Press (2010)
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
Stephen Talasnik’s carnival of perfect lines
Written by Jasmine Papillon-Smith
Published in The Concordian, October 8, 2010
« The artist's strength lies mostly in his ability to execute both drawing and sculpture with machine-like precision in a manner that is reminiscent of early Russian Constructivism. The show is a carnival of perfect lines, curves and perspectives. In fact, it almost feels like Talasnik's personal world is a carnival. His subjects are abstract representations of spokes, wheels, and gears floating in varying foggy abysses of a futuristic industrial world...»
See complete text: http://www.theconcordian.com/arts/stephen-talasnik-s-carnival-of-perfect-lines-1.1662721
Related Exhibition: Panorama: Monolithe intime
Related Artists: Stephen Talasnik
Stephen Talasnik : le futurisme a son maître des charpentiers
Written by Éric Clément
Published in La Presse, October 6, 2010
«Architectus, en grec, désignait le maître des charpentiers, le bâtisseur. Celui qui créait et commandait les destinées de l'espace dans la cité. Voilà un titre qui convient tout à fait à l'artiste visionnaire new-yorkais Stephen Talasnik, qui expose ses impressionnantes sculptures futuristes et ses dessins fouillés à la galerie Battat Contemporary jusqu'au 23 octobre. »
See complete text: http://www.cyberpresse.ca/arts/arts-visuels/201010/06/01-4329973-stephen-talasnik-le-futurisme-a-son-maitre-des-charpentiers.php
Related Exhibition: Panorama: Monolithe intime
Related Artists: Stephen Talasnik
Marion Wagschal : Private Views and paintings
Written by James D. Campbell
Published in C Magazine 107, October 1, 2010
''In Montreal, where she lives and works, Marion Wagschal is a phenomenon. She arrived on the scene with the exclamatory power of the Tunguska event and has left an equally unforgattable impression on the landscape of painting. Working feverishly, somewhere between the Biblical and the libidinal, she left her mark right from the start.'' Read the rest of the article on the digital version of C Magazine 107, p. 50.
See complete text: http://ca.zinio.com/browse/issues/index.jsp;jsessionid=140548727DC5CB799CB166F3395BE677.ns101-e01?skuId=416138484
Related Exhibition: Marion Wagschal
Related Artists: Marion Wagschal
Stephen Talasnik@ Battat Panorma:Monolithe Intime
Written by Eric Bolduc
Published in Ratsdeville, September 17, 2010
Dialogue entre l’architecture et les arts visuels, le travail de Stephen Talasnik s’illustre comme le résultat d’une recherche constante entre la forme, la ligne, l’espace, et leur structure propre. Se jouant de la perspective, l’artiste propose des vues panoramiques à la temporalité latente et aux points de vue divers. C’est par le rapport de force qu’il établit entre le dessin et la forme tridimensionnelle, que l’artiste plonge ainsi le spectateur dans un univers séduisant ou la finesse de la ligne, du rendu et du détail fascinent.
See complete text: http://ratsdeville.typepad.com/ratsdeville/2010/09/stephen-talasnik-battat.html?utm_source=bulletin+|+newsletter+3e&utm_campaign=RDV+09%2F17%2F2010&utm_medium=email
Related Exhibition: Panorama: Monolithe intime
Related Artists: Stephen Talasnik
Joe Battat: de créateur de jouets à catalyseur d'art
Written by Éric Clément
Published in La Presse, July 3, 2010
Fabricant de jouets dans l'âme, Joe Battat aime le beau. Transporté par l'élan de l'esthète à la vue d'un geste artistique fulgurant, il s'est lancé dans la promotion de l'art contemporain et a ouvert la galerie Battat Contemporary en 2009. ... « Ça prend un coup de foudre pour choisir qui présenter, dit-il. Ce n'est pas une question d'argent. Il faut amener un changement dans la façon de voir les oeuvres...»
Related Exhibition: Œuvres de la collection • Works from the Collection
Old Masters Meet New Talent at Battat Contemporary
Written by Veronica Redgrave
Published in Tourisme Montréal, June 7, 2010
Take a little trip away from the downtown hustle, and visit some art on the outskirts of picturesque Little Italy. Discover the Battat Contemporary, a jewel of a gallery – a secret among local art aficionados.... The eclectic exhibitions range from Old Master drawings to cutting-edge contemporary work.
