Art Metropole was the scene of a sad celebration Saturday afternoon as friends and colleagues of Toronto artist Gordon Lebredt came out en masse to welcome the arrival of Nonworks 1975 – 2008 and to say goodbye to the artist who lost his valiant fight with cancer on February 26. Edited by Lebredt’s partner Lin Gibson, Nonworks is a monograph containing sketches of works that were conceived but never realized, hence the title.
In the book’s prologue David Court and Josh Thorpe note that the book “constitutes a major retrospective of a body of work that exists only as possibility . . . Our hope, in initiating and assisting in the publication of this book, is that some of these works will be “realized,” but also simply a wish to support Gordon’s position of art-making as a matter invested with intellectual and ethical urgency — a pursuit that is neither straightforward nor easy and which stubbornly follows its own skewed trajectory and proceeds with no expectation of reception or return.”
Nonworks 1975 – 2008 is available through Art Metropole (788 King Street West, 416.703-4400).
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