In Toronto there are many art fairs all through the year but some are better than the others the Toronto art expo at the metro Toronto convention center is like the poor sister of the other Art Fairs.
Even the show so boldly billed as the world’s largest art gala, with claims like ” the eyes of the art world will once again be focus on Toronto”
However, every time after I goes, I would amazed how there was little standard for the selection of the art shown. It seems the only standard was if the artist ability to come up with the money to pay for the booth. There so much poorly executed “art” among so few good works, I always felt badly for the better artists in this show.
I know some artists had shown there but after one or twice they all decided to not go back as the expense were so high with so few sale. However, the show seems to have a long supply of bad artists waiting to take the place. Some of these artists I seen their works at others show like the “One of a Kind Show”, either they been painting the same painting over and over or just taking the same works showing at those show until they find their buyer .Most distressing was seeing some of the photo-shopped digital prints passed as original paintings!
One funny thing I noticed while there, some artists put up a no photos sign at their booth as they were usually the not so good ones.
On second thought, they ought to have enough egos to believe their own greatest and think others wanted to copy their masterpiece.
Due to the tough economic time this year, the numbers of the artists are lot smaller but in other to makes it look good, they been offered a larger space. But looking at the body language of the artists: some just sat there lifeless and expressionless. It had been a terrible show in term of sale for them.
