ARTWORKS FOR SALE
The CIAC - Centre international d'art contemporain de Montréal offers you artworks for sale in order to finance its educational activities. These artworks have been generously donated by the artists.
Do not forget that the Donators/Associés of CIAC (annual donation of $100 or more) get 15% off the price of the artworks belonging to CIAC. If you wish to see the works, you may contact Pierre Pilotte at (514) 288-0811.
Kim ADAMS · René-Pierre ALLAIN · Robert ADRIAN X · Jocelyne ALLOUCHERIE · Randall ANDERSON · Pierre AYOT · Céline BARIL · Claude-Philippe BENOIT · Eva BRANDL · Martin BRUNEAU · Geneviève CADIEUX · Domingo CISNEROS · Barbara CLAUS · COLETTE-MAISON LUMIÈRE · Michel DAIGNEAULT · Tom DEAN · Pierre DORION · Jean DUPUY · FASTWÜRMS · Ian Hamilton FINLAY · Alain FLEISCHER · Jérôme FORTIN · John FRANCIS · Karilee FUGLEM · Emmanuel GALLAND · Eldon GARNET · Marvin GASOI · Jean-Pierre GAUTHIER · Raymond GERVAIS · Juan GEUER · François GIRARD · Michel GOULET · Angela GRAUERHOLZ · Xiong GU · Massimo GUERRERA · Charles GUILBERT · Gottfried HELNWEIN · Gary HILL · Robert HOULE · Harlan JOHNSON · Dieter JUNG · Istvan KANTOR · Wanda KOOP · Joseph KOSUTH · Peter KRAUSZ · Paul LACERTE · Sylvie LALIBERTÉ · Diane LANDRY · Myriam LAPLANTE · Francine LARIVÉE · Fernand LEDUC · Lucie LEFEBVRE · Ismaïla MANGA · John McEWEN · Gilles MIHALCEAN · Joey MORGAN · Alain PAIEMENT · Jerry PETHICK · Liliana PORTER ·Jean-François PROST · Rober RACINE · Brigitte RADECKI · Philippe RAPHANEL · Roadsworth (Peter Gibson) · Denis ROUSSEAU · Chuck SAMUELS · Stephen SCHOFIELD · Yoshio SHIRAKAWA · Todd SILER · Claude SIMARD · George STEEVES · Françoise SULLIVAN · Gabor SZILASI · David TOMAS · Martha TOWNSEND · Jean-Luc VERNA · Jacques VIEILLE · Irene F. WHITTOME
Kim ADAMS
Kim Adams
Sex in a Can
2004
Matériaux variés
2ème édition, no 1/8
22.2 cm x 20.9 cm x 10.8 cm
500 $
Robert ADRIAN X
Né en 1935 à Toronto, Robert Adrian X vit et travaille depuis 1972 à Vienne en Autriche.
S'il lui arrive de travailler avec des médias traditionnels (peinture, photographie, sculpture), l'essentiel de ses projets depuis 1979 est réalisé à partir d'outils de communication tels des scanneurs, radios-amateur, fax etc. Son intérêt précoce pour l'art télématique et le travail en réseau (Mail-Art, Network-Art...) en fait un des spécialistes en la matière. Il a participé à plusieurs expositions internationales et a écrit des ouvrages sur la révolution post-industrielle et ses conséquences sur l'art et la culture.
Robert Adrian X
Boy and Boat
1983-1988
Fimo and acrylic
10 cm x 15 cm x 15 cm
2500 $
René-Pierre ALLAIN
Born in 1951, René-Pierre Allain grew up in Campbellton, New Brunswick. He has been living and working in Brooklyn since 1984.
René-Pierre studied in communications in Montreal and worked as a photojournalist before obtaining his Bachelor Degree in Visual Arts in Ottawa. Founding member of the Ottawa Gallery Aesthetic Club in 1981, he also participated, from 1980 to 1984, to the A & B Associé collective along with Miguel A. Berlanga. The artists work together in producing fictive ruins of 20th century industrial societies, archaeologists might discover them centuries from now.
Having begun his career in sculpture, René-Pierre Allain slowly evolved towards painting, while maintaining the ambiguity of his object-paintings. For his painterly constructions he uses materials such as steel, mixing pigments to plaster that is then applied in successive layers. After moving to New where he shows regularly, he explored abstraction while consistently adding military references, blending non-referential and metaphor. Although successful on the New York scene, he continues to show in Canada, more specifically during Présence, organized by the CIAC in 1993. René-Pierre Allain, in addition to his painting, has been teaching at the School of Visual Art of New York since 1990.
René-Pierre Allain
Camouflage G, No 5
2004
Acrylic and Mixed medias on paper
38.1 cm x 48.2 cm
1700 $ (framed)
Jocelyne ALLOUCHERIE
Born in Québec in 1947, Jocelyne Alloucherie now lives in Montréal.
Her work has been recognized both Canadian and foreign markets since the 1970's. The year 1995 was very prolific for Alloucherie as her works were shown at the Box Galleria in Turin, at the Le Sous-Sol in Paris, at the Musée régional de Rimouski and at the Montreal Museum of contemporary Art. She has also participated in several showings at the CIAC, including Aurora Borealis in 1985, the Biennale de Montréal 1998 as well as in a retrospective of her works in 1992. More specifically the Vu gallery of the Méduse cooperative of Québec exhibited her pieces in 2004.
Notions of space, milieu and place are consistently present in the works of Jocelyne Alloucherie, through her associations of photos, sculptures, paintings and installations. The core of her evolution is an invitation to stop and think about the very meaning of simples yet evocative words. Her work is less an attempt to explain what these notions might mean, but is rather an attempt to express them spontaneously with all their lyricism and complexity. Jocelyne Alloucherie received the Governor General's Award in 1999 and the Prix Paul-Émile-Borduas from the Government of Québec in 2002. In Montreal, she is represented by the Galerie Roger Bellemare and he works are exhibited in major Canadian museums as well as in several European collections.
"Alloucherie's work then, offers a merging of silhouette, plan and line on one hand and of mass, form and matter on the other... Her photographs are shadow, trace and evidence left behind by one matter on another - the result of a chemical process of crystallization... Here, photography's resistance to becoming a genre assumes its full meaning. Photography becomes a representation of a fundamental criterion of human experience: time."
Jocelyne Alloucherie
Italiques (Paysages généraux) no 12
1995
Black and white photograph
Series of 25
56 cm x 61 cm
5 available
SOLD OUT
Jocelyne Alloucherie
Sans titre
2003
Héliogravure
No 3/15
30.5 cm x 21 cm
750 $ (framed)
Randall ANDERSON
Born in Edmonton Alberta in 1958, Anderson lives and works in Montreal.
After attending Concordia University in Montreal as well as the Emily Carr College of Arts in Vancouver, Anderson has had works shown in Canada and abroad In 1990, a year that proved to be especially fertile, he participated in Vision '90, organized by the CIAC. A multidisciplinary artist, he also contributes articles to publications such as Canadian Art, Border Crossings and Flash Art International, and is curator to events such as Disembodied by Carolee Schneeman, presented at the Articule during Le Mois de la Photo 2005.
As early as in 1984, Anderson sought both method and medium that would allow him to address contemporary issues - which led him to design Wallpaper Work. He has consistently used wall paper with five designs: a telephone, toilet, television, electric kettle and a vehicle. He examines the consumer society as well as the economic system upon which it is built. In some performances Anderson reminds ones of Vito Acconci, examining the limits of the body and the relationship with viewers. Randall Anderson's blends his artistic process with advertising and web animation - and collaborated on a project with Bauhaus University in Weimar, Germany in 2005.
Randall Anderson
Welt Architecture Study
2004
Drawing
38 cm x 50.8 cm
SOLD
Pierre AYOT
Pierre Ayot was born in Montreal in 1943; he passed away May 2nd 1995.
Ayot was admitted to the École des beaux-arts de Montréal as early as 1958 and studied engraving with Albert Dumouchel. He began to teach at the École des beaux-arts in 1965 and moved on to the UQAM in 1975 where he remained until 1980. Ayot's work was shown and rewarded early on as he participated in numerous significant events on the artistic scene of Québec, including the controversial Corridart in 1976. Founding member of Media and of the Association des graveurs du Québec, he also set up Atelier Libre 848 in 1966 that was later renamed Galerie Graff that he directed with his partner Madeleine Forcier until his death. In 1986, he took part in the Cent jours d'art contemporain de Montréal, a CIAC initiative. His works figure among the major Canadian public collections and were showed at the Galerie de l'UQAM in 1996. Following his death, an award, the Prix Graff, was set up in his memory and is awarded annually to an artist in the ara of print and engraving. The city of Montreal, in cooperation with the Association des galeries d'art contemporain (AGAC), established a Prix Pierre-Ayot to promote excellence in new new visual arts creations.
Influenced by Pop and emerging from the tradition of print making, Pierre Ayot has gone beyond its modality, introducing tridimensional elements, profoundly impacting québécois art. As a true craftsman and everyday magician, his will to marry art and life in amusing and incongruous works has not hindered his vision of the world. His premature death in 1995 meant the disappearance of an important artist who left behind works where popular and intelligent elements unite with a touch of humour. Pierre Ayot is represented by Galerie Graff in Montréal.
Pierre Ayot
Vie et mort de Tarzan
1989
Photograph, silk-screen print, objects, acrylic on wood and paper
78 cm x 54 cm x 14 cm
7000 $
Céline BARIL
Born in Gentilly in 1952, Baril lives and works in Montreal.
Céline Baril's interest in visual arts began at age 25. Having obtained a bachelor's degree in plastic arts at UQAM, she began her career with works that bring together sculpture, photography and video, then turned to cinema. Between 1989 and 1997, she signed and produced three experimental films: "Barcelone", "La fourmi et le volcan" and "L'absent". The first two are part of eponymous installations, that include projections, photos and sculptures, and that were presented a number of times in galleries. "La fourmi et le volcan" was shown at the Rendez-vous du cinéma québécois in 1992, and was nominated for best mid-length film. That same year, Céline Baril participated with other artists in an exhibit at the "Vues d'ensemble" at the Cent jours d'art contemporain de Montréal.
