Black Boxes
& collect
Jennifer Marman and Daniel Borins have practiced sculpture, installation and media art in Toronto since 2000. Jennifer Marman is a graduate of the University of Western Ontario. Daniel Borins is a graduate of McGill University. Both Marman and Borins are also graduates of the Ontario College of Art and Design.

The work of Marman and Borins is often intervention based - situating the visual arts within the context of everyday life, while simultaneously referring to aspects of the history of twentieth century art. Marman and Borins fashion these interventions as propositions on the status of the contemporary avant-garde. Their projects identify tensions that arise in the politicization, historicization, and visuality of the artwork, often within the context of mass visual language, mass media, consumerism, and with an eye toward revisionism upon certain issues pertaining to the historicization of twentieth century art. Marman and Borins have been making large-format sculpture, mixed media, installation and electronic art since 2000. Intervening upon institutional and public spaces, their work often contextualizes visual art squarely within everyday life while simultaneously referring to and reassessing twentieth century art history: its utopias, polemics, and formal one-upmanship. Concurrently, their work discusses contemporary museum modalities within the context of ideological stances levelled by globalized market forces. In doing so, Marman and Borins expose the tensions arising between the historicity, formalism and politicization of the artwork to produce new meanings from them.

Marman and Borins’ work is in the collection of the National Gallery of Canada, The University of Toronto, the City of Toronto, and York University.
share Black Boxes
penccil.com/gallery.php?show=10632
  Inspirations.  
Technological Exaptation
Images by photographer and set designer Maxime Guyon, currently living and working between Lyon (Fra...
長嶋りかこ Rikako Nagashima グラフィックデザイナー Founder / Graphic designer
Faces of the 21st century
Images by Thomas Mailaender. « Mailaender’s forum and sphere of operations is less the art worl...
Labyrinth
Pieterjan Gijs and Arnout Van Vaerenbergh: Labyrinth at the C-mine art centre in Genk, Belgium. The...
Evol
Tableware "Evol" by Patrick Jouin. Many of his creations are in the permanent collections of museums...
Time Bandits
Visual communication artist Sabine Marx-Nieder is based in Munich, Germany.
Heaven & Hell
Details from paintings by Hieronymus Bosch.
Hell & Heaven
John Martin was born near Hexham, Northumberland. He was apprenticed first to an heraldic coach pain...
バガボンド summer collection
The バガボンド summer collection 2015
Glasskogen
A proposition for an art installation. Contemplating the difference between being sheltered and bein...
Supercenter disruptions
Mass: an installation project about creating visual disruptions in places of mass. Mass is a site sp...
Ghost: Kader Attia and Ventimiglia
The striking similarities between the installation of Kader Attia and the current situation in Venti...
Pigeonner / Public Pigeon Sculptures
Public bronze sculptures of pigeons thought as "plus-products" or as "classical post-production", de...
La Concentration des Services / Simplification de Paysage
All the services found in a city corner assembled in a unique object (bus-stop, streetlight, surveil...
Carlos Cruz-Diez: Chromointerference
"Color is not simply the color of things or the color of form, but an evolving situation, a reality ...
Light installations
Studio Drift was founded in 2006 by Ralph Nauta and Lonneke Gordijn. Lonneke Gordijn studied at Desi...
Un peuple de passage
"Un peuple de passage" is a poetic colonisation of our space. These ephemeral sculptures occupy a pl...
Anne-Margot Ramstein
Anne-Margot Ramstein was born in Réunion. She studied art in Paris and at the School of Decorative ...
Japanese Swiss Greek
Shibui is the name of a homeware and accessories company based in Switzerland, created by Greek desi...
Jordi López Aguiló
Jordi López Aguiló, born in Valencia 1983, worked with JDS Architects Copenhagen, Ibos et Vitart P...
Baptiste Alchourroun
Baptiste Alchourroun makes visuals for magazines (covers, illustrations for articles) and record lab...
Paul Cox
Artist and designer Paul Cox was born in Paris in 1959. Self-taught in art, he studied art history a...
1-Bit Symphony
Tristan Perich studied math, music and computer science at Columbia University, and received a maste...
The Fans
The starting point for the installation was the combination of two intriguing phenomena. On the one ...
Jennifer Allora & Guillermo Calzadilla
Jennifer Allora was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1974. Guillermo Calzadilla was born in 19...
The Same But Different
Graphic designer Jan Avendano lives and works in Toronto. She is available for coffee hangouts, col...
LIVE / WORK
So what’s this exhibition all about, anyway? Well, these are infertile female harvester worker ant...
Santiago Villanueva
Art conceived as an intimate experience of body and time, a quest for an internal portrait in which ...
Andréason and Leibel
Kristian Andréason and Kristin Leibel have worked with clients such as IKEA of Sweden and Fagerhult...
site specific
Originally from Mexico City, Gabriel Dawe creates site-specific installations. His work has been exh...
