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CONTACT Toronto Photography Festival, May 2008
Featuring the Award-winning Work of Eric Klemm

 
A RORSCHACH TEST OF PENCIL SHAVINGS
Globe and Mail Review

GARY MICHAEL DAULT
garymdault@sympatico.ca
May 10, 2008
Eric ...click here for more details


 
Marco Sassone: Toronto - The Globe and Mail
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"For those who think of Toronto as Hogtown, brash and brutish and bereft of romance, a new series of paintings by Marco Sassone begs to differ.

With gestural brush strokes and an expressionistic use of colour, Mr. Sassone romanticizes such banal views as a Carlaw parking lot and the westbound Gardiner Expressway. The CN Tower, meanwhile, is approached as a mythic piece of
architecture. ...click here for more details


 
Qi: Paintings by Zhang He

Odon Wagner Contemporary is pleased to present new paintings from the Montreal-based painter Zhang He in his first solo exhibition with the gallery. With paint like hot lava, the artwork of Zhang He surges onto the canvas. His bold strokes of colour and luminous hues are gorgeous and seductive, evoking energy and passion, sensuality and angst, adding emotion to his contemporary style. ...click here for more details


 
2007 Canadian Antiques Roadshow
Odon Wagner featured in the Montreal Gazette article, "For What it's Worth"

Arthur Kaptainis, Freelance
Tuesday, ...click here for more details


 
Illuminated Landscapes
by Don Resnick at 172 Davenport rd.

Illuminated Landscapes

He who looks on nature with a 'loving eye,' cannot move from his dwelling without the salutation of beauty; even in the city the deep blue sky and drifting clouds appeal to him. And if to escape its turmoil—if only to obtain a free horizon, land and water in the play of light and shadow yields delight—let him be transported to those favored regions, where the features ...click here for more details


 
Treacy Ziegler in Conversation with Laura Peturson

In the months leading up to the opening of An Open Window, Laura Peturson of Odon Wagner Contemporary and Treacy Ziegler engage in a correspondence about the artist's technique and process.
LP: Your previous exhibitions with Odon Wagner Contemporary have been exclusive to printmaking. Why did you decide to extend your practice to include painting?

TZ: I initially studied painting ...click here for more details


 
An Open Window
by Treacy Ziegler at 172 Davenport rd.
Toronto - Odon Wagner Contemporary announces the opening of An Open Window, an exhibition of thirty new paintings by American artist Treacy Ziegler. This is the first time that Ziegler, who is known for her atmospheric etchings and collagraphs, has created an expansive body of work comprised solely of paintings. With remarkable facility, Ziegler depicts flowers, birds, unpeopled landscapes ...click here for more details

 
Waterways
Paintings by Wang Yihua at 196 Davenport Rd

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Wang Yihua: Waterways October 27 – November 18, 2006

Toronto – Odon Wagner Gallery is pleased to announce the opening of Waterways, an exhibition of paintings by Chinese artist Wang Yihua. These canal scenes of Zhou Zhang depict a 900 year-old city, where sixty percent of the houses survive in their original state from the Ming and Qing Dynasties. ...click here for more details


 
Personae
Paintings by Tata Navia

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Tata Navia: Personae October 20 – November 11, 2006

Toronto – Odon Wagner Contemporary is pleased to announce the opening of Personae, an exhibition of eighteen new paintings by Colombian born artist Tata Navia. These works depict chairs arranged in narrative compositions against vast expanses of colour. The empty chairs signify absent humans, ...click here for more details


 
From Symbols to Ceremony
An Exhibition of Chinese Textiles

September 29 – October 21, 2006
To view the exhibition online click HERE.
The presentation of this exhibition coincides with a major conference for the Textile Society of America, October 11 to 14, 2006, co-hosted by the Textile Museum of Canada and the Harbourfront Centre. This exhibition ...click here for more details


 
Steinunn Thorarinsdottir: Inner Light

September 22 – October 14, 2006
To view the exhibition online click HERE.
Odon Wagner Contemporary is pleased to announce the opening of Inner Light, an exhibition of new sculptures by Icelander Steinunn Thorarinsdottir. This exhibition presents us with a group of sculptures that are ...click here for more details


 
11th Annual Canadian Art Gallery Hop

This year, the Canadian Art Foundation has centred it's Gallery Hop Gala and Events arount the theme of GLOCAL... where local meets Global. At the Galleries is a series of free gallery talks on Saturday, September 16th, which highlights artists, curators and dealers whose work reflects the GLOCAL theme. Please join us for this special event, where Odon Wagner Contemporary will showcase Icelandic ...click here for more details


 
The Globe and Mail Online Auction
The Odon Wagner Gallery will once again be participating in The Globe & Mail On-line Auction taking place this month. We have submitted for auction a selection of paintings from both our contemporary and traditional & modern collections. Works by living artists such as Yehouda Chaki, Willy Ramos and Gideon Tomaschoff will be available, as will works by modern painters such as Antoine Blanchard ...click here for more details

 
From Europe to China and Back Again
This online exhibition features works from the Odon Wagner Gallery and Odon Wagner Contemporary collection. The exhibition highlights the evolution of still life painting from its traditional beginnings to its contemporary interpretations. To view the entire exhibition please click here.