Having participated in several festivals across Canada, in Europe and Asia, Céline Baril produced her first full length fiction film "Du pic au Coeur". Her filmography grew to include "Les malheurs d' Héloïse", "Giselle" and "Le décompte", a scenario written by twelve teenagers from the École d'Éducation Internationale as part of the École en mouvement event. Her films are distributed by Cinéma Libre.
Céline Baril
Ceci est mon nez
1995
Exerpt from a series of 10 photographs
Black and white photograph
paper fibre
43.2 cm x 43.2 cm
400 $ (framed)
Claude-Philippe BENOIT
Born in Haileybury Ontario in 1953, BENOIT has lived and worked in Montréal since 1990.
Claude-Philippe Benoit holds a Master's Degree in Fine Arts from Concordia University and is pursuing his artistic research in photography. He has been exhibiting his works since 1982, mainly in galleries and centres located in Montreal including "Lumières: perception-projection" during the Cent jours d'art contemporain de Montréal in 1986. Recently, in 2005, he showed at the Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal in "Questions de temps et d'espace" with a dozen other artists including Lynne Cohen, Pascal Grandmaison and Serge Tousignant. Two of his works are also on permanent public display in Valleyfield and Saint-Hyacinthe. Claude-Philippe Benoit is co-founder and president (19883-1987) of AXE NÉO-7 and co-founder of the Daïmon production center, both located in Hull.
Trained initially in cinema then in visual arts, Benoit is interested both in image content and construction, blending the workings of the cinematographic image and its projection in his photos. Since the end of the 1980's, his work has been characterized by a certain sobriety, large formats and split screen series. Blending installations, projects and photography, he works on light and on the potential evocation of environments that lack presence. Especially evocative, his "Les lieux maîtres" cycle presents a specific universe whose austere yet elegant atmosphere remains symbolic, alive and powerful. He is represented by the Galerie Lilian Rodriguez in Montreal.
Claude-Philippe Benoit,
La Predicta
1985
(From the series "L'envers de l'écran, un tourment photographique")
Two black and white silver prints (diptyc) No 1/5
40.6 cm x 50.8 cm
1100 $
Claude-Philippe Benoit,
Le Serment de Encour pour un oui pour un non
2003
Photographie couleur
No 3/5
50.8 cm x 61 cm
800 $ (framed)
Eva BRANDL
Eva Brandl
Étude pour observatoire
2004
Drawing
45.7 cm x 55.8 cm
SOLD
Martin BRUNEAU
Martin Bruneau was born in Ottawa in 1960. He lives and works in Autun, France.
The works of Martin Bruneau have been shown in personal and collective exhibits in France, Germany and Canada. Indeed, Bruneau was included in the Cent jours d'art contemporain in 1992, an event sponsored by the CIAC where he presented a series of veiled, enigmatic self-portraits. He studied at Concordia University in Montreal and attended the workshop of Vladimir Velickovic at the Académie des Beaux-arts de Paris.
Bruneau's work, which is almost exclusively pictorial, examines the history of art though a series that presents quotations and statements that are not without some level of violence. The exhibit D'après les grands maîtres, presented in France in 2002 and 2003, included works in which he reconsidered classic works (Rembrandt, Vélasquez, etc.) by imposing a change of conventional rule, removing the faces of duchesses and their ladies in waiting by a mighty stroke of the brush. Revisiting portraits and self-portraits, Bruneau works on colour with successive layers and plays on the duality between form and background, between all-over and central characters. An obvious speed of execution is associated with formal incoherence in the works of Martin Bruneau, although he is free of interpretation and narration as he deliberately plays with such ambiguities and changes.
Martin Bruneau
Sabotage
1995
Oil on canvas
55 cm x 46 cm
1000 $
Geneviève CADIEUX
Genevieve Cadieux was born in Montreal in 1955 where she works and lives to this day.
Of international fame, she has enjoyed several solo showings throughout the world. In 1993, the Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal organized a retrospective of her works and a solo exhibit was held for her in the summer of 20000 at the Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal. She also participated in Aurora Borealis and the 2000 edition of La Biennale de Montréal, both CIAC sponsored events. Geneviève Cadieux has represented Canada at numerous international biennials, including that of Venice in 1990 with her magnificent photographic installation, La fêlure au c¦ur des c¦urs. In Montréal, one can enjoy her La voie lactée, created in 1992 and permanently on display on the roof of the Musée d'art contemporain in keeping with its 1% policy.
Geneviève Cadieux conjures up the human form, with all that is both ordinary and enigmatic, she fragments it, enlarges it to monumental dimensions. The viewer is constantly involved in her works that appear to swallow him up and encompass him to reveal all the latent emotions generated through the images. The artist favours photography blending sculptural and cinematographic elements. Her works often evoke opposition and contrast, a multiplicity of mechanisms as she works between the limits of the visible and the invisible Geneviève Cadieux is represented by the Galerie René Blouin in Montréal.
Geneviève Cadieux
Storyville Portrait/Le Petit Prince
1988
Images reproduced on Monadnock Dulcet paper and Lustro Gloss and an artist book numbered and signed
43,5 cm x 62,2 cm
SOLD
Domingo CISNEROS
Domingo Cisnéros est né en 1942 à Monterrey, Mexique. Il a émigré au Canada dans les années 70 et a résidé à La Macaza (Hautes-Laurentides, Québec) jusqu'en 1996.
S'inspirant des traditions autochtones ancestrales, ses sculptures et installations sont composées principalement de matériaux naturels (bois, pierres, plumes, ossements etc.).
Artiste engagé, pionner dans l'art écologique et initiateur de l'art-nature, Domingo Cisnéros a exposé au Canada, aux États-Unis, en Amérique Latine et en Europe.
Domingo Cisneros
Le clochard
1985
Deer skull and moose bone
60 cm x 35 cm x 45 cm
1 000$
Barbara CLAUS
Born in Brussels, Belgium in 1962, CLAUS has been living and working in Montreal since 1987.
Barbara Claus has been showing her artwork regularly since 1990 when her first solo exhibit was held in Montreal at the Oboro Center. The following year, the general public was invited to view her work at the Cent jours d'art contemporain de Montréal. Within the framework of the Government of Québec policy to integrate art and architecture, two of her works are on public display at La Plaine (1999) and at the Espace Go theatre in Montréal (1995).
Barbara Claus uses a marriage of large scale drawings and photos in her art. Her installation Recent Works (1992) for example was created using large photos representing details of funeral architecture combined with wall drawings representing imaginary constructions where the medium takes on its full meaning as charcoal pigments disintegrate. Her search for the tangible and the intangible, irreversibility and erosion often translates into photos taken in cemeteries, where the artist seeks out traces of past lives. The result is a universe of hallucinations, areas of dialogue and poetic juxtapositions of life and death. Enjoying collaborative work, Barbara Claus will quite often present works created with other artists including Marie-France Brière, Karole Biron and André Clément. She is represented by the Galerie Lilian Rodriguez in Montréal.
Barbara Claus
Nos maisons, leurs maisons
Installation detail
1994
Silver print and paper fiber
150 cm x 106 cm
1 000$
COLETTE-MAISON LUMIÈRE
Colette-Maison Lumière
Record from the Story of My Life Series
1978
Mixed medias
33 cm x 33 cm
2 000 $
Michel DAIGNEAULT
Michel Daigneault
Sans titre
1998
Gouache
crayon
colle
61 cm x 56.2 cm
SOLD
Tom DEAN
Tom Dean was born in 1947 in Markdale, Ontario. He has been living and working in Toronto since 1976.
At the end of the 1960's, Dean became firmly committed to the alternative artistic scene in Canada, especially through the 1972 creation of Véhicule Art, the first self-managed artistic center in Québec. Recognized for his counter-culture activities, he stands out as one of the rare Canadian artists with a marked interest in video and digital art. Meticulous and profound, the artist's works are few in number and each new creation, whether sculpture, painting or performance, is something to look forward to and always raises significant international interest. Using dissonant associations of materials, Tom Dean examines the methods of human perception, emphasizing its changing nature.
His participation in Aurora Borealis in 1985 provided Montrealers the opportunity to discover one of the aspects of his major work, Extraits d'une description de l'univers, an inventory of narrative, disturbing objects. Pleasure, derision, irreverence and sensory disruption are but some of the experiences used by the artists; his disturbing mysterious works created the most unusual associations. Although mostly associated with the non-institutional circuit, Tom Dean has several major works in museum collections. He received the Governor General's visual and media award art in 2001 and was chosen to represent Canada at the Venice Biennial in 1999. His works have been shown in Canada, the USA and in Europe and he has taught at the Ontario College of Art. Indeed, the collaborated with Margaret Dragu for a number of years in designing and creating performances. Tom Dean is represented by the Gallerie René Blouin in Montréal and by the Edward Day Gallery in Toronto.
Tom Dean
Sans titre
1973
Black and white photograph
No 1/4
36 cm x 46 cm
1 200 $ (framed)
Pierre DORION
Born in Ottawa in 1959, Pierre Dorion now lives and works in Montreal.
With a degree from the University of Ottawa, artist Pierre Dorion has regular showings in Montreal as well as in the rest of Canada, New York and Europe. He has participated in several CIAC sponsored events such as Aurora Borealis in 1985, the Cent jours d'art contemporain de Montréal in 1992. A solo exhibition of his self portraits was held in 1994. He is represented by the Galerie René Blouin in Montréal.
Dorion began his career by creating painted installations and interventions and moved on to what are most often large scale easel paintings. His work often reflects perspectives, as well as relationships with architecture and precursors of photography. Until 984, he worked mostly on paper, using collages and groupings, maintaining his interest in the method of transmission that is photography and in the oftentimes borrowed figurative image. During the 90's, Pierre Dorion adopted oil painting and ceased recuperating images, slowly creating his own universe where recurrent themes emerge: male faces, anonymous and solitary in real-life formats. After a period almost mainly devoted to self-portraits, Dorion developed an interest in urban ruins and deserted interiors where a certain melancholy or disenchantment reigns. Evanescent light, broken tones, clean lines where time is suspended and no story told: the paintings of Pierre Dorion bears witness to continuity, a wealth of allusions. Frontal views remind one of photography, postures are those of classical paintings and a hint of contemporary art - a monochrome look at the wall in an empty room.
