"Too Perfect: Seven New Denmarks"
2004-09-29 until 2004-11-21
Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery
Toronto, ON, CA

Too Perfect: Seven New Denmarks focuses on the future of Danish architecture and design. Curated by Bruce Mau Design and produced in collaboration with PLOT, Kontrapunkt, Nord, Arkitema and SRL, Too Perfect takes architecture beyond the realm of buildings and furniture into other areas of life that we have the capacity to design, from clean water and agricultural reform to energy use and social engineering.

Too Perfect: Seven New Denmarks and SUPERFLEX are part of Harbourfront Centres SUPERDANISH: Newfangled Danish Culture, the most comprehensive exploration of Danish culture ever assembled, taking place from September through December in Toronto at Harbourfront Centre and other city locations.

Too Perfect: Seven New Denmarks‚ main sponsor is Nykredit; other sponsors include Fonden Realdania, NCC, Montana/DJOB, LEGO VisionLab and Carl Bro together with The Danish Ministry of Culture, The Art Foundation ˆThe Architecture Committee, The Arts Council, the Architects‚ Association of Denmark, ZEES, DTKommunikation, On-site, Kontrapunkt, Berlingske Tidende, The Danish Ministry of Economics and Business Affairs, Kunst: Danish Arts Agency, Maersk, along with several other building and design companies. >

The exhibition, commissioned by the Danish Architecture Center, is part of Harbourfront Centre‚s SUPERDANISH: Newfangled Danish Culture and will be simultaneously exhibited at the Danish Architecture Center, Copenhagen and as Denmarks official entry at the Venice Biennale of Architecture.

Since 1993, the three core members of the Copenhagen-based artists‚ collective SUPERFLEX have developed a complex practice that brings together art, design, and commerce to explore the nature of globalization through ongoing collaborative projects. SUPERFLEX joins activism with provocation to reinterpret the role of artists in society and to question the nature of contemporary spectatorship. At the core of their practice is the development of what they call „tools that enable productivity, communication, and access. The Power Plant is collaborating with SUPERFLEX to mount a new project this September to coincide with SUPERDANISH: Newfangled Danish Culture.

Too Perfect: Seven New Denmarks and SUPERFLEX are part of Harbourfront Centres SUPERDANISH: Newfangled Danish Culture, the most comprehensive exploration of Danish culture ever assembled, taking place from September through December in Toronto at Harbourfront Centre and other city locations.

Too Perfect: Seven New Denmarks‚ main sponsor is Nykredit; other sponsors include Fonden Realdania, NCC, Montana/DJOB, LEGO VisionLab and Carl Bro together with The Danish Ministry of Culture, The Art Foundation ˆThe Architecture Committee, The Arts Council, the Architects‚ Association of Denmark, ZEES, DTKommunikation, On-site, Kontrapunkt, Berlingske Tidende, The Danish Ministry of Economics and Business Affairs, Kunst: Danish Arts Agency, Maersk, along with several other building and design companies.

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