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Patrick Bernatchez on Patronage, Quebecois art, and Keeping Time

Par Sky Godden
Publié: ArtInfo, 2013-03-13 00:00:00 -0400

''The Quebec artist, Patrick Bernatchez is experiencing a particular high point in a practice peaked with same. His recent and forthcoming solo exhibitions and performances include venues like the Palais de Tokyo, the Casino Luxemburg, and the Musee d'art contemporain de Montreal, and he’s found a trusting patron for his serial and drawn-out projects. Bernatchez has entered an enviable moment in any artist’s career: one of experimentation, carte blanche, and dream fruition.''

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Painting imitates how the viewer looks at it

Par Scene Staff
Publié: CBC Manitoba, 2012-11-22 00:00:00 -0500

This is his statement about his painting, Inspector (Inspector): "Inspector (Inspector), belongs to an ongoing body of work. These paintings are made using a generative system of stencils that capture and re-distribute motifs amongst the paintings. The blue loops that slip across this painting's surface act like a surrogate for a viewer's gaze. They scan the painting's surface, en-framing and altering what they pass over. Conversely, the circular loops form a set of gaping eyes which return the stare, prompting a situation of reciprocal scrutiny."

Lisez le texte complet: http://www.cbc.ca/manitoba/scene/other/2012/11/22/painting-imitates-how-the-viewer-looks-at-it/

Artistes: Krisjanis Kaktins-Gorsline

Corps à corps frémissants

Par Marie-Ève Charron
Publié: Le Devoir, 2012-10-13 00:00:00 -0400

''À n’en pas douter, dans le travail de Marion Wagschal, il y a une sensibilité en apparence viscérale que la facture des oeuvres rend perceptible aux premiers contacts. ''

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Exposition: Œuvres sur papier
Artistes: Marion Wagschal

Drawing-collage fusions hold surprises at Vancouver Drawn

Par Kevin Griffin
Publié: Vancouver Sun, 2012-07-11 00:00:00 -0400

The exhibition of works by Montreal artist Sophie Jodoin are organized to tell a loose narrative meant to show the various stages in the life of a person from childhood to adulthood, according to curator Lynn Ruscheinsky. Describing Jodoin as one of the country’s most creative drawers, Ruscheinsky said the artist makes works that combine everyday objects in startling new ways that are reminiscent of dreams.

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Artistes: Sophie Jodoin

Sophie Jodoin’s drawings are charged with the spectres of trauma

Par Robin Laurence
Publié: Georgia Straight, 2012-07-03 00:00:00 -0400

Darkness and light, innocence and brutality, comfort and destruction: Sophie Jodoin’s drawings are filled with contrast and conflict. They are charged with metaphors of physical violence and psychological suffering, and shaped by meditations on our shared mortality.

Lisez le texte complet: http://www.straight.com/article-724046/vancouver/sophie-jodoins-drawings-are-charged-spectres-trauma

Artistes: Sophie Jodoin

Artist draws human condition in black & white

Par Matthew Hoekstra
Publié: Richmond Review, 2012-06-21 00:00:00 -0400

It might look like a series of simple spaces, but Sophie Jodoin has much bigger plans for Richmond Art Gallery when the Montreal artist arrives Monday. “I see them as chambers of our lives. You wander through it and each body of work makes you question how you live your own life and the kinds of struggles you might be going through,” she said.

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Artistes: Sophie Jodoin

Between the lines of abstraction

Par John Pohl
Publié: The Gazette, 2012-05-05 00:00:00 -0400

"The New York school also influenced John Fox, a Montreal figurative painter who devoted 15 years in mid-career to abstraction, and then returned to figuration. Battat Contemporary is showing some of his abstract works, which are all about line and gesture." Read more: http://www.montrealgazette.com/entertainment/Between+lines+abstraction/6568869/story.html#ixzz1uJ5ElfJp

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Exposition: Abstractions
Artistes: John Fox

Krijanis Kaktins-Gorsline

Par James D. Campbell
Publié: Border Crossings Magazine, 2012-05-01 00:00:00 -0400

"In the works exhibited here, Krisjanis Kaktins-Gorsline performs on his own paintings a crisp and deft trepanning. He makes process an overt subject matter by taking motifs from his paintings and replicating them over and over again in their ongoing facture. The stencils derived from gestures in a given painting are thus integral to each successive painting, where the stencils marry with one another and with new gestures to generate new shapes that then become new stencils. Each painting is layered with a host of processual precursors, and an ever-higher order of evolutive complexity. In so doing, Kaktins-Gorsline opens painting to issues of ornamentation, and the motifs in question become a default template for painting, almost mathematical in its mien. Certainly, pattern and ornament in these works are binary unifying themes. "

Lisez le texte complet: http://www.bordercrossingsmag.com/issue122

Exposition: Nervous Lattice / Treillis Nerveux
Artistes: Krisjanis Kaktins-Gorsline

Sophie Jodoin & Papier 12 @ Salut Bonjour

Par Salut Bonjour @ TVA
Publié: TVA, 2012-04-28 00:00:00 -0400

Entrevue avec l'artiste Sophie Jodoin @ TVA dans le cadre de la foire Papier12. --- Interview with Sophie Jodoin @ TVA during Papier12 Art fair.

Lisez le texte complet: http://tva.canoe.ca/video/1559759444001

Artistes: Sophie Jodoin

John Fox, Abstractions : Quand Venise, ses graffitis et son stucco deviennent sources d’inspiration

Par Caroline Lévesque
Publié: pieuvre.ca, 2012-04-21 00:00:00 -0400

" C’est une exposition intime, dans laquelle il se tisse une continuité dans les thèmes et les textures des toiles. La plupart des œuvres exposées sont inspirées des nombreux séjours de l’artiste à Venise, ville qu’il affectionnait particulièrement et où il est décédé en 2008."

Lisez le texte complet: http://www.pieuvre.ca/2012/04/20/john-fox/

Exposition: Abstractions
Artistes: John Fox