Pierre Dorion
Bunny
2004
Oil on wood
20 cm x 15 cm
850 $
Jean DUPUY
Jean Dupuy,
Origine d'un genre
2004
Acrylic on canvas
41 cm x 34 cm
SOLD
FASTWÜRMS
Fastwürms est un collectif d'artistes canadiens composé de Kim Kozzi, Dai Skuse et, jusqu'en 1991, Napoléon Brousseau. Depuis sa création en 1979, Fastwürms travaille sur des installations, des performances ou encore des vidéos. Il aborde des problématiques liées à l'environnement, à l'identité et aux échanges sociaux et culturels.
Fastwürms a participé à la première Biennale de Montréal dans le cadre de l'exposition Les capteurs de rêves (exposition regroupant des artistes autour du thème La Poésie, l'Humour et le Quotidien). Le projet d'art visuel Kuven 11 avait pour but d'éclairer le public sur le type d'art que l'on peut trouver dans les " vaisseaux spatiaux dont les propriétaires exploitants sont des sorcières. "
Basé à Creemore, Ontario, ce collectif d'artistes multidisciplinaires a participé à de nombreuses expositions au Canada, aux États-Unis, en Europe ou au Japon.
Fastwürms
Birch Hive Edition
1990
Print on handmade paper
(for fluorescent lighting)
No 8/15
31 cm x 27 cm
SOLD
Fastwürms
Birch Hive Edition
1990
Print on handmade paper
(for fluorescent lighting)
No 1/15
31 cm x 27 cm
SOLD
Ian Hamilton FINLAY
Ian Hamilton Finlay is, in international terms, among the best known and most respected contemporary visual artists. Born in 1925, this Scottish poet and artist has consistently created works which are overwhelming in their simplicity. Ian Hamilton Finlay died on March 27, 2006.
Finlay has the utmost affection and respect for the plain and simple things of everyday life, but at the same time maintains a certain disregard for many traditional rules and conventions. He fiercely defends these notions in his work, and does so with both delicate irony and a sense of humour. The spirit of his work and its poetic images are particularly well reflected in his extraordinary and world-renowned garden, Little Sparta, which the artist keeps at his home in the Scottish countryside near Edinburgh
This piece was created by Ian Hamilton Finlay for the first Biennale de Montréal, which was held from August 27th - October 18th, 1998. The artist conceived the text of the work in the light of the Biennale's theme, namely Poetry, Humour and the Everyday, and it indeed refers to all three aspects: the combinations and meanings of the words used are decidedly poetic, and the relationships established among revolution, cubism and eating utensils are humorous in their juxtaposition while maintaining a very direct and prosaic link to the dining table and its everyday associations.
Ian Hamilton Finlay,
LA REVOLUTION DEVRAIT FAIRE POUR LE PEUPLE CE QUE LE CUBISME A FAIT POUR LE COUTEAU, LA FOURCHETTE ET LA CUILLERE
1998
Silkscreen on Rives paper
Edition of 75, numbered and signed by the artist
121.9 X 96.5 cm
650 $ (without a frame) ; 950 $ (framed)
Alain FLEISCHER
Alain Fleischer,
Ping Pong Game IV
1986
Black and white photograph
EA
50 cm x 33cm
SOLD
Jérôme FORTIN
Born in Joliette in 1971, Jérôme Fortin lives and works in Montréal.
Represented by the Pierre-François Ouellette Contemporary Art Gallery, Fortin has been showing his works on the Québec artistic scene for some 12 years, as well as in Japan, Europe and the USA. In 1998 he participated in the very first edition of the Biennale de Montréal and would have participated in the 2001 event Growth & Risk, cancelled because of 9 /11, both being CIAC sponsored events. The public enjoyed the meticulous work of this self-taught, patient artist whose creations fascinate and give rise to poetry. Ever since his first solo show at Skol in 1999, Jérôme Fortin's works are widely exhibited, as in 2006 at the Canadian Embassy in Washington. A whole room was devoted to his works in 2007 at the Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal. Jérôme Fortin was awarded the Prix Pierre-Ayot in 2004.
In Fortin's hands, daily objects become ornaments, curiosities, trompe-l'¦il that are both pure and complex, bearing witness to arduous work and a great sensitivity to materials. The notions of inventory and archaeology of daily living underlie his works, rediscovering common objects through skilful presentations. The artist's investment in time takes on all its meaning and outlines the figure of the urban dweller for whom the discovered ob object provides a vast field of formal exploration
Jérôme Fortin
Tondo VIII
2004
Collagraphie sur papier archive
No 9/10. 75 x 56 cm
800 $ (framed)
John FRANCIS
John Francis was born in Montreal in 1954 and lives and works in Magog.
After attending Concordia and McGill universities, John Francis has been developing, since 1970, works that blend sculpture, painting, video and photography in which he explores the abstract through its perceptive effects. He taught visual arts during the 1980's and obtained his Master's Degree from Concordia University on the relationship between chemistry, chamanism and the creative process. In 1983 he participated in the development of Présence, under the banner of the Cent jours d'art contemporain de Montréal, where he showed with René-Pierre Allain, Neil Campbell and John Heward. In addition to his shows in Toronto and in New York, his works are mainly exhibited in galleries and art centers in Québec.
Exploiting the links among science, bodies and artistic creation, John Francis integrates into his art, a rich network of symbols and metaphors, from chemistry to philosophy, from chamanism to mechanics. Using industrial materials and everyday objects, he evokes our contemporary society and the idea of the ready-made, by emphasizing the expressive value of the body. The perception of objects as images is a constant throughout his artwork as is light as a symbol of conscience. Many references to his own work intervene in his work providing them with an internal coherence. From the 1990's onward, Francis integrates sound to his sculpture and created a series of sculptures-paintings made of metal bars, described as "post-minimalist" and suggesting industrial scenes.
John Francis
Bar
1993
Aluminium, peinture d'automobile et cuivre
14,5 cm x 122 cm x 6,5 cm
1 500 $
Karilee FUGLEM
Born in 1960 in Prince-George, British Columbia, Karilee Fuglem has been working and living in Montreal for a many years.
With a degree from Concordia University, Karilee Fuglem has participated in several collective shows including Between Body and Soul at the Galerie Leonard & Bina Ellen of Concordia University, De fougue et de passion at the Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal, the Manif d'art 2 in Québec and in la Biennale de Montréal 1998, organized by the CIAC. She has also had personal solo showings at the La chambre blanche in Québec and at Optica in Montréal. Her works can be found in the collections of the Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal and of the Musée national des beaux arts du Québec. The artist is represented by the Contemporary Art Galerie Pierre-François Ouellette.
Demonstrating great sensitivity towards matter, Karilee Fuglem builds images and installations where objects and sensations cohabitate, where a mix of perceptions defy presuppositions. Experience is of the essence and brings the spectator to redefine his or her relationship with space and "things". Fuglem's work is organic and sensual, evanescent and without form. With installations and drawings as well as photography, the artist uses various processes to conjure defamiliarization and diversion from common, familiar environments. The materials she uses are often common, yet confer to her works an apparent lightness, as air becomes a central element, the "nearly nothing" creating unexpected pleasures.
Karilee Fuglem,
Untitled
1999
Color Photography
Tirage de 25
27.9 cm x 38.1 cm
300 $ (without a frame) ; 350 $ (framed)
Emmanuel GALLAND
Born in Romilly France in 1966, Emmanuel Galland has lived and worked in Montreal since 1990.
Adopting both the practical and theory, Emmanuel Galland is very involved in the cultural milieu of Québec. He developed several exhibitions as curator including Les Bricolos (with Nicolas Baier) at the Clark in 1998 and L'effet du logis, at the Studio Cormier in 2002. He has also worked as a coordinator at Montreal's Vidéographe. His works were shown during the Mois de la Photo de Montréal in 1995 and at the Biennale de Montréal 1998. Personally and individually, he has shown his works at the Séquence Gallery in Chicoutimi and at the Centre d'exposition Plein Sud in Longueuil. Winner of the Bourse Duchamp-Villon in 1997 and of the Bourse René-Payant in 1995, he was also awarded the Prix Pierre-Ayot in 1999.
Through his photographic manipulations, Emmanuel Galland promotes a meeting of the familiar, the common and the bizarre. He explores human relations and their representations in images by using family portraits or photo-booth that respects anonymity. Preoccupied by a certain form of art domestication, he reveals invisible experiences among family members and friends through a serial and object treatment of the portrait. A fragmentation of body and soul is also a constant throughout his work where humour and denunciations intervene.
Emmanuel Galland
Mauvaise définition
1999
Color Photography
Tirage de 25
27.9 x 38.1 cm
150 $ (without a frame) ; 200 $ (framed)
Eldon GARNET
Né en 1946, Eldon Garnet vit et travaille dans sa ville natale, Toronto.
Reconnu pour ses photographies de grandes dimensions et ses sculptures, il a participé à de nombreuses expositions collectives au Canada, aux États-Unis et en Europe. Parmi celles-ci, Hitchcok and Art: Fatal Coincidences au Centre Georges Pompidou de Paris en 2001. Une exposition rétrospective de ses photographies de la période 1983-1997, The Fallen Body, a été présentée en 1998 au Musée canadien de la photographie contemporaine, Ottawa.
Auteur de deux romans, il a aussi été, du début des années 70 à la fin des années 80, l'éditeur d'Impulse Magazine, revue traitant d'art, d'architecture, de design et de littérature.
Eldon Garnet,
Consumed in a Flash
2004
Acier inoxydable
Épreuve d'artiste
5.8 x 83,8 cm
SOLD
Marvin GASOI
Marvin Gasoi
Fireman's Ball
1984
Cibachrome
50.8 x 61 cm
SOLD
Jean-Pierre GAUTHIER
Jean-Pierre Gauthier
Fragment / Reste du Grand-ménage 1998-2000
2000
Porte-savon, bouteille et savon
20 x 12 x 10 cm
875 $
Raymond GERVAIS
Raymond Gervais was born in Montreal where he lives and works.
