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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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Valérie Blass: Théâtre d’objets at Parisian Laundry, Montréal

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Valérie Blass, La partie pour la chose, 2013. Digital print, watercolour on matte paper, 12 x 18″ Courtesy the artist and Parisian Laundry, Montréal

Valérie Blass
Théâtre d’objets
16 January – 15 February 2014
at Parisian Laundry, Montréal

Opening: Wednesday 15 January 2014, 18h00

Théâtre d’objets includes one of the artist’s latest series where interests that have been at the crux of her practice are realized photographically and presented in parallel to her sculptures. These images represent staged scenes of puppeteers manipulating objects from the artist’s studio, here Blass provides us with a literal window into the theatre of objects that has underscored her practice for the past decade. The actors in these scenes represent the nuance of her work, they remain in the shadows, subtle and discrete, they are the props for the objects of the artists’ desire. This inter-changeability between subject and object represents the essence of Blass’ captivating visual language. The exhibition occupies both Parisian Laundry’s main floor and the gallery’s bunker space.
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Opportunities: Bemis Center Old Market Live-Work Studio Residencies, Omaha, USA

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Lucrecia Troncoso, artist-in-residence 2012.

Bemis Center Old Market Live-Work Studio Residencies
Omaha, NE, USA

Upcoming Deadline: 28 February 2014 (For January – June 2015 residency)

For more than 30 years, the Bemis Center has supported artists through its Old Market residency program at its 110,000-square-foot main campus located in downtown Omaha’s historic Old Market neighborhood. These residencies provide artists from around the world with long-term opportunities to focus on their practice and to engage in critical dialogue with the Bemis Center community. The Bemis Center provides Artists-in-Residence with community engagement opportunities, unmatched staff support, and regular access to artist assistants and interns.
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Renaud Auguste-Dormeuil: INCLUDE ME OUT at Musée d’art contemporain du Val-de-Marne, Vitry-sur-Seine, France

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Renaud Auguste-Dormeuil, Elk’s Rest, 2012. Installation, wood and various materials, 250 x 120 x 120 cm. Courtesy of the artist and
Galerie In Situ / fabienne leclerc, Paris.

Renaud Auguste-Dormeuil
INCLUDE ME OUT
26 October 2013 – 19 January 2014
at Musée d’art contemporain du Val-de-Marne,
Vitry-sur-Seine, France

“INCLUDE ME OUT” is constructed around a simple, yet essential question: is it Time going through us, or are we going through Time? Although Time is calculable, it is, by essence, ineffable. How can we translate the experience of the elasticity of Time? The exhibition unfolds like a initiatory trip, taking the visitor through the artist’s recent creations and key works. Upon entry, one is invited to abandon their certitudes and dwell in a zone of doubt, the territory of art. From darkness to the light and back again, the question of blindness is broached. What do we see? How do we see? How can we represent the unshowable? Auguste-Dormeuil’s works mark steps in a circuit through territories of suspense, like so many tools for analysis. They are the plastic representations for reflection and the questioning of our relationship with reality.
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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”

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Elena Damiani and Frauke Dannert: All The Pieces, Back Together at Selma Feriani Gallery, London, UK

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Elena Damiani and Frauke Dannert: All The Pieces, Back Together 2013 Installation view. Courtesy the artists and Selma Feriani Gallery, London

Elena Damiani and Frauke Dannert
All The Pieces, Back Together
29 November 2013 – 18 January 2014
at Selma Feriani Gallery,
London, UK

Curated by Niekolaas Johannes Lekkerkerk

The exhibition will revolve around commissioned and recent works from the artists’ practices, focusing specifically on the possibilities of expanding collage into the space of sculpture and installation. In that, the exhibition is sought to comment on the fragmented nature of collage, in the light of its potential dimensionality when thought and approached spatially, architecturally. In so doing, the works themselves, rather than the gallery space, will become the support structure and stage for a more immersed and cinematic way of looking at fragments, materials and objects that become sequences within a comprehensive, all–encompassing environment. Continue reading “Elena Damiani and Frauke Dannert: All The Pieces, Back Together at Selma Feriani Gallery, London, UK”

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Happy New Year 2014!

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Claire Fontaine, PAST, PRESENT, FUTURE, 2011. Courtesy the artist and Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris; Metro Pictures, NY

M-KOS wishes a very happy new year to all its readers, judging by all the 2013 entries of the memorable exhibitions, last year brilliantly featured a challenging sequence of works and events by emerging and established artists alike on a global stage. So if the trend continues, 2014’s art scene only promises to energize us even more!

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Memorable Exhibitions 2013

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M-KOS once more invited a telling selection of art professionals for the 2013 installment of its annual survey, to generously share some of their most memorable exhibition and art performance moments of this past year. Surely some choices will be debatable, some will demand a remark by our contributors, some not, albeit all were memorable for those very reason. M-KOS invites its readers to join in the discussion on this year’s listings, or suggest any other must see entry from the comment section below. Continue reading “Memorable Exhibitions 2013”

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Season’s Greetings

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Peter Fischli / David Weiss, Snowman, 1990. Photograph. Study for Kunstprojekte Heizkraftwerk Romerbrucke, Saarbrucken. Copyright: Peter Fischli / David Weiss. Courtesy the artists; Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich; Monika Spruth Philomene Magers, Cologne/Munich/London; Matthew Marks Gallery, New York. Image via potz!blitz!szpilman!

Season’s Greetings!

M-KOS would like to wish everyone a festive holiday season.

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Opportunities: Call for Residency Applications, Elsewhere, Greensboro, North Carolina, USA

Residency program
Go Elsewhere 2014
Elsewhere Living Museum
Greensboro, North Carolina
USA

Deadline: 10 January 2014, 11:59pm EST

Elsewhere is now accepting 2014 residency applications. Artists, musicians, curators, scholars, writers, gardeners, urban agriculturalists, homesteaders, installation, sculpture, textile, sound, video, kitchen and performance artists, system-thinkers, game-makers, and other creative individuals/groups across medias are encouraged to apply. Residents use the museum’s immense 58-year collection of cultural and material surplus for site-specific projects that interpret and contribute to Elsewhere’s concepts, collections , and communities.

Makers and thinkers with an interest in the intersections of participation and play, situation and process, repair and reuse, public practice, and critical institutions are an excellent fit for this program. Residents evolve their projects from the enormous collections of textiles and toys, books, consumer technologies, thrift store shrift, and rooms full of vintage clothes. They respond to the spaces and the social ecologies of the museum. Residencies include access to a wood shop, screen printing facility, fabric workshop, library, storefront theater, vintage wardrobe, communal kitchen, as well as connections with Greensboro neighbors and Elsewhere’s national artist network. All projects are supported by a team of curators who provide critical feedback, documentation, community connections, and event support.

Elsewhere offers an exceptional place for rethinking the people, places, and things of everyday and extraordinary life. Individuals and collaborative teams are encouraged to apply. Residencies range from 2-6 weeks. 4 weeks is the ideal residency time-frame. Creative retreats and internships are also available.
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