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Kari Steihaug & Tina Jonsbu “Neverending Story” at NOoSPHERE, New York


Kari Steihaug, After the Market, 2011. Unraveling wool clothes, knitted image after the painting The Gleaners (1857) by Jean‐François Millet. Courtesy the artist. Image via norway.org

Tina Jonsbu & Kari Steihaug
Neverending Story
30 November – 30 December 2012
at NOoSPHERE, New York

Neverending Story is conceived as a second chapter to Kari Steihaug’s and Tina Jonsbu’s two‐person show at the Trøndelag Center for Contemporary Art in Trondheim, Norway, in 2006. Meditative and unobtrusive, the works of both artists embody the concept of “the time it takes” to manufacture an object; the intention being to create processoriented, thought‐provoking pieces that also have an aesthetic dimension. Though markedly different visually, these two bodies of work share a similar pulse and rhythm.
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Art Marathon: PAPIER 12


Shayne Dark’s sculptures, Critical Mass welcome the audience at the entrance of the fair.

PAPIER offers a refreshing aspect to the widening proliferation of art fairs by featuring works exclusively produced on paper, from drawings to prints as well as photography. This year the PAPIER fair hosted its fifth edition on 13–15 April, setting up its showroom tent at the heart of Montreal’s cultural quarter to accommodate 38 exhibitors from Montreal, Quebec, Toronto, Ottawa and Halifax. Many of these were already members of AGAC (Contemporary Art Galleries Association), which organized the event. Although PAPIER started as an internally guarded affair, servicing only a small circle of local galleries, its reputation has been progressively expanding. From last year, some of the best Toronto galleries such as Birch Libralato and Susan Hobbs also joined in. In this edition over 400 emerging to established artists were represented, to attract more than 10,000 visitors with a total sale of approximately CA$700,000. The slightly higher income over last year included purchases from returning corporate collectors such as Loto-Quebec, Hydro-Quebec, Cirque du Soleil and so on.
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Review: Parisian Laundry’s New Post-New summer show

Currently on view: Montréal
Summertime In Paris at Parisian Laundry
23 June – 30 July 2011

Luc Paradis “Stick Out There” (2010) oil on canvas, 60 x 84”. Courtesy of the artist and Parisian Laundry

Parisian Laundry is now showing its annual summer exhibition entitled “Summertime In Paris”, double Dutch busted with generous servings of themes: “Kindling” and “Post-New”. Five artists from Canada and America have been selected this way to spark a fire from beyond the realms of novelty.

“New” has long been overused as an adjective and oversaturated the pages of art press releases for decades. Lost in its significance and barely identifiable, art audiences still irresistibly seek newness, almost as a reflex behavior. Parisian Laundry fuses this with an equally vacuous term to create “post-new”, a humorous neologism that perhaps will ignite the whimsical attitudes of Summertime in Paris artists.

Luc Paradis creates uncanny and fantastical scenery in his paintings, such as “Stick It Out There” (2010), its undulating mountains and valleys, coveting a factory-like building alone by the cliff of a fictional wilderness. “Pleasure Park” (2011) also depicts a fun place to go to, with the familiar theme park attractions teasing our desire to take on a ride. But the surroundings of the park are submerged in darkness, tensing up the atmosphere as if an undetected danger was about to pounce and shatter an innocent moment of glee.
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