Scotiabank Nuit Blanche
Some Enchanted Evenings
A Scotiabank Nuit Blanche
5th Year Retrospective Exhibition
Curated by Fern Bayer
September 20 to October 3, 2010
Scotia Plaza, 40 King Street West, East Lobby
Four enchanted evenings, each so different, so appealing.
Selected artworks by artists from Canada and around the world –video art, site-specific installations, sculpture, painting, multi-media performative work– that galvanized the Scotiabank Nuit Blanche audience over the last four years are represented in an archival/documentary exhibition.
Sited at Scotia Plaza, these works are highlighted by still and video photography, stories and tales, props and costumes, original drawings and maquettes. The exhibition also investigates some of the creative processes, from artists’ initial submissions to the Scotiabank Nuit Blanche curatorial team and onwards through the various stages an artwork undergoes between conception and realization.
The retrospective unfolds in 2006 when Scotiabank and hundreds of thousands of Torontonians embraced the City’s initial dream: when from dusk until dawn, darkness fades from the skies and the city is infused with the illumination of some of the world’s finest visual artists at work. Through Herculean efforts Scotiabank Nuit Blanche has now become one of the most anticipated events in Toronto’s annual cultural calendar.
