a single layer of information, the maps highlight means of moving around the urban environment - streets, paths, highways. These patterns uncover a complexity of geographical, social and political histories that have influenced Toronto's development. They indirectly emphasize the human presence, alluding to the way we occupy, experience and constantly create the city. 
IMAGE: Flavio Trevisan, Pink Republic, 2011 (detail).
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