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happy to have these two talented gents grace the walls with their unique visions

Knitty Gritty

The tree outside the shop got knitted up by a rogue crafter !

Shop Views

Here are some views of the shop taken by Ian Segal

Rick Trembles Expo Revealed !

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Rick Trembles

BIJOUX NUMBERS ONE THROUGH FIVE

Montreal-based musician, filmmaker & cartoonist Rick Trembles endeavours a departure from the 2-dimensional visual creations he’s principally known for with a brand new series of artworks concentrating on non-representational sculpture.

Each of Trembles’ structures, five in total, built especially for this particular exhibition, melds ornamental elements with the mechanical & biological, all with the intention of eventually creating vignettes on film for every construct employing the various disciplines he’s experimented with over the past 30 years; 2-D animation, stop-motion animation, & musical composition, only now in a deliberately abstract manner.

So come see the future stars of these proposed short films on display, where copies struck from actual molds of the originals will also be available for sale along with acrylic paintings of the same organisms in order to help raise funds for the film-making process.

visit ricks' site

Mange Ta Ville

Monastiraki was paid a visit by Mange Ta Ville, a local French-language web based program.
Here are some screen caps.
http://www.mangetaville.tv/

Impromptu Altar

Altars just seem to happen in this place. here's one done by my friend Pamela last year.

Freezer paper stencil workshop

My friend Elly conducted a workshop here and taught us to make EZ stencils with freezerpaper & fabric paint.

Some Views

Photos by JR Carpenter

10 Years ! A Card Is Born !

Fiona Smyth

We are proud to present the amazing work of legendary canadian artist Fiona Smyth !


This exhibit (The Wilding) is a continuation of ideas that artist Fiona Smyth has been exploring in her paintings and comics over the last 22 years. The exhibit is a distillation of her expression of femaleness. It reveals a futuristic world populated by female beings and hermaphrodites who are divided into warring factions as their post apocalyptic world is bombarded by jewel-like meteors. In addition to these outer attacks and dangers, the characters are under invasion from within, as their bodies face the after-effects of genetic modification, viral invasions and new unknown traumas. This forms the central concept of the show - survival of the female form and psyche while under constant barrage from outside and within.

This work is largely influenced by manga, which are Japanese comics. In 2004 Ms. Smyth received an OAC grant to travel to Japan and create a new body of ink drawings inspired by the overall experience, traditional ink drawing and manga. In manga, the exploitation and manipulation of girls and women's bodies is limitless and generally filtered through the male gaze. Depictions of all manner of fantastic abuse and transgression are juxtaposed with those of equally unrealistic deification and idealization in these comics. Fiona's work has also dealt graphically with the transformative and complex nature of women's bodies. The Wilding reveals a manifesto of feminine chaos and anarchic survival with its violent and beautiful beings expressing brutality and empathy.

Other inspiration for these works came from outsider artist Henry Darger's surreal drawings and paintings of gender-bending children, Japanese horror films such as Ringu, and the collaborative ink murals of Iri and Toshi Maruki depicting the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

The Wilding is further explanation of Fiona Smyth's artistic thesis: how trauma lives in the tissue of the body and is revealed emotionally and physically outside of traditional language.

Fiona Smyth is an artist exploring popular and alternative cultural icons and imagery. Her work always probes these timely societal, sometime intense and always relevant topics with a sense of humour, wonder and catastrophic consequence. She also employs surrealist, abstractionist, spiritual, feminist and pro-sexual strategies to achieve her unique aesthetic. Her use of media also reflects this range of interest by using different formats from which to engage her audience including comics, illustration, painting, animation, music covers, web-based art and her fabulous murals.
Smyth has exhibited in Taichung/Taiwan, Venice/Lido, Jelollabuk-Do/South Korea, New York City, Winnipeg and most recently at the Spin Gallery in Toronto.

TYPHON Launch Party

Legendary New York cartoonist, illustrator and man about town Danny Hellman will be launching & signing his new TYPHON comix anthology at Monastiraki Gallery Friday the 3rd of October from 7 pm to 10 pm, in conjunction with POP Montreal Festival's Art Pop series.

Gracing the walls will be kick ass pervo comic art from 12 of the anthologies contributors including Danny Hellman, Fiona Smyth, R. Sikoryak, Victor Cayro, Rupert Bottenberg, Bruno Nadelin, Rick Trembles, Dalton Web, Nicolas Gazin, Tobias Tak, Lorenz Peter and Eric Theriault.