Since 1973, Raymond Gervais has been involved in the world of music by bringing together visual arts and music in installations, videos and performances. A member of the Québec Phonothèque, CBC host, he has participated actively in conserving our musical heritage, particularly jazz, classical and contemporary music. He is a musician, has organized concerts, taught and composed music while moderating workshops and conferences. He is a collector of music and related objects, recreating and creating stories though astonishing analogies.
Gervais is of course interested in the world of music because of its sound dimension, but also for the visual elements of "vinyls", their plastic dream like quality. As curator, he has in fact explored the relationships of record jackets and photography during the PHONO PHOTO exhibition, Carte grise à Raymond Gervais in Dazibao in 2001. He participated with other artists in Aurora Borealis during the Cent jours d'art contemporain de Montréal in 1985 and in the important anthology Broken Music, presented in 1990 at the Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal. On this occasion, he elaborated, in cooperation with Irene F. Whittome and Rober Racine, the Trio pour Samuel Beckett, a book-disk combining music and voice, text and images. Raymond Gervais has mostly exhibited in Canada and in Europe and his works can be found at the National Gallery of Canada, the Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal, at the Ontario Art Gallery as well as at the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec.
Raymond Gervais,
Pour Samuel Beckett
1990
Piano-cardboard
Edition of 3
26 cm x 76.5 cm
700 $
Raymond Gervais,
Tombeau (Mathias Grünewald via Paul Hindemith)
2000
Photograph
No 1/2
51 x 43 cm
1 025 $ (framed)
Juan GEUER
Juan Geuer est né à Soest en Hollande en 1917 dans une famille d'artistes visuels. De 1934 à 1937, il travaille occasionnellement avec l'architecte Piet Klaarhamer à Utrecht, Hollande. Par cette collaboration, il se familiarise avec les influences du mouvement De Stijl. En 1939, il déménage en Bolivie où il expérimente l'utilisation de divers minéraux dans la fabrication de verres colorés. En 1954, il émigre au Canada. Il est alors employé par le Dominion Observatory d'Ottawa en tant que dessinateur et designer d'instruments et est chargé des expositions scientifiques. Dans les années 60 et 70, Geuer s'implique graduellement dans la communauté artistique d'Ottawa et peint des œuvres expressionnistes qui seront présentées à travers le Canada et les États-Unis. Il a participé à plusieurs expositions, notamment au Musée des beaux-arts du Canada, au Museum Boymans van Beuningen de Rotterdam ou à la Art Gallery of Ontario à Toronto.
Juan Geuer,
Figure in Landscape
1989
Mirror, aluminium, polycarbonate leaf, paint and fitting mecanism
189 cm x 71 cm x 71 cm
8 500$
François GIRARD
François Girard est né à St-Felicien, Québec en 1963. Il étudie d'abord la musique pour ensuite aborder le cinéma. En 1985, il fonde Zone Productions et écrit et réalise quelques courts métrages et vidéoclips avant de se lancer dans son premier long-métrage "Cargo". Il rencontre son premier succès international en 1993 avec "32 short films about Glenn Gould" qui remporte quatre prix Génie. Après Glenn Gould, il s'attarde sur un autre musicien, Yo-Yo Ma, en dirigeant l'une des six parties de la télésérie canadienne " Yo-Yo Ma inspired by Bach ". C'est en 1998 qu'il rencontre son plus grand succès avec Le violon rouge qui gagne neuf prix Jutra et huit prix Génie.
1984-1989
Laser videodisk
with a retrospective of Zone Production works: 14 short features presented chronologically on both faces.
Total length : 2 hours
2 000$
Michel GOULET
Michel Goulet was born August 4, 1944 in Asbestos, Québec. He lives and works in Montreal.
Since the 1970's Michel Goulet has become one of Québec's best known sculptors, and his fame has spread to the rest of Canada and abroad. He has had several solo showings including ichel Goulet : Un signe de la main at the CIAC in 1997, Circus at the La Chambre blanche in 2003, Part de vie, part de jeu at the Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal in 2004, to name but a few. He has also been part of the Growth & Risk program designed by the CIAC in 2001, represented Canada at the Venice Biennial in 1988 and participated in the Biennale d'art contemporain du Havre in 2006.
In addition to creating significant sculptural works, Goulet taught this discipline at the University of Ottawa from 1976 to 1986, at the Université du Québec à Montréal from 1987 to 2004 and designed several sets for theatre and opera. Having received numerous scholarships and distinctions, he was awarded the Prix Paul-Émile-Borduas in 1990. He is represented by the Simon Blais Gallery and by the Christopher Cutts Gallery in Toronto.
Over the 1970's, Goulet worked on abstract forms and explored the main parameters of modernism in sculpture.
However, his practice took on a totally personal turn in the 1980's as he attempted to make his works more accessible, integrating daily objects to his groupings. Taking inventory of cultural artefacts in his community, he adds a touch of "dailyness" while maintaining the conventional, classic elements of sculpture. Michel Goulet has in fact contributed to closing the gap between contemporary art and the general public by creating some twenty public pieces, including Les leçons singulières, a two-fold piece, one located at the Place Roy and the other in Parc Lafontaine, in Montréal. Lyon, Toronto and Vancouver also have Goulet's work in their collections.
Michel Goulet
Territoires : Les motifs privés
2000
Impression numérique
dessin au crayon multicolore
No 1/1
57 x 66 cm
SOLD
Angela GRAUERHOLZ
Born in 1952 in Hambourg, Germany, Angela Grauerholz studied literature and linguistics there until she came to Montreal, where she now lives and works, to study photography.
Angela Grauerholz has been showing internationally since 1978 and her works were admired by the general public during events as important as the Sydney Biennial in 1990, the Documenta IX of Kassel in 1992 and the Carnegie International in Pittsburgh in 1995. That same year, the Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal devoted a major traveling exhibit to her. She also participated in the Biennale de Montréal in 2002. In 1980, she set up, as co-founder, Artexte, a documentation center for contemporary art in Montreal.
Teaching at the École de design de l'UQAM since 1988, Angela Grauerholz has created works that speak to the imagination, experimenting with photography coherently. Her works bring together concerns associated to representation and philosophy; her apparently ordinary images are conducive to profound reflection and an examination of the unknown. Part fiction and part real, Grauerholz's works creates links between history and dream, combining and suggesting cinema and large-scale paintings.
Angela Grauerholz is represented by the Olga Korper Gallery in Toronto and Art 45 in Montréal.
Angela Grauerholz,
Foot,
1993
Silver print, black and white photograph
Edition of 50
Image: 31.5 cm x 48.5 cm
Paper: 49.5 cm x 52.07 cm
2 available, signed and numbered by the artist
SOLD OUT
Angela Grauerholz,
Parking Lot
2004
Polaroid photograph
6.9 x 5.2 cm
SOLD
Xiong GU
Born in 1953 in Chongqing, China, Xiong Gu lives and works in Vancouver.
Xiong Gu began teaching himself to draw in the 1970's during the Chinese cultural revolution. He then pursued post graduate studies in fine arts in his native province of Sichuan. Following the events of Tiananmen Square and his participation in the China/Avant-Garde Show in Beijing, he left China to settle in Canada in 1989. He then exhibited nationally and internationally including Here not There in 1995 at the Vancouver Art Gallery, the Kwangju Biennial in Korea also in 1995, the Biennale de Montréal in 2000 and the Shanghai Biennial in 2004.
Especially interested in multimedia and photography, he explores the influence and interrelationships among various cultural origins, and attempts to illustrate them in his works. His recent works focus on various aspects of the westernization of Asia populations, more particularly in China, as well as on the importance of the battle against homogenization of cultures. Winner of numerous awards, author of two books and numerous articles, Xiong Gu currently teaches the history of art at the University of British Columbia. He has been represented by the Diane Farris Gallery in Vancouver since 1991.
Xiong Gu
After
2003
Photograph
No 1/20
33 x 48.3 cm
SOLD
Massimo GUERRERA
Massimo Guerrera was born in Rome in 1967. He is living and working in Montreal.
His works have been shown in many exhibitions and group events, such as Artifices I in 1996, as well as Artifices II and the Salon de l'agglomérat in 1998. The same year, he presented several solo exhibitions and a series of performances on the subject of the borders between public and private environments. He also put together the exhibition Porus at the Leonard & Bina Ellen Gallery in Concordia University in 1999. He has received many grants from the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec and his works can be found in the collections of the Canada Council Artbank, the Musée du Québec as well as in several private collections. Moreover, he has received the Prix Ozias Leduc in 2001.
Developing environments that promote meeting and sharing, Massimo Guerrera falls within a performance practice that can be qualified as relational, focused on the possibilities provided by the experiences of the body, food and reflection they raise in our consumer society. In his exhibitions, objects become meaningful through their dreamlike power and their reference to startling relations that they conjure. Interpersonal sharing as well as the circulation of food provide the artist with fertile fields of exploration, strongly tainted by current concerns on the odd experience of daily living. Massimo Guerrera is represented by the Joyce Yhouda Gallery in Montreal.
Massimo Guerrera,
Darboral
2000
Color photography
40 cm x 50 cm
Tirage de 12
325 $ (without a frame) ; 425 $ (framed)
Massimo Guerrera,
Monument-mou à l'honneur des producteurs de nourritures terrestres
1998
Color photography
40 cm x 50 cm
Tirage de 12
325 $ (without a frame) ; 425 $ (framed)
Charles GUILBERT
Charles Guilbert was born in Montréal in 1964.
Known mainly for his videos, Charles Guilbert first studied literature and explored various forms of expression including song, drawing and writing. On numerous occasions, he participated in the Festival international du nouveau cinéma et de la vidéo in Montréal. During the Rendez-vous du cinéma québécois, he was awarded the Prix de la SOGIC in 1991 for best video. His productions were presented in Europe, India and Mexico, as well as at the National Gallery of Canada, at the Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal and at the Art Gallery of Ontario. In 1998 Charles Guilbert participated in the exhibit known as Les Capteurs de rêves during the first edition of the Biennale de Montréal.
