Carl Campeau - Mathieu Beauséjour

Carl Campeau  

Jours Ouvrables

Mathieu Beauséjour  

SPARE SOME SOCIAL CHANGE (NOTHING HAS CHANGED)

May/Mai 2015

vernissage vendredi 1 mai 18 - 21hr

Carl Campeau

Mathieu Beauséjour 

Carl Campeau vit et travaille à Montréal. Après des études en littérature et en cinéma, il glisse tranquillement vers l’art visuel. Autodidacte, il développe au fil des années une production artistique singulière dans les arts d’impression, qui se caractérise par une économie du langage plastique, par des formes géométriques simples, lignes droites, couleurs monochromes, où chaque action est déposée sur un support brut et immaculé. À mi-chemin entre l’art minimal et la nouvelle abstraction, que ce soit par ses collages, pastels ou sérigraphies, il réside toujours un désir de raconter une histoire à travers les vides laissés sur les œuvres.

Jours ouvrables
La littérature est toujours le moteur de ma création et le présent projet ne fait pas exception. Avec Jours ouvrables, j’exprime le désir de créer un dialogue entre le Frère Marie Victorin (né Conrad Kirouac), religieux canadien, botaniste et écrivain, et Jack Kerouac, écrivain, qui va au-delà du lien familial qu'on leur attribue. Jours ouvrables explore la quête des deux hommes à travers le territoire, la flore et la spiritualité. M’inspirant de la figure de style de la synecdoque, je tente de réduire les interventions sur le papier, dans l’espoir de créer un vocabulaire pictural simple qui laisse place aux interprétations les plus diverses. Jours ouvrables tente de caresser les souvenirs fanés d’une lecture marquante, d’une fleur qui éclôt ou le souvenir d’une porte de grange sur le bord de la route.

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Mathieu Beauséjour works from a stand of resistance, corruption or “semiotic terrorism”. Employing diverse techniques, he overthrows materials and concepts of power, alienation, and oppression. His works gives both an ironic and a nostalgic feel within political and artistic avant-garde. He also makes use of cultural emblems such as currency, anthems and manifestos in order to explore today’s state of affairs. His work is contextual; it is created specifically for the space it occupies, whether it is a gallery, a site of intervention, printed paper or a moment in time.

Mathieu Beauséjour lives and works in Montreal. His style is diverse and hinges especially on installation art, performance, intervention, and printing. His works have been presented at numerous art centres, public and private galleries, biennials, and museums in Canada and Europe. His work has recently been presented in different group and solo exhibitions, such as the Musée Régional de Rimouski with the exhibition La Révolte de l'imagination - Une Rétrospective (which will be on display at centre d'exposition Expression de Sainte Hyacinthe in winter 2015), at the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal during the exhibition La Beauté du geste in 2014, at the Quebec Triennial of 2011 and as part of the Manif d'art 7 de Québec in 2014. Mathieu`s work has been the subject of several exhibition catalogues, the most recent to be released in March 2015. He currently has an artist's studio at the Darling Foundry (Montreal) sponsored by the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts.
(text from galerie antoine ertaskiran)

ZINEDEX : Rewild by M. Morgan Baek

ZINEDEX : Pink Paper Drawings by Amanda Craig

Introducing ZINEDEX !

The intrepid Natalie Draz has inaugurated a new zine Indexing curatorial project entitled ZINEDEX showcasing zines available here at Monastiraki !

Here is the first instalment :

Look here for the permanent ZINEDEX home on this blog
This project will have it's own tumblr as well !

SECRET LIFE book launch

We are very excited to launch :

Secret life

Wednesday, A
8 April at 17:00 - 19:00pril 8th, 5–7 PM

Monastiraki - Le Petit Monastère, 5478 Blvd. St-Laurent

Quiet Spell's first publication, Secret life features drawings, photographs, and writing by a range of contributing artists who playfully explore the theme of the non-religious born-again. 

Donna Akrey

Elisabeth Belliveau

Lucie Chan

Sarah Febbraro

Pétur Már Gunnarsson

Caroline Loncol Daigneault

Zoë Poluch

Coco Riot

Pablo Rodriguez

Éric Simon

Michael Toppings

Valentina Vella

Jim Verburg

Please join our facebook event.

We hope to see you there!

