tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37412088252949438822024-03-13T23:26:53.369-04:00Alexandre Masinowww.alexandremasino.caalexandre masinohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16226924854760980117noreply@blogger.comBlogger49125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3741208825294943882.post-64483837940110525082019-05-15T17:38:00.000-04:002019-05-15T17:42:25.357-04:00Colours - A reading list<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: small;">During the last semester, I had the great pleasure and the privilege to be invited by <a href="https://www.francoisvincent.ca/" target="_blank">François Vincent</a> to take over one of his drawing classes at the <a href="https://ent-nts.ca/" target="_blank">National Theater School of Canada</a>. François was awarded the Paris Studio of the <a href="https://www.calq.gouv.qc.ca/aides/residences-artistiques-paris/?profil_0=26&profil_1=&disciplines=&regions=&typesAide=85" target="_blank">Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec</a> for six months, so he needed someone to replace him during this period. François has been teaching drawing in the <a href="https://ent-nts.ca/en/set-costume-design" target="_blank">Set and Costume Design Department</a> for decades and he is so beloved by his students that these were very big shoes to fill… I was very honoured that he thought of me, so after accepting I quickly got to work… </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">The students were truly great, very devoted to their craft and the investment that it takes to push ourselves further. It was a joy to teach them. I must say that this school really offers a great environment for the students to learn and become professionals in their field while promoting a beautiful philosophy of excellency. </span></div>
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All this to say that after tackling sketching, watercolour, and life model sessions, I really wanted to teach a full class on colour. In order to prepare this PowerPoint presentation, I spent the winter enhancing my knowledge. Obviously, approaching a subject for teaching is very different than for our personal practice. In order to do so, I basically read and reread many, many books on the subject. Here is a short list of the books that I highly recommend without any hesitations and that we should all read if we are interested in any field that is related to the world of vision. </div>
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First of all, the top of my list is the entire work devoted to colours by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Pastoureau" target="_blank">Michel Pastoureau</a>! Not only is he one of the very very few historians specializing in colour, he is a great writer and a thorough thinker. His book “Les couleurs de nos souvenirs” won many international awards among which the 2010 <a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prix_M%C3%A9dicis_essai" target="_blank">Medicis award</a> for the best essay. In order to establish the History of each colour, he is studying them via art history, myths, the use of language, symbolism, technical and scientific developments, moral, religion and the history of costume. I have read all his books in their original French version, but they are translated in English and easy to find. It is very simple: treat yourself and read them all!</div>
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<u>Note :</u> the links brings you to amazon Canada so you can have the information on each book. Please order them through your local independent bookstore. We don't want them to disappear! </div>
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Rejoice! The new book of Pastoureau on the colour Yellow is coming out later this year (November 2019). I'm sure it will be another great read to add to the list. </div>
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The second place of my list must go to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Ball" target="_blank">Philip Ball</a>’s “Bright Earth: Art and the Invention of Color”. Philip Ball is a British chemist and science writer. His history of pigments and colours is both rooted in art and science; most importantly how both aspects are ultimately intertwining and co-dependant. A great read that will stimulate any painter and colour user.</div>
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In the same vein, I went back to a book I read more than twenty years ago, before the previous books even existed: “The History of Colors” by Manlio Brusatin. This book might not be as thorough as the previous ones, but this 1983 Italian book is dedicated to the return of painting! What is there not to love?</div>
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It is interesting to notice that when reading so many different books on a subject you actually end up reading things in some books that are not true at all. All the books in this post I personally own and are a strong read, but I got a few books from the library that were actually stating falsehoods. Beware. </div>
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A good option if you want to read a more illustrated book on the science of colour: “The Secret Language of Color” by Joann Eckstut and Arielle Eckstut. It explains the electromagnetic waves, the anatomy of the eye, colour perception, the physic of rainbows, animal vision and much more. A good coffee table type book. “Light, The Visible Spectrum and Beyond” by Kimberly Arcand and Megan Watzke is a good complementary book that talks more about nature, the cosmos and physics.</div>
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Finally, in the category of teaching how to use colours, I foremost recommend “Colour, A workshop for artists and designers” by <a href="https://www.davidhornung.com/" target="_blank">David Hornung</a>. It is a great resource on colour interaction, theory and principles. The second option for a hands-on approach is “Color, A course in mastering the art of mixing colours” by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betty_Edwards" target="_blank">Betty Edwards</a>. She is world-famous for her book “Drawing on the right side of the brain”, but her approach on teaching colour is also interesting.</div>
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Maybe the ancestor of Pantone colour coding is the “<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Gottlob_Werner" target="_blank">Werner</a>’s Nomenclature of Colours”. First published in 1814, this guide to name colours in a systematic way was used by Charles Darwin to describe the colours he encounters in nature through his voyage and his research. The names and the charts are beautiful and can ignite ideas for any colourful project.</div>
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There are tons of “How to” books on colours and how to use colours while painting. The two books that I kept from my university years are “The Book of Color” by José Maria Parramón and “Art Fundamentals, Theory and Practice” by Otto Ocvirk, Robert Stinson, Philip Wigg, Robert Bone and David Cayton. They are now at the 12th edition, but I got the 7th. This book covers the basis of the corpus defining art courses across countries and a good teaching aid.</div>
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The mystery of Magenta :</div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><i><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #990000;"> When Are We?<br />or<br />The Absolute Painting of Alexandre Masino</span></span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Alexandre Masino eats, sleeps, reads to paint. I remember meeting him on Saint-Charles Street in Longueuil several years ago, devouring a peach or pear he had pulled out of a bag full of fruit he wanted to paint. The fruit he was eating would eventually end up in one of his canvases, he told me. And so, the fruit that was food would later on be turned into a work of art… He couldn’t not paint it, because he had tasted it, he had swallowed it, thus transforming it into a sort of eternity, as in <i>Rêves éveillés</i> (page 28) or <i>L’arbre d’Idunn</i> (page 36). He eats, reads, sleeps the same way he speaks, in painting, for painting, about painting, he discusses colour, hue, plays of different luminosities, he paints his very being, or what becomes the fruit of his being, in painting.