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Niamh McCann “Just Left of Copernicus” at VISUAL Centre for Contemporary Art, Carlow, Ireland

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Niamh McCann, Just Left of Copernicus (installation view, VISUAL Carlow), 2015. Cardboard, plywood Photo: Aisling McCoy. Courtesy of the artist

Niamh McCann, Just Left of Copernicus (installation view, VISUAL Carlow), 2015. Cardboard, plywood Photo: Aisling McCoy. Courtesy of the artist

Niamh McCann, Kavalier and Clay, 2015. 29.7 x 21cm. Watercolour, oil paint + pencil on paper Courtesy of the artist

NIAMH McCANN
JUST LEFT OF COPERNICUS National Tour

Just Left of Copernicus (Roof of the Story)
VISUAL Centre for Contemporary Art, Carlow, Ireland
03 October 2015 – 03 January 2016
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Just Left of Copernicus (A Prologue)
Limerick City Gallery of Art, Limerick
21 January – 24 March 2016
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Just Left of Copernicus (The Pastoral)
Solstice Arts Centre, Navan, Co. Meath
01 September – 21 October 2016
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Niamh McCann’s practice looks to the visual cultural landscape to invite a reconsideration of our relationship to the world around us, questioning how this world constitutes us as subjects, and how we, in turn, give this world form. As an artist, her exploration of these themes takes the form of concise multi-media work, presented within larger installations and site-responsive pieces.
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Thomas Kneubühler “Dark Matter” at Patrick Mikhail Gallery, RIDM Headquaters & Galerie B-312, Montréal

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DARK MATTER

11 NOVEMBER – 19 DECEMBER 2015
(Vernissage: 12 November 2015, 17.00 – 20.00)
PATRICK MIKHAIL GALLERY

12 – 22 NOVEMBER 2015
(Vernissage: 13 November 2015, 17.00 – 19.00)
RIDM HEADQUARTERS

19 NOVEMBER – 19 DECEMBER 2015
(Vernissage: 19 November 2015, 17.30)
GALERIE B-312

 

Dark Matter is a three part exhibition by Thomas Kneubühler, a Swiss artist based in Montréal, presented at different venues across Montréal – Patrick Mikhail Gallery, RIDM Headquaters and Galerie B-312. Dark Matter unites Days in Night and Land Claim, two of Kneubühler’s recent projects. Produced as the result of an artist residency at CFS Alert, a military and research station in the high Arctic located 800 km from the North Pole, Days in Night examines the phenomenon of 24 hour-long polar nights, an experience of living in the dark and the limits of how much one can see. (shown at Patrick Mikhail Glalery and RIDM Headquarters) Similarly, Land Claim (shown at Galerie B-312) investigates mining conditions in Northern Quebec, a highly controlled territory hidden from the public eye and its connection to global markets. Thomas Kneubühler is interviewed below about his upcoming exhibition series, by fellow artist Andreas Rutkauskas Continue reading “Thomas Kneubühler “Dark Matter” at Patrick Mikhail Gallery, RIDM Headquaters & Galerie B-312, Montréal”

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Hans Rosenström “Why is the remote always so far away” at Maria Stenfors, London


Hans Rosenström, Together, 2015. C-Print. Courtesy the artist and Maria Stenfors, London

HANS ROSENSTRÖM
WHY IS THE REMOTE ALWAYS SO FAR AWAY

11 September – 24 October 2015
Maria Stenfors, London

Text by Yasmina Reggad

With his first solo exhibition at Maria Stenfors, Finnish artist Hans Rosenström outlines themes that have punctuated his practice in the past years. The exhibition presents recent works that address the notions of liminal and transitional states and study the limits of our experience of the world from a singular perspective.