Karin Zuppiger and Zoë Chan

INGRID GERBERICK - BE A BETTER PERSON April 2015

INGRID GERBERICK - BE A BETTER PERSON

BE A BETTER PERSON: is a series of small-scale textile works illustrating a collection of viable adages, banished thoughts and visual one-liners; both exploring and humourously critiquing the quest for self-improvement and personal growth. Intimate and decorative, the pieces are a nod to the North American women's tradition of embroidering religious or inspirational texts. While the traditional texts were produced primarily as household reminders to oneself and one's family of how best to live, Be A Better Person uses humour, cliche and confession to document personal best intentions,failures and doubts to a greater audience.

SOIS UNE MEILLEURE PERSONNE : est une série d’œuvres textiles à petite échelle illustrant une collection d’adages qui durent, de pensées bannies et de boutades visuelles ; tour à tour explorant et critiquant avec humour la quête de l’amélioration et du développement personnelle. Intimes et décoratives, les pièces sont un clin d’œil à la tradition féminine Nord Américaine de broderies de textes religieux ou sources d’inspiration. Alors que les textes traditionnels étaient d’abord créés en tant que pense-bêtes rappelant aux familles et à soi comment vivre mieux, Sois Une Meilleure Personne utilise l’humour, le cliché et la confession pour documenter nos meilleures intentions personnelles, nos échecs et nos doutes à un public plus large.

Vernissage Jeudi 9 Avril 18-21hr

Monastiraki is being HANDMODELLED !!!

Monastiraki is collaborating with handmodel.ca 
Watch this space !

To see our joint work pls look at our Collaborations page !

LAURA MADERA / MERE PHANTOMS

Laura Madera: LUMEN 

Mere Phantoms: Shadow Installation

Vernissage mercredi 4 fev, 18 - 21hr
expo 4 fev- 1 mar, 2015

During the dark winter month of February, Monastiraki celebrates light and shadow in two exquisite exhibitions. 

In LUMEN, Peterborough, Ontario artist Laura Madera's small to large-scale watercolours on paper fill our gallery walls with subtle colour shifts and meditations on being present and open to what is. 

Featured in Monastiraki's gallery window for the month of February, Mere Phantoms will show a selection of their intricately beautiful, three-dimensional paper cut-out "sets" from recent installations in Turkey ( Oyuna Gel // Come out and Play, Istanbul Biennial, 2013 ) and Denmark (Three Cities: Prayer/Protest, Brandts Museum, 2014).  As the sun goes down, the window will come alive in a play of shadow and light; a sure delight for passers by. 

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Laura Madera: LUMEN

The word Lumen means both a measure of the total amount of visible light emitted by a source as well as an opening, or light, within a body. With this collection of work Laura Madera takes the phenomena of light and unfolds it though subjectivity. Using the properties of watercolour, she works toward occupying a metaphysical space. Taking her surroundings, materials, body and desires as starting points, she grapples with the beingness of being here now.

Laura Madera received her MFA from the University of Guelph and a BFA from Emily Carr Institute in Vancouver, BC.

Her work initiates with questioning, and what follows is the result of negotiating, probing, and conversing within a process of making. For Madera this unpredictable shifting process of understanding can only be arrived at through a physical engagement with materials. The outcom­e she works towards is a quality of openness in meaning - a painting that refracts thought.

Content is something previously seen, thought, felt, dreamed of, which is then re-constructed or re-imagined through her studio processes. Madera's desire for these images to become paintings develops over time, slowly - out of a need to explore the edges and dimensions of the subject - a way to grasp in paint the seemingly ungraspable.

Laura Madera's work is held in private collections across Canada, the United States and the United Kingdom. Born in Toronto, Madera currently lives and works in Peterborough, ON and serves as a member of the Board of Directors for ARTSPACE.

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Mere Phantoms takes the experience of shadow play to a whole new level. Based in Montreal and founded in 2009, the creative studio combines intricate paper cutouts, drawings, videos and animation to create place-specific installations and performances. By inviting audiences to participate in creating and animating the work, directors Maya Ersan and Jaimie Robson design immersive environments that challenge traditional artist-audience relationships.

The creative practice that Ersan and Robson have been developing together since 2011 is inspired by shadow puppetry, animation, and early cinema, yet is distinct from these traditions. In traditional shadow puppetry the puppets are moved and animated from behind a flat screen, using a static light source to cast a shadow. Ersan and Robson construct intricate three-dimensional paper cutout “sets” that are placed in front of the projection screen making them integral to the installation. By combining multiple hand-held light sources the artists and their public audiences animate the artwork, playing with the size, scale, and intensity of the layered shadows that are cast.

