News
Mark Igloliorte
Paintings from his Kayait series will be included in the exhibition À ciel ouvert : Le nouveau pleinairisme at the Musée National des Beaux-Arts du Québec this spring.
From March 15th to June 25th.
www.mnba.qc.ca
Jérôme Ruby
He presents his most recent work, histoires (stories), at Le Lieu, center of contemporary art in Québec City.
From January 13th to February 5th.
www.inter-lelieu.org
Valérie Kolakis
Her exhibit Rien ne sert de rien, cependant tout arrive (Nothing serves nothing, however everything happens), closing her residency at L’Oeil de poisson in Québec City, is opened from January 13th to February 12th.
www.oeildepoisson.com
Suzy Lake
The Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery in Concordia University presents Traffic: Conceptual Art in Canada 1965-1980 (curators: Michèle Thériault and Vincent Bonin).
From January 14th to February 25th. www.ellengallery.concordia.ca
Moreover, her exhibition Political Poetics, shown at the University of Toronto last summer, is now at McIntosh Gallery in University of West Ontario.
Until February 18th. www.mcintoshgallery.ca
Sorel Cohen
She will participate in the collective exhibition Histoires de l’art (Art Histories) (curator: Marie-Josée Jean) at Vox – Center of Contemporary Image in March,
newly moved in the 2-22 building, in the heart of the Quartier des Spectacles in Montreal.
www.voxphoto.com
Raymonde April
She will see in the spring the publication of a monography of her work by France Gascon, at Dazibao Editions.
Jérôme Havre
Read Alexis Campion's article (in French) on Jérôme Havre's exhibition Domestiquer, here.
Lynne Marsh
Her video Stadium (2008) will be shown at the exhibition Hyper Spaces at Oakville Galleries at Centennial Squares (Oakville, ON).
From November 26th, 2011 to March 4th, 2012.
Curator : Shannon Anderson.
For more information, please visit www.oakvillegalleries.com
Jérôme Havre
Jérôme Havre participates in the collective exhibition PEUT MIEUX FAIRE - Cahiers d'exercices. Curator : Emmanuel Galland.
From November 18th to December 18th, 2011, at L'Oeil de poisson in Québec City.
For more information, please visit : www.oeildepoisson.com
Sorel Cohen & Suzy Lake
Exhibition Archi-féministes! at centre Optica from November 12th to December 17th, 2011.
Under the curatorship of Marie-Ève Charron (independent curator and art critic for Le Devoir), Marie-Josée Lafortune (director of OPTICA), and Thérèse St-Gelais (professor of art history specialized in gender and women’s studies at UQAM), the exhibition “Archi-féministes!” brings together a significant body of historical and contemporary work by female artists who have contributed to the centre’s history since 1972. For the first time, we are broaching that history from a feminist point of view, an archival feminism proposing a retrospective and updated perspective concerned, among other things, with performativity in artistic practices and strategies deployed through photography, video, and the document.
Drawing not only on the OPTICA Archives, but also on private, public, and the artists’ own collections, the exhibition will occur in two parts. “Archiver le corps” (“Archiving the Body”) will first broach issues of identity in contexts interrogating relationships with oneself, with the other, and with art history. The works of Olivia Boudreau, Sorel Cohen, Raphaëlle de Groot, Suzy Lake, Claire Savoie, and Jana Sterbak reveal figurative and sometimes troubled stagings that revisit representations of the body and its historicization, via an intimacy imbued with eroticism or emotion.
Read Le Devoir article here.
Lynne Marsh
The Philharmonie project (Nielsen: Symphone No. 5) Au Program à Berlin
Architecture by June14 Meyer-Grohbrûgge & Chermayeff
Comprised of two movements, rather than the traditional three, Carl Nielsen’s Symphony No. 5 is a touchstone of contrast, variance and opposition in the 20th century symphonic canon.
Composed in 1921, the piece, its performance and subsequent filming serve as organizing frameworks for Lynne Marsh’s Philharmonie Project (Nielsen: Symphony No. 5).
In January of 2011, Marsh filmed the video production team at the Hans Scharoun designed Berlin Philharmonie as they film a live performance of the Nielsen symphony. For each of the Berlin Philharmonic’s concert,
the team coordinates the movement of each camera, choreographing it to the musical score. Presented at PROGRAM are two videos, one showing the team as they conduct the cameras’ movements back stage, the other of the empty stage,
recorded as a dry-run before the concert, as determined by the shots designed for Nielsen’s symphony. In close collaboration with Marsh, architects Johanna Meyer-Grogbrügge and Sam Chermayeff of June14 have designed a structure that serves as seating
while dramatically separating the space in two contrasting parts. Ultimately, the Philharmonie Project is a study on the staging of power systems, the cultural expression of mass consumption and the support structures that enable it to happen.
Valerie Kolakis
Mark Igloliorte
Mark Igloliorte presents Drift at Toronto Free Gallery until November 2nd. Curator : Ryan Rice.
