Gallery curator uses artwork from its collection to underline the historical precedents of the Toronto artist’s approach to his work
The Toronto artist known as Paul P. was born in 1977, which means he came of age after the height of the AIDS crisis. That’s relevant to his art because it looks backward to pre-AIDS erotica, pulled from the pages of 1960s gay-porn magazines or inspired by the more coded images of the 19th-century aesthetic movement.
Nearby, Del Re hangs an image from the early 1900s of a male nude by the British artist Charles Shannon, a helmet and sword clothing the naked figure in a mythic guise. And she includes a painting by Charles Ricketts, the British artist, theatre designer and connoisseur who was Shannon’s life partner .
Or she pairs Paul P.’s classic view of a Venice courtyard, a drypoint print where the tile floor dissolves into water, with Whistler’s 1894 lithograph of a blacksmith in his shop, images that use a similar perspective to depict an urban interior that hovers between the public and private realms.
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