Logotopia: The Library in Architecture, Art and the Imagination

Adam David Brown
Douglas Coupland
Denis Farley
Guy Laramée
Michael Lewis

Curated by Sascha Hastings, this multi-disciplinary exhibition and publication project presents original artworks, commissioned essays and stories, contemporary library architecture, library lore and ephemera, and pop culture icons.

Several Canadian and international writers, visual artists and architects explore library as a concept and a built form through four distinct categories: the Universal Library, the National Library, the Public Library, the Private Library – and take a peak into the future of new technology and the librarian as a cyber avatar.

Featured renowned Canadian and international architects, such as Hariri Pontarini Architects, Kongats Architects, Patkau Architects, Shigeru Ban Architects, Shim-Sutcliffe Architects, and Snøhetta Architects share their inspirations and their deep appreciation for libraries of all types, in both Canadian and international contexts.

Featured artists: Adam David Brown, Douglas Coupland, Denis Farley, Guy Laramée and Michael Lewis contribute another dimension to the Logotopia experience. Their works encompass a wide range of media, and were selected for their visual commentary on the notion of the library and their reinforcement of the link between art, architecture and literature.

Featured writers: Lise Bissonnette, Ray Bradbury, Alberto Manguel, Robert Jan van Pelt and Nora Young inform and expand the multi disciplinary tribute to the library by recounting their personal and professional library experiences in essays created expressly for Logotopia.

OPENING RECEPTION Thursday, September 9, 2010 at 7:30 pm at the Triangle Gallery of Visual Arts • Opening Remarks: Jacek Malec, Gallery Director/Curator • Reception: Cash bar & light refreshments from 8 pm to 9:30 pm ART TALK SERIES Saturday, September 11, 2010 at 1:30 pm at the Triangle Gallery of Visual Arts • “Levantine Whispers and Dialogues .. Logos and Mythos in Art and Architecture” – ruminations and exchanges on social archives, social memories and cultural legacies led by Dr. Caterina Pizanias, a sociologist of art. Presented in conjunction with the exhibition “Logotopia: The Library in Architecture, Art and the Imagination”. • Light refreshments will follow the discussion. FREE ADMISSION.