Multitalented, Guilbert also published Les Inquiets (Éditions Les Herbes rouges) in 1993 as well as Le beau voyage éducatif (Dazibao) in 2004, a publication in which the artist's writing provide commentary for images produced by Serge Murphy. He most often collaborates with Murphy as well as with Michel Grou, favoring references to daily life, love and the cinema to compose filmed tableaux that are small incursions into daily life and fantasy. Subtle sensory changes permeate his works with an imaginary note that emphasizes his astonishing costumes.
Charles Guilbert,
Tu dors
1999
Color photography
27.9 cm x 38.1 cm
Edition of 25
150 $ (without a frame) ; 200 $ (framed)
Gottfried HELNWEIN
Born in Austria in 1948, Gottfried Helnwein has lived and worked in Ireland since 1997.
After attending the Fine Arts Academy in Vienna, Helnwein became mainly known during the 1970's for his hyper realistic paintings. He has been awared numerous prizes, including the Kardinal König, the Meisterschul and the Theodor Körner. Images of children, fixed, serious faces, or distorted and disfigured, have been a recurrent theme in his work over the years. A designer creator of theatre sets, Helnwein works in more than one discipline, more specifically in photography, performance and various pictorial media.
Troubling and disturbing, the images created by this artist raise a whole gamut of contradictory feelings and are daunting given their technical mastery. His concerns, mirroring those of actionnistes, Gottfried Helnwein, depict enigmatic scenes that are a harsh criticism directed at the atrocities of war and aberrations committed by man. A retrospective exhibition of Helnwein's works was presented at the National Art Museum of China in 2008 and a one-man show, Face It, was held in 2006 at the Musée Lentos d'art moderne in Linz. In Canada, his works were shown during the Gottfried Helnwein, Visages/Faces in 1994 at the CIAC.
Gottfried Helnwein,
Visages/Faces
Keith Richards, Berlin 1990
1990
Black and white photograph
56.5 cm x 44.5 cm
SOLD
Gary HILL
Né en 1951 à Santa Monica, Gary Hill réalise dès 1973 ses premières installations visuelles. Un travail qui conjugue à la fois la vidéo, la sculpture, l'audio, la parole et l'écrit et qui questionne les processus liés à la pensée et aux sens.
Reconnu internationalement comme l'un des artistes majeurs en vidéo, ses travaux ont été présentés aux MOMA et Guggenheim de New York ou encore aux musées d'art contemporain de Montréal, Barcelone et Lyon. Il partage aujourd'hui son temps entre Seattle et Washington.
Gary Hill,
Incidence of Catastrophy
1987-1988
Video, 3/4", color, stereo sound
43 min. 51s
2 500 $
Ura Aru (The Backside exists)
1985-1986
Vidéo, 3/4", color
28 min.
2 250 $
Primarily Speaking
1981-1983
Video, 3/4", color, stereo sound
18 min. 40s
2 250 $
Robert HOULE
Robert Houle was born in Saint-Boniface, Manitoba and is now living in Toronto.
Houle holds a Bachelor of Arts and a Bachelor of Education, draws from the rich tradition of the First Nations to promote and to bring to light significantly contemporary elements, reinterpreting forms through today's media and technologies. In addition to having exhibited internationally since 190, he has taught at the Ontario College of Art and Design in Native Studies and has participated in numerous Toronto-based organizations that are devoted to promoting the First Nations culture.
Robert Houle has often been guest curator for exhibitions and his works have been shown in major exhibits in Canada, including the Biennale de Montréal 2000. He was curator of the Native Art Collection of the Canadian Civilisation Museum (formerly the National Museum of Man) from 1977 to 1980. Also working in situ, the artistic practice of Robert Houle draws inspiration from his own roots and uses a modern vocabulary to raise acute socio-political issues surrounding the relationships between Natives and Whites.
Robert Houle
Ancestors
2003
Huile sur toile
impressions numériques sur toile
33 x 104 cm
SOLD
Harlan JOHNSON
Harlan Johnson is originally from Halifax where he was born in 1956. He now lives in Montreal
Harlan Johnson holds a Bachelor's degree and a Master's in plastic arts from Concordia University. He has presented his works in both solo and collective show in Toronto, Halifax and Montreal, including at a CIAC sponsored event, Vent et eau, in 1984, as well as on the international scene. Specialized in painting, he teaches the discipline at Concordia. He has received various scholarships over the course of his career and his works can be found in Canadian museum collections. He is represented by the Galerie Trois Points in Montréal.
Drawing his inspiration from the iconography of natural sciences, Johnson moves away from their didactic or descriptive forms to develop his own playful fantastic imagery. Presenting a certain chaos on canvas, he creates a formal order, balancing between abstraction and figuration. Colorful and full of life, the paintings of Harlan Johnson partly reveal an invisible world and allow investigations of all types among micro organisms and biomorphic figures. Veritable mini universes, the paintings of this artist are thought provoking and open onto a perspective of the relationships between art and other spheres of knowledge.
Harlan Johnson
Sphere No 1
2002
Graphite et aquarelle sur bois
19.5 x 25.5 cm
800 $
Dieter JUNG
Dieter Jung was born in 1941 in Bad Wildungen, Germany.
During the 1960's he studied theology and art education in Berlin as well as painting and graphic arts at the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts de Paris. From 1971 to 1974, he pursued his studies, this time in cinema at the German Academy of Film and Television in Berlin. Since 1965, Dieter Jung's videos and visual installations have been presented in various solo and collective exhibitions in Germany. In Québec, he participated in the Cent jours d'art contemporain de Montréal in 1986. In 1988, he was awarded the Holography Prize of the Shearwater Foundation of New York. He has been teaching holography at the Academy of Media Arts in Cologne since 1990.
Through his in-depth research in holography, Dieter Jung has become a master of the art form and has developed, over the years, works that conjure up light and poetry. Reducing images to play between light and color, he touches the very essence of the medium and dematerializes space. A full network of influences and interest weave complex fascinating links throughout his works. Drawing from the Italian Renaissance, in optic phenomena as well as on contemporary literature and poetry, the artist broadens his stroke to express his concerns about the notions of absence, conscience and disappearance.
Dieter Jung,
Light-Mill
1987
Color crayons
4I cm x 32 cm
1 770 $ (framed)
Istvan KANTOR
Istvan Kantor was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1949 and arrived in Montreal in 1979. He now lives in Toronto.
Istvan Kantor, aka as Monty Cantsin, immigrated to Canada in 1979. In Montréal, he originated the "neoist apartment festivals" during which participants destroyed furniture, spontaneously created music and noise as they exchanged blood. In 1993, Les Cent jours d'art contemporain de Montréal presented Istvan Kantor / XX Monument temporaire, bringing together the artist's performances, installations, and recent video productions. Subversive, angry and marginal, Kantor is nevertheless a renowned artist, having received the Governor General's Visual and Media Arts award in 2004.
Instigator of the neoist movement that no-one, including the artist, can define, Kanto expresses himself in various ways: music, postal art, sculpture cinetique, multimedia installations. However, performance remains his favorite expression mode and he is more particularly well known for his blood projections or live blood donations. (Blood Campaign). Provocative and confrontational, both politically and esthetically, Kantor favors themes such as the accumulation of detritus, destructive interactions and exchanges between the body and technological machines, with all its resulting degradations.
Istvan Kantor,
X-Fuckhead 2
1993
Photograph on masonite
104.1 cm x 71.1 cm
500 $
Wanda KOOP
Wanda Koop was born in Vancouver of Russian parents. She now lives and works in Winnipeg.
Wanda Koop studied at the School of Art of the University of Manitoba. She has received numerous awards, such as the Studio de Paris of the Canada Council for the Arts, the Japan Fund Award and the Community Builder Award of the Manitoba Arts Council. In 1994, she participated in the Cent jours d'art contemporain de Montréal with a solo show Wanda Koop / Paintings for Dimly Lit Rooms. An artist renowned in Canada and abroad, she has been active on the art scene for some 30 years and had more than 50 solo showings. She has represented Canada at the Venice Biennial in 2001 with a major installation entitled In Your Eyes.
Wanda Koop is the founder Art City, a Winnipeg center opened in 1998, providing exhibition and creative facilities as well as a collaborative program for visual artists and at-risk youths. She has received an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Winnipeg in recognition of her national and international artistic and social works. A biographical documentary, presenting her life and work was produced by the National Film Board of Canada in 1999. First known for her paintings, she also produces poetic video creations that evoke nature, scenery and experiences associated with immigration and memories.
Wanda Koop
Satellite Cities
2001
Acrylic oon canvas
12.7 x 17.8 cm
1 500 $
Joseph KOSUTH
Joseph Kosuth was born in Toledo (Ohio) in 1945 and now lives and works in New York.
In addition to having produced leading artistic propositions such as One And Three Chairs, Kosuth has also written major theoretical works, in particular Art After Philosophy, a frequently quoted article published in 1969. Kosuth participated in the American collective Art & Language and contributed to a journal of the same name during the 1970's. He studied visual arts in Toledo, Cleveland and lastly in New York where he has had numerous showings and where he founded the Museum of Normal Art in 1967. His works was exhibited during the Cent jours d'art contemporain de Montréal organized by the CIAC in 1989. His work is of international fame and and has been shown internationally for decades.
Avoiding connotations of all kinds, Kosuth's work does draw from philosophy and minimal art while totally dematerializing the art itself. Partisan of art as tautology and inspired by various linguistic theories, Joseph Kosuth is considered a leader in American conceptual art and promotes the idea that the material artwork is but a negligible support, that the idea or the concept is in itself, a work of art. Ex Libris, that represents an excerpt of Investigations philosophiques of the Viennese philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein, is an extension of this philosophy.
"Kosuth's two-decade investigation into the linguistic structure of the aesthetic experience, and his approach to the work's genesis as an exercise in problem-solving, have provided a philosophical spring-board for dozens of so-called neo-conceptual artists. The very act of replacing an aesthetic experience with a critical one originates to some degree in Kosuth's early work, because he was one of the first to incorporate a sign that signified "art" as a substitute for crafting the artwork itself."