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Masino shows us a tangible world (fruit, trees and landscapes, books, sailboats, objects of all kinds), but he also makes us feel his skilful gestures in materials both light and heavy, in fine lines and broad brushstrokes. From these “images” of reality, all these artistic techniques, there emerge, disappear and metamorphose, beneath the visible surface of the painting, silhouettes, moving, seething shadows. And if these silhouettes, these disturbing shadows truly exist, if they move, if they reach out to us, it is because they obey another presence than that of the viewer’s gaze alone, they live in the light that changes continually, in the subtle shift in luminosity and the viewer’s own imperceptible vibration, as the viewer’s retina is thrown into confusion, vibrates intensely. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">These shadows, like the angels and their mysteries, live, come, go away and come back through the dance of light on the encaustic and the glazes, the transparencies, through the various impastos worked by the painter’s careful gestures (painting in encaustic demands fast thinking and constant consideration of the gestures made on the canvas); they live, come, go away and come back through the viewers’ entire bodies: bodies and light, bodies in the light, inner agitations of the beings who watch and recreate these presences through the transparencies offered by Masino. Viewers and light together destroy and reinvent these ghostly figures repeatedly, and infinitely differently—as, for instance, in <i>Tabla luna</i> (page 9) or <i>Le souffle de la mer</i> (pages 92–93). </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">How many paintings are there in a Masino painting? His extraordinary use of encaustic makes possible all these effects of life, of momentary disappearances, of ethereal matter, of mountainous <i>immaterialities</i>. Masino’s painting is within the time of light; it is furtive, subtle or dazzling shifts of light, in solar or electric lighting (modernity means that too!). Consequently, his paintings don’t “show” properly when presented to governmental or private juries judging his works from slides, in the old days, or from digital photographs, now. On these technical supports, everything is “flattened”; the reliefs produced by the constant changes in light disappear, as does the materiality of the encaustic. All that remains is fruit, boats, landscapes… The most ordinary of subjects. On these technical supports, there is nothing that strikes or skims over the encaustic, the glazes, the gold or copper leaf regularly used by the painter. Printed reproductions of his paintings (like the ones readers see here) don’t convey these plays, these effects, the painter’s pictorial intelligence. And painting, we often forget, is not snapping a photograph of an art object; painting is mastering light and the working of the pictorial material. The viewers (here, the readers) must understand that a photograph of a painting is absolutely not the painting, understand that they are not looking at the work, the actual work, produced by the painter: his actual colours, his gestures, even his dimensions. For more on this subject, you would need to delve into Jean-François Lyotard’s major (though short) essay, <i>Anima minima</i>, published in 1993 in <i>Moralités postmodernes</i>, and in 1997 in English in <i>Postmodern Fables</i>.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">Obsession with painting, tenacious working of the encaustic, changes in light—all three accurately define the painter’s process, but we also have to talk about the unfolding of multiple times in his painting, in the paintings. What is the hour? What time are we in? Or rather: what are the hours, what times are we in? Times that are distended, suspended, held back and that, ultimately, slide toward us as a result of the artist’s inventive tenacity, the encaustic itself, the plays of light created naturally or with electricity, and the time shifts of the artistic references: that is how Masino’s <i>absolute painting</i> develops. All four together in a common, thought-out dynamic produce visuals and conceptual vibratory effects. The painter places us and moves us about from one period of antiquity to another or to our own, reminds us of ancient icons or Renaissance figures, 19th-century seascapes (<i>Le chant de l’eau</i>, page 106), the symbolism of a certain Van Gogh (<i>Jusqu’à la porte du ciel</i>, page 136), the still lifes of Cézanne (<i>Mnémosyne</i>, pages 19–20), carrying us across the Atlantic Ocean en route to Europe, or across the Pacific on a journey to the Far East (<i>Échos et résonances</i>, page 48). </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>When are we?</i> We were, are and will be in all times, in all lights — those of the morning as well as those of later hours, looking at large books (<i>L’écume du temps</i>, page 124) lying open as if they were set on medieval lecterns at which monk transcribers did their work. As I stated in another essay on Masino, the Longueuil artist’s painting synthesizes and suggests all our times throughout the history of painting; in front of each of the painter’s works, the viewer—each viewer—could wonder, among other questions: Since when have I been? At what moment do I appear? At what time will I disappear? It is also nature “perpetuated,” as opposed to a nature that dies, that one kills. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Just
like his human figures that have become icons, images of death
surmounted, transcended, that come back to our minds and that precede
us. Times suspended and multiplied, icons past, ancient, medieval,
Renaissance or modern in their treatments, their vibrations or their
suggested wounds fascinate our modest temporality. His portraits are the
times of the work. His <i>absolute painting</i> contrasts with the temporary,
the event, the performance. For example, it’s Masino who painted the
portrait on the front cover of my collection <i>Strange Fruits</i> (<i>Les êtres étoilés II</i>,
page 87), which is typical of his style. How many readers have asked me
where I found this painting from the Italian Renaissance? I answered
that it would be impossible to find such an iconography, such a manner,
such a disorganized organization in all the painting from that time. And
the reaction was always the same: surprise mixed with a sudden
realization… This work is not Renaissance, but Masino’s work refers to
it, locates itself precisely at the centre of Western painting,
travelling, in a perpetual journey back and forth, from a 15th or 16th
century, whether probable or not, to our time, now.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">As if his painting worked in an a-chronical time, played with time, matter and light, questioned them, danced with them and turned them all around. As if the painter and the viewer had become the places beyond time when all times in art merge together, while also eluding each of those times. As if the painter and the viewer asked, or asked themselves, the question: <i>When are we?</i> </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000;">Jean-Marc Desgent<br />Longueuil, July 2018</span><br />
<span style="color: #660000;">Translated by Susan Le Pan</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"></span></span><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><i>L’absolue-peinture d’Alexandre Masino</i></span></span></span></div>
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<em>Les écrits</em> numéro 153,</div>
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Alexandre
Masino mange, dort, lit pour peindre. Je me souviens l’avoir rencontré
sur la rue Saint-Charles, à Longueuil, il y a de ça plusieurs années,
dévorant une pêche ou une poire puisée dans un sac rempli de fruits
qu’il voulait peindre et le fruit qu’il était en train de manger
finirait éventuellement sur une de ses toiles, m’a-t-il dit… Il ne
pouvait pas ne pas le peindre puisqu’il l’avait goûté, l’avait avalé le
métamorphosant ainsi en une sorte d’éternité comme dans <i>Rêves éveillés </i>
(page 28) ou <i>L’arbre d’Idunn</i> (page 36). Il mange, lit, dort, tout comme
il parle en peinture, pour la peinture, de la peinture, il discute
couleurs, tons, jeux des différentes luminosités, il peint son être ou
ce qui devient le fruit de son être, en peinture.</div>
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Masino nous donne à voir un monde concret ( fruits, arbres et paysages, livres, voiliers et objets de toutes sortes ) mais aussi, il nous fait ressentir ses gestes calés en des matières légères ou pesantes, par des traits fins ou par de larges coups de pinceau, et à partir de ces «images» du réel, de toutes ces techniques artistiques, surviennent, disparaissent, se transforment sous la surface évidente du tableau, des silhouettes, des ombres mouvantes, bouillonnantes et, si ces silhouettes, ces ombres troublantes existent bel et bien, si celles-ci bougent, si elles viennent à nous, c’est qu’elles obéissent à une autre présence que celle du seul regard du spectateur, elles vivent par la lumière changeante à souhait, par le déplacement subtil de la luminosité et l’imperceptible vibration du spectateur lui-même car sa rétine est bouleversée, elle vibre intensément. </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Kintsukuroi</i>, 2014<br />Encaustique et feuille d’or sur panneau<br />Encaustic and gold leaf on panel<br />11” x 12” / 28 x 30.5 cm</td></tr>