The exhibition includes works from the Observational Diptychs series (2010) and is part of a larger event produced by the Aboriginal Curatorial Collective.
For more information, please visit their website.
Shari Hatt
Shari Hatt presents her solo show I just want to be taken seriously as an artist and Clown Portraits at Oboro from September 17th to October 22nd, 2011.
Read their press release here.
Louis Fortier
Louis Fortier presents the installation Dolly ou la famille recomposée (1999) at the Maison de la Culture de Notre-Dame-de-Grâce for the 20th anniversary of gallery B-312.
For more information, please read their press release here.
Valérie Kolakis
Missing Column/Fading Tree, 2011
Valérie Kolakis was one of the artists in residency at domaine départemental de la Garenne-Lemot (Gétigne-Clisson, France) in May and June.
The exhibit Heureux comme Sisyphe (Quand la répétition fait l'oeuvre) takes place until October 16th, 2011.
For more information, please visit their website.
Raymonde April
For the 12th edition of Le Mois de la Photo de Montréal, the contemporary art center Optica presents a Raymonde April exhibit curated by Anne-Marie Ninacs. (www.optica.ca)
Emmanuelle Léonard
She presents Juste une image at Centre d'exposition Expression in Saint-Hyacinthe, from June 4th to August 14th (www.expression.qc.ca) Download the publication here.
and a new project in the exhibition Entreprise collective at l'Espace Création Loto-Québec from May 25th to August 21st (lotoquebec.com/espacecreation). Curated by Nicolas Mavrikakis.
Charles Stankievech
is amongst the 5 finalists for the Sobey Art Award 2011. Congratulations !
Art Amsterdam 2011
From May 11th to 15th, 2011. The list of exhibitors has been announced for their most international edition to date. The Gallery will be participating as the only representant of Canada. www.artamsterdam.nl
Louis Fortier
Exhibition Moi at Galerie des Arts Visuels of Université Laval with François Lamontagne. From March 24th to April 24th, 2011. Curated by Lisanne Nadeau.
For more information : http://www.arv.ulaval.ca/galerie.html
Sandeep Bhagwati
matralab and hexagram Concordia (http://matralab.hexagram.ca/) will lead an effort to create a spontaneous Montreal artistic response to the disturbing catastrophe in Japan within the next two weeks. Please use the newly created japan.vigil@gmail.com address for all further communications about this event.
Papier 11
Galerie Donald Browne will participate to Papier 11 art fair in Montreal from April 14th to April 17th 2011. For more informations: http://www.agac.qc.ca/papier2011.php
Charles Stankievech
Inuit hunters in whiteout conditions on the trail between Igloolik and Repulse Bay (Nunavut, Canada). Photograph by Claudio Aporta, 2006
Workshop on February 19th at 2 pm at the Canadian Center of Architecture animated by Charles Stankievech : The Idea of North-Storytelling. For more informations : http://www.cca.qc.ca/en/education-events/1217-the-idea-of-north
Mark Igloliorte
Article in Le Devoir by Jérôme Delgado ( click here to see pdf)
Sandeep Bhagwati
Alien Lands
Sandeep Bhagwati au festival de Montréal Nouvelles Musiques
Bozzini String Quartet and Bye Bye Butterfly Percussion Quartet
http://www.festivalmnm.ca/en/2011/prog/concert/28109/
18 février et 19 février 2011 à 21h à l’Agora Hydro-Québec — Cœur des sciences — UQAM. 175 avenue du Président-Kennedy [metro Place-des-Arts]
In our high-speed world, all things at rest quietly defend their silent mysteries. Three compositions, three variations on the motionless: deeply layered musical explorations of how wonderfully subtle our sonic world is – if we stop to listen. A new sonic aesthetic of the monochrome, focused and rich – to Bhagwati, a lively market is a monochrome sound, as are cracking ice floes, screaming children, a scorching fire, an idling motor, a thousand bees, a house creaking at night… Alien Lands - 4 energetic patterns of silence and noise for 4 percussionists, monochrom - 4 increasingly intricate comprovisations for string quartet, and Nil Nisi Nive, a sonic tissue of melody and rhythm. Instruments embedded in live-generated soundscapes, in vibrant light spaces – and guided by sophisticated interactive computer scores: This evening is a journey into the world between our ears, moving through both the real space of the concert and our inner, imaginary space, from rage to meditation to dream - and back to the joy of ecstatic beats.
Sandeep Bhagwati (*1963) is a German composer and theatre maker of international renown. Since 2006, he directs matralab, a lab for interdisciplinary and intercultural research-creation at Concordia University, and currently is also director of the Hexagram Concordia Centre for Research Creation in Media Arts.
Jérôme Ruby
New drawings !!
Paul Bureau
The catalogue of his recent work is now available ! Come and obtain your copy at the gallery.
Article in January's Frieze Magazine on Extreme Painting, by James Campbell. (Read it here.)
Valérie Kolakis
New installation in the gallery's windows.
