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

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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

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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David Ben White “Inside Outside” at l’étrangère, London

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Exhibition view (left: Inside Outside 12, 2015; right Fabrication of Pleasure 36, 2014) © David Ben White. Courtesy the artist and l’étrangère

DAVID BEN WHITE
INSIDE OUTSIDE

30 October – 5 December 2015
l’étrangère, London

l’étrangère is delighted to present Inside Outside: a new body of work encompassing painting and sculpture by the British artist David Ben White. Absorbed within the language and aspirations of modernist architecture, design and art, White’s paintings and sculptures disrupt the self-enclosed logic of this prescriptive legacy through a subversion of its objects and spaces.
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Tim Braden “Ultramarine” at Bruce Haines Mayfair, London

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Tim Braden, Ultramarine, 2015. Acrylic on canvas. Courtesy the aritst and Bruce Haines Mayfair, Lodnon

TIM BRADEN
ULTRAMARINE

9 – 30 October 2015
Bruce Haines Mayfair, London

Bruce Haines Mayfair opens its West End gallery with a new body of work by the British artist Tim Braden. Entitled Ultramarine, the exhibition is comprised of several large and medium- scale still lifes executed in acrylic and oil, presented alongside a hand-knotted abstract wool rug laid on the floor in the centre of the gallery. Continue reading “Tim Braden “Ultramarine” at Bruce Haines Mayfair, London”

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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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Andro Semeiko & Shino Yanai “Comedy and Menace – The Birthday Party” at White Conduit Projects, London

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Shino Yanai, “Screen Memories”, detail, single channel video installation (HD, color, sound) [11’50”] 2012. Courtesy the artist & White Conduit Projects, London

Andro Semeiko & Shino Yanai
Comedy and Menace – The Birthday Party

16 November – 28 December 2014
at White Conduit Projects, London

White Conduit Projects opens its central London location at 1 White Conduit Street N1 on 15th November 2014. It will be showcasing Japanese artists and designers alongside British and international artists in a programme of innovative exhibitions across a variety of media.

The inaugural exhibition entitled Comedy and Menace – The Birthday Party is an ambitious project showing works by two artists, Andro Semeiko from Georgia and Shino Yanai from Japan.

Semeiko has exhibited in various group and solo shows in England. This time he will produce work based on the history of the neighbourhood of the gallery, referring to knightly quests and cycling in Islington. Semeiko’s projects often feature knights. – “These clanking, forlorn knights, in their tragicomic search to find something authentic in this synthetic universe. Never perceiving that their mistake is to look for authenticity elsewhere, when it can already be found in their own purposeful, yet hopelessly misdirected quest.” (JJ Charlesworth) Continue reading “Andro Semeiko & Shino Yanai “Comedy and Menace – The Birthday Party” at White Conduit Projects, London”

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Oli Sorenson: La Société de la Place des Spectacles at POPOP Gallery, Montréal

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Oli Sorenson
La Société de la Place des Spectacles

4 – 13 December 2014
at POPOP Gallery, Montréal

Vernissage: Saturday 6 December 2014, 14h – 17h
Performance: Saturday 6 December 2014, 16h

“[…] the very means of damaging these monitors in a performative context, to leave these marks will give exclusive properties to each of them: products of mass consumption will be transformed into unique objects …” (O. Sorenson)

Lodged under the signs of paradox, Oli Sorenson’s performance entitled La Société de la Place des Spectacles is presented on December 6th at 4 pm in Montreal’s Belgo Building. This performance taps right at the heart of spectacular fervor, while investing in the denial his own representation by continuing his series of “revisited works.” This corpus, triggered by a will to comment on the existing work of other creators as much as mass-produced objects, is here explored under the logic of destruction. Strangely, Sorenson’s exercise in transfiguration aspires to restore a stamp of uniqueness onto already original creations. Continue reading “Oli Sorenson: La Société de la Place des Spectacles at POPOP Gallery, Montréal”

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Emma Nourse/Chris Van Eeden/Sidy Diallo/Zina Saro-Wiwa at Brundyn+, Cape Town

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EMMA NOURSE
Pause
4 September – 18 October 2014