Studio FIELD: Marcus Wendt and Vera-Maria Glahn
Studio FIELD is Marcus Wendt and Vera-Maria Glahn, both of which studied at the School of Arts and D...
Andrew B. Myers
Andrew B. Myers is a Canadian photographer. He lives and works in New York. His clients include Airb...
Kochi Biennale 2014
The Kochi Biennale draws the attention of the international art world to Kochi, the largest city in ...
Doug Wheeler: Light and Space
Doug Wheeler is a pioneer of the “Light and Space” movement. He began his career as a painter in...
Leandro Ehrlich
Leandro Erlich was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1973. Between 1998 and 1999, Erlich took part...
Nastupiste 1-12
Nastupiste 1-12 is a multimedia space for contemporary culture in the underpass beneath the bus stat...
Davide D'Elia
Davide D'Elia was born in Cava de 'Tirreni, Campania in 1973 and graduated in graphic design at l’...
Tania Blanco: Unexpected Documents in Waiting Room
Painted cooked clay publications, waiting room furniture, plant, clock / various sizes / 2011-2014. ...
Hostem
The mezzanine floor at Hostem has been transformed into a studio space that evokes a bohemian artist...
Ren Han 任瀚
Ren Han (1984 Tianjin, China) lives and works in Tianjin. He studied at Academy of Fine Arts Tianjin...
Extra National Assembly
Extra National Assembly #1 is an autonomous place for assembly to discuss what a society can be beyo...
Áron Filkey: look as if
Áron Filkey is a Hungarian graphic designer. He obtained his bachelor and master diploma from the g...
Campos de Batalla
Mateo Mate was born in 1964 in Madrid. He lives and works in Madrid.
Actos Heroicos
Mateo Mate was born in 1964 in Madrid. He lives and work in Madrid.
X marks the spot
Umut Yamac is an architect, designer and maker of kinetic works based in London. During his architec...
二俣スタジオ Koichi Futatsuma Studio
Koichi Futatsuma was born in Kagoshima, Japan. After graduating from the Department of Engineering a...
Rita Studio
Graduating from UQAM (Montreal) and ECAL (Lausanne) in graphic and industrial design, Karine Corbeil...
Fonts by Benjamin Varin
Font design by French graphic designer Benjamin Varin. Benjamin Varin studied at the Ecole Nationale...
小松 宏誠 Kosei Komatsu
Kosei Komatsu was born in 1981. After completing graduate school at the Tokyo University of Arts in ...
Failed Renovations
Clemens Behr was born 1985 in Koblenz. He studied graphic design at the University of Applied Scienc...
Tokujin Yoshioka: Twinkle and Sparkle
Tokujin Yoshioka 1967年生まれ。2000年吉岡徳仁デザイン事務所設立。アート、デ...
with Paper
Paper is not only the favorite medium for writers, it also is for artists and designers. Three creat...
The noble experiment: graphic design by Timo Lenzen
Timo Lenzen is a graphic designer born in Frankfurt, Germany. He exhibited at Graphic Design Festiva...
Sputnik-5
Sputnik-5 by Plan-S23. Plan-S23 is a design studio run by Maxim Scherbakov and Alexey Galkin St. Pet...
Nameless Architecture
NAMELESS Architecture is a concept-based design practice with offices in New York and Seoul. Committ...
Quentin de Coster
Quentin de Coster was born in 1990 in Liège in Belgium. He studied at ESA St-Luc Liège, Politecni...
First Encounter with the Light of a Sun
Jacob Hashimoto was born in Greeley, Colorado in 1973. He studied at the School of the Art Institute...
Daniel Arsham
Raised in Miami, New York based artist Daniel Arsham attended the Cooper Union in New York City wher...
Unify Sofa
This slipcover is physically and visually unifying to offer a new life to discarded chairs. Taking i...
Whoopdeedoo
The Whoopdeedoo project is about breaking daily routine and providing a fun moment on your daily bic...
Candas Sisman: Macrocosm
Candas Sisman(1985, Izmir) studied fine arts in Izmir Anadolu High School for Fine Arts and graduate...
Subodh Gupta - Everything is Inside
Known as one of the most celebrated contemporary artist hailing from India, Subodh Gupta’s works m...
Joséphine Choquet
Joséphine Choquet was born in France in 1989. She obtained her master´s diploma at ECAL in 2013. "...
Fernand Hick
Fernand Hick was born in 1945 and loves photography since more than 40 years. He lives in Visé, Bel...
Snarkitecture: A Memorial Bowing
Public art by Snarktitecture in Miami, Florida.
Paramodel:Yasuhiko Hayashi and Yusuke Nakano
Paramodel was formed in 2001 by Yasuhiko Hayashi and Yusuke Nakano, both of whom graduated from Kyot...
