MURRAY FAVRO Two Decades

April 5 – 26, 2014
Opening Reception April 5, 2014 2PM – 6PM

Christopher Cutts is pleased to present Murray Favro’s 8th solo exhibition. This exhibition titled, Two Decades, celebrates the 20 years that Christopher Cutts Gallery has been exhibiting Murray Favro. Favro is amongst Canada’s greatest artists. He is unique in his practice and stands alone amongst his peers. In a review for an exhibition of Favro’s in 2002, Globe & Mail art critic Garry Michael Dault opened his review stating, “It is everywhere acknowledged that Murray Favro is a senior sculptor of prodigious accomplishment. But whatever the degree to which he is an artist to his fingertips, the London, Ont., artist also takes his rightful place in a long entertaining line of tinkerer-inventors, homegrown geniuses like Franklin and Edison…. Well, okay, Franklin and Edison salted down with a quickening dash of Dada paterfamilias Marcel Duchamp. Salvador Dali used to say that the only difference between him and a madman was that he was not mad. Similarly, the only difference between Favro and a real inventor is that Favro’s inventions don’t work… But, of course, while they don’t work too well as inventions, they work exceedingly well as art. Favro is living testimony to Oscar Wilde’s famous dictum that all art is perfectly useless”.

The exhibition includes two works from the first show Favro had at the gallery, Guitar #1, 1993 and Wharf on Skeleton Lake, 1994. There is also the wall depended installations Tools, 1998 and Vice 1999; as well as Lawn Mower 2010, Lathe, 2010 and Cane, 2014.

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