Emma Nourse’s first solo exhibition since graduating from the Michaelis School of Fine Art will be exhibited at the BRUNDYN+ gallery. Titled Pause, this body of work continues Nourse’s preoccupation with representations of environmental entropy and the deepening influence of human interference.
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Review: Colleen Heslin “Ballads from the North Sea” at Galerie Laroche/Joncas, Montréal

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Colleen Heslin, Blue Monochrome, 2014. Ink and dye on cotton. 48 x 54 inch. Courtesy the artist and Galerie Laroche / Joncas, Montréal

COLLEEN HESLIN
BALLADS FROM THE NORTH SEA
Galerie Laroche/Joncas, Montréal
8 March to 26 April, 2014

Review by Joseph Henry

On the crowded fourth-floor of the Whitney Biennial, a floor curated this year by Stuart Comer, American artist Ken Okiishi brought painting into contact with the galleries’ propensity toward new and electronic media. For his contribution to the Biennial, a major exhibition designed to showcase recent American art, Okiishi painted over consumer-grade television monitors, obscuring their moving images with messy acrylic. If perhaps blunt in its multimedial comparison, Okiishi’s work symbolized a relatively new place for painting after its perennially announced death by Paul Delaroche in 1839, and countless others since. In a digital visual culture dominated by screen technologies and their perceptual flatness, painting has been revived as a key medium in the investigation of the surfaces and places from which images are produced and consumed. Continue reading “Review: Colleen Heslin “Ballads from the North Sea” at Galerie Laroche/Joncas, Montréal”

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In all seriousness – Interview with the artist Rachel Shaw

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Rachel Shaw, All Seriousness, 2014. Acrylic on panel. Courtesy the artist and Galerie LOCK, Montreal.

Montreal based artist Rachel Shaw’s solo exhibition is currently on view at Galerie LOCK, showcasing her new series “All Seriousness”: a sequence of sterile, yet comically uplifting interiors. These waiting areas, offices, and living rooms have no visible entrance or exit; only black squares that lead to nowhere. Devoid of human presence, the furniture and objects no longer serve any utilitarian function and instead engage in aesthetic conversations with the viewers. The shadows, angles and intersections are only slightly off, lending to a peculiar unease on the part of the spectator. Caught in a state of in-betweenness, we can’t help but ask: where did everybody go? Shaw discusses her work with Jessica Kirsh.

Jessica Kirsh [JK]: There appears to be a reoccurring trope in your body of work: that of the window or frame. Most often illustrated as a black rectangle, it holds a stark yet mysterious presence within the interior. What signification (conceptually or formally) does this device contain? How is it repurposed or reconfigured from one painting to the next?

Rachel Shaw [RS]: In the diorama – a small-scale model of a real-life scene – a window (or at least the absence of a wall) is often as a point of view or observation. Even the word diorama means ‘through that which is seen’, which I think is pretty appropriate. I don’t use the word diorama to mean scale modeling or miniaturism, but I do use the window as a way to display a certain type of space while also containing it and the objects within it indefinitely. Formally, I think it works as a point of pause and reorientation, like a wall does in a maze, but it does hint at a space outside the one you’re in.
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Carol Wainio: The Book at Galerie de l’UQAM, Montréal

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Carol Wainio, Tapestry, 2009, acrylic on canvas, 91,4 x 122 cm, collection of M. Henry Sykes and Mme Molly Naber-Sykes, Calgary. Courtesy of TrépanierBaer Gallery, Calgary.

Carol Wainio
The Book
10 January – 22 February 2014
at Galerie de l’UQAM
Montréal

Opening reception: Thursday 9 January 2014, 17h30

Curated by Diana Nemiroff

Organized and circulated by Carleton University Art Gallery in Ottawa, the exhibition, which was presented in five locations across Canada, will be ending its tour in Montreal. Carol Wainio is specifically interested in the narrative power of images. In this exhibition, she uses illustrated books and fairy tales imagery references to create a dialogue with the current socio-political context. The project, curated by Diana Nemiroff, brings together a body of 15 works made between 2002 and 2010. The artist will be present at the opening. Continue reading “Carol Wainio: The Book at Galerie de l’UQAM, Montréal”