Dan Cameron, Joseph Kosuth at Jay Gomey Modern Art, New York,
Tema Celeste, no. 14, December 1987, p.78.
Joseph Kosuth,
Ex Libris (Montréal) 1990
1990
Serigraph on acetate
55 cm x 83 cm
5 available
Edition de 10
6500 $ (framed) - (valeur de 13000 $)
Peter KRAUSZ
Born in Romania in 1946, Peter Krausz immigrated to Montreal in 1970 where he lives and works today.
Peter Krausz studied fine arts in Bucharest and exhibited his works in several Canadian, American and European cities. His work was also presented during the Vent et eau show organized by the CIAC in Québec in 1984 as well as during the Cent jours d'art contemporain de Montréal in 1987. Having directed the gallery at the Saidye Brofman Center from 1980 to 1991, he is currently teaching art history and drawing at the Université de Montréal. His works can be found in various major museum collections. He is represented by the Galerie de Bellefeuille in Montréal.
Having explored a number of media and forms of expression, Peter Krausz has been known particularly over the past ten years for his pictorial works. Using different techniques such as fresco and drawing, his work focuses on memory and is often influenced by the history of the Jewish people. His scenic works bring to mind tragedy and hope, painful memories and important imprints, continuity and fragments. He produces colour and light modulating paintings that are rich of humanistic and artificial concerns that are also incorporated into photography and installations.
Peter Krausz
Écrire le paysage
2004
Brou de noix sur papier Arches préparé
76 x 56 cm
1 800 $ (framed)
Paul LACERTE
As producer, cameraman or production assistant, Paul Lacerte has participated in several cinematographic productions and videographics: Mais à quoi rêvent les éperviers qui tournent là-haut en dormant? (1992), From here to anywhere (1994), Le pays rêvé (1995) and L'autobiographe amateur (1997). He has also been in Vues d'ensemble in 1992, presented within the program of the Cent jours d'art contemporain de Montréal. He exhibited his works at the Clark gallery in 1991 and participated in the Montréal Dada exhibition at the Chapelle historique du Bon Pasteur in 1995.
By mixing and matching the most eclectic elements, Paul Lacerte creates installations that are dynamic and in constant evolution that seek invite the viewer to intervene, extracting reactions. His works often feature machines and he uses them in situations where they communicate with each other producing odd dialogues with a somewhat poetic dimension.
Paul Lacerte,
Masculin-Féminin
1990
Wood, plexiglass, translit print, fluorescent tube, aluminium and steel
125 cm x 49 cm x 25 cm
700 $
Sylvie LALIBERTÉ
Performeuse et vidéaste, Sylvie Laliberté vit et travaille à Montréal. On a pu assister à ses performances au Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal, au Festival de théâtre des Amériques et à la Galerie Christiane Chassay où elle exposait en 1997. Ses productions vidéos ont été présentées à différents festivals dont le Canadian Performance Video de Toronto et les 11es Instants vidéos de Manosque en France. En 1998, on lui décernait le Prix de l'Association québécoise des critiques de cinéma pour la meilleure fiction dans la catégorie court et moyen métrage aux 16es Rendez-vous du cinéma québécois et le Prix du festival au International Short Film Festival à Oberhausen en Allemagne. Elle a participé à la Biennale de Montréal 1998. Sylvie Laliberté a obtenu le Prix Louis-Comtois en 1999.
Sylvie Laliberté,
Quand le désir s'en va partez avec lui
1999
Color photography
Edition of 25
27.9 cm x 38.1 cm
SOLD OUT
Diane LANDRY
Diane Landry
Dimanche
1996
Acrylique transparent
objet choisi
21 x 21 x 2 cm
SOLD
Myriam LAPLANTE
Myriam Laplante
Alambics
2004
Drawing fusain et pastel
25 x 30 cm
SOLD
Francine LARIVÉE
Francine Larivée was born in 1942 in Montreal where she still lives and works.
Francine Larivée studied fine arts in Montpellier, then in Montreal; she then worked in the field of cinema and television as she pursued her work in the visual arts. During the 1970's, Francine Larivée began her career with a major work that was to become a benchmark for contemporary art in Québec: La Chambre nuptiale, presented for the first time during the opening of the Complexe Desjardins in Montréal. By re-examining the role of women and men in society, this work is in fact a social manifesto and is an integral part of the feminist artistic movement. Following this major work, Larivée's work slowly move towards nature, especially the nature of moss that she uses in Land Art, plant sculptures and small, intimate gardens.
Of note among the many shows in which Francine Larivée has participated, Vent et eau organized by the CIAC in 1984 and the Cent jours d'art contemporain de Montréal in 1990. She has also shown her works internationally and has produced several public works. Her more recent work focuses on "found" objects where confidence and poetry delicately intermingle through small, living artwork. As a self-defined artist-gatherer, harvesting and collecting objects of all sorts, Francine Larivée builds tiny universes made up of artifacts that she accumulates and brings back to life.
Francine Larivée
Étude
1991-1995
Steel, volcanic stone, sphaigne moss, rope, glass and acrylic
52 cm x 32 cm x 13cm
3500 $
Francine Larivée
Mémoire du regard no 19
1990
Photographie noir et blanc
tirage sel argenté sur papier fibre archive
No 4/5
35 x 38 cm
1 000 $
Fernand LEDUC
Fernand Leduc
SG-16
1972
Sérigraphie
No 26/100
67 x 67 cm
1 500 $ (framed)
Lucie LEFEBVRE
Born in 1956, Lucie Lefebvre lives and works in Québec.
Renowned photographer artist, Lucie Lefebvre has received numerous bursaries from the Art Council of Canada and from the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec. Since 1985, her works have been presented in Canada and internationally. More specifically, she exhibited during Visions 91, at the Cent jours d'art contemporain de Montréal in 1991 and in the Centre VU in Québec; she published in 1996 "Eau milieu", a profile her recent works. Her creations can be found in major public and private collections, including the Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, Canada Council for the Arts and the Winnipeg Art Gallery to name but a few. The artist is represented by the Thérèse Dion Gallery in Montréal.
Lefebvre's work has nothing of the social documentary, but more closely resembles insight and personal introspection that is existential, if not spiritual. Favoring scenery and its esthetic and poetic properties, Lefebvre's images play with the conventions of photography to create other worlds, other environments in recognizable areas. Through the eyes, senses are summoned and the body is conjured in the experience of familiar milieus where horizons are disrupted. The recurring water, plant and organic motifs permeate Lucie Levebvre's imagery and bring to life moving and astonishing relations.
Lucie Lefebvre
L'Arbre
2003
Photographie numérique
No 1/5
50,8 x 50,8 cm
SOLD
Ismaïla MANGA
Ismaïla Manga est née en 1957 à Kamoya, Sénégal. Il a effectué des études en arts plastiques à l'École nationale des beaux-arts de Dakar et une maîtrise en sémiologie de l'image à Nanterre en France. Depuis 1977, son travail a fait l'objet de nombreuses expositions au Sénégal, en France, en Allemagne, aux États-Unis et en Russie. L'artiste vit à Montréal depuis 1988.
Les oeuvres d'Ismaïla Manga font resurgir les signes et les mythes des cultures arabe, européenne et négro-africaine provenant de son milieu d'origine et de ses expériences diverses dans les pays occidentaux. Dans sa production, l'artiste mêle et réinterprète ces codes de manière à en faire valoir les aspects plastique et symbolique. Des personnages et des signes prennent place dans des espaces indéfinis, contribuant ainsi à créer un mystère qui laisse le spectateur face à ses propres repères et références.
Ismaïla Manga
Lévitation
1997
Watercolor and pastel oil
103 cm x 57 cm
3 500 $
John McEWEN
John McEwen was born in Toronto and he now lives and works in Hillsdale, Ontario.
McEwen studied at the Ontario College of Art and Design, where he also taught from 1978 to 1985. His work has been shown internationally and across Canada since the end of the 1960's. John McEwen participated in Aurora Borealis, a CIAC sponsored event and also created various public artworks, including The Water Road, in Kariya, Japan and After Babel: A Civic Square, located in downtown Montreal. He was invited to participate in the 4th Sydney Biennial in 1982 and in 2001 designed and created an imposing stone pavement for the Commonwealth Place in Canberra, Australia.
John McEwen interests lie mostly in communication systems that manage interpersonal relationship and in non-verbal languages. Drawing both from art history and architecture, he sets up spaces where cultural references provide a new outlook on nature. His work remains linked to the notion of site specificity and belonging, to context and scenery. The artist is represented by the Olga Korper Gallery in Toronto.
John McEwen
5000 Stars (Day Two)
2003
Photographie couleur
Édition de 10 plus 2 épreuves d'artiste
48.2 x 33 cm
1 000 $ (framed)
Gilles MIHALCEAN
Gilles Mihalcean was born in Montreal in 1946 where he lives and works.
Mainly known and distributed throughout Québec since the 1970's, Gilles Mihalcean remains a benchmark figure in sculpture art. Extremely active and involved in the world of art, he is consistently consulted as expert, author, curator or teacher. In addition to producing various public art pieces, Mihalcean boasts a number of solo shows, including, among others, La sculpture narrative, during the Cent jours d'art contemporain de Montréal in 1992, and numerous collective showings including Lumières: Projection-Perception, the 2nd edition of Cent jours in 1986 and Les Capteurs de rêves, during the 1998 Biennale de Montréal, Having received the Prix Victor Martin Lynch-Staunton from the Canada Council for the Arts in 1988, his works figure among the major public and private collections of Canada.
In his sculptures, Gilles Mihalcean blends the most varied of materials, giving significant importance to the position of volumes in space. Through their veracity and monumentality, some of his works require distance, while assembled materials and objects conjure up the everyday as well as proximity. Added to this is often a literary element that confers upon his works an amplified narrative flavor as well as a polysemous experience. Unexpected materials tend to bring to life a panoply of images and construct what the artist calls the esthetics of giggling disenchantment.
