Les images urticantes de Vittorio

Les images urticantes de Vittorio

En 1951, Vittorio Fiorucci débarque à Halifax. Jeune homme, il vient conquérir l’Amérique. Il ne parle ni l’anglais ni le français, mais rien n’effraie cet Italien de 19 ans au tempérament aventureux. Il gagne Montréal, où il vit de petits métiers. D’abord témoin de...
Jason de Graaf Verisimilitude Reflected

Jason de Graaf
Verisimilitude Reflected

“The illusion of verisimilitude on the painted surface,” is how Jason de Graaf describes his luminous works. At first glance unnervingly like razor sharp photographs, upon closer inspection they reveal an inner space, an alter ego as it were, and it is that of the...
Napoleon Brousseau In The Black

Napoleon Brousseau
In The Black

Charcoal is a sensual medium that, at an elemental level, is wood transformed into carbon by pyrolysis; slow heating in a process of oxygen reduction. It is very much ‘of the earth’ and yet also evocative of life and death. Paradoxically, oxygen is poisonous but our...