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Shape-shifting Compositions: The exhibition “Passages Convergents”

Promoted by Fundacion Latinarte, it is curated by Mariza Rosales Argonza and presents three Latin American artists whose approach sets up a dialogue via multi-spatial realities that stimulate the imagination. These highly avant-garde and original multidisciplinary creators conceive of art as a…
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Nicholas Crombach - Hybrid Contradictions

(Texte) Veronica Redgrave
Crombach explores visual cultures to make his point. The artist’s inquiring commentary on sporting culture takes inspirations that range from fox hunting to antiquity-inspired classics. In his hybrid pieces, the once familiar has a disconcerting dissonance. Recently returned from The Florence…
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Montreal Galleries
A New Season Beckons

(Texte) Veronica Redgrave
This fall, galleries propose exciting and thought-provoking directions through disparate techniques and subjects. Art Mûr is worth the trip toward the north end of Montreal for art lovers. This fall, the gallery showcases three artists – Henri Venne, Colleen Wolstenholme, and Judith Berry – who…
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Bharti Kher: Bindis Create a Conversation

(Texte) Veronica Redgrave
In reviewing the current show of work by Bharti Kher at DHC/ART Foundation, one doesn’t know where to begin. Although the artist is internationally renowned for her use of bindi – the tiny red dot worn by Hindu women on their forehead – the exhibition also showed life-size concrete figures,…
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Julian Rosefeldt
Manifesto

(Texte) Veronica Redgrave
This fall, the Montreal Museum of Contemporary Art (MAC) premieres Manifesto in Canada. The highly vaunted piece is a 2015 Australian-German multi-screen film installation written, produced and directed by Julian Rosefeldt. A professor of Digital and Time-based Media at Berlin’s Academy of Fine…
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Hokusai
Beyond the Great Wave

(Texte) Veronica Redgrave
Veronica Redgrave numéro 248 In the BBC documentary on Hokusai: Beyond the Great Wave, the exhibit at the British Museum, contemporary artist David Hockney comments that the Japanese artist was a ‘‘prodigy.’’ Indeed, after viewing the show one came away amazed at his artistic vision and technical…
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In a Sea of Change
Teaching in the Digital Age

(Texte) Veronica Redgrave
The ultimate meeting of left and right brain is happening at art schools where collaborations are bringing together methodologies from artistic practices to computer science and engineering. Today, all arts – dance, film, performance, music, sculpture, visual, photography – are going through a sea…
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Alain Lefort
The Virtual Reality of Echo's Breath

(Texte) Veronica Redgrave
One would hope that Alain Lefort’s photographs of the Florida mangroves would reflect the poetry of its title: Echo’s Breath, and they do not disappoint. His latest series is lyrical and seductive. The artist is enamoured with a nature ‘‘that is both savage and disturbing, as well as bucolic and…
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John. A. Schweitzer’s Scaling The Wall of Syndetic Erudition

(Texte) Veronica Redgrave
Artist, collector and curator John A. Schweitzer, LLD, OSA, RCA, has embraced a pluralist perspective in a career spanning over 40 years. Following undergraduate studies with painter Paterson Ewen at Western University, he earned a Master of Fine Arts from York in 1978. Settling in Montreal, he…
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Peter Krausz' Landscape Portraits

‘’I remove all direct references to houses and the horizon line. The landscape becomes a non-character — almost Biblical.’’ Although Peter Krausz’s work is both landscapes and portraits, he is renowned for his expressionistic impressions of the land. But they too can be referred to as ‘portraits’.…
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