MONTREAL, Aug. 15, 2013 /CNW Telbec/ - The Galerie de l'UQAM unveils its 2013 Fall program: sound and image exploration by Donatella Landi, reflection on behavior and space with Melanie Martin, subjective beauty interpretation by Janet Werner portraits and questioning our relationship with photography with Lena Mill-Reuillard.
September 6 to October 19, 2013
Opening: Thursday, September 5 at 5:30 pm
- Donatella Landi. Les résonnances de l'image
Curator: Louise Déry
Since the 90's, Italian artist Donatella Landi's work has been rooted in the exploration of image and sound. She examines the potential of both or combines them in order to grasp their emotive and narrative power, along with its forceful memory evocation potential. Films, photos, sound and multimedia installations not only confront the resonant body with the image, but also absence with presence. The works in this exhibition introduce several central themes in Donnatella Landi's corpus: references to art history, the use of the landscape tradition, family destiny, survival of the species, and human integrity and identity. The viewing process directly engages one in an intense encounter in which the works form an astonishing echo chamber that induces sensory and psychic experiences. This raises questions about our desires, tolerance and ethics concerning the world, life and nature.
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- Mélanie Martin. Can I Stop Being worried Now?
Graduating Master's student in Visual and Media Arts program, UQAM
Mélanie Martin presents a playful look at the different personal and societal constructs that shape and constrict our behaviours. She explores the concept of shelter, with caves and bunkers that offer protection, isolation and introspection. The Can I Stop Being Worried Now? installation is a kind of corrugated cardboard refuge that visitors are invited to explore from the inside. In taking over the whole exhibition area the work redefines our usual perception of space.
November 1 to December 14, 2013
Opening: Thursday, October 31 at 5:30 pm
- Janet Werner. Another Perfect Day
Curator: Kent Archer
Exhibition and tour organized by Kenderdine Art Gallery | College Art
Galleries, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon
Another Perfect Day comprises a snapshot of Janet Werner's production over the last ten years that is invested in reinterpretations of the historically established practice of portraiture. This collection of work favours a deeply internalized, subjective, and subverted interpretation of generally accepted concepts of beauty. Figures inspired by high fashion images are delivered here as spectres laden with complex psychological and physical attributes that defy anatomical accuracy, pictorial truisms, and logical understanding. Werner focuses on the fictional portrait as a vehicle to explore notions of subjectivity and desire. The process of painting becomes a way to investigate the iconic power of the image.
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- Léna Mill-Reuillard. Mirari
Graduating Master's student in Visual and Media Arts program, UQAM
Exhibiting a photograph is the premise of the Mirari installation project, in which the artist explores the fragility and limitations of photographic framing. Léna Mill-Reuillard seeks to give substance to photography in order to question our sensory relationship with it. Her interest lies in image depth, undefined horizons, overlapping spatial planes, and that which is beyond the image frame. With Mirari, she makes use of a temporality that is situated at the subtle and unexpected boundaries between photography and video.
TOURING EXHIBITION
- Videozoom: Between the images
Sophie Bélair-Clément, Olivia Boudreau, Jacynthe Carrier, Michel de Broin, Frédéric Lavoie, Pascal Grandmaison, Aude Moreau
Curator: La Fabrique d'expositions
Confederation Centre of the Arts, Charlottetown (IPE)
May 25 to September 15, 2013
Centre culturel canadien à Paris, Nuit blanche, Paris (France)
October 5, 2013
Videozoom: Between the Images presents a videographic compilation of works from Quebec artists who define themselves neither as video artists nor filmmakers, but as visual artists fuelled by the exploration of the moving image. The exhibition reflects shared sensibilities, shows affinity for carefully executed images, demonstrates attention to the presence of sound, and reveals the effective and elliptical strategies inherent in image making. These short videos feature a variety of subjects ranging from politics, pop culture, to the filmic and televisual imaginary, as well poetically charged images.
- À Montréal, quand l'image rôde
Jean-Pierre Aubé, Sophie Bélair-Clément, Patrick Bernatchez, Dominique Blain, Olivia Boudreau, Jacinthe Carrier, Manon De Pauw, Jean Dubois, Pascal Grandmaison, Frédéric Lavoie, Emmanuelle Léonard, Aude Moreau, Nadia Myre, Yann Pocreau
Curator: Louise Déry
October 5, 2013 to January 5, 2014 / Opening : October 4, at 6 pm
Le Fresnoy, Tourcoing (France)
À Montréal, quand l'image rôde presents the work of a generation of Montreal artists whose research is carried by explorations of the idea of breath, reflection and echo. Their works make viewers face the notion of the missing image, not the one that one must find or rediscover, but the one that incites us to seek it out. The images lurk in the furrows of space between two glimpses, passing through this space that is not a vacuum, but is revealed only by gently tilting the head, as the mind roams around this edgy zone where stuttering, phase shifting, hesitation and failure remain vital.
ONLINE EXHIBITION
- The Painting Project
A Snapshot of Painting in Canada
Curator: Julie Bélisle
Produced by the Galerie de l'UQAM and put online as part of the Virtual Museum of Canada
www.leprojetpeinture.uqam.ca
The Painting Project proposes to delineate the practice of recent painting in Canada for a wide audience, based on exhaustive research in a didactic register and with a selection of 60 works by as many artists. The ambition is to provide a broader view of painting by founding a "panorama in the making," according to a survey of the categories observable today. Four became the basis for selections: the "figure of reality," emanating from the procedures of figuration, in line with the great painting traditions; "fictional worlds," arising from figurative undertakings with content that is either symbolic—inspired by cartoons, comic strips, graphic novels, the media or commercial illustration; "painting as the subject," where, by means of quotation, gesture and abstraction, "how to paint" becomes the subject matter; and, finally, "hybrid practices," in which painting develops in osmosis with other art disciplines to produce object-paintings, writing-paintings and photograph-paintings.
Free public activities
Lunchtime Contemporary Art
Every Thursday, from 1 to 1:45 p.m.
A guide will be on hand to talk with visitors and answer questions.
Open to all. No reservation required.
Guided tours
Available anytime for groups.
Reservations required. Information: Julie Bélisle, 514,987-3000, ext. 1424
or [email protected]
Location and hours
Galerie de l'UQAM
Pavillon Judith Jasmin, Room J-R120
1400 Berri, corner Sainte-Catherine East, Montreal
Metro Berri-UQAM
Tuesday to Saturday, noon to 6:00 p.m.
Free admission
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