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Laura Madera:LUMEN

Mere Phantoms: Installation dans la vitrine

Pendant la noirceur du mois de février, Monastiraki célèbre la lumière et l’ombre avec deux expositions exquises.

Avec LUMEN, l’artiste originaire de Peterborough, Ontario, Laura Madera, emplit les murs  de notre galerie de changements de couleurs subtils et de méditations sur l’art d’être présent et ouvert à ce qui se présente à nous,  avec ses aquarelles sur papier en petit et grand format.

Apparaissant dans la vitrine d’exposition de Monastiraki pour le mois de février, Mere Phantoms exposeront une sélection de leurs complexes et magnifiques ensembles de  silhouettes découpées dans du papier provenant de leurs récentes installations en  Turquie           ( Oyuna Gel // Come out and Play, Biennale d’Istanbul, 2013 ) et au Danemark  (Three Cities: Prayer/Protest, Musée Brandts, 2014). À l’heure du coucher de soleil, la vitrine prendra vie dans un jeu d’ombres et de lumière; un bonheur certain pour les passants.

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Le mot Lumen a deux significations : la mesure totale de la lumière émise par une source de même qu’une ouverture ou lumière émise par un corps. Avec cette collection d’œuvres, Laura Madera observe le phénomène de la lumière et le déploie dans la subjectivité. Utilisant les propriétés de l’aquarelle, elle œuvre à occuper un espace métaphysique. Prenant ses environnements, matériaux, son corps et désirs comme points de départ, elle tâtonne et lutte

avec  l’existence de l’être dans le présent.

Laura Madera a obtenu sa maitrise en Beaux Arts à l’Université de Guelph et un BFA à L’Institut Emily Carr de Vancouver, en Colombie-Britannique.

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Mere Phantoms élève l’expérience des jeux d’ombres à un tout autre niveau. Basé à Montréal et fondé en 2009, ce studio créatif joint de complexes silhouettes découpées dans du papier, des dessins, des vidéos et l’animation afin d’élaborer des installations et des performances spécifiques à certains lieux.

En invitant le public à participer à la création et à l’animation de l’œuvre, les directrices  Maya Ersan et Jaimie Robson élaborent des environnements d’immersion qui remettent en question les relations traditionnelles entre l’artiste et le public.

JANUARY OVERHAUL

This month, January 2015, Monastiraki will be closed in order to turn an ailing, clogged and neglected backroom into a functional and inspirational studio space !
We will be open in February with a stunning window show and a stunning interor art show as well as more programming !

In the meantime we can serve you by appointment !
Call us during daytime business hours (514) 278-4879 to set up a visit.

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joyeuses fêtes / happy holidays
bonne année / happy new year
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Santa at Monastiraki !!!

That's right ! Bring the kids and get their photo taken with Santa Claus !
The jolly old elf will be holding court Saturday Dec. 13 from 10 am - 1 pm.
See you there!

Photos avec le père Noël (le vrai!) à Monastiraki samedi 13 dec, entre 10h et 13h!! (Voir adresse en bas)
$5 par photo. Photos disponibles tout de suite, sur place.

Monastiraki at Galerie B-312

Artist, teacher  and friend of our shop, Adrian Norvid got us invited to install a version of Monastiraki in a gallery setting. Last week we opened 'What Goes Around Comes Around' and we're thrilled with the results.

http://www.galerieb312.ca/programmation/what-goes-around-comes-around-exposition

WLLDDZZY: BMP FLOWERZ

WLLDDZZY: BMP FLOWERZ

 























Dans cette exposition, nous vous présentons les tapisseries tissées de Jacquard. Ce sont des études de conception de tissu. Plus précisément, elles abordent avec de le pavage bitmap et la possibilité d'y effectuer des variations de tons et de formes.

In this exposition we are featuring Jaquard woven tapestries. They are studies in fabric design. More specifically they deal with small variations of bitmap tessellations and the potential of describing tone and living shapes within.

Vernissage 6 nov 18-21h

Expo 6 - 30 nov 2014

more info about artist
http://troutinplaid.com/2014/10/13/william-joel-davenport/

Happy Hallowe'en Witches & Ghouls and all you souls out there!

Our friend Logan was visiting with his parents from Toronto. Logan LOVES Hallowe'en. Here's his reaction to our front window, which has lots of scary things in it for this special time of year.

Crustacés Tapes & Collecting Friends
8-31 October 2014

Crustacés Tapes & Collecting Friends

Crustacés Tapes & Collecting Friends

Vernissage mercredi 8 oct, 18 - 21hr
expo 8 - 31 oct, 2014

We are proud to present objects from the mail-art collection of Crustacés Tapes as well as curated collections of friends of Crustacés Tapes.

