Starting next week, the University of Toronto Art Centre presents The Alchemist's Garden, an exhibition created by architect, artist, and Daniels Associate Professor David Lieberman.

The Alchemist's Garden
October 23 - December 1

University of Toronto Art Centre, 15 Kings College Circle

The Alchemist's Garden is the result of long term research into speculative landscapes by the studio David Lieberman Architect with Fiona Lim Tung. Over the years this research has involved many Daniels graduates.

The work exhibited consists of an hour long film and a 20-metre-long, twelve-panel digital scroll painting. The pieces are fragments of a much larger project including numerous mixed media drawings, extensive models, and construction documents for large scale sculptural and architectural installations. A book on this project is forthcoming.

The event Mediating Landscape: David Lieberman in Conversation with Niamh O'Laoghaire, is being held in conjunction with this exhibition on November 14.

Mediating Landscape: David Lieberman in Conversation with Niamh O'Laoghaire

Wednesday November 14 | 7pm - 9pm

Art with Insight Conversation

UTAC art lounge, 15 King's College Circle

FREE | RSVP: utac.rsvp@utoronto.ca

Writes Professor Lieberman:

The metaphorical conditions of painted landscape afford opportunities for access and intervention. Spaces are perceived as we move through them, views are framed and transitions are mediated. Simultaneously, the constructed landscape shifts temporarily, topographically, and geographically. The experience of the site is in the relational immersion of time of day, seasonal difference, climatic shifts, and the fictive archaeologies of histories past and of futures as yet unwritten. The garden is punctuated with moments of pause in an ongoing series of alchemical instruments as enabling mechanisms to transform both space and experience. The crossing of thresholds transforms not only substance, but desire and memory.



Within the landscape, a moment of solace and refuge, challenging the examination of that which we think we know and understand...