‘Something’

Exhibition Dates: October 18th-December 31st

Location: 184 Munro St E (Rear)

By appointment only

Patel Gallery is please to announce ‘Something’ an evolving exhibition of works from private collections on view by appointment from Oct 19 until Dec 31 at our newly renovated location at 184 Munro St E. The first iteration of the show will include works by notable Canadian artists like Marcel Dzama and David Altmejd. This exhibition is born out of a drive to celebrate our faculty of attention and its ability to meaningfully navigate the vast unknown expanses that art inhabits and provides access to; as well as share reverence for the object nature of the art we get to sense, enjoy and be affected by. Amongst all the possibilities of everything an artist can make and what one can experience and interpret from a work; something strikes us as a viewer, and we are confronted with feelings through an unfamiliar reflection of self. In turn, paying attention allows us to discover, unpack and make meaning - a powerful and creative process that can contribute to personal development and the further realization of the work itself. In consideration of this and an interest in cultivating a secondary market in Canada and for Canadian Art, the selection of works presented are exclusively from private collections. Focusing on the energetic and attentional implications of the secondary market, the life an artwork takes on, the exhibition interrogates the intersection and overlap of varying viewpoints - from the artists that created it, the collectors that have experienced and owned the work and the public that views them.