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Ces ombres, comme les anges et leurs mystères, vivent, viennent, s’en
vont, reviennent par la danse de la lumière sur l’encaustique et les
glacis, les transparences, par ses divers empâtements travaillés par la
gestuelle réfléchie du peintre (peindre à l’encaustique exige de penser
vite et de constamment songer aux gestes posées sur la toile), vivent,
viennent, s’en vont, reviennent par le corps entier des spectateurs; ces
derniers, corps et lumière, corps dans la lumière, agitations
intérieures des êtres qui regardent, recréent ces présences au moyen des
transparences proposées par Masino. Spectateurs et lumière détruisent,
réinventent continuellement, indéfiniment différentes aussi, ces figures
fantomatiques; je pense, ici à <i>Tabla luna</i> (page 9) ou à <i>Le souffle de la mer</i> (page 92-93). </div>
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Combien de tableaux y a-t-il dans un tableau de Masino? Son utilisation
singulière de l’encaustique permet tous ces effets de vie, de
disparitions momentanées, de matière éthérée, de montagneuses
<i>immatérialités</i>. La peinture de Masino est dans le temps de la lumière,
passages furtifs, subtils ou éclatants de la lumière sous éclairages
solaire ou électrique (c’est aussi ça, la modernité!). Conséquemment,
ses tableaux «passent mal» lors de représentations auprès des différents
jurys gouvernementaux ou privés jugeant ses œuvres à partir de
diapositives, à l’époque, de photographies digitales, maintenant. Sur
ces supports techniques, tout est «aplati», disparaissent les reliefs
produits par les changements constants de la lumière, disparaît la
matière travaillée de l’encaustique. Il ne reste plus que des fruits,
des bateaux, des paysages… Sujets banals, s’il en est… Sur ces supports
techniques, il n’y a rien qui vient frapper ou lécher l’encaustique, les
glacis, les feuilles d’or ou de bronze constamment utilisées par le
peintre. Les représentations imprimées de ses tableaux (comme celles que
vous avez sous les yeux, chère lectrice, cher lecteur) ne rendent pas
ces jeux, ces effets, ses intelligences picturales. Et peindre, on
l’oublie beaucoup, ce n’est pas prendre une photographie d’un objet
artistique, peindre, c’est assumer la lumière et le travail de la
matière picturale. Les spectateurs (ici, lectrices et lecteurs) doivent
comprendre que la photo d’un tableau n’est absolument pas le tableau,
comprendre qu’ils ne sont pas devant l’œuvre, l’œuvre vraie, travaillée
par le peintre: ses réelles couleurs, sa gestuelle, même ses dimensions.
À ce sujet, il faudrait se plonger dans le grand texte (tout court, par
ailleurs) de Jean-François Lyotard, <i>Anima minima</i>, publié en 1993, dans,
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Obsession de la peinture, travail acharné de l’encaustique, changements
de luminosité, tous trois circonscrivent bien la démarche du peintre
mais, aussi il faut parler du déploiement des temps pluriels de sa
peinture, dans la peinture. Quelle heure est-il? Quel temps fait-il? Je
devrais plutôt écrire: quelles heures sont-elles, en quels temps
somme-nous? Temps distendus, suspendus, retenus, et, finalement,
glissant jusqu’à nous grâce à l’acharnement inventif, à l’encaustique
elle-même, aux jeux provoqués de lumières naturelles ou électriques et
aux déplacements temporels des références artistiques, voilà comment
s’élabore <i>l’absolue-peinture</i> de Masino. Tous les quatre ensemble
dans une dynamique commune et réfléchie produisent des effets
vibratoires visuels et conceptuels. Le peintre nous place et nous
déplace d’une époque ancienne à une autre ou à la nôtre, nous remémore
les icônes de l’Antiquité ou les figures de la Renaissance, les marines
du 19e siècle (<i>Le chant de l’eau</i>, page 106), le symbolisme d’un certain Van Gogh (<i>Jusqu’à la porte du ciel</i>, page 136), les natures mortes de Cézanne (<i>Mnémosyne</i>,
page 19-20), nous faisant traverser l’océan Atlantique, en route vers
l’Europe ou celui du Pacifique, en route vers l’Extrême-Orient (<i>Échos et résonances</i>, page 48). </div>
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<i>Quand sommes-nous?</i> Nous étions, nous sommes et serons à tous les
temps, à toutes les lumières, celles du matin comme celles des heures
plus tardives, devant de grands livres ouverts (<i>L’écume du temps</i>, page
124) comme s’ils étaient posés sur des pupitres médiévaux devant
lesquels les moines copistes travaillaient. Comme je l’affirmais dans un
autre texte sur Masino, la peinture du Longueuillois synthétise et
propose tous nos temps dans l’histoire de la peinture, devant chaque
œuvre du peintre, le spectateur, chaque spectateur pourrait, entre
autres, se poser les questions: Depuis quand suis-je? À quel moment
est-ce que j’apparais? À quelle heure est-ce que je disparaîtrai? C’est
aussi la nature «perpétuée», opposée à une nature qui se meurt, que l’on
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Tout comme ses figures humaines devenues icônes, images de la mort
dépassée, transcendée, qui se rappellent à nous et qui nous devancent.
Temps suspendus et démultipliés, icônes passées, antiques, médiévales,
renaissantes ou modernes par leurs traitements, leurs vibrations ou
leurs blessures suggérées fascinent notre petite temporalité. Ses
portraits sont les temps de l’œuvre. Son <i>absolue-peinture</i> s’oppose au
temporaire, à l’événementiel, à la performance. Par exemple, c’est
Alexandre Masino qui a peint le portrait de la première de couverture de
mon recueil, <i>Strange Fruits</i> (<i>Les êtres étoilés II</i>, page 87), qui est
typique de sa manière… Combien de lecteurs m’ont demandé où avais-je
trouvé ce tableau de la Renaissance italienne? Je répondais qu’il serait
impossible de trouver une telle iconographie, une telle manière, une
telle organisation désorganisée dans l’ensemble de la peinture de cette
époque. Et la réaction était toujours la même: étonnement mêlé à une
soudaine prise de conscience… Cette œuvre n’est pas renaissante, mais
l’œuvre de Masino y fait référence, se situe justement au cœur de la
peinture occidentale, voyageant, en aller-retour perpétuel, d’un
quinzième ou d’un seizième siècle probable ou non jusqu’à nous,
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Comme si sa peinture travaillait dans un temps a-chronique, jouait avec
le temps, la matière et la lumière, les prenait à partie, dansait avec
eux et les retournait en tous sens. Comme si le peintre et le spectateur
étaient devenus les lieux sur-temporels où tous les moments de l’art se
fusionnaient, tout en échappant à chacun d’eux. Comme si le peintre et
le spectateur posaient ou se posaient la question: <i>Quand sommes-nous?</i> <br /><br /><br /><span style="color: #660000;">Jean-Marc Desgent<br />Longueuil, juillet 2018</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br />June 3 - July 8, 2017<br />Artist working on site June 11 - 18, 2017</span></div>
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<a href="http://cynthia-reeves.com/" target="_blank">CYNTHIA-REEVES</a> presents an exhibition of new projects by Canadian artist, <a href="http://yechelgagnon.com/" target="_blank">Yechel Gagnon</a>. The show runs from Saturday, June 3 – July 8 at CYNTHIA-REEVES, located on the campus of <a href="http://massmoca.org/" target="_blank">MASS MoCA</a> at 1315 MASS MoCA Way. </div>
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As part of the gallery’s new project initiative, the artist will work on-site from June 11-18, to create a final iteration of works in progress. This will be the first exhibition of the gallery’s new program, which emphasizes both art-making and exhibition. <a href="http://yechelgagnon.com/" target="_blank">Gagnon</a> will be available to visitors to discuss the works in process, and to demonstrate the handwork and thought process behind her final installations.</div>
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<a href="http://yechelgagnon.com/" target="_blank">Yechel Gagnon’s</a> close engagement with the textural and tactile qualities of her media serves as the foundation for her inquiry. Projects include plywood bas-reliefs, embossed prints, frottage drawings, cast-aluminum works and large-scale architectural installations.</div>
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Working in mixed-media creates a forum for cross-pollination: she employs tools and techniques devised for unfolding, layering and excavating imagery, incorporating the multiple textures to great effect. Often, the resulting works have a beautiful, unforced reference to the natural world, while communicating an innate tension and dynamism.</div>