Nous sommes fiers de présenter certains objets de la collection d'art postal de Crustacés Tapes, ainsi que d'autres collections sélectionnées par des amis du collectif postal.

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Crustacés Tapes - choses envoyées, choses reçues

Crustacés Tapes est un projet de distribution sonore postale, publiant diverses curiosités sonores sur bande magnétique. Les cassettes sont envoyées par la poste à quiconque nous envoie une carte postale ou un cadeau. Au cours de ses trois années d'existence, Crustacés Tapes a reçu des cartes postales, une enveloppe de petits carrés de carton, des dessins, des CD, des livres, une boîte d'allumettes, des photos, des timbres, du thé, un bouton à quatre trous, des cassettes, du sable, une fleur en plastique et un billet de loto expiré.

Crustacés Tapes - things sent, things received

Crustacés Tapes is a postal sound distribution project, releasing sonic curiosities on magnetic tape. The cassettes are mailed to whoever sends us a postcard or gift. In its three years of existence, Crustacés Tapes has received letters, a envelope of small cardboard squares, drawings, postcards, a flag, CDs, books, a matchbox, chocolate wrapping, photos, stamps, tea, a 4 hole button, cassettes, sand, a plastic flower and an expired lotto ticket.

Sweet Sixteen Party August 17, 2014 !

Monastiraki célèbre son doux 16ème anniversaire cette année!

16 ans dans le Mile-End, 16 ans d’existence ouverte, hétéroclite et de vie de communauté créatrice.

16 ans de trouvailles de collectionneurs, de babioles-papier uniques, de spectacles d’art, de fanzines et d’estampes, de bricolage pour/par les enfants, de parties de collage.

Viens célébrer avec nous, on aura sur place des cocktails, une table de collage et de la musique ‘en direct’ toute la journée.

Dimanche, 17 août, 2014, 14h00 à 20h00.

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Monastiraki is celebrating its Sweet16 this year !

16 years in Mile-End, 16 years of open, eclectic, creative community existence.
16 years of vintage finds, one-of-a-kind paper ephemera, art shows, zines & prints, kids crafts, collage parties.

Come celebrate with us, there will be cocktails, a collage table and live music through out the day.

Sunday, August 17, 2014 2pm until 8pm

Monastiraki is Sweet Sixteen !

We are sixteen years old ! We will celebrate with all of you this summer ! We are so so thankful for the wild ride we've been on !

From AUSTIN to ZUZU

 

Vernissage June 5, 6-9pm

Exhibit June 5 - 29, 2014

On the walls 

Ballerina Convention by Austin English
In the window 

Psychic Candy Hover Lands by Zuzu Knew

Austin English---whose books include Christina and Charles, The Disgusting Room, and the Ignatz-Award nominated The Life Problem---will present a suite of new drawings made in graphite and colored pencil for this show of works on paper at Monastiraki. In addition to these newer, never before exhibited drawings, English will also present key pages from past comics. The show will attempt to present a view of the different approaches to drawing and image making that English has been working with over the past 10 years.

Zuzu Knew is an interdisciplinary artist who follows her cravings to create wondermints. She often combines pastry, creature infinity and prism vision to make living cartoons; drawings, analogue projections, street art, costumes, and cake. Psychic Candy Hover Lands portrays an environment in the flux of its naturally sweet and sour landscape where at first glance cute and upon a closer look foreboding elements balance each other out. Zu recently went to Greece for the Koumaria Residency, launched the film Smile Stealers with collaborators and does projections and styling for the band Syngja. She is part of an ongoing documentary about her and her sister and their great grandmother.

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Vernissage 5 juin, 18-21hr

Expo 5-29 juin, 2014

Sur les murs 

Ballerina Convention de Austin English
Dans la vitrine 

Psychic Candy Hover Lands de Zuzu Knew

Austin English -dont les livres incluent Christina and Charles, The Disgusting Room, et The Life Problem (nominé pour le Prix Ignatz)-présentera une série de nouveaux dessins faits au graphite et crayons de couleurs pour cette exposition d’oeuvres sur papier à Monastiraki. En plus de ces nouveaux dessins jamais exposés, English présentera aussi des pages clés de ses BD passées. Cette exposition tentera de présenter un aperçu des différentes approches au dessin et à la fabrication d’images sur lesquelles English a travaillé pendant les 10 dernières années.

