David Zack : Wizard!? Perturber!? Possessed! Letters and other works of a correspondence artist, 1938 - 1995

Curated by recent Governor General's Award winner Istvan Kantor (Toronto, ON) this retrospective archival exhibition showcases the iconoclastic life's work of David Zack, the writer/artist who defined the international correspondence art movement in the 1970s and who also lived in Calgary for several years.

Exhibition curator Istvan Kantor (Toronto) and special guest Niels Lomholt (Denmark) will both be staging performances in honor of David Zack at the opening. The performances are to begin at around 7:30pm. Niels will present, The Transcendental Sandwich, and Istvan will perform, Yes, I am Monty Cantsin. This extensive hands-on exhibition surveys Zack’s vital contributions to mail art, performance and other “open source” cultural movements of the 60s and 70s, focusing primarily on his correspondence novels and the development of the “Monty Cantsin open popstar” concept. Art and life were permanently inseperable for David Zack . After instigating the Nut-Art movement in San Francisco in the 60s, he moved to Calgary in the late 70s, working as a newspaper journalist. He disappeared in 1995 after having spent five years in a Mexican jail for defrauding the US Government and is rumored to have died in San Antonio, Texas.