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. Continue reading “Material Traces at Leonard & Bina Ellen Gallery, Montréal”