Johannes Zits articles etc.
Jérôme Fortin, Michel de Broin, Ed Pien, and Johannes Zits, Les Panoramiques, Thursday, October 28, 2004 19h00 O PATRO VYS, 356 Mont-Royal Est.
"For its benefit event, Optica has invited thirty artists from Canada and around the world to create a series of photographs with panoramic disposible cameras. These photographs will be revealed the 28th of October during a special evening hosted by Pierre Beaudoin held at O PATRO VYS.
As of now, Optica has invited thirty artists from Canada and around the world to create a series of photographs with panoramic disposable cameras. These photographs will be revealed the 28th of October during a special evening hosted by Pierre Beaudoin held at O PATRO VYS.
Check www.optica.ca for details, or contact Optica, un centre d'art contemporain at 514 874 1666."
Queer Summer: I don`t know about you, but who am I? Alte feuerwache > projektraum, 16 Juli -28. August 2004
Mercer Living 04..... Better Living, Mercer Union, Exhibition: Toronto, Ontario, Wednesday, 12 May to Thursday, 20
Better Living is an optimistic exhibition in which we ask artists, designers and architects to share their visions of contemporary urban style and their insights of new models for how we live. The responses will take shape in model suites, an exhibition created in the style of furniture store showrooms or Wheel of Fortune showcases. Here, lifestyle solutions will be arranged into rooms or spaces that will demonstrate how each could and should become a better part of our lives.
Spirale, Images fantasmatiques, Bien dans sa peau de Johannes Zits, November - December 2002 - No 187, pg 43-48
Manif D`art 2. Plongez dans l`art actuel à Québec du 1er au 31 Mai 2003. pg. 32
Zed Television "Johannes Zits is the undisputed "poster boy" of collage-based artwork..". Andrew Fedosov
Johannes Zits is the undisputed "poster boy" of collage-based artwork. His work examines the perfected worlds of home decor magazines and gay male porn. With folksy cut-and-paste collage figures of nude male body forms placed in idealized domestic surroundings, Zits explores the stilted intimacy of personal spaces along with symbolic form of queer male sexuality. But what good is intimate space exploration if the work is inside galleries? So off Johannes went...his latest project was a gift to the city of Toronto. With his intrepid crew of plasterers, Zits found sponsors who helped make glossy posters of four of his works - and then he painted the town with them! Follow ZeD as a-glueing, a-taping and a-stapling we go with Johannes and his boys, blessing the streets of our town with his public take on all things personal.
Poster project in Amsterdam Fall 2002: ROZE FILMDAGEN. Guerrilla-billboard-arttproject called "homo-erotic figures set into appropriated settings from interior design styled home environments" by Johannes Zits. 500 posters will be stuck around town, and the project will continue in his home town of Toronto.
Le degré zéro de l'intériorité: Article by Nicolas Mavrikas, in Voir - 14 March 2002 p. 49.
Video-interview with the artist on nuitsdemontreal.com, 23 Feruary 2002.