See complete text: http://www.tourisme-montreal.org/blog/what-to-do/old-masters-meet-new-talent-at-battat-contemporary/
Related Exhibition: Œuvres de la collection • Works from the Collection
Marion Wagschal - Arts Visuels, VOIR
Written by Nicolas Mavrikakis
Published in voir.ca, May 25, 2010
À l’évidence, elle connaît la peinture.
See complete text: http://www.voir.ca/blogs/nicolas_mavrikakis/archive/2010/05/25/marion-wagschal.aspx
Related Exhibition: Marion Wagschal
Related Artists: Marion Wagschal
Entre les chairs: Un bilan de la carrière de Marion Wagschal
Written by Marie-Ève Charron
Published in Le Devoir, May 8, 2010
Portraits et scènes d'intérieur constituent encore les fondements de la peinture de Marion Wagschal, à qui la galerie Battat Contemporary consacre une exposition. Ils sont des sujets de prédilection pour cette artiste, qui a commencé dans les années 1970 une carrière relativement discrète, mais ponctuée de succès, notamment par sa contribution à un art dit féministe. L'exposition actuelle aspire à dresser un bilan tout en faisant découvrir un corpus somme toute peu vu.
See complete text: http://www.ledevoir.com/culture/arts-visuels/288559/entre-les-chairs
Related Exhibition: Marion Wagschal
Related Artists: Marion Wagschal
Marion Wagschal's paintings invite contemplation
Written by John Pohl
Published in The Gazette, April 24, 2010
A woman straddles a man in an easy chair. They are naked, in the throes of passion, the woman's face pressed into the man's chest, his clenched hands digging into her back. But his eyes are looking into the distance - is that detail significant? This is the scene in one of Marion Wagschal's paintings in her new show at Battat Contemporary, and it is typical of her work in that small details, like the man's wayward gaze, turn a seemingly straightforward depiction of lovers into a mystery in which no narrative is imposed. What viewers get are beautifully painted figures that invite contemplation and interpretation. (...)
See complete text: http://www.montrealgazette.com/travel/review+Marion+Wagschal+paintings+invite+contemplation/2945513/story.html
Related Exhibition: Marion Wagschal
Related Artists: Marion Wagschal
Marion Wagschal: la beauté de l'ordinaire
Written by Éric Clément
Published in La Presse, April 24, 2010
Peintre figurative montréalaise, Marion Wagschal peint les corps humains dans leur plus grande banalité, dans leur réalité anodine avec une force évocatrice qui transforme ses personnages en héros et ses tableaux en pages d'histoire. On quitte réjoui et impressionné cette exposition où la beauté émerge totalement, complètement de l'ordinaire humain et du quotidien, des relations entre les êtres, de leurs souffrances, de leur sexualité, de leurs errements.
See complete text: http://www.cyberpresse.ca/arts/arts-visuels/201004/24/01-4273932-marion-wagschal-la-beaute-de-lordinaire.php
Related Exhibition: Marion Wagschal
Related Artists: Marion Wagschal
Grier Edmundson
Written by Tracy Valcourt
Published in Border Crossings, March 1, 2010
"The Work Ahead of Us" is at once an eclectic yet cohesive collection of recent works. Oscillating between pessimism and optimism, Edmundson joins disparate points in history portrayed through various media and styles. His comfort in each medium and his differing perspectives attest to his versatility as both an artist and a thinker.
See complete text: http://www.bordercrossingsmag.com/issue113
Related Exhibition: The Work Ahead of Us • Le travail qui nous attend
Related Artists: Grier Edmundson
Underwater with John Ancheta, or notes on an opening (TONIGHT!)
Written by Kit Malo
Published in Inside the Frozen Mammoth, February 25, 2010
...(John Ancheta) been one of my absolute favourite painters, nay artists, for years. His dedication to his craft, understanding of place within a vast historical context, and unwillingness to settle for a certain set or style of aesthetics never ceases to astound me. The fact that I always, always want to take my clothes off and get it on with his canvases is just a bonus.
See complete text: http://www.thefrozenmammoth.com/2010/02/25/underwater-with-john-ancheta-or-notes-on-an-opening-tonight/
Related Exhibition: Aquacades
Related Artists: John Ancheta