Heather Cassils, Becoming an Image, 2012. Photo documentation of performance. Courtesy of the artist and Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York. Photo by Heather Cassils and Eric Charles
Material Traces: Time and the Gesture in Contemporary Art
16 February – 13 April 2013
at Leonard & Bina Ellen Gallery, Montréal
Opening: Saturday 16 February 2013, 15h00 – 17h00
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Performative event by Alicia Frankovich at 15h30
Curator: Amelia Jones
Artists: Francis Alÿs, Christopher Braddock, Heather Cassils, Juliana Cerqueira Leite, Andrew Dadson, Alexandre David, Paul Donald, Alicia Frankovich, Flutura and Besnik Haxhillari (The Two Gullivers), Mark Igloliorte, Tricia Middleton, Alex Monteith, Angel Vergara
Is art an object or a process? Is it “material” or “trace”? Shifts in art practice over the past 50 years, particularly in art world centers in Europe and the US, and more recently in Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, have profoundly challenged Enlightenment to modern conceptions of the work of art, in European aesthetics, defined as an object, more or less static in meaning and value over time. Material Traces presents work from the past fifteen years by artists from around the world which draws on the legacy of performative intermedial practices from the 1960s and 1970s to foreground the processes and materiality of making, whether in wood, paint, performance, video, or other media. In this way the work in Material Traces stresses the interrelational bonds between art makers and viewers. The emphasis in the exhibition is on works that foreground aspects of making, activating aspects of temporality, in order to connect in conceptual and material ways to viewers at a later time. By activating future viewers, these works have the potential to create historical bonds with past contexts and agents, and thus to elicit political thought in the present. [read the full text here]
Leonard & Bina Ellen Gallery
LB-165
Concordia University
1455 blvd. de Maisonneuve West
Montréal (Québec) H3G 1M8
Canada
ellengallery.concordia.ca
Opening hours
Tuesday – Friday 12h00 – 18h00
Saturday: 12h00 – 17h00
Angel Vergara, FEUILLETON Pasolini, 2011. Video still. Courtesy of the artist and Amine Rech Gallery, Brussels/Paris
Flutura and Besnik Haxhillari (The Two Gullivers), Série Star’s Anatomy series, 2011- . Watercolour and ink on paper. Courtesy of the artists
Christopher Braddock, Above, 2007. Video still. Courtesy of the artist