Montréal – M-KOS

December 15, 2015December 15, 2015

Tammi Campbell “New Works” at Galerie Hugues Charbonneau, Montréal

Tammi Campbell, Monochrome with bubble wrap and tan packing tape (detail) 2015. Acrylic on linen. Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Hugues Charbonneau, Montréal

Tammi Campbell, Monochrome with poly and tan packing tape, 2015. Acrylic on linen. Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Hugues Charbonneau, Montréal

Tammi Campbell, Monochrome with poly and tan packing tape (detail) 2015. Acrylic on linen. Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Hugues Charbonneau, Montréal

Tammi Campbell, New Works, 2015 Exhibirion view. Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Hugues Charbonneau, Montréal

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TAMMI CAMPBELL
NEW WORKS

21 November – 23 December 2015
Galerie Hugues Charbonneau, Montréal

Galerie Hugues Charbonneau is pleased to present Tammi Campbell’s first solo exhibition in Montréal. The artist offers a collection of seven works that cleverly play with the mechanics of painting, the illusion of the senses, and viewers’ expectations.

This new body of work closely follows research begun by Campbell in her previous series titled, Work in progress and Paper series. In open dialogue with the legacy of Modernism and Minimalism, she explored the specificity of the medium of painting and the fetishism of the creative process through works that are painted in trompe-l’œil, but appear to remain unfinished. In Work in Progress, Campbell created simulated beige and green strips of masking tape that effectively imitate the process behind the making of geometric, hard-edge abstract paintings. In Paper series, the potential of the white page is left untouched, as no pictorial element can be detected on its surface, until one realizes that the page itself is made entirely of paint.
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November 8, 2015May 30, 2019

Thomas Kneubühler “Dark Matter” at Patrick Mikhail Gallery, RIDM Headquaters & Galerie B-312, Montréal

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THOMAS KNEUBÜHLER
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”

September 28, 2015

David K. Ross “Positions” at Dazibao, Montréal

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© David K. Ross, Théodolitique (2015)

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DAVID K. ROSS
POSITIONS

10 September – 7 November 2015
Dazibao, Montréal

Positions brings together a selection of three moving image works and a suite of drawings by artist David K. Ross. Through the use of customized lens-based devices, Ross explores how sight and sound can be manipulated to alter perception of physical space. In each of the works on display, the viewer is placed in a privileged position and is offered specific access to locations and activities that would otherwise remain concealed or out of reach. Continue reading “David K. Ross “Positions” at Dazibao, Montréal”

September 22, 2015September 22, 2015

Le Polygraphe at Les Territoires, Montréal

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Daisuke Yokota, Untitled, from the series site/cloud, 2013. ©Daisuke Yokota, Courtesy of G/P gallery

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Le Polygraphe

2 – 26 September 2015
Les Territoires, Montréal

Artists: Daisuke Yokota (Japan), Hajra Waheed (Canada), Paulien Barbas (Netherlands)

Curated by Safia Belmenouar (France) and Myrabelle Charlebois (Canada).

The exhibition Le Polygraphe explores the aesthetic perceptions generated when an isolated photograph or preexisting matrix of images are inserted into a new set of narrative. Deliberate technical errors, vernacular productions, recycled images are finding a place in, and redefining art, thanks to the artists who gather, consult, and manipulate them as available objects. Continue reading “Le Polygraphe at Les Territoires, Montréal”

September 1, 2015May 30, 2019

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

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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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May 29, 2015May 30, 2019

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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May 25, 2015May 30, 2019

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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May 11, 2015May 30, 2019

Polyphonies at Optica, Montréal

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Â© 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

Â© 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

Â© Katarina Zdjelar, Donâ€™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

Â© 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

Â© 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

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

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POLYPHONIES

18 April â€“ 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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May 8, 2015May 30, 2019

Nelson Henricks “A Lecture on Art” at Dazibao, Montréal

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Nelson Henricks, A Lecture on Art (2015) Installation view. Courtesy the artist and Dazibao, Montreal. Photo: Veronica Mockler

NELSON HENRICKS
A LECTURE ON ART
25 April – 20 June 2015
Dazibao, Montréal

In a society in which the workings of communications technology are often invisible, the act of revealing its operation can be socially and politically enabling. Works of art created with technology can foster understanding of the interplay between technology, social context and subjectivity. – NH

An artist, writer, musician and sometimes curator, Nelson Henricks is a key figure of video art. For more than thirty years, he has developed a rich body of work addressing issues such as the visual representation of sound, the passage of time, the inherency of slippage in translation – from one language to another, from one medium to another, from one concept to another – and the semantic fields revealed by these slips. Henricks’ work ranges from single-channel videos to complex multi-channel installations, as well as projects that incorporate various other techniques and materials.
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May 3, 2015May 30, 2019

Papier 15 cuts a deal in vast new spaces [Slide Show]

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Fair view from Papier 15 at the new location Complexe de Gaspé

The Papier 15 entrance

Celia Perrin Sidarous at Parisian Laundry (MTL)

Cynthia Dinan-Mitchell at Galerie D'Este (MTL)

Works by Divya Mehra and Kelly Wallace at Georgia Scherman Projects (TO)

Séripop (Yannick Desranleau & Chloe Lum) (right) at Galerie Hugues Charbonneau (MTL)

Karen Tam (left), Trevor Gould (2nd left) at Galerie Hugues Charbonneau (MTL)

Galerie Trois Points booth

Nicolas Fleming's site specific intstallation presented by Galerie Trois Points (MTL)

Susan Hobbs (TO) booth

Paul Butler's collages at Galerie Division (MTL/TO)

Jon Rafman (left) and Mathieu Beauséjour (right) at galerie antoine ertaskiran (MTL)

Nicholas Pye and Shiela Pye at Birch Contemporary (TO)

Jessica Eaton (right), David Sullivan (middle) at Jessica Bradley Gallery (TO)

Diaz Contemporary booth (TO)

Marvin Luvualu Antonio (right) at Clint Roenisch Gallery (TO)

Eli Langer (right) at Clint Roenisch Gallery (TO)

Sara A Tremblay at dc3 Art Projects (Edmonton)

Guided Tour

Lisa Kehler Art + Projects (Winnipeg) booth

Eric Simon's large drawing presented by Galerie Donald Browne (MTL)

Fair view at Paier 15

Ed Pien's large work on paper presented by Pierre FranÃ§ois Oulette Art Contemporain (MTL)

Papier 15 Billboard in Mile End

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Papier 15 as always dedicated its art fair programme towards works exclusively made on paper, to include drawings, prints, collages, photography as well as three-dimensional paper-based objects. The annual fair opened its 8th edition between 24 and 26 April, and over the years, Papier’s reputation has risen to now feature among the top do-not-miss events on Montreal’s contemporary arts calendar. For 2015 Papier relocated to Complexe de Gaspé, which is rapidly developing into a new arts hub, housing four floors of artist studios and six artist run spaces in the hip Mile End district. The fair took over the top three floors of this 11-story building filled in natural light, to accommodate 39 galleries from across Canada. Comparatively to previous years, the somewhat leaner line-up of exhibiters did combine many regulars with first timers such as Diaz Contemporary (Toronto [TO]), Lisa Kehler Art + Projects (Winnipeg), Initial Gallery (Vancouver) and Studio 21 Fine Art (Halifax). The smaller numbers of booths were nonetheless particularly well positioned in an otherwise enormous space, circling the middle of each floor to leave a wide walkway around the window-covered external walls, for visitors to also enjoy a 360 panoramic view of La Belle Ville.
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