Gilles Mihalcean
Papillon
2002
Steel
46 x 38 x 18 cm
1 000 $
Joey MORGAN
Joey Morgan has developed public artworks and multi-disciplinary installations which have been shown in site specific contexts and gallery exhibitions in the United States, Australia, Denmark, France and across Canada. Exhibition venues have included the National Gallery of Canada, the Power Plant in Toronto, the Musée d'Art Contemporain de Montréal, the Walter Phillips Gallery in Banff, and the Vancouver Art Gallery.
She represented Canada in 1992 in the Sydney Biennial and represented Vancouver in 1996 in Copenhagen's 96 Containers.
She has been awarded artist in residence at the Cité Des Arts in Paris, at Oud Amelisweerd in the Netherlands, and at Strokestown House in Ireland.
Parallel bookworks and other editioned works have been published to accompany major projects; The Man Who Waits and Sleeps While I Dream was documented and re-presented both as an award-winning bookwork and a multi-faceted website.
Lectures and workshops at universities and art schools include the Bauhaus University in Weimar, the Academie du Art in Rotterdam, the Netherlands; and Aki, Enschede, the Netherlands.
She has received grants from the Canada Council (including the Lynch Staunton Award), the National Endowment for the Arts, the British Columbia Cultural Fund, and the Vermont Council for the Arts.
Joey Morgan,
Untitled Working Drawing
1989
Mixed medias
62 cm x 44.5 cm
2 000$ (framed)
Joey Morgan,
Comparative Anatomies of the Romantic Condition
2004
Épreuve numérique sur papier, résine, peinture à l'huile et bois
8.9 x 12.7 x 3.8 cm
1 200 $
Alain PAIEMENT
Alain Paiement lives and works in Montreal. The artist has recently received Le Prix Louis Comtois 2002 given each year by the Contemporary Art Association in collaboration with the City of Montreal. He had solo exhibits at the Power Plant in Toronto, at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Montreal and at the Canadian Cultural Centre in Paris. He was named Brussels' Cultural Ambassador in 1999. Alain Paiement's work ranges from painting to photography and architecture. After producing photographic sculptures of large dimensions, his recent works are more two-dimensional and show more immediate life spaces. His works can be found in many museum collections in Quebec, Canada and abroad and also within numerous corporate and private collections.
Alain Paiement,
Feed Spot
2002 (shot in 2000)
Color Digital Print, ink Jet on cotton paper
Image: 68,5 x 56 cm (27 x 22 inches) Paper: 76 x 61 cm (30 x 24 inches)
Edition of 20
9 available from a limited Edition of 20 signed and numbered by the artist
750 $ (without a frame) ; 900 $ (framed)
Jerry PETHICK
Jerry Pethick was born in London, Ontario. In 1957 he left Canada for the UK where he spent three years studying at the Chelsea College of Art in London. Having worked and traveled in Europe for one year, he returned to London where he became an associate of the Royal College of Art. In 1968, he moved to the United States to study holography then returned to Canada in 1975.
Sculptor and multimedia artist, he has mostly focused on holography and on optic phenomena, seeking to explore virtual spaces and their potential use.
Jerry Pethick's works have been widely distributed in Europe, the USA and Canada, more particularly at the National Gallery of Canada. He passed away in July 2003. His works are currently represented by the Catriona Jeffries Gallery in Vancouver.
Jerry Pethick,
Diorama of Real Escape
1993
Mixed medias
No 4/25
Diameter : 17.5 cm
2 500 $
Liliana PORTER
Liliana Porter was born in 1941 in Buenos Aires. Following her studies in the field of art, she left Argentina and settled, in 1964 in New York. Her works, (including photos, videos, but also ceramic collages like those that hang in the 50th street subway station in New York) examines childhood and its memories through toys, figures and other knick-knacks.
The works of Liliana Porter have been exhibited internationally and are part of major collections including MOMA and New York's Metropolitan museum. In addition to her work as an artist, she teaches art at New York's Queen's College.
Liliana Porter,
Sans titre
1981
Engraving
EA
73 cm x 58 cm
800 $ (framed)
Jean-François PROST
Jean-François Prost was born in Québec City. He lives and works in Montreal.
Jean-François Prost was trained in environmental design and architecture, fields that are often found in his visual artwork. His focus is on research and exploration of urban, domestic and rural territories, the result being expressed more particularly in installations and performances. Relations to space constitute a core to which are grafted broader concerns, opening onto human and social perspectives, forever renewed and engaged. In addition to his personal research, Prost also evolves within the SYN collective, created in 20000 by Luc Lévesque, architect and includes Maxime Dufresne and Louis-Charles Lasnier. This urban exploration workshop investigates spatiality and urban matter.
The artist participated in the Biennale de Montréal in 2002, as well as in the Québec Manif d'art in 2004. He has been guest artist abroad, including Argentina and the USA (Miami). Prost's collaborative works and intervention in the urban environment are increasingly growing, as he leaves his mark on multiple events.
Jean-François Prost,
Station 10, Série Inflexion des usages, 60 stations dans la ville générique,
2002
Photograph
32 x 48 cm
No 1/3
600 $
Rober RACINE
Rober Racine est né à Montréal où il vit et travaille. Le Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal lui a consacré une exposition personnelle en 1982. Il a participé à la Biennale de Venise en 1990. Cet artiste est représenté par la galerie René Blouin à Montréal. Du 7 décembre 1995 au 28 janvier 1996, le CIAC présente une exposition particulière de son œuvre, Les Pages-Miroirs.
Il y a a quinze ans, Rober Racine entreprenait la réalisation de son Parc de la langue française, un travail démesuré, qui une fois achevé permettra aux visiteurs de circuler à travers tous les mots et toutes les définitions du dictionnaire comme à travers un jardin de mots. À partir de cette idée, l'artiste a réalisé deux autres projets. Pages-Miroirs, qui a demandé quatorze années de travail, constitue l'un d'entre eux. Il s'agit de pages du dictionnaire auxquelles ont été enlevés des mots qui laissent apparaître un miroir réfléchissant l'image de l'observateur. À cela s'ajoute un long travail de codification, transformant le dictionnaire en une œuvre littéraire, musicale et visuelle. Selon Stéphane Aquin de l'hebdomadaire Voir, Rober Racine "compte parmi les créateurs les plus inspirés et les plus inspirants de cette fin de siècle, tous lieux confondus".
Rober Racine
Page-Miroir: caecum/234/cagnotte
1993
Paper, graphite, ink, color crayons, gilding and mirror
33 cm x 33 cm
4000 $ (framed)
Rober Racine
Page-Miroir: terrir/1950/test
1991
Paper, graphite, ink, gilding and mirror
33 cm x 33 cm
4000 $ (framed)
Rober Racine
Vautour no 49
2001
Mixed medias on paper
26.8 x 20.6 cm
3 800 $ (framed)
Brigitte RADECKI
Brigitte Radecki was born in 1940 in Germany and she immigrated with her family to Canada in 1947. She now lives and works in Montréal
After her studies in visual arts at Concordia University, Brigitte Radecki initially joined the artistic scene in Montreal by producing monumental sculpture and environmental installations. Brigitte Radecki has exhibited her work in various galleries and museums in Québec, more particularly during the CÌAC's Vues d'ensemble in 1992. She has also participated in Canadian, as well as international shows. Deeply inspired by archeology, she goes back in time and works matter and form to create works that renew with nature and origins. She also paints and has indeed been linked to the new Québec abstract movement.
Brigitte Raedecki brings a strongly poetic dimension to her work, both in terms of the relationship between matter and color, and the use of literary sources that, given their origin, confer a feminist, political element to her work. Drawing on the distinct characteristics of modern art, she revisits certain formal aspects of 20th century painting, adding a narrative element bridging the gap between different eras and the gap between reality and illusion. Though sensorial exploration mechanisms, always half way between the real and the false, Brigitte Radecki brings to light the importance of physical contact in artwork, through its intimacy and size.
Brigitte Radecki
Broken Letters
2003
Drawing
40 x 50 cm
600 $ (framed)
Philippe RAPHANEL
Philippe Raphanel
Suspense # 1
2003
Acrylic on wood
61 x 61 cm
SOLD
Denis ROUSSEAU
Denis Rousseau
Étude pour cils
2002
Photographie et applique murale
Photographie: 24.5 cm x 36 cm
Applique murale : 7.5 x 12.5 cm
SOLD
Roadsworth (Peter Gibson)
Roadsworth began painting the streets of Montreal in the fall of 2001. Initially motivated by a desire for more bike paths in the city and a questioning of "car culture" in general, he continued to develop a language around street markings and other elements of the urban landscape using a primarily stencil based technique. In the fall of 2004, Roadsworth was arrested for his nocturnal activities and charged with 53 counts of mischief. Despite the threat of heavy fines and a criminal record he received a relatively lenient sentence which he attributes in part to the public support he received subsequent to his arrest. Since that time, Roadsworth has received various commissions for his work and continues to be active in both visual art and music.
Roadsworth (Peter Gibson)
Balade d'écolier
2009
50,80 X 66,04 cm.
Edition of 100, signed and numbered by the artist
Price: 200$ unframed, 300$ framed
Chuck SAMUELS
Chuck Samuels works from photography, showing internationally since the 1980's.
Among others, his pieces can be found in the collection of the Maison européenne de la photographie in Paris and at the Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography in Ottawa. Featuring bodies and playing with close-ups, the images of Chuck Samuels's photos draw from various domains such as cinema, psychoanalysis, art history and queer culture. Often troubling, Samuel's photos compose profound scenes that are rich in meaning, building on the formal characteristics of the medium by his use of black and white, off-screens or image distortion.
In 1996, Chuck Samuels presented a solo traveling exhibition during the 11th edition of the Cent jours d'art contemporain de Montréal, under the name of Before the Camera/Devant l'objectif. At that time, he presented a series of photos in which he used himself as a model. In fact these were real reconstitutions of twelve photos of nude females taken by well-known photographers that became parodies criticizing the role of the model, male or female, as seen by the photographer.