The title Why the remote is always so far away clearly points at something unattainable ahead of us and at the same time paradoxically replicates the precision of a measuring tool. Nevertheless, the very question Hans Rosenström is raising lies in the position of the body itself in relation to the remote. The body stands in the centre, in the in-betweeness surrounded by unreachable far-aways. In this exhibition, the artist investigates the multiple nature and social functions of liminal spaces. Rosenström also strives to draw and mould the contours of the inside and the outside of the body as well as reveals its faculty of resonance that gives shape to its surroundings.
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Joanna Rajkowska “Painkillers” at l’étrangère, London

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Joanna Rajkowska, Uzi submachine gun, 2014, life-­size cast, powdered analgesic, polyurethane resin. ©Joanna Rajkowska. Courtesy ŻAK | BRANICKA, Berlin & l’étrangère, London

JOANNA RAJKOWSKA
PAINKILLERS

17 September – 24 October 2015
l’étrangère, London

Private view: Wednesday 16 September 2015, 6.30 – 8.30pm

l’étrangère is delighted to announce Painkillers, which brings into conversation new and existing sculptural works by the Polish artist, Joanna Rajkowska. Noted for her ambitious interventions in public space, as well as her objects, films, photography, installations and ephemeral actions, Rajkowska’s practice interrogates individual and collective bodies as politicised sites of historical, ideological and psychological conflict. For her inaugural exhibition at l’étrangère, Rajkowska unites two object-based series under the rubric, Painkillers, in order to explore the at times uncomfortable connections between modern warfare, healing systems and the practices of Western science.
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Emma Hart and Jonathan Baldock “SUCKERZ” at l’étrangère, London

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Emma Hart & Jonathan Baldock, SUCKERZ, 2015. Installation view. Image courtesy the artists and l’étrangère, London. Photo: Andy Keate

Emma Hart and Jonathan Baldock
SUCKERZ

25 June – 1 August 2015
l’étrangère, London

l’étrangère is delighted to announce SUCKERZ, a presentation of new sculptural works by British artists Emma Hart and Jonathan Baldock in their first exhibition together.

Gaping mouths, tongues, nipples, and arseholes occupy the gallery in an agitated display of bodies, orifices and foodstuffs across a messy and precarious banqueting table. SUCKERZ presents Hart’s and Baldock’s exaggerated forms in a carnivalesque conglomeration within the gallery: a series of protagonists and props that invite the viewer into the artists’ unofficial feast.
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Prévisualisations at Galerie Trois Points, Montréal

“No More Heroes” by Oli Sorenson. Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Trois Points.

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PRÉVISUALISATIONS

16 May – 27 June 2015
Galerie Trois Points, Montréal

Artists: Jason Arsenault, John Boyle-Singfield, Oli Sorenson, Alex McLeod

Galerie Trois Points features guest artists Jason Arsenault, John Boyle-Singfield and Oli Sorenson along Alex McLeod’s works in Prévisualisations. The selected works reveal certain truths about how virtualization – through the appropriation and distorted use of software, applications, movies, files and digital technologies – may impact our daily life and perception of reality.
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Chloe Lum & Yannick Desranleau (Séripop) “The Face Stayed East and the Mouth Went West (elements)” at Galerie Hugues Charbonneau, Montréal

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Installation view. Chloe Lum & Yannick Desranleau (Séripop), The Face Stayed East and the Mouth Went West (elements), 2015. Courtesy the artists and Galerie Hughes Charbonneau, Montreal. Photo: Guy L’Heureux

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CHLOE LUM & YANNICK DESRANLEAU (SÉRIPOP)
THE FACE STAYED EAST AND THE MOUTH WENT WEST (ELEMENTS)

2 May – 6 June 2015
Galerie Hugues Charbonneau, Montréal

>> PERFORMANCE << Friday 29 May 2015, 17h30
Choreography by Sarah Wendt
with Sarah Wendt, Katie Ewald + guest performers

For their sophomore exhibition at Galerie Hugues Charbonneau, Séripop – the collaborative practice of Chloe Lum and Yannick Desranleau – will be exhibiting a new presentation of multi-disciplinary work. Known for their large scale sculptural installations constructed of brightly coloured – sometimes printed – paper materials, The Face Stayed East and the Mouth Went West (elements) exhibition distinguishes itself by referencing that sculptural work and its concepts through photo-based installation and performance.
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Yasmin Mueller “Gosh, I Fantasise” at Maria Stenfors, London

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Yasmin Mueller, Portrait Skygirl (open eyes), 2015. Courtesy Maria Stenfors, London.

