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Pioneer Sponsors Art Gallery of Ontario

KURO panels truly present “seeing and hearing like never before”

On November 14^th 2008, the AGO’s $276 million dollar renovation was revealed to worldwide critical acclaim and overwhelming press attention. The transformation is a study of light and grace designed by renowned and visionary Toronto born architect Frank Gehry. On the opening weekend over fifty thousand art lovers and Canadian elite wandered through the newly improved gallery. For those patrons and for future art connoisseurs, the AGO transformation includes 190,000 square feet of renovated space, 97,000 square feet of newly build space, and the addition of thousands of new works to an already impressive collection.

Thomson Collection of Canadian Art

As a result of a partnership agreement, Pioneer has supplied twenty-eight KURO flat screen panels to the AGO.

The partnership agreement came to fruition only after a vigorous and intensive selection process. Through many meetings, negotiations, and demonstrations Pioneer’s panels were vetted by the AGO’s curatorial and technical staff. Once this long-term testing was successfully accomplished, Pioneer was named the Preferred Supplier of Flat Screen Technology at the AGO and thus become an integral part of the AGO.

Galleria Italia

Fourteen of these displays are installed throughout the gallery’s public and permanent collection areas. One of the AGO’s permanent collection areas includes the Thomson Collection which houses an extraordinary collection including Peter Paul Rubens’s masterpiece The Massacre of the Innocents. These panels are utilized by the gallery to not only display interpretative information on the artwork but also as an artistic installation of video art featuring the work of Andy Warhol, among others.

Another eleven of the KURO panels will be utilized throughout the AGO for communication purposes, and finally another three will be situated in boardrooms and available for sponsor meetings.

Art has always been the visual embodiment of the innovation and the passion of its creator. Art pushes boundaries. It inspires. It challenges. It opens the mind to new worlds of possibility. And Pioneer’s Kuro panels are now part of the celebration of art and its artists, and the visual experience of the patron.

Walker Court

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