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Get Framed
Written by Sasha Jackson
Published in Mirror , January 13, 2012
Battat Contemporary (7245 Alexandra, #100) kicks off the year with work by Winnipeg artist and Columbia Universtity grad Krisjanis Kaktins-Gorsline, whose exhibit Nervous Lattice looks set to excite—if the cut-out invitations are anything to go by (Jan. 19–Feb. 25)!
See complete text: http://www.montrealmirror.com/wp/2012/01/12/get-framed/
Related Artists: Krisjanis Kaktins-Gorsline
Sophie Jodoin
Written by James D. Campbell
Published in Magenta Magazine, March 17, 2011
Sophie Jodoin is attempting something truly remarkable in her recent work: to name the darkness in our nature, going where angels fear to tread, as it were, in this pursuit, and palpably evoking the tremendum, or nameless Other, in the process. Her true subject matter is specifying this demonic alterity that threatens to swallow us whole and deprive us of our human wherewithal. She is a connoisseur of pain and we are, at first, unwilling voyeurs. But, soon enough and strangely, we never want to turn away.
See complete text: http://www.magentamagazine.com/6/exhibition-reviews/sophie-jodoin
Related Artists: Sophie Jodoin
Immodest Modesty
Written by Robert Enright
Published in Border Crossings Magazine, March 14, 2011
Toronto painter Beth Stuart talks about her painting in a way that confirms how good you already think it is. (Her recent collection of paintings and sculpture, called “two sticks in a shed” was on exhibition from January 14 to February 26 at Battat Contemporary in Montreal.)
See complete text: http://www.bordercrossingsmag.com/issue117/article/2841
Related Exhibition: two sticks in a shed
Related Artists: Beth Stuart
Sophie Jodoin : La part manquante
Written by Claire Moeder
Published in Rats de ville, January 28, 2011
" À l’invite du centre OBORO, Sophie Jodoin a conçu l’exposition Tant de morts pour si peu. Réalisées entre 2008 et 2010, les œuvres déclinent diverses images en suspens. Échappant sciemment à tout repère temporel ou spatial, elles produisent une mémoire impossible de la guerre et de ses souffrances. "
See complete text: http://ratsdeville.typepad.com/ratsdeville/2011/01/claire-moeder-sur-jodoin-chronique.html
Related Artists: Sophie Jodoin
Sophie Jodoin’s Uncanny Valley: A Road-trip through the Allusions and Illusions of You Have to Kill a Whole to Get a Little
Written by Frozen Mammoth
Published in Inside the Frozen Mammoth, January 27, 2011
" At once fragile and strong, her work breathes in pain, exhales tenderness. Her figures, often anonymous, exude a quiet intimacy. A headless pair of twins carry with them a sense of profound self-hood. There is an urge to tenderly pet the shadow of a black, black dog. When these unique pieces come together, they give rise to a paradoxical realm that we connect with on a deep level. We, too, live in paradox, in discomfort. (Perhaps) this is why it can be difficult to confront Jodoin’s work – it takes us on a journey to the uncanny valley where it resides, and upon arriving we discover we are somewhere recognizable, somewhere we’ve been before. "
See complete text: http://www.thefrozenmammoth.com/
Related Artists: Sophie Jodoin
Rentrée hivernale partie 4
Written by Éloi Desjardins
Published in Un show de Mot'arts, January 26, 2011
" «Tant de morts pour si peu» de Sophie Jodoin chez Oboro. L’artiste exhibait, il y a déjà quelques mois à Clark, de grandes oeuvres sur papier. Cependant, Jodoin s’exprime mieux dans le petit format. Son dessin, sobre et spectaculaire à la fois, s’avère vraiment efficace. Une projection et une boîte lumineuse ajoutent aussi une belle diversité à l’exposition. Une des meilleures présentée au 4001 rue Berri depuis cet automne."
See complete text: http://www.unshowdemotarts.net/?p=2052
Related Artists: Sophie Jodoin
Chasing Sunset Shadows
Written by Megan Stewart
Published in The Rover Arts, November 18, 2010
"Find your way to Battat Contemporary and take a moment to lose yourself in these images. Chase the shadows of a sunset, fall into a vermillion river, and drift into unfading, endless skies. Rothko-esque enlightenment may follow."
See complete text: http://roverarts.com/2010/11/chasing-sunset-shadows/
Related Exhibition: Into The Light - New work from Israel
Related Artists: Tomer Ganihar
Artist of the week : Beth Stuart
Written by LVL3
Published in LVL3, November 8, 2010
Beth Stuart lives and works in Toronto, Canada. She was a semifinalist in the 2010 RBC Canadian Painting Competition and her work was recently shown at The Power Plant. If you had to explain your work to a stranger, what would you say? I’d say that I make paintings. And then they’d say “of what?” and I’d say - “exactly!” But most seriously, I feel like I’m working on some sub-lingual level, trying to still a muttered argument between figuration and abstraction, not understanding either language. Another way to put it is that I’m trying to give some provisional structure to sensation. If someone looked at one of my paintings and said, “Oh, that one’s looks like licking frozen metal!” or “those two together look like a conversation between my libidanally challenged aunt and my randy teenage girlfriend”, I’d be getting somewhere.
See complete text: http://lvl3.tumblr.com/post/1517793783/artist-of-the-week-beth-stuart
Related Artists: Beth Stuart
The Fields Are Alive With the Signs of Dance
Written by Pia Catton
Published in The Wall Street Journal, October 14, 2010
This season, however, marks the venue's 50th anniversary. To celebrate the milestone, its president, John Stern, decided to show works by five sculptors who were new to Storm King—and to go a step further by commissioning a dance performance around one of those works. "We want to offer something new," he said, adding that Mr. Talasnik's sculpture was a fitting place to inaugurate dance. "This is our first temporary, site-specific sculpture of this scale." "Stream: A Folded Drawing" is a sprawling work that dominates a sizable hillside. The dance created around it incorporates both the vast forest tableau and the intimate nature of the work's interlocking poles of bamboo. Titled simply "Movements Within Stream," the two dances are entirely separate from each other, but share one element: Each employs movement that is fresh, engaging and avoids the conventions of most contemporary dance.
See complete text: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703440004575548182946008368.html?mod=googlenews_wsj
Related Artists: Stephen Talasnik
Stephen Talasnik @ battat
Written by Le mur mitoyen
Published in Le mur mitoyen, October 9, 2010
«Stephen Talasnik invite le spectateur à pénétrer l’univers de paysages urbains repensés et aux possibilités spatiales infinies.»
See complete text: http://mur.mitoyen.net/events/?com=detail&eID=22252
Related Exhibition: Panorama: Monolithe intime
Related Artists: Stephen Talasnik