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Her most recent works take her process to the next level: <a href="http://yechelgagnon.com/" target="_blank">Gagnon</a>
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Born in Longueuil in 1973, <a href="http://yechelgagnon.com/" target="_blank">Yechel Gagnon</a> holds a Master of Fine Arts Degree (Studio Arts) from Concordia University and an AOCAD with Honors in Drawing and Painting from the Ontario College of Art and Design. Her works are exhibited in galleries, art institutes, and museums in Canada, the United States, France and China. Her public artworks and exhibitions have attracted reviews by noted critics and curators. Commissions of public artworks have been awarded to her by Bishop’s University, Licorne Theatre, Jean-de- Brebeuf College and the University of Montreal, among others. She is recipient of numerous grants from the Canada Council for the Arts, the Conseil des Arts et des Lettres du Québec and the Conseil des arts de Longueuil. Gagnon’s works are represented in public, corporate and private collections, including the National Art Museum of China (Beijing), 4 World Trade Center (New York), Art Gallery of Nova Scotia (Halifax), City of Montreal, Osler Hoskin & Harcourt Collection (Toronto), and the Gotlands Konsmuseum (Sweden). </div>
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<a href="http://cynthia-reeves.com/" target="_blank">CYNTHIA-REEVES</a> represents an international roster of established artists who share a process-apparent sensibility in their work. We are committed to artwork that demonstrates an authentic voice, an innovative use of materials, and an appreciation of the mark in diverse media: site-based installation, video, sculpture, painting and works on paper.</div>
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They initiate public art projects in the US and abroad placing large-scale works in the public domain for both permanent and temporary installations, in such locations as New York City, London, Boston, San Diego, Miami, Salt Lake City, Philadelphia, Las Vegas and Dallas. </div>
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Yechel Gagnon, <i>Oceanic Legends</i>, 2017, </div>
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carved custom plywood of tinted veneers, 96 x 144 inches</div>
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<a href="http://cynthia-reeves.com/" target="_blank">CYNTHIA-REEVES</a> has galleries on the campus of MASS MoCA in the Berkshires, and in Walpole, New Hampshire, with additional staff offices in New York and Boston. For more information on these artists, please visit the online gallery at CYNTHIA-REEVES.com or call 212 714 0044.</div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i> </i><br />7 mai - 20 mai 2015<br />May 7 - 20, 2015<br /><a href="http://galeriestlaurentplushill.com/" target="_blank">Galerie St-Laurent + Hill</a> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"> <i>Tabla luna</i>, 2015<br />Encaustique et feuille d'or sur panneau<br />Encaustic and gold leaf on panel<br />30” x 48” / 76 x 122 cm</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://galeriestlaurentplushill.com/" target="_blank">Galerie St-Laurent + Hill</a> est heureuse de vous présenter le plus récent corpus d'oeuvres de l'artiste <a href="http://www.alexandremasino.ca/" target="_blank">Alexandre Masino</a>.<br /><br />L'art d'Alexandre Masino se situe à la frontière de la mimèsis et de l'invention; résultat de l'observation directe, de la mémoire et de l'imagination. La transition entre ces trois types de perception constitue un espace fertile où l'artiste participe à la mouvance du langage visuel comprenant parfaitement que l’art découle de l’art. Le périple entrepris par l’artiste ne se situe pas seulement de par le monde mais à-travers le temps. Le territoire parcouru est le continent de l’art où l'expérience et l'histoire humaine sont fondamentales. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>Synthèse III</i>, 2014<br />Intaglio & encaustique monoprint sur papier Kozo<br />Intaglio & encaustic monoprint on Kozo paper<br />12” x 15.5” / 30.5 x 39.5 cm</span></div>
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Le travail de Masino est tant conceptuel que pictural prenant son sens dans l'expérience physique et dans la perpétuelle métamorphose qui se déroule sous nos yeux. Ainsi, le tableau vu de près offre une réalité tout autre que le même tableau vu à distance, ou encore, réagit et se transforme selon la lumière ambiante éclairant sa surface. Bon nombre de peintres ont parlé de ce moment où la peinture "se lève", "advient" et prend tout son sens. Dans le cas des oeuvres de Masino ce moment survient lorsque le spectateur prend le temps, face à l'œuvre, de mettre en rapport le sujet et le fond, la lumière et l'ombre, l'image et la surface, et tous ces éléments en relation à l'ensemble. </div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>Rêves éveillés</i>, 2015<br />Encaustique et feuille d'or sur panneau<br />Encaustic and gold leaf on panel<br />32” x 46” / 81 x 117 cm</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i> Le creuset du temps (Ehon)</i>, 2015<br />Encaustique, feuille d’or et clous antiques sur livre monté sur panneau<br />Encaustic, gold leaf and antique nails on book on panel<br />14.25” x 22.75” / 36 x 58cm</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i> Le creuset du temps (Ehon)</i>, 2015</span></div>
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Masino peint à l'encaustique des tableaux où la versatilité, la sensualité et la richesse du médium font contrepoids à une imagerie dépouillée et contemplative. Indépendamment du sujet traité, qu’il utilise le paysage, la nature morte ou le nu, nous pouvons lier ses oeuvres à une certaine “immensité intime”. Son utilisation de l'encaustique, avec sa physicalité, ses transparences et ses empâtements lui permet de créer des oeuvres figuratives de façon à ce que le geste de peindre soit aussi porteur que le sujet représenté. Perpétuel aller-retour entre matière et signifiant, l'inévitable dualisme de la peinture le fascine et par conséquent son travail se concentre sur cet infime instant de transition où ces deux réalités oscillent l'une avec l'autre.</div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"> <i>Évoquer les jours</i>, 2014<br />Encaustique et feuille de cuivre sur panneau<br />Encaustic and copper leaf on panel<br />11” x 12” / 28 x 30.5 cm</span></div>
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La tradition de la nature morte, tout comme la technique de l'encaustique, remonte à l’antiquité; elle recréait alors un monde parallèle aux provisions inépuisables réunies pour assurer la subsistance de l'homme pour l'éternité. Dans un esprit semblable, les tableaux de Masino cherchent à imprégner de puissance et de signification symbolique de simples objets tirés du quotidien. En intégrant à leur facture classique des éclairages multiples, des réflexions d'images, des éléments d'abstraction et une multiplicité d'interprétations possibles dans le rapport unissant la toile à son titre, ces oeuvres tentent de faire une synthèse de la tradition et de la modernité. </div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>Kintsukuroi</i>, 2014<br />Encaustique et feuille d’or sur panneau<br />Encaustic and gold leaf on panel<br />11” x 12” / 28 x 30.5 cm</span></div>
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Sans chercher le métaphysique à tout prix, mais sans le renier non plus, cette série de natures mortes tente de dégager l'univers matériel de son prosaïsme quotidien. La signification profonde de la peinture n'est pas tributaire du sujet représenté, mais se situe à un niveau plus ontologique: dans la façon même dont chaque coup de pinceau témoigne d'une interprétation et d'une prise de position de l'artiste. Loin de viser un simple illusionnisme, la représentation doit se faire présence, et capter du même coup la plus fugace des émotions. Ainsi, le tableau prend à la fois les propriétés de la matière et celles de l'esprit. De ce fait, la peinture des choses quotidiennes peut devenir une peinture des sens et des mythes. </div>
