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Upcoming book launch to accompany exhibition exploring Ontario Science Centre
TOO FUN Publication Leala Hewak 1080The launch of TOO FUN, a large-scale photo book accompanying the multimedia exhibition of the same name by Toronto-based photographer and conceptual artist, Leala Hewak, will be taking place on October 24, 2024.TOO FUN explores Raymond Moriyamas brutalist masterpiece, the Ontario Science Centre (OSC), through 150 photographs of Hewaks family outings to the doomed playhouse in the months before it closed. The book also features text excerpts from Moriyamas own design notes anticipating the creation of the OSC in 1969.The potential destruction of the Ontario Science Centre, a building Hewak has been visiting for years, impelled her lens-based survey of the building and the people who use it, reads Urbanspace Gallerys website.I heard the Ontario Science Centre was in danger, so I rushed to capture its joys just in time, said Hewak in an article featured in the Toronto Star back in June.The exhibiton is supported by Canada Council for the Arts. The book launch event will take place from 5:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. on Thursday, October 24, at the Urbanspace Gallery in Toronto.Admission to the gallery is free.For more information, click here.The post Upcoming book launch to accompany exhibition exploring Ontario Science Centre appeared first on Canadian Architect.
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