Taking a stroll through galerie sas‘ Permanent Collection, I was delighted to rediscover a few of my favourite artworks. The tortured vessels of Laurent Craste are back, delicate porcelain urns cruelly nailed to the gallery walls; 2fik gives us another chance to admire his many alter-egos in his irreverent photographs which star himself in...
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Self Portrait in Ink, Richard Rossetto It’s been quiet on the Belgo Report for a little while. Your Belgo Reporter took a long overdue vacation and was then swept away by a tidal wave of work upon her return. But help is at hand! The Belgo Report is delighted to introduce its newest author: Montreal...
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Projex-Mtl Gallery is pleased to present BRUT an exhibition of paintings and work on paper by artists: Patrick Dunford, Benjamin King and Justin Stephens.  Patrick Dunford’s “recent work has focused on the most basic elements of painting and visual language. Inspired by a renewed engagement with abstraction, the paintings are pared down in their...
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Mark this vernissage on your calendars: Les Territoires space 527 Multigraphers Art Group cAvA vernissage: Thursday, December 3, 2009, 7:00 p.m. exhibition period: December 4 – 19, 2009 cAvA is an inter-disciplinary piece and exhibition where augmented photography, video projection, real-time sound, and performance all mingle together to present a performative organism that immerses us in a multi-sensory space. The central...
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If you haven’t done so already, make sure you check out the awesome exhibition of ceramic works by Laurent Craste at Galerie sas. His elegantly fragile, majestic china urns are surreally squished and dented as axes, hammers and saws jut out of them at cruel angels. Says the artist: “The decorative object is at the...
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Limited Colors Recent Work by Matthew Biederman Galerie Art45 from November 12 to December 13, 2009 Multimedia artist Matthew Biederman mixes projection, sculpture and video, and addresses notions dealing with the perception, fabrication and classification of the colours that structure contemporary existence in the context of our computerized and mediatized daily life. Thus, in R + G + B, he deconstructs...
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Abacadabra Sylvie Bouchard Galerie Division November 4 – December 19, 2009 In the paintings of Sylvie Bouchard, a coherent analogy is drawn between art and magic, artist and sorcerer; but the magic is not in any sense that of a literally occult reality. It is both consoling and haunting to encounter the semi-invisibility of this, just as “real”...
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Situations Récentes Yves Tessier Galerie Projex-Mtl October 29 – December 5, 2009
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Lignes Imaginaires Karen Zalamea Les Territoires November 12th to December 1st, 2009 Lignes imaginaires draws connections between physical gestures and mechanical modes of production. Through photographs and a video and sculpture-based installation, Karen Zalamea shows evidence of repeated actions, revealing processes driven by both object-making and performance. The exhibition traces the passage of time, effort and play. (from gallery...
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Comme une image – pour un ensemble Stéphane La Rue Galerie Roger Bellemare November 14th to December 23rd 2009
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