Richard Niessen
Richard Niessen (Edam-Volendam, 1972) graduated from the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in 1996. Richard wo...
Persist
"Working hard and not giving up despite occasional hardships and failures will lead to success." Thi...
Artists in the Hotel!
天野 善啓 Yoshihiro Amano: Jingumae project
also:
curve wood
Title is affranchir la ligne, a public art commission for the lobby of a sports complex, plays with...
briller par son absence
burn wood
CoBrA Magazines
The avant-garde art collective CoBrA (Copenhagen, Brussels and Amsterdam) existed from 1949 to 1951....
Dawson
Yukon Territory, Canada
Book : Monk
A book by Jonathan Monk.
Book : Tajima
A book by Mika Tajima. Negative Entropy is a series of five abstract Jacquard woven portraits of in...
Book : Lewitt
A book by Sam Levitt. TEMPLATE is a book whose information emerges under programmatic erasure. Or p...
Book : Baldessari
A book by John Baldessari.
Book : Armleder
A book by John Armleder.
Book : Mullican
A book by Matt Mullican.
Book : Weiner
A book by Lawrence Weiner.
Book : Cattelan
A book by Maurizio Cattelan.
Book : Brannon
A book by Matthew Brannon.
What Is A Simulation?
What is a simulation? It is a private game we devise when the aliveness of a situation is too comple...
Sky Walk
The Dolní Morava tower Sky Walk by Zdenek Franek is a conceptual building, and it offers visitors ...
Scum Pixel
'Scum' refers to a foamy layer or mass that forms on the surface of liquid when it is boiled or ferm...
In Infinity
Yayoi Kusama’s unique imagery spring from the recurring hallucinations that have haunted her since...
E=C=L=I=P=S=E
Cerith Wyn Evans is a Welsh sculptor and filmmaker. He worked as an assistant to Derek Jarman, at th...
In Orbit
"When I look at these complex layers of translucent lines and spheres, I am reminded of models of th...
Tom Ngo
"Common sense and conventional practice prohibits the evolution of architecture. Through reproducing...
Heartbeat, Heartseat
Heartbeat consists of a massive heart glowing to the rhythm of a strong, deep and low frequency hear...
Eric Giraudet de Boudemange
Eric Giraudet de Boudemange (1983) graduated in 2007 from the National School of Fine Arts in Paris ...
Christian Herdeg: Kunst und Bau
Christian Herdeg was born 1942 in Zurich. Trained as a photographer, cameraman and lighting technici...
“I’m not supposed to talk about it”
Nine artists were invited to exhibit in Pyongyang, the North Korean capital of the unknown. The enti...
Design & Politics
Photo series "design and politics" by Philippe Jarrigeon, photographer and publisher, born in 1982 i...
The Oily Actor
“I had been looking around these ideas of systemic crisis, global financial crisis, which is what ...
Royère
Jean Royère (1902-1981) worked in the import-export business before working for cabinetmaker Pierr...
Color constructions
The work of Krijn de Koning interrupts the environment by adding sculptural, architectural and colou...
Telepathic Light
Light installations for Cosa Mentale: Imaginaries of Telepathy of the 20th-Century Art in Centre Pom...
Palatial Eliasson
Danish Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson (born 1967) works in a wide variety of mediums, including in...
Principles Of Motion
A temporary installation of phase paintings accompanied by an abstracted, shifting cinematic landsca...
Merzbau
"The Merzbau is the construction of an interior from sculptural forms and colours. In the glazed gro...
Excentrique/Beware
Daniel Buren : Excentrique, work in situ, Grand Palais, Paris, 2012. Text: Daniel Buren, excerpts fr...
MIRROR MIRROR ON THE WALL
Jeppe Hein was born 1974 in Copenhagen. He studied at Royal Danish Academy of Arts, Copenhagen and a...
Pareidolia
Pareidolia's narrative is based on the events surrounding the creation of Eugen Herrigel's book Zen ...
Circuit
The Jumper Circuit by Qmod, designed by Dana Callam, is made to pulse small bits of Voltage found in...
Bravais
Inspired by the process of crystallization, the Bravais Table is based on the tetragonal lattice sys...
Tesseract
Jun Ong is a Kuala Lumpur-based architect and artist. Jun has previously worked at practices in Shan...
Radebaugh and Bohn
Arthur C. Radebaugh (1906-1974) was an American illustrator, airbrush artist, and designer. Some of...
CHROMAesthesiae
CHROMAesthesiae is a landscape of color populating space in high contrast-gradated clusters. This in...
Upscaled
In the summer of 2010 the city of Eindhoven asked us to make something fun happen in the city centre...
Silent Geography
Silent Geography is a site-specific installation consisting of Hazard's torn paper constructed lands...