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<a href="http://galeriestlaurentplushill.com/" target="_blank">Galerie St-Laurent + Hill</a> is proud to showcase a new body of work by the artist <a href="http://www.alexandremasino.ca/" target="_blank">Alexandre Masino</a>.<br /><span id="goog_732321343"></span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/"></a><span id="goog_732321344"></span><br />Alexandre Masino’s paintings border between mimesis and invention; responding to observed reality, memory and imaginative perception. The transition between what is real, remembered or imagined creates a fertile territory for the artist, fully understanding that art derives from art. The journey undertaken by the artist is not only a journey through the world but beyond time. The continent that we travel is the continent of art where human history and experience are fundamental. </div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"> <i>Simplement, le réel</i>, 2015<br />Encaustique et feuille de cuivre sur panneau<br />Encaustic and copper leaf on panel<br />25” x 40” / 63.5 x 102 cm</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Masino’s approach is foremost pictorial and is deeply rooted in the constant metamorphosis inherent to the physical act of looking. A painting must offer many different realities according to the distance from which it is viewed and the ambient lighting hitting the surface. Many painters have evoked this very instant when the painting “rises”, when it “happens” and suddenly takes all its meaning. In Masino’s work this moment may only happen when one takes the time to look and place the subject in relation with the background, the light with the shadows, the image and the surface, and all these elements in relation with the complete picture. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i> Lumière silencieuse (chiaroscuro)</i>, 2015<br />Encaustique, feuille d'or et feuille de cuivre sur panneau<br />Encaustic, gold and copper leaf on panel<br />48” x 52” / 122 x 132 cm</span></div>
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Masino creates encaustic paintings where the richness, sensuality and versatility of the medium echo a minimal and contemplative imagery. Whether he uses landscapes, still lifes or nudes, we can relate his subject matters to some “intimate immensity”. His use of encaustic, with its physicality, impasto and transparencies, allows him to create figurative works in which the gesture, the actual act of painting, is just as important and meaningful as the depicted subject. In this regard we can feel that he is compelled by the inevitable dualism between matter and meaning that we find at the core of painting. Consequently his work focuses on this infinite moment where these realities oscillate. </div>
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The tradition of still life painting goes back to Antiquity: such artwork was often used to provide endless nourishment to those who had passed away, on their journey to the afterlife. In a similar way, I attempt in my paintings to proceed from everyday objects and endow them with symbolical power and meaning. Multiple light sources, image reflections, elements of abstraction and a multiplicity of possible ways to interpret the connection between the work and its title are used in conjunction with some more traditional techniques to accomplish a synthesis of the past and the present.</div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>Réminiscences</i>, 2015<br />Encaustique et feuille d'or sur toile de lin sur panneau<br />Encaustic and gold leaf on linen canvas on panel<br />38.5” x 27.5” / 98 x 70 cm</span></div>
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Without actively seeking metaphysical values, but without negating their importance either, these works try to free the material world from its commonplace mundanity. The paintings' signification does not rely on the pictured object but, on a more ontological level, on the way in which each brush stroke conveys an interpretation and a statement by the artist. Far from only aiming at the creation of an illusion, representation here must become presence, all the while capturing the most subtle emotions. Thus, the paintings simultaneously encompass the properties of mind and matter. From that point on, the painting of everyday objects can become a painting of myths and meanings.</div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Je tiens à remercier chaleureusement le <a href="http://www.conseildesartsdelongueuil.ca/" target="_blank">Conseil des arts de Longueuil</a>, pour leur soutien à la réalisation de certaines oeuvres de la présente exposition. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">I would like to thank the <a href="http://www.conseildesartsdelongueuil.ca/" target="_blank">Conseil des arts de Longueuil</a> for their support in the production of some of these works. </span></div>
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<br />alexandre masinohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16226924854760980117noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3741208825294943882.post-51241152830994579602014-04-01T00:17:00.000-04:002014-04-01T00:22:05.962-04:00Solo Show - Calgary<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #990000;"><i>Intimate Immensities</i></span></div>
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April 3, 2014 to May 3, 2014</div>
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Vernissage : April 3, 5 to 8 pm<br />
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<a href="http://www.christineklassengallery.com/" target="_blank">Christine Klassen Gallery</a><br />
321 50 Avenue SE, Calgary, Alberta<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"> <i>Pérennité (Ehon)</i>, 2014<br />Encaustic, charcoal & antique nails on book on panel<br />14.25” x 22.75” / 36 cm x 58 cm</span></div>
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I am presenting a solo exhibition entitled <i>Intimate Immensities</i>, from April 3 to May 3 at <a href="http://www.christineklassengallery.com/" target="_blank">Christine Klassen Gallery</a>, in Calgary. The gallery recently moved to an impressive 4600 square foot warehouse location. I haven’t seen the space yet but the images on their website are impressive. I am thrilled to be presenting the first solo show in their new space. </div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>Chronos I</i>, 2013</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">For the first time I am presenting in dialogue, the three different subject matters that have occupied my pictorial thoughts and my production over the last 23 years: the still life, the landscape and the human figure. It has been many years in the coming but returning to the figure after a long pause has always been on my mind. In this show, we’ll see a window opening onto what I’ll be pursuing in the coming years. Working the three main subjects of representation (nature, human and objects of our surrounding) in dialogue with one another is fascinating to me. I see these subject matters like water, ice and mist; they are different but they are the same. In one case we are talking about H<span style="font-size: xx-small;">2</span>O, in the other we are talking about painting and the human experience of what and where we are.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>La grande image I</i>, 2014<br />Intaglio, gold leaf & encaustic monoprint on Gampi paper<br />24” x 16” / 61 cm x 41 cm </span></div>
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On a technical point of view, this show is the most complete that I have produced in regards to the scope of techniques that are presented. The obvious link between all of them is the use of encaustic and the playfulness, versatility and the amazing richness and sensuality that the wax brings forth.</div>
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I am obviously presenting encaustic on panel as it is my main production. Similar to my previous two solo exhibitions (click <a href="http://alexandremasino.blogspot.ca/2013/09/solo-show-montreal.html" target="_blank">here</a> and <a href="http://alexandremasino.blogspot.ca/2012/11/solo-show-r-gallery.html" target="_blank">here</a>), I am also presenting <a href="http://alexandremasino.blogspot.ca/2010/06/encaustic-monotype.html" target="_blank">encaustic monotypes</a> and works on mounted books which accompany these larger works. The new addition this time is the introduction of intaglio and encaustic monoprint. I will write a longer technical post on this new technique in the coming months, but here’s a teaser. </div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i> Le parfum du monde II</i>, 2013<br />Encaustic, charcoal & gold leaf on panel<br />11” x 13” / 28 cm x 33 cm</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i> Synthèse I</i>, 2013</span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"> Last Summer I received a grant from the <a href="http://www.conseildesartsdelongueuil.ca/" target="_blank">Conseil des Arts de Longueuil</a> to integrate printmaking to my existing use of <a href="http://alexandremasino.blogspot.ca/2010/06/encaustic-monotype.html" target="_blank">encaustic monotype</a>. After long months of research, I developed a technique where I engrave plates (copper or Lexan, a type of hard plexiglas) in order to print intaglios on <a href="http://www.aupapierjaponais.com/" target="_blank">Japanese paper</a>. When I print them, I don’t aim at producing an edition, but rather making them all unique. The inking technique is therefore very painterly and vary a lot from one print to the next. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"> <i>Les êtres étoilés I</i>, 2014<br />Intaglio, gold leaf & encaustic monoprint on Kozo paper<br />12.5” x 10.5” / 32 cm x 27 cm</span></div>
