Roller Coaster, Santa Monica, CA | Toni Hafkenscheid
2004
15 x 15 inches (23.25 x 23 inches framed)
Edition of 30
ABOUT THE ARTWORK
Hafkenscheid’s work gives a surreal quality to familiar tourist destinations, an effect of in-camera focus and exposure techniques. In this instance, Hafkenscheid depicts a roller coaster in Santa Monica, California, as if it were an architectural maquette or a delicate, intricate toy. Hafkenscheid simultaneously deflates and underscores the iconic power of monuments, encouraging viewers to consider how these icons shape our sense of identity and place. The images in this body of work are neither realistic nor idealized; instead they depict isolated moments that suggest both the spectacular and the everyday.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Born 1959 in Rotterdam
Lives and works in Toronto
Toni Hafkenscheid received his MFA in photography in 1989 from the Rietveld Academy. The recipient of numerous Canada Council and Ontario Arts Council grants, as well as grant from the Netherlands Council for the Arts and the Banff Centre for the Arts, his work has been exhibited nationally and internationally.
Selected solo exhibitions: “Relics of the Future #2,” Birch Libralato Gallery, Toronto (2013); “Relics of the Future,” Packer Schopf Gallery, Chicago (2012); “Exposures 2011,” Herringer Kiss Gallery, Calgary; “Relics of the Future #1,” Birch Libralato Gallery, Toronto (2010)
Selected group exhibitions: “Untrue North,” Yukon Arts Centre, Whitehorse, YT (2012); Noorderlicht International Photo Festival, Noorderlicht, The Netherlands (2012); “Super Models,” Open Space, Victoria, BC (2006)
Selected public collections: Canadian Museum for Contemporary Photography, Ottawa; Canada Council Art Bank, Ottawa; University of Toronto
2004
15 x 15 inches (23.25 x 23 inches framed)
Edition of 30
ABOUT THE ARTWORK
Hafkenscheid’s work gives a surreal quality to familiar tourist destinations, an effect of in-camera focus and exposure techniques. In this instance, Hafkenscheid depicts a roller coaster in Santa Monica, California, as if it were an architectural maquette or a delicate, intricate toy. Hafkenscheid simultaneously deflates and underscores the iconic power of monuments, encouraging viewers to consider how these icons shape our sense of identity and place. The images in this body of work are neither realistic nor idealized; instead they depict isolated moments that suggest both the spectacular and the everyday.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Born 1959 in Rotterdam
Lives and works in Toronto
Toni Hafkenscheid received his MFA in photography in 1989 from the Rietveld Academy. The recipient of numerous Canada Council and Ontario Arts Council grants, as well as grant from the Netherlands Council for the Arts and the Banff Centre for the Arts, his work has been exhibited nationally and internationally.
Selected solo exhibitions: “Relics of the Future #2,” Birch Libralato Gallery, Toronto (2013); “Relics of the Future,” Packer Schopf Gallery, Chicago (2012); “Exposures 2011,” Herringer Kiss Gallery, Calgary; “Relics of the Future #1,” Birch Libralato Gallery, Toronto (2010)
Selected group exhibitions: “Untrue North,” Yukon Arts Centre, Whitehorse, YT (2012); Noorderlicht International Photo Festival, Noorderlicht, The Netherlands (2012); “Super Models,” Open Space, Victoria, BC (2006)
Selected public collections: Canadian Museum for Contemporary Photography, Ottawa; Canada Council Art Bank, Ottawa; University of Toronto
2004
15 x 15 inches (23.25 x 23 inches framed)
Edition of 30
ABOUT THE ARTWORK
Hafkenscheid’s work gives a surreal quality to familiar tourist destinations, an effect of in-camera focus and exposure techniques. In this instance, Hafkenscheid depicts a roller coaster in Santa Monica, California, as if it were an architectural maquette or a delicate, intricate toy. Hafkenscheid simultaneously deflates and underscores the iconic power of monuments, encouraging viewers to consider how these icons shape our sense of identity and place. The images in this body of work are neither realistic nor idealized; instead they depict isolated moments that suggest both the spectacular and the everyday.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Born 1959 in Rotterdam
Lives and works in Toronto
Toni Hafkenscheid received his MFA in photography in 1989 from the Rietveld Academy. The recipient of numerous Canada Council and Ontario Arts Council grants, as well as grant from the Netherlands Council for the Arts and the Banff Centre for the Arts, his work has been exhibited nationally and internationally.
Selected solo exhibitions: “Relics of the Future #2,” Birch Libralato Gallery, Toronto (2013); “Relics of the Future,” Packer Schopf Gallery, Chicago (2012); “Exposures 2011,” Herringer Kiss Gallery, Calgary; “Relics of the Future #1,” Birch Libralato Gallery, Toronto (2010)
Selected group exhibitions: “Untrue North,” Yukon Arts Centre, Whitehorse, YT (2012); Noorderlicht International Photo Festival, Noorderlicht, The Netherlands (2012); “Super Models,” Open Space, Victoria, BC (2006)
Selected public collections: Canadian Museum for Contemporary Photography, Ottawa; Canada Council Art Bank, Ottawa; University of Toronto