Zuzu Knew est une artiste interdisciplinaire qui suit ses désirs afin de créer des ‘wondermints’. Elle combine souvent pâtisserie, créature de l’infini et vision de prisme afin de faire des dessins animés vivants : dessins, projections analogues, art de la rue, costumes et gâteau. Psychic Candy Hover Lands illustre un environnement dans le flux d’un paysage naturellement aigre et doux, qui, à première vue, montre des éléments mignons et qui pourtant, vus de plus près, s’avèrent des choses à saveur d’appréhension. Zu a récemment visité la Grèce pour la Résidence Koumaria, lancé le film Smile Stealers avec des collaborateurs et est responsable des projections du groupe Syngja en plus d’en être la styliste. Elle participe à un documentaire en évolution au sujet d’elle-même, de sa sœur et de son arrière grand-mère.

 

AUSTIN ENGLISH - COMING UP JUNE 2014

Coming up next month, June 2014, we're very happy to have drawings by
the inimitable Austin English - comic artist, publisher, drawer.

ACCRETIONS may 2014

 

ACCRETIONS

an exhibit of small clusters

We here at Monastiraki cannot help but collect small objects that resonate with unknown history.

For this exhibit, we've brought together some of our favourites and created new small sculptural works,
part jewellery, part fetish object.

Please join us for something a little different.

Vernissage Thursday May 1st, 2014
Exhibit runs until June 1st.

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Accroissements – Une Exposition de Petits Amas

Nous, à , Monastiraki - Le Petit Monastère ne pouvons nous empêcher de collectionner de petits objets qui résonnent d’une histoire inconnue.

Pour cette exposition, nous avons rassemblé quelques uns de nos objets favoris et créé de nouvelles petites œuvres de sculptures, mi- bijoux, mi- objets fétiches.

Joignez-vous à nous pour quelque chose d’un peu différent !

Vernissage jeudi 1 mai, 2014
expo 1mai - 1 juin,. 2014

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Billy Mavreas wrote a short text about how his small object collection led to this show coming together. 

http://alitterwitch.blogspot.ca/2014/04/accretions-breakthroughs-collections.html

INTERVIEW Graham Hall

Is an artist based in Montreal.

'2013' will be showing at Monastiraki from April 3-27. 

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On 3 April, 2014, the year 2013 is revisited by a crowd of people relishing one of the first days of spring in Montreal. The window is full of fresh flowers in dialogue with a 5-foot-tall, 3-dimensional pyramid characterized by bold colors contained in a geometric style. The works on the wall are highly mathematical and controlled, but the order lends a sense of calm instead of restriction. Inviting its viewer to think about the past in its relationship to history, the present, and the future, Graham Hall’s work succeeds as both retrospect and potentiality. Once the crowd thinned out nearing the end of the night, I had the chance to talk with Graham about his work, steamies vs toasties, and Muddy Waters.

Just to open it up, tell us a bit about the body of work – any inspiration, challenges, etc?

Initially this work was inspired by a couple of postcards that I dug out of my files, which I had initially bought many years ago in Venice, which depicted some of the floor pavements in the Basilica St. Marco, attributed to Paolo Uccello – the Great Renaissance Master. I wanted to see if I could reproduce them in some kind of way. I liked the 3-D effects in them and I was attracted to trying to be very, very precise in the making of the work. It was kind of a personal challenge, I guess, to see if I could do it and see where I could take it after I theoretically would be able to do it. Because it’s very, very math-based, lots of geometry, and I’ve always been terrified of mathematics (laughter).

Do you think that there’s a specific time and place in the artist’s life when a personal challenge is necessary?

For me, it’s something that comes up constantly, but without realizing that I’m setting it up. I’ve produced several bodies of work over the years, that were very interesting to me initially, just to do, to make something that would hopefully be beautiful in the end, but that then required (as the series went on) a really serious amount of heavy work. A really, really tight, labor-intensive process. And I guess the reason that I follow through with it is because I either know that the end result will be great, because of the first couple of attempts, or I’m looking forward to what the result will be, which is an unknown. If I do this, and this and this and this, eventually I will come to an end and then I’ll have this thing, if all goes well (laughter).

Even if the end isn’t necessarily ideal, the piece still exists.

To me it matters that you get to that point. The work will often start in a very expressive way, and usually very, very quickly it turns into that labor-intensive process that has in its sights, in the end, the creation of a piece that I want to look at.

Why are there flowers in the window tonight?