 
CONTACT Exhibition at Odon Wagner Contemporary
Odon Wagner Contemporary will be participating in this years CONTACT photography festival with an exhibition of new photographic work by Eric Klemm, Impressions on the Land (May 5-May 31).
The CONTACT photography festival begins May 1 and runs until May 31.
This year's theme is Imaging a Global Culture, where photography is used as a means of participating in global exchange and also ...click here for more details

 
Magic Realism and the Painting of Ivan F. Choultse


The Odon Wagner Gallery is seeking to purchase works by Ivan Fedorovich Choultsé and other Russian artists including A. Harlamoff, Ivan Shishkin and Ilya E. Repin, K. Korovine, I. Aivazovsky, D. Burliuk.

For over twenty-five years the Odon Wagner Gallery has successfully dealt in the works of Ivan F. Choultsé, building collections worldwide. Having sold nearly fifty works through the ...click here for more details


 
On The Road Again!
Odon Wagner will once again be a featured expert on the Canadian Antiques Roadshow as they embark on their third country wide tour. Odon will be appearing in Moncton, NB on May 19th, Toronto June 8th, Hamilton June 11th and Kitchener on June 14th. Bring in your treasures or watch on the CBC!
Tickets are free but limited. For more information please see the website. ...click here for more details

 
Eric Klemm: Impressions on the Land

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Eric Klemm: Impressions on the Land
May 5 – 31, 2006
For the complete exhibition click HERE.
Toronto – Odon Wagner Contemporary is pleased to announce the opening of "Impressions on the Land", an exhibition of twelve new photographs by Eric Klemm. ...click here for more details


 
Chaki: Blue Line, Green Line

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Yehouda Chaki: Green Line, Blue Line
May 11 – June 3, 2006
For the complete exhibition click HERE.
Toronto – Odon Wagner Contemporary is pleased to announce the opening of Green Line, Blue Line, an exhibition of works by Yehouda Chaki on May 11, 2006 (reception: ...click here for more details


 
Passage of Time: Gideon Tomaschoff
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Gideon Tomaschoff: Passage of Time
February 23 - March 18, 2006
Toronto - Odon Wagner Contemporary is pleased to announce the opening of Passage of Time, an exhibition of new paintings by Gideon Tomaschoff on February 23, 2006 (reception: 6-9pm). The exhibition features paintings based on the artist's enduring fascination with surfaces and their potential ...click here for more details

 
Original portrait of the Abbot Lama
by Roland Strasser (1895-1974), Austrian artist and explorer

Currently on view at the Odon Wagner Gallery is a wonderfully vibrant, yet delicately composed portrait of the Abbot of the Lama Cloister of Zain Zabi. This original portrait by Roland Strasser, is representative of the "Living Buddah", incorporating the bright colours of traditional ...click here for more details


 
ART AND MUSIC COME TOGETHER AT ODON WAGNER GALLERY

Odon Wagner Gallery was pleased to host a private recital for Honens members on behalf of Honens International Piano Competition. Circle members were treated to an outstanding performance by 23 year old Xiang Zou, the youngest pianist ever to become First Laureate of the Honens International Competiton.
Canada's Honens International Piano Competition has grown to be one of the world's great ...click here for more details


 
ARE YOUR PAINTINGS AGING WELL?
Article published in Collections Magazine

by: Laura Peturson, Curator, Odon Wagner Gallery

A work of fine art can ...click here for more details


 
NOW ACCEPTING CONSIGNMENTS:

The Odon Wagner Gallery is currently looking for fine 19th and early 20th century paintings. The Odon Wagner Gallery offers a safe, discrete alternative to auctions, whether you are estate planning or selling a single painting. The Odon Wagner Gallery is unique to the Toronto area, in that it offers museum quality work in a commercial gallery setting. Our inventory is always ...click here for more details


 
A SURPRISE IN EVERY SHOT

By GARY MICHAEL DAULT

Eric Klemm at Odon ...click here for more details


 
PAINTING FINDS A HOME AT THE CNIB

In May 2005 the Canadian National Institute for the Blind enthusiastically accepted the donation of a painting by French contemporary artist Rafael Mahdavi by the Odon Wagner Gallery.
Heaven and Earth was considered for the CNIB due to the braille used by the artist to convey the mood and subject of the painting. This painting is one in a series by the artist that uses braille. While ...click here for more details


 
Introducing ODON WAGNER CONTEMPORARY

--New Gallery to open in Yorkville –
APRIL 7, 2005

Odon Wagner Gallery is pleased to announce it will be expanding into a second gallery space. Odon Wagner Contemporary will open at 172 Davenport Rd., a few doors down from Odon Wagner Gallery, on Thursday, April 7th, 2005 with a private reception. A public reception will be held on Saturday, April 9th from 2-5pm.

The opening ...click here for more details