TD Gallery: Audio Tour Now Available
Your visit to TD Gallery at the Toronto Reference Library just got better. In addition to the free guided tours offered every Tuesday at 2 p.m., there is now a free app that lets you listen to our tour anytime. The app is called GuidiGO and it's available on the App Store (for Apple devices) and the Google Play Store (for Android devices). Our first audio tour is for the current Toronto Revealed exhibit.
Once you download and open the app on your phone or tablet, you can search for nearby tours or specifically for "Toronto Revealed." From there you can download the audio tour — you'll have to sign up with an email — and start listening. (A step-by-step getting started guide is available in the gallery.)
Select paintings in the exhibit — which make up the tour's "stops" — have a short audio narration as well as its transcript.
Below is the transcript for one of seven "stops" available in the audio tour:
Redpath 02 (Toronto, Ont.), 2011 | Oil on canvas | Copyright © Rebecca Ott
Behind the candy-coloured umbrellas of Sugar Beach sits the Redpath Sugar Refinery. This refinery is actually one of the few remaining factories on Toronto’s harbourfront — it was relocated to Toronto from Montreal in 1958. The artist, Rebecca Ott, studied both architecture and computer graphics before pursuing a career in fine art. Her work sets out to explore the sculptural forms and scale of urban and natural landscapes. She writes: “I am attracted to structural forms: architecture is similar to giant sculpture in a certain way. Highways, roads and hydro towers are huge installations. People don’t consider them too much because they blend into the everyday environment.”
Visit Toronto Revealed in the TD Gallery at the Toronto Reference Library. Free admission.
February 10 – April 22, 2018
Hours
Monday – Friday, 9 a.m. – 8:30 p.m.; Saturday, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.; Sunday, 1:30 – 5 p.m.
Programs
Toronto Revealed: Aba Bayefsky in Kensignton Market: Monday, February 26, 6:30-7:30 p.m.
Toronto Revealed: Documenting Hidden Toronto: Monday, March 12, 6:30-7:30 p.m.
Digital Archive
Toronto Public Library has digitized all artwork in this exhibit.
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