YASMIN MUELLER
GOSH, I FANTASISE

6 May – 13 June 2015
Maria Stenfors, London

In Gosh, I Fantasise, Mueller continues her exploration of the muse through sculptural objects, with an installation that oscillates between the dreamlike and a hardedge reality.

A series of wall and floor sculptures reveal graphic abstractions intertwined with meaning. Black denim is fashioned into geometric shapes, akin to a soft skeleton or a labyrinth of guts, which starkly puncture the white cube gallery space, claiming its own domain. Mueller’s hand makes the soft material behave like hard metal or more traditional sculpture, and the resulting installation presents a tension between external structure and the inner world.
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Polyphonies at Optica, Montréal

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© Anne-Marie Ouellet, Penser le futur (2013-2015) Performative installation / Installation performative. View of the exhibition / Vue de l'exposition, "Polyphonies" Courtesy of the artist / Avec l'aimable permission de l'artiste. Photo : Paul Litherland

© Emmanuelle Léonard, La taverne (2015) HD Video, color, sound/ Vidéo HD, couleur, son, 11 min 50 s. Courtesy of the artist / Avec l'aimable permission de l'artiste. Photo : Paul Litherland

© Katarina Zdjelar, Don’t Do It Wrong (2007) Video, color, sound / Vidéo, couleur, son, 10 min 13 s. Courtesy of the artist / Avec l'aimable permission de l'artiste. Photo : Paul Litherland

© Sophie Castonguay, La part du lion (2015) Performative installation: 5 artworks, recorded audio track, reciter / Installation performative : cinq tableaux, enregistrement audio et récitante. View of the exhibition / Vue de l'exposition, "Polyphonies" Courtesy of the artist / Avec l'aimable permission de l'artiste. Photo : Paul Litherland

© Kaya Behkalam & Azin Feizabadi, The Negotiation (2010) 2 chanels HD Video, color and black and white, sound / Vidéo HD 2 canaux, couleur et n/b, son, 38 min. 04 s. Courtesy of the artist / Avec l'aimable permission de l'artiste. Photo : Paul Litherland

© Dave Ball & Oliver Walker, Dinner Party (2011-2015) Participatory live art project accompanied by a video installation / Projet participatif accompagné d’une installation vidéo. Courtesy of the artist / Avec l'aimable permission de l'artiste. Photo : Paul Litherland

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POLYPHONIES

18 April – 13 June 2015
Optica, Montréal

Curated by Véronique Leblanc

Artists: Anne-Marie Ouellet, Emmanuelle Léonard, Katarina Zdjelar, Kaya Behkalam & Azin Feizabadi, Sophie Castonguay, Dave Ball & Oliver Walker

Polyphonies is an exhibition that stages a plurality of voices while bringing together the work of eight artists including two duos. Whether based on documentary approaches (interviews, surveys) resembling anthropological field studies or revolving around the invention of fictional situations in which archives of various kinds are played out, the orchestration of speech in the artists’ propositions creates a disjunctive gap with the documented reality. They appropriate ways of telling stories (in past, present, and future tenses) to bring out issues in the ideological and identity-related constructions that take shape through speech.
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The Unfinished Conversation: Encoding/Decoding at The Power Plant, Toronto

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John Akomfrah, still from The Unfinished Conversation, 2012. Collection of the Tate: Jointly purchased by Tate and the British Council, 2013. Courtesy the artist; Smoking Dogs Films; and Caroll/Fletcher, London.

THE UNFINISHED CONVERSATION:
ENCODING/DECODING

23 January – 18 May 2015
The Power Plant, Toronto

ARTISTS: Terry Adkins, John Akomfrah, Sven Augustijnen, Shelagh Keeley, Steve McQueen, and Zineb Sedira
CURATERS: Gaëtane Verna and Mark Sealy MBE

The Power Plant presents The Unfinished Conversation: Encoding/Decoding in partnership with Autograph ABP. The winter exhibition takes cultural theorist Stuart Hall’s (1932 – 2014) essay “Encoding and Decoding in the Television Discourse” as its point of departure, exploring how meaning is constructed, how it is systematically distorted by audience reception and how it can be detached and drained of its original intent to produce specific or slanted narratives.
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