Jakub Dolejš' work reviewed in Eye Weekly
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Jakub Dolejš
27-year-old Jakub Dolejš' large-format images use painted backgrounds to blur the line between photos and paintings and create a fictional setting. Works like “Marriage à la mode” (above), now showing at the Angell Gallery, examines the way photographs create histories, both real and fictional. Dolejš' work at the Propeller Centre for Visual Arts takes a radically conceptual approach. His photographs of paintings that mimic the effects of out-of-focus, poorly lit photography are works that at first seem nonsensical but upon closer inspection are visually haunting in their sparseness.
RON NURWISAH
To Oct. 11 at Angell Gallery, 890 Queen W. 416-530-0444. Reception Sept. 18, 6-9:30pm; also runs to Sept. 28 at the Propeller Centre, 984 Queen W. 416-504-7142. Opening reception Sept. 19, 7-10pm.
