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Yannick Desranleau & Chloe Lum (Séripop): Vexations at Access Gallery, Vancouver

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Yannick Desranleau & Chloe Lum (Séripop), Vexations, installation view, 2014. Screen printed paper, rubber, wood, paper mâché, rope, paint, polyethylene film, pigment, pulleys, electrical chord, nets, found objects. Courtesy of the artists. Photo by Yannick Desranleau

Yannick Desranleau & Chloe Lum (Séripop)
Vexations
11 January – 8 March 2014
at Access Gallery, Vancouver

In Vexations, Yannick Desranleau and Chloe Lum consider the space and surfaces of the gallery as a receptacle for a visual response – a vessel that will be both present and formless in the support of a resulting “sentence” that will be uttered. Through the manipulation of coloured paper against other materials, Desranleau and Lum’s sculptures react to both planes and void, to create tension between volume and flatness, mass and fragility, material stress and failure, and inertia.
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Alex Da Corte “Bacon Brest” at Artspeak, Vancouver

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Alex Da Corte, Bacon Brest, 2013. Installation view. Courtesy the artist and Artspeak, Vancouver

Alex Da Corte
Bacon Brest
4 May – 8 June 2013
at Artspeak, Vancouver

In Bacon Brest, Alex Da Corte (Philadelphia) reconsiders the system of Hollywood through a revised version of “Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon”—a parlor game which proposes that anyone on earth is a mere six connections from the actor. Da Corte repositions players such as Martin Brest, Wes Craven, and Halle Berry’s Catwoman as central bloodlines of Hollywood, weaving through their varying careers to investigate the inconsistencies of Hollywood itself. Puncturing holes in its immaculate veneer, the artist posits that the structure of Hollywood is both faulty and essentially human, and the absorption of success and failure should instead be considered requisites for ingenuity and innovation beyond the cinema.
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Mounira Al Solh “The Sea Is A Stereo” at Grunt Gallery, Vancouver


Mounira Al Solh, The Sea Is A Stereo, 2007- ongoing. Courtesy of the artist and Sfeir-Semler gallery Beirut/Hamburg

Mounira Al Solh
The Sea Is A Stereo
11 October – 1 December 2012
at Grunt Gallery, Vancouver

“The Sea Is A Stereo” by artist Mounira Al Solh, introduces us to a group of men who swim daily at a beach in Beirut, Lebanon. This practice of swimming takes place despite varying circumstances relating to weather, the change of seasons, and the conflict of war and politics. The work is made up of several elements that use video, photographs and audio-recorded interviews. While these men are connected through their swimming ritual, Al Solh further connects these men to their surroundings, practice and socio-political issues by means of a visual and audio-based installation.
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Institutions By Artists


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As the Frieze franchise churns out its London and Masters series in the UK, bringing hundreds of collectors and art lovers into London to trade or admire US$1.9 billion worth of art, Vancouver is amassing over 65 international artists, curators, critics, and academics on the other side of the globe for Institutions by Artists. By contrast this three-day event is assessing and promoting contemporary artist-run centres and initiatives. Mostly non-profit organisations will here explore and advance the common interests of artist-run spaces and collectives, as a culture for catalysing new as well as alternative perspectives for art today. Using experimental formats, performative frameworks and participatory vehicles, the three day series of events is designed to challenge and generate more thinking about artist initiatives globally, to examine their multiple dimensions whether they be in urban or rural, fixed or mobile, local or regional contexts.
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Newslinks

Art market
One of four versions of Edvard Munch’s masterpiece The Scream, (pastel, 1895) fetched $119,9M (Sale price $107M + the buyer’s premium) at Sotheby’s New York on 2 May, a record for auction history. The sale was dominated by two telephone bidders, over a tense ten minutes period. Sotherby’s auctioneer Tobias Meyer was caught exclaiming “I love you!” to one phone bidder when prices soared up to $106M. You can watch an excerpt here. We are all curious to know who won the bidding match for the most expensive artwork ever sold at auction. Petter Olsen, the seller of the painting personally hoped the bidding winner to be MoMA NY…
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