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David Altmejd “FLUX” & Jon Rafman at Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal

David Altmejd, The Flux and The Puddle (detail), 2014. Photo: James Ewing. Image courtesy Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York. © David Altmejd

David Altmejd, The Flux and The Puddle (detail), 2014. Photo: James Ewing. Image courtesy Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York. © David Altmejd

David Altmejd, The Island (detail), 2011. Photo: Farzad Owrang. Courtesy The Brant Foundation Art Study Center, Greenwich, CT

David Altmejd, Sarah Altmejd, 2003. Photo: Lance Brewer. Courtesy Andrea Rosen Gallery New York

Jon Rafman, You Are Standing in an Open Field (Waterfall), 2015

Jon Rafman, You Are Standing in an Open Field (Gale), 2015

Jon Rafman, Still Life (Betamale), 2013

Jon Rafman, Mainsqueeze, 2014.

Jon Rafman, Kool Aid Man in Second Life, 2008-2011

Friday, 11September from 5 p.m. to 2 a.m. – First NOCTURNE of the fall season

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DAVID ALTMEJD “FLUX” and JON RAFMAN

Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal

20 June – 13 September 2015
*Special opening hours:
Friday, 11 September: 5.00pm to 2.00am – First NOCTURNE of the fall season
Saturday, 12 September: 10.00am to midnight – Extended hours
Sunday, 13 September: 10.00am to midnight – Extended hours

DAVID ALTMEJD: FLUX
Flux, Altmejd’s major survey exhibition, features some thirty works produced over the last fifteen years by this Montréal-born sculptor currently based in New York. The show also includes a site-specific mural and another new work, fresh out of the artist’s New York City studio.

Altmejd creates an organic yet phantasmagorical world that combines various forces of decay and regeneration in a fantastical life cycle. In describing his work, he says “a perpetual tension must be there, between the attractive and the repellent, like the two poles necessary to maintain vital force.”
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DRONE: The Automated Image – Le Mois de la Photo à Montréal 13

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Trevor Paglen, Reaper Drone: Indian Springs, NV; Distance – 2 miles, 2010. Courtesy of the artist; Metro Pictures, New York; Altman Siegel, San Francisco; and Galerie Thomas Zander, Cologne

DRONE: The Automated Image
Le Mois de la Photo à Montréal 13
5 September – 5 October 2013
25 exhibitions in 14 sites across Montréal

Guest curator: Paul Wombell

International photography biennale “Le Mois de la Photo à Montréal” opens its 13th edition on 5 September through to 5 October, to present 25 local, national and international artists on 14 different sites across the city, under the theme of “DRONE: The Automated Image”.

This year’s guest curator Paul Wombell developed this theme by focusing on the materiality of the camera and its changing relationships with human operators, to trace the evolving shapes and characteristics of the camera over the past 40 years which is nowadays adapting more to the advent of drone and other machine behaviours. The artists herein explore human co-authorships with advancing imaging technology, how to creatively deal with intelligent cameras and their transformation into systems that may one day literally capture the imagination. Continue reading “DRONE: The Automated Image – Le Mois de la Photo à Montréal 13”