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Today, Montreal artist, David Tomas, also enters into the often bewildering, sometimes unsettling realm of perforâ€" mance art, and while he isn‘t murmuring sweet nothings into the ear of a dead rabbit, his work often provokes the same reaction. versial German sculptor, Joseph Beuys, befuddled critics and the public alike when he sat in a bare room surrounded by familiar materials like felt, fat and wire, cradling a dead hare in his arms. This was Beuys‘ â€" How to Explain Pictures to a Dead Hare â€" and stands today as one of the more wellâ€" known pieces of performance art. I n 1965, the charismatic and controâ€" Artist‘s exhibit turns spectator into participant By DIANE HART Special to the Beaver True Lies gAA Sat â€" Mon 2:30,7:15 945 Fri Tueâ€" Thu 715 8945 Mask (PGS Sat â€" Mon 12:35 5:10 Fri Tueâ€" Thu5:10 Terminal Velocity (AA) Daily 5:20, 7:25 9:25 The Little Rascals (F) Sat, Sun Mon 12:30, 210 3:45 MAURIA CLINIC OF ELECTROLYSI Eyebrows arched and shaped Hairline permanently contoured Facial hair removed Bikini line shaped Arms, Chest Backhair removed an appontmest 845â€"8100 Please call for 329 Lakeshore Rd. E. Suite 102 October 15/94 Valid one coupon per new customer HAIR REMOVAL TREATMENT Over 14 years of Experience (Value $23) MAUREEN SCOTT He may not be as charismatic an artist as Beuys â€" in private, he is an intense quiet man â€"â€" but he is as idiosynâ€" cratic in his work. Writer Lesley Johnstone noted his insistence on a strict adherence to rules governing his exhibits throughout the 1960s. Johnstone â€" speaking at an art lecture on Tomas‘ work recently â€" said Tomas insisted people walk one at a time through his installations. Tomas, whose Chemical Skins exhibit is currently on view at Gairloch Gallery, is known for his active participation in his work. In Toronto, he sat everyday drawing a black square, and then painstakingly, crossing it out again for hours on end throughout a four week exhibit as people filed through the large installation. Stuart W. Henderson (by appt. only) John H. Ham Douglas Baggs (by appt. only) O‘Connor MacLeod (contact Paulette Cooling) Marler Kyle (contact Joanne Windh) Dr. John Nattress Dr. W.A. Wallace Dr. Stan Cord Dr. Stephen Rosenblatt Dr. Robert MacDonald Dr. Dan Roszell FIRM ACCOUNTANTS Gren Weis, Architect Dr. H. Sandra Simpson BDO Dunwoody Personal Tax review (1 hr.) (contact June Hough, Susan McNab) Susan Diane Brown C.A. 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Powers of Attorney Family Law Consultation (1 h) Powers of Attorney Will Preparation Powers of Attorney Powers of Attorney A percentage of daily fees A percentage of daily fees All services except xâ€"rays Design Consulting (1 hr.) The exhibition of Chemical Skins consists of four works. Time Transfixed I to IV. (Each has been based on Rene Magritte‘s 1938 painting Time Transfixed.) During his ‘performance‘ in one of the works, Time Transfixed IV, Tomas used a camera lucida which allowed the audience to watch him as he altered eight childhood photographs by As Johnstone noted, the anthropoloâ€" gist/artist, has had a lifelong obsession with vision and the manipulation of images, particularly in photography. He enjoys, said Johnstone, "laying bare" the process of photography. But he can be brilliant in forcing the spectator â€" now a participant â€" to reflect on the manipulation of images, the meaning of absence and presence in art, and the mechanization of human beings. computer. 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For that matter, what of any of our images are real and what are not? n nc e t FWITET Although the literature accompanyâ€" ing the exhibit claims Tomas‘ "ghostlike presence" presides over the remainder of the exhibit, there is no doubt much of the newer, the intent, the entire "eeriâ€" ness" of the whole thing he is trying to do, is lost with his absence. Oct. 19, 5:30â€"9pm Oct. 20 5:30â€"8:30pm Oct. 18, 4â€"8pm Oct. 20 Iamâ€"5 Oct. 20 IJamâ€"5 Oct. 18, 8:30amâ€"12 Oct. 24, 5:30â€"7:30 pm Oct. 29 Oct. 21 Oct. 17â€"21 Oct. 17â€"21 Oct. 17â€"21 Oct. 17â€"21 Oct. 17â€"21, 9â€"5pm DATE