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This technique allows me to achieve fine lines that I later put in dialogue with the physicality of the encaustic monotype. This technique produces works that are all distinct but since they are based on specific plates I can use the same compositional elements and drawing as a starting point. This has always been an objective of mine, ever since I first came in contact with the encaustic monotype technique, thanks to <a href="http://www.paularoland.com/" target="_blank">Paula Roland</a> and the <a href="http://encausticconference.blogspot.ca/" target="_blank">International Encaustic Conference</a>. Looking at Edvard Munch’s prints we can see a lot of playfulness in his use of his plates and the variation of effects he achieved by changing the inking process and his colors. This is exactly what I am aiming for with this new technique that is now integrated into my practice. More to come, but in the meantime, if you are in the Calgary area, please do visit the <a href="http://www.christineklassengallery.com/" target="_blank">gallery</a>.</div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">I am presenting an exhibition in a Maison de la Culture de Montréal, exclusively on landscapes based on
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realities, memories and imaginative perceptions</span>. All of my landscapes originate from actual places that I draw and document, but the real process occurs in the studio. The subjective experience of being somewhere specific is distilled by the memories of these experiences in dialogue with my appreciation and comprehension of art history. As mentioned in my <a href="http://www.alexandremasino.ca/site_eng/frame2.html" target="_blank">artist statement</a>, the continent that we travel is not only the world that we live in but the world of art history in which human experiences and History are fundamental and constantly quoted. </div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">As in my previous show at the <a href="http://alexandremasino.blogspot.ca/2012/11/solo-show-r-gallery.html" target="_blank">R&F Gallery</a>,
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i> Entre ciel et terre (Ehon)</i>, 2013<br />Encaustic and charcoal on book mounted on panel</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">The title of the show, <i>L'écorce du temps</i>, is poetic and difficult to translate. "L'écorce" means the tree's bark but "l'écorce terrestre" means the earth's crust. As my show embraces both paintings of mountainscapes and Japanese cherry blossoms, the notion of "l'écorce" without specifying to which one I am referring to was a good way to link these series. The notion of time, "le temps", resonates with these subject matters; the cherry blossoms are icons for expressing the ephemeral while mountains are quite the opposite. With the cool and warm colors in dialogue and the subjects referencing to different time realities, the levels of dialogue and oscillations between the interpretations of the paintings are numerous. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">December 1st, 2012 - January 19th, 2013<br />Vernissage : December 1st from 5pm to 7pm</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.rfpaints.com/" target="_blank">R&F Gallery</a><br />84 Ten Broeck Ave.<br />Kingston, NY 12401</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>Le chant de silence I</i>, 2012<br />Encaustic monotype on Gampi paper<br />23” x 34.5”</span> </div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">I am presenting next week a solo show at the <a href="http://www.rfpaints.com/" target="_blank">R&F Gallery</a>. <a href="http://www.rfpaints.com/" target="_blank">R&F Handmade Paint</a> is a<span style="font-size: small;"><i> </i>truly<i> </i></span>important institution both in the encaustic community and in the art world in general<span style="font-size: small;">.</span> It is a real pleasure for me to be working with them on this project and with <a href="http://www.lauramoriarty.com/">Laura Moriarty</a>, the gallery director. If ever you read <a href="http://www.amazon.ca/Inside-Painters-Studio-Joe-Fig/dp/1568988524/ref=sr_1_fkmr0_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1353875429&sr=8-1-fkmr0"><i>Inside the Painter’s Studio</i> by Joe Fig</a>, you’ll see that <a href="http://www.rfpaints.com/" target="_blank">R&F</a> is quoted as a favorite brand of paint used by a wide variety of artists. If you are interested in encaustic, <a href="http://www.rfpaints.com/" target="_blank">R&F</a> doesn’t need any introduction, it is the milestone both in terms of manufacturing great products<span style="font-size: small;">,</span> organizing workshops and <span style="font-size: small;">a</span>s a research center.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>La porte des nuages I</i>, 2012<br />Encaustic monotype on Kozuke paper<br />23” x 34.5”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">This show is an occasion for me to present, for the first time, two works of my series <i>Ehon</i>; paintings made on books mounted on panels. <i>Ehon</i> is a Japanese word that means “picture book”. By the early eighteenth century, <i>ehon</i> were primarily printed books that featured pictures, although they frequently contained essays, poems, and other written texts and calligraphy. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Otani Boku (active c. 1880 - 1910)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">In 2008, I saw an exhibition at <a href="http://www.rom.on.ca/" target="_blank">the ROM</a> in Toronto, where they presented beautiful exemples of <i>ehons</i> and it triggered the idea of producing works exploring this dialogue created between books and painting. </span>For this series I have mounted sketchbook on panels, imbedding
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>Transfigurations (Ehon)</i>, 2012<br />Encaustic and charcoal on book on panel<br />8” x 23” </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>L’écorce du temps (Ehon)</i>, 2012<br />Encaustic, charcoal and antique nails on book on panel<br />14.25” x 22.75” </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">If the Japanese <i>ehons</i> are of interest to you, <a href="http://www.nypl.org/locations/schwarzman/prints-and-photographs-study-room/spencer-collection" target="_blank">the Spencer Collection</a> at the <a href="http://www.nypl.org/" target="_blank">New York Public Library</a>, which concentrates on illustrated books of all periods and regions, possess some three hundred manuscripts and fifteen hundred printed books from Japan; the manuscripts range from the 12th century to the 20th century, and the printed works from the year 770 to the present. Roger S. Keyes has written a beautiful and insightful book on the matter in association with the <a href="http://www.nypl.org/" target="_blank">New York Public Library</a> entitled <i>Ehon The Artist and the Book in Japan</i>. You can easily get yourself a copy on amazon.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">If ever you are in Kingston or in the New York area, visiting the <a href="http://www.rfpaints.com/" target="_blank">R&F</a> store, their manufacture and studios is definitely worth the detour. For more information on the show and the press release, please visit <a href="http://www.rfpaints.com/" target="_blank">the R&F website</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #660000;">Alexandre Masino<br /><i>Lumières</i></span><br /><br /><span style="color: #660000;">Galerie de Bellefeuille</span></span></div>
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<br />October 20 - 30, 2012<br />Vernissage : October 20, 2012, 2 - 4:30 pm</div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>Deux grandes lumière (Bijutsu)</i>, 2012<br />Encaustic, gold </span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">leaf </span>and cupper leaf on panel<br />28” x 36” / 71 x 91.5 cm</span></div>
