{"id":164495,"date":"2025-10-20T00:00:43","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T07:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nuvomagazine.com\/?p=164495"},"modified":"2026-02-06T11:08:18","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T19:08:18","slug":"jeff-wall-comes-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nuvomagazine.com\/art\/jeff-wall-comes-home","title":{"rendered":"Jeff Wall Comes Home"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jeff Wall Photographs 1984\u20132023<\/em><\/a>, opening at MOCA Toronto<\/a> on October 19, is a monumental homecoming for a visionary Canadian artist. Spanning all three floors of the museum, this is Wall\u2019s first major Canadian exhibition in more than 25 years, and his first in Toronto in 35. For those who have only encountered the Vancouver photoconceptualist\u2019s work online or in books, this is an event not to be missed. Being surrounded by Wall\u2019s works in person\u2014printed so large you feel you can almost walk inside them\u2014is the closest thing to seeing the world through his eyes.<\/p>\n

Wall is one of the most influential living artists to come out of Canada and is best known for his enormous light box transparencies that blur the line between authenticity and artifice. Since the 1960s, he\u2019s expanded what photography can be, pushing its boundaries through scale, colour, and careful construction. His pictures often look spontaneous, but they\u2019re the result of painstaking planning, staging, and composition. With close, committed study, each work slowly gives up its secrets.<\/p>\n

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