Another inspiration for this body of work was the reading of Umberto Eco’s On Beauty, so I became interested in beauty and ideas of beauty. And flowers, I think it’s pretty generally agreed, are beautiful things, so that’s one aspect of flowers in the window. I had conceived of the idea of having an abundance of flowers in the window prior to the passing of my former professor, Maestro Peter Porcal, and since his passing, it sort of turned into this idea of not just celebrating spring and having joy in the beauty of flowers, but also, kind of a tribute to this great man who influenced me in so many ways.

What is your favorite Montreal food joint when you’re drunk?

Usually at home (laughter). But on the rare occasion that I am out on the town, getting shit-faced, very rare occasion, Chez Claudette is a hop, skip and a jump away from where I live, so I guess if I were to choose something, it would be something that is close to home, so that I can then stumble up the stairs with a belly full of poutine.

Toastie or Steamie?

Steamie.

Best new book you’ve read?

I’ve not quite finished it, but, I have been reading, very slowly, Sheila Heti’s How Should a Person Be?. Which is amazing. Sheila, I knew, not very well – friends of friends – back when I lived in Toronto. In fact, back then, she was the first person whom I didn’t know very well, who told me that they really enjoyed my artwork. So I felt it important to read one of her books. The funny thing is, I know a few people in the book (laughter). Not well, but I definitely know some of them, and I certainly know many of the places. It feels very familiar, and especially the situations that she’s writing about, for me, over the past couple of months, I very much identify with.

What music are you listening to?

Lately I’ve been listening to a lot of electric blues. I recently bought Muddy Waters’ 1968 electric album called Electric Mud, which is really awesome. It’s pretty clear that they’re just jamming away. There’s a really out-of-tune clarinet solo in one of the songs, which is a little bit off-putting, but most of it is this really great bluesy – well, not just bluesy – but full on Muddy Waters blues, fuzzed-out porno funk; it’s pretty awesome. I’m liking that. I’m liking Them with Van Morrison, and early Rolling Stones, and Yardbirds. And I always go back to Stooges, MC5.

What’s going on with the Malaysia flight? What does it mean for contemporary thought?

Well, it means that we’re reminded once again that we’re at the mercy of the universe. We like to think because we’ve got iPhones and all that shit, that we’re in control but obviously we’re not. I worry that it feeds into Bermuda Triangle garbage thinking, but a year or two from now they’ll find something just like the Air France flight that crashed off Brazil a couple years ago. It’s a tragedy, and it’s too bad that we immediately think, (gasp), “Oh, is it terrorism?” But tragedies happen, and random shit fuckin’ happens, you know? And that’s life. I know that very well (laughter).

Any closing remarks; something that has been running through your head recently?

Something that went through my mind last week – I was thinking about the fact that all this work in the show is from the previous year: what does that mean? And I thought, well, I think about history a lot. I thought, looking towards the past, is ultimately, a wish for hope in the future. And a search, or yearning for Romance in the present. 

Interview conducted by Tara Slaughter

Graham Hall - 2013

Graham Hall  2013

rivers, mountains, martyrs
salt mine, sanctuary, visions
new sacrifice, vestal experiences, satanic adversary
everything, big things, small things
fantasy, power and zero

(all of the work in this exhibition was either completed or begun in 2013)


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Graham Hall  2013

rivières, montagnes, martyres
mine de sel, sanctuaire, visions
nouveau sacrifice, expériences vestales, adversaire satanique
toute chose, grandes choses, petites choses
fantaisie, pouvoir et zéro.

(Toutes les œuvres d’art de cette exposition ont été soit complétées, soit commencées en 2013)

From The Archives - Pedagogical Literature

We manage to collect kids school books of various kinds and conditions.
If a book is in no shape to sell but is festooned with character, it is kept in the archives.
If a book is pristine but so awesome it couldn't possibly be let go, it is kept in the archives.
Here is an example of each.

The first book we'll look at is Magic Letters, a psychedelic romp through diverse style changes, watercolour, paper cut-out, clay illustration, etc.

 

Check out some of these spreads -

On a radically different note, Let's Learn To Spell is a staid grammar book, replete with exercises on constructing sentences and all that. Why we feature it here is for the arcane quality of it's symbols and the obvious connection between spelling words and casting spells (magic letters!). Also, some kid went to town on it and learned to spell.

This is a small fragment of our collection. Stay tuned for more thematic uploads.

Todd Stewart - Printwork

We are thrilled to have the gorgeous silkscreened prints of Todd Stewart aka bree,ree framed and on our walls for the month of March.