Carlo Cesta Toronto, ON

Higher Learning

Acrylic caulking, aluminum tape, metal garage door, 7' x 8'

Location: Corridor outside art gallery

The installation Higher Learning incorporates the use of a metal garage door, which has been suspended from a ceiling to mimic the Gothic arches of Hart House. The door has been decorated with a geometric pattern drawn with acrylic caulking and gilded with aluminum muffler tape. The work plays on the historic associations between ornament, geometry and transcendence in the form of a dome.

Carlo Cesta was born in Toronto and studied at the Ontario College of Art, graduating in 1980. Cesta was a featured artist in Perspectives ‘94 at the Art Gallery of Ontario, and also exhibited in Dalgas Underground in Copenhagen, Denmark (1996), and Rococo Tattoo at the Power Plant, Toronto (1996). He had a solo exhibition Slow Down/Speed Freak, at the Winnipeg Art Gallery (2001), and was part of The Big Rock Candy Mountain residency at the Banff Centre, in Alberta (2003). Recently, he was included in the Beyond/In Western New York exhibition organized by the Albright Knox Gallery, exhibiting at Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center in Buffalo, NY (2005), and also participated in Canadian Club, an exhibition at the Canadian Cultural Centre in Paris, France, (2005). He is represented by Diaz Contemporary in Toronto, Canada.