Chuck Samuels
After Krims
from the Before the Camera series
1990
Tirage de type C à partir d'un 5'' x 7''
No 3/20
7,6 x 7,6 cm
1 050 $ (framed)
Stephen SCHOFIELD
Born in Toronto in 1952, Stephen Schofield lives and works in Montréal.
Following his studies in the visual arts, Stephen Schofield has, over the past twenty years, enjoyed multiple solo exhibitions in Montreal, the United States and in Europe, as well as participating in Cent jours d'art contemporain de Montréal in 1992, the Biennale de Montréal in 1998. He was awarded the Prix Louis-Comtois in 2004 and is represented by the Joyce Yahouda Galleries in Montréal and Pari Nadimi in Toronto.
Exploring installations and sculpture as well as drawing, in the past years, Schofield has focused his interest on childhood and its multiple ramifications. While anthropomorphic and organic, Stephen Schofield's works maintain a link with the inertia of matter that is submitted to the random effects of mechanical processes. Often bordering on enjoyment and violence, the artist's work confronts and creates links between the world of dreams, memories and reality. At times leaning towards the "worrisome weird", the works of Schofield can destabilize and create tension between opposites, but it is most often likely to plunge the viewer into the depths of his own imagination. "Schofield's use of cloth in his work (which includes most of his production) is not explainable in terms of any of the usual conceptual models. These models include the metaphor of the body, the "transitional object" (Winnicott), and the "causal object of desire" (Lacan). [...] The works of Stephen Schofield exorcise the forces of gravity - and perhaps even the risks of falling for the entire being".
Serge Tisseron, Southern Alberta Art Gallery, 1994.
Stephen Schofield,
Neuf moulages pléthoriques
1995
Estampe on Arches paper, silk (organza, mousseline), treads, clay in emulsion, oil and glue
78,5 cm x 61 cm
Series of 32, all different
7 available
900 $ (without a frame) ; 1 150 $ (framed)
Stephen Schofield,
Past Progressive
2001
Gouache
19 x 25 cm
1 500 $ (framed)
Yoshio SHIRAKAWA
Yoshio Shirakawa was born in 1948 in Tobata (KitaKyushu) and lives in Maebashi, in the Gunma region of Japan.
Shirakawa spent more than ten years in Europe, from the beginning of the 1970's until 1983, mainly in Düsseldorf, Germany. His work was presented at the CIAC during Passage(s) in 1999, as well as in 1997, during the Asia-Pacific Year with the Yoshio Shirakawa exhibition and the Les avant-gardes au Japon 1920-1970. In addition to his creative works, Shirakawa pursues his research into art and its history, as an event's organizer and curator. His interest is focused on the avant-garde period, especially in Japanese art, where he attempts to trace any links with Western art.
Yoshio Shirakawa creates works that promjote reflection about personal identity, and about art in general, using motifs and traditional oriental themes, blended with very contemporary techniques and concepts. Often associated with textile art, his works are also influenced by socio-political issues and bring to light aspects of Japanese culture in today's world. Since the 1960's, he has brought together culture, art and nature through multiple medias, and writing and research.
Yoshio Shirakawa.
Gaki I (fleur au genou)
1997
Acrylic on fabric
27.3 cm x 22 cm
SOLD
Yoshio Shirakawa.
Gaki II (fleur au pied)
1997
Acrylic on fabric
27.3 x 22 cm
800 $
Todd SILER
Todd Siler was born in Long Island in 1953; he lives and works in Denver, USA.
Todd Siler's involvement in the world of culture is multi-faceted: inventor, teacher, speaker and consultant. He participated in the CIAC's Passage(s) in 1999 and is founder director of Psi-Phi Communications, a company specializing in multimedia learning material. As a consultant, his interest mainly focuses on the interaction between art, science and technology. His publications include Think Like a Genius (1997) and Breaking the Mind Barrier (1990).
Siler's works can be found in international public and private collections and the artist is represented by the Ronald Feldman Fine Arts Gallery in New York. Awarded numerous prizes and distinctions, Todd Siler leaves his mark through diversified creations and works that, in his own words, represent thought in all its forms. Drawing inspiration from nature, Siler seeks to express the human spirit and uses a multitude of materials and techniques, integrating his work as an artist, researcher and businessman into a single "life prism".
Todd Siler,
Metaphorms
1989
Lithograph on paper Arches
Diptych
No 12/30
each: 76 cm x 113 cm
2 800 $ (framed)
Claude SIMARD
Artist Claude Simard was born in 1956 in Larouche, Québec. He lives and works in New York.
Claude Simard is a multidisciplinary artist performer, participating in group and solo showings for some twenty years. Settling in New York in the early 1980's, he has shown regularly in Québec and in the USA. Two personal exhibitions helped launch his career: in 1996 at Nancy Solomon's in Atlanta, Georgia and in 1998 at the Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal. Simard exhibited at the CIAC in 2001 during Growth & Risk, collaborating on that occasion with Myriam Lapierre and Pierre Dorion.
Claude Simard's work consists in reproducing personal experiences. Seeking out childhood memories from his rural roots, he expresses both intimate experiences and social, political issues. This variety of themes corresponds, in Simard's world, to a freedom of style, ranging from the folkloric to the conceptual. In works such as Anomalie, in 1991, representing a two-headed lamb, and later in 1996, with Le Mouton, the artist confuse references to his cultural past and brings to life a consciousness of the present, while clearly depicting his personal history. Cathartic accents add irony, ludic behavior and humor, balancing between public and personal lives.
Claude Simard.
Sans titre
1991
Color crayons on paper
86 cm x 66.5 cm
1 400$ (framed)
George STEEVES
George Steeves
Autodidact
2001
Photograph
Edition of 5
40.6 x 50.8 cm
SOLD
Françoise SULLIVAN
Françoise Sullivan vit et travaille à Montréal. Après une formation à l'école des Beaux-Arts de Montréal au début des années 40, elle s'installe à New York pour étudier la danse moderne.
En 1948, ses engagements en tant qu'artiste l'amènent à signer le Refus Global. Depuis, elle a exploré une grande diversité de styles et de moyens d'expressions (peinture, sculpture, installation, performance, scénographie, photographie etc.).
Françoise Sullivan a présenté plus d'une cinquantaine d'expositions individuelles. Elle a reçu de nombreux prix dont le prestigieux Prix Paul-Émile Borduas en 1987 et le prix du Gouverneur-général du Canada en arts visuels et en arts médiatiques en 2005. Elle est représentée par la Galerie Lilian Rodriguez à Montréal.
Françoise Sullivan,
Sans titre
1989
Wood and acrylic
80 cm x 75 cm x 11.5 cm
SOLD
Gabor SZILASI
Gabor Szilasi est né en 1928 à Budapest, Hongrie. Il immigre au Canada en 1958 et s'installe à Montréal un an plus tard.
Dans les années 70, il s'engage dans des séries de photographies dépeignant des régions du Québec comme la Beauce, l'Abitibi ou Charlevoix. Il retournera pour la première fois en Hongrie en 1980 et tirera des nombreux voyages qui suivront une exposition en 1999. Retour à Budapest se compose de photographies d'amis, de membres de sa famille ou encore de sites architecturaux, soulignant sa nostalgie et son attachement envers sa ville natale.
Photographe renommé, Gabor Szilasi a aussi enseigné dans différentes universités (à Concordia ou, en tant qu'invité, aux universités de Cracovie et de Stanford en Californie). Il a reçu des bourses du Conseil des Arts du Canada et ses expositions ont voyagé à travers la France, la Hongrie, la Pologne, l'Italie ou encore le Canada.
Gabor Szilasi.
Raymond Pharand
1982
Two photographs: one in color and the other in black and white
41 cm x 66 cm
1200 $ (framed)
David TOMAS
David Tomas
Liquid Train
1996
Photographie sur papier photographique allemand d'époque (Circa 1930-40)
No 6/6
20.3 x 25.4 cm
675 $ (framed)
Martha TOWNSEND
Martha Townsend,
Skywell
1995
Color photograph
No 5/5
33 cm x 61 cm
SOLD
Like Nothing
2004
Graphite sur papier Arches
18 x 26 cm
800 $
Jean-Luc VERNA
Jean-Luc Verna
Aime-moi
2000
Metal
Tirage de 30
62,5 x 11 x 0,7 cm
800 $
Jacques VIEILLE
Jacques Vieille est né en 1948 à Baden-Baden, Allemagne. Il vit et travaille à Paris et en Lot-et-Garonne, France. Artiste pluridisciplinaire, Jacques Vieille s'est tout d'abord intéressé à l'architecture avant de se spécialiser dans les jardins et le paysage. Il pratique l'installation in situ et explore d'une manière didactique l'architecture et son histoire. En 2001, il a exposé au centre d'art de Kerguéhennec (Morbihan, France) en investissant les lieux d'une écurie. Il a aussi participé à plusieurs expositions collectives en Europe et aux États-Unis.
Jacques Vieille.
Genève
1988
Serigraph
No 6/15
74 cm x 102 cm
700 $ (framed)
Jacques Vieille.
Valence
1989
Serigraph
No 10/30
74 cm x 102 cm
500 $ (framed)
Irene F. WHITTOME
Irene F. Whittome est née en 1942 à Vancouver. Elle vit et travaille à Montréal depuis 1968. Active depuis plus de vingt ans sur la scène artistique canadienne et internationale, Irene F. Whittome a produit un corpus important d'œuvres dans des médiums aussi variés que l'estampe, la photographie, la peinture, et le dessin, la sculpture et les installations. Dans son travail, elle explore des thèmes comme la durée, le temps, les traces ou les origines de l'humanité.
Irene F. Whittome a reçu le prix d'excellence en arts de la Fondation Gershon Iskowitz en 1992 et le Prix Paul-Émile Borduas en 1997. Elle a aussi été boursière au cours des dernières années du Conseil des Arts du Canada et du ministère de la Culture du Québec.
Parallèlement à sa carrière d'artiste, elle est enseignante à l'Université Concordia.
Irene F. Whittome,
Consonance
Ostrich egg, wood
No 4/15
1 000$
