Listening to Snow

Michael Snow
01-04/2020 | Justina M. Barnicke Gallery, Art Museum, University of Toronto, Canada
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Michael Snow, Listening to Snow - Exhibition View, Art Museum, University of Toronto, 2020. Image Credit: Toni Hafkenscheid

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Michael Snow,Solar Breath (2002), at Listening to Snow, Art Museum, University of Toronto, 2020. Image Credit: Toni Hafkenscheid

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Michael Snow, Waiting Room (20012), at Listening to Snow,Art Museum, University of Toronto, 2020. Image Credit: Toni Hafkenscheid

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Michael Snow, Waiting Room (20012), at Listening to Snow, Art Museum, University of Toronto, 2020. Image Credit: Toni Hafkenscheid

Opening Reception: Listening to Snow

Michael Snow, Diagonale (1988), at Listening to Snow, Art Museum, University of Toronto, 2020. Image Credit: Dominic Chan/EXimages

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Michael Snow, Listening to Snow - Exhibition View. Art Museum, University of Toronto, 2020. Image Credit: Toni Hafkenscheid

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Michael Snow at Listening to Snow, Art Museum, University of Toronto, 2020. Image Credit: Toni Hafkenscheid

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 In the early stages of this project, I went to composer and artist Michael Snow with a proposal: to curate an exhibition of a selection of his sound-related works by composing a listening space. Works would be chosen according to how they sounded and, moreover, together they would constitute a single sonic experience: A composition of space, time, imagination, and memory through his sounds. Listening to Snow would be an experiment, a space where one could listen to the ideas and thoughts arising from the selected sounds. Snow, the indefatigable experimentalist, was interested.

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