Presse

Get Framed

Par Sasha Jackson
Publié: Mirror , 2012-01-13 00:00:00 -0500

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)!

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Artistes: Krisjanis Kaktins-Gorsline

Sophie Jodoin

Par James D. Campbell
Publié: Magenta Magazine, 2011-03-17 00:00:00 -0400

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.

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Artistes: Sophie Jodoin

Immodest Modesty

Par Robert Enright
Publié: Border Crossings Magazine, 2011-03-14 00:00:00 -0400

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.)

Lisez le texte complet: http://www.bordercrossingsmag.com/issue117/article/2841

Exposition: two sticks in a shed
Artistes: Beth Stuart

Sophie Jodoin : La part manquante

Par Claire Moeder
Publié: Rats de ville, 2011-01-28 00:00:00 -0500

" 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. "

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Artistes: 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

Par Frozen Mammoth
Publié: Inside the Frozen Mammoth, 2011-01-27 00:00:00 -0500

" 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. "

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Artistes: Sophie Jodoin

Rentrée hivernale partie 4

Par Éloi Desjardins
Publié: Un show de Mot'arts, 2011-01-26 00:00:00 -0500

" «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."

Lisez le texte complet: http://www.unshowdemotarts.net/?p=2052

Artistes: Sophie Jodoin

Chasing Sunset Shadows

Par Megan Stewart
Publié: The Rover Arts, 2010-11-18 00:00:00 -0500

"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."

Lisez le texte complet: http://roverarts.com/2010/11/chasing-sunset-shadows/

Exposition: Into The Light - New work from Israel
Artistes: Tomer Ganihar

Artist of the week : Beth Stuart

Par LVL3
Publié: LVL3, 2010-11-08 00:00:00 -0500

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.

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Artistes: Beth Stuart

The Fields Are Alive With the Signs of Dance

Par Pia Catton
Publié: The Wall Street Journal, 2010-10-14 00:00:00 -0400

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.

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Artistes: Stephen Talasnik