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I am pleased to announce my solo show at <a href="http://www.debellefeuille.com/masino-alexandre-2/" target="_blank">Galerie de Bellefeuille</a>. This wide ranging exhibition presents most of my actual series and introduces new avenues in my practice. For the first time, I will be showing an encaustic <a href="http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retable" target="_blank"><i>retable</i></a>, displaying a landscape on the front and a triptych of still lifes once it is opened. This piece obviously embodies my interest and passion for art history. On a technical point of view, it was a challenge to design, produce and paint. I finished the piece just in time to include it in the catalogue. I have a second one in the making, and I am looking forward to tackling it. The multiplicity of images allows me to creates dialogues between different series and create new meanings and diverse interpretations in the relation between the iconography.</div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>Le temple secret</i>, 2012<br />Encaustic on panel<br />48.5” x 32.5” / 123 x 82.5 cm - Close</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"> <i>Le temple secret</i>, 2012<br />Encaustic and gold leaf on panel<br />48.5” x 65.5” / 123 x 166 cm - Open</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">The show includes encaustic paintings on panels as well as <a href="http://alexandremasino.blogspot.ca/2010/06/encaustic-monotype.html" target="_blank">encaustic monotypes</a>. It is my first solo show where I am presenting these two techniques side by side. The result from these two approaches nourrish one another, underlying the specificities of each use of the encaustic medium while still being closely related.</span> </div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i> Cette marée de pierre III</i>, 2012<br />Encaustic monotype on Gampi paper<br />23” x 34.5” / 58 x 88 cm</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;">If you are interested in seeing some paintings of the show, please visit the gallery’s <a href="http://www.debellefeuille.com/masino-alexandre-2/" target="_blank">website (click here)</a>. I will also be updating my personal website in the coming weeks, with images of the show and <a href="http://www.jeanmarcdesgent.com/" target="_blank">Jean-Marc Desgent</a>’s poignant essay that is published in the catalog. I’ll keep you posted... </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Cover of the catalog <i>Lumières, 2012 </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">32 pages - 25 colour images, Published by <a href="http://www.debellefeuille.com/masino-alexandre-2/" target="_blank">Galerie de Bellefeuille</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Essay by <a href="http://www.jeanmarcdesgent.com/" target="_blank">Jean-Marc Desgent</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">The catalogue is dedicated to <a href="http://alexandremasino.blogspot.ca/2011/01/tom-hopkins-1944-2011.html" target="_blank">Tom Hopkins' memory</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>Présence</i>, 2012<br />Encaustic on panel<br />26” x 36” / 66 x 91.5 cm</span> </span></div>
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<a href="http://conceptgallery.com/" target="_blank">Concept Art Gallery</a> in Pittsburgh is celebrating it’s 40th anniversary! I am thrilled and honored to be part of this vibrant and pivotal institution, so it is with much pleasure that I take the time to mention their current exhibition <i><a href="http://conceptgallery.com/gallery-exhibitions/curators-choice-celebrating-40-years-of-concept-art-gallery/" target="_blank">Curator’s Choice: Celebrating 40 Years of Concept Art Gallery</a></i>. </div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Alexandre Masino</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>Cette marée de pierre II</i>, 2012</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Encaustic monotype on Kozuke paper</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">34.5" x 23"</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">I have spent the last months in a creative frenzy, working intensively in the studio for different upcoming solo shows and the production of a new catalogue. I will talk about these projects in upcoming posts, but for those who were wondering about my long silence from my blog, that basically explains it.<br /><br />What I did besides painting and focusing on new series, is to send a large group of <a href="http://alexandremasino.blogspot.ca/2010/06/encaustic-monotype.html" target="_blank">encaustic monotypes</a> to <a href="http://conceptgallery.com/artists/masino-alexandre/#1" target="_blank">Concept Art Gallery</a>. They now have more of them than any other gallery. If you are in the Pittsburgh area and are interested by monotypes, you may want to visit the gallery, they truly have an amazing space and they represents great artists.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Alexandre Masino</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>Les courants du réel II</i>, 2012</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Encaustic monotype on Gampi paper</span></div>
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alexandre masinohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16226924854760980117noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3741208825294943882.post-49064267588145909862012-04-04T12:46:00.012-04:002012-04-04T16:52:22.406-04:00Encaustic Monotype : Group Show<style> <!-- /* Font Definitions */ @font-face {font-family:Arial; panose-1:2 11 6 4 2 2 2 2 2 4; mso-font-charset:0; mso-generic-font-family:auto; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:3 0 0 0 1 0;} @font-face {font-family:Times; panose-1:2 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0; mso-font-charset:0; mso-generic-font-family:auto; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:3 0 0 0 1 0;} @font-face {font-family:Cambria; panose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4; mso-font-charset:0; mso-generic-font-family:auto; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:3 0 0 0 1 0;} /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {mso-style-parent:""; margin-top:0cm; margin-right:0cm; margin-bottom:10.0pt; margin-left:0cm; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; 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text-align: center; color: rgb(51, 102, 102);font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';">New Encaustic Printmaking </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center; color: rgb(51, 102, 102);font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><br /></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);font-family:times new roman;"><a href="http://www.rfpaints.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=66&Itemid=93"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">R&F Gallery </span></span></a></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';">April 7th, 2012 – May 19th, 2012</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';">Vernissage : April 7</span><sup><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';">th</span></sup><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"> – 5:00 to 7:00 pm</span></span></p> <br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ofvfyfF2yBM/T3x7vUEZz8I/AAAAAAAAAaI/IHapRzfbte4/s1600/9%2BMasino%2BA%25CC%2580%2Bl%2527ore%25CC%2581e%2Bdes%2Bmonts%2BIII.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ofvfyfF2yBM/T3x7vUEZz8I/AAAAAAAAAaI/IHapRzfbte4/s400/9%2BMasino%2BA%25CC%2580%2Bl%2527ore%25CC%2581e%2Bdes%2Bmonts%2BIII.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5727588878879674306" border="0" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.alexandremasino.ca/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Alexandre Masino</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">À l'orée des monts III</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">, 2012<br />Encaustic monotype on Gampi paper<br />23" x 34.5"</span></span><br /></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /><br /></span></span> <style> <!-- /* Font Definitions */ @font-face {font-family:Arial; 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Clark</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> is curating a group show on </span></span><a href="http://alexandremasino.blogspot.ca/2010/06/encaustic-monotype.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">encaustic monotype</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> at the </span></span><a href="http://www.rfpaints.com/index.php?option=com_morfeoshow&task=view&gallery=113&Itemid=58"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">R&F Gallery</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> in Kingston, New York. The selected artists will be presenting a wide variety of works exploring this technique which has been drawing an increasing amount of attention in the United States over the last years. It was a pleasure to create a new series of large mountainscape prints for this occasion. I look forward to attending the opening and seeing all the works in the flesh. </span></span><a href="http://alexandremasino.blogspot.ca/2010/06/encaustic-monotype.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Encaustic monotypes</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> can be so rich and subtle that it is worth seeing them in person to truly appreciate them. </span></span></span></p> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-2rjqFAIE4BM/T3x7qTeV2WI/AAAAAAAAAZ8/W06tga-upfA/s1600/8%2BMasino%2BEntre%2Bsource%2Bet%2Bnuage%2BI.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-2rjqFAIE4BM/T3x7qTeV2WI/AAAAAAAAAZ8/W06tga-upfA/s400/8%2BMasino%2BEntre%2Bsource%2Bet%2Bnuage%2BI.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5727588792820685154" border="0" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center; font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><a href="http://www.alexandremasino.ca/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';">Alexandre Masino</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><br /></span><span style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';">Entre source et nuage I</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';">, 2012<br />Encaustic monotype on Masa paper<br />23" x 34.5"</span><br /></span></div><span style="font-family:times new roman;font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-family: times new roman;font-family:times new roman;font-size:100%;"><br /></span> <style> <!-- /* Font Definitions */ @font-face {font-family:Arial; 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Clark</span></span></span></a></p> </div><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-2gXDYuWq8eU/T3x7b-o0GII/AAAAAAAAAZk/TybgxyQuYOo/s1600/6%2BDiana%2BGonzalez%2BGandolfi.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 270px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-2gXDYuWq8eU/T3x7b-o0GII/AAAAAAAAAZk/TybgxyQuYOo/s400/6%2BDiana%2BGonzalez%2BGandolfi.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5727588546709297282" border="0" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center; font-family: times new roman;"> <style> <!-- /* Font Definitions */ @font-face {font-family:Arial; panose-1:2 11 6 4 2 2 2 2 2 4; mso-font-charset:0; mso-generic-font-family:auto; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:3 0 0 0 1 0;} @font-face {font-family:Times; panose-1:2 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0; mso-font-charset:0; mso-generic-font-family:auto; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:3 0 0 0 1 0;} @font-face {font-family:Cambria; 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margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-40hZGJMOGTs/T3x7Xxrh6fI/AAAAAAAAAZY/jR85vxy6O34/s400/5%2BJane%2BGuthridge.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5727588474511550962" border="0" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center; font-family: times new roman;"> <style> <!-- /* Font Definitions */ @font-face {font-family:Arial; panose-1:2 11 6 4 2 2 2 2 2 4; mso-font-charset:0; mso-generic-font-family:auto; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:3 0 0 0 1 0;} @font-face {font-family:Times; panose-1:2 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0; mso-font-charset:0; mso-generic-font-family:auto; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:3 0 0 0 1 0;} @font-face {font-family:Cambria; panose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4; mso-font-charset:0; mso-generic-font-family:auto; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:3 0 0 0 1 0;} /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {mso-style-parent:""; margin-top:0cm; margin-right:0cm; 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margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 321px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-YWJ1OiN9gNw/T3x7O4g_IsI/AAAAAAAAAZA/K8XPJVJEk64/s400/3%2BGeorge%2BMason.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5727588321727554242" border="0" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center; font-family: times new roman;"> <style> <!-- /* Font Definitions */ @font-face {font-family:Arial; panose-1:2 11 6 4 2 2 2 2 2 4; mso-font-charset:0; mso-generic-font-family:auto; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:3 0 0 0 1 0;} @font-face {font-family:Times; panose-1:2 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0; mso-font-charset:0; mso-generic-font-family:auto; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:3 0 0 0 1 0;} @font-face {font-family:Cambria; panose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4; mso-font-charset:0; mso-generic-font-family:auto; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:3 0 0 0 1 0;} /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {mso-style-parent:""; margin-top:0cm; margin-right:0cm; 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margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 258px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-9R8eS4ElJVc/T3x7Lez85WI/AAAAAAAAAY0/80yaphwdHIE/s400/2%2BPaula%2BRoland.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5727588263288169826" border="0" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center; font-family: times new roman;"> <style> <!-- /* Font Definitions */ @font-face {font-family:Arial; panose-1:2 11 6 4 2 2 2 2 2 4; mso-font-charset:0; mso-generic-font-family:auto; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:3 0 0 0 1 0;} @font-face {font-family:Times; panose-1:2 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0; mso-font-charset:0; mso-generic-font-family:auto; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:3 0 0 0 1 0;} @font-face {font-family:Cambria; panose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4; mso-font-charset:0; mso-generic-font-family:auto; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:3 0 0 0 1 0;} /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {mso-style-parent:""; margin-top:0cm; margin-right:0cm; 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mso-header-margin:36.0pt; mso-footer-margin:36.0pt; mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 {page:Section1;} --> </style> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="color:black;">To read the gallery’s press release please <a href="http://www.rfpaints.com/index.php?option=com_morfeoshow&task=view&gallery=113&Itemid=58">click here</a>.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-family:times new roman;"><span style="color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" face="times new roman" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"> </span><!--StartFragment--></span></span></p><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="color:black;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align: justify"><span style="color: black; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">I am taking this opportunity to quickly announce that I will be giving a three day workshop on encaustic painitng and monotype at R&F next Autumn in parallel to presenting a solo show. I’ll write a longer post on the workshop in the coming weeks but if you want to read about it, please <a href="http://www.rfpaints.com/index.php?option=com_virtuemart&Itemid=526">click here</a>.</span></span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <!--EndFragment--> </span></span><p></p> <div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Times;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Georgia, serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></span></div><span style=" ;font-family:Times;color:black;"><br /></span><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-rdwEGnan0cY/T3x7HogcmHI/AAAAAAAAAYo/OusSmC4OoNQ/s1600/1%2BMasino%2BCette%2Bmare%25CC%2581e%2Bde%2Bpierre%2BI.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 266px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-rdwEGnan0cY/T3x7HogcmHI/AAAAAAAAAYo/OusSmC4OoNQ/s400/1%2BMasino%2BCette%2Bmare%25CC%2581e%2Bde%2Bpierre%2BI.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5727588197171239026" border="0" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.alexandremasino.ca/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Alexandre Masino</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-style: italic; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Cette marée de pierre I</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">, 2012 </span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Encaustic monotype on Gampi paper 34.5" x 23"</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /><br /></span></span> <style> <!-- /* Font Definitions */ @font-face {font-family:Arial; panose-1:2 11 6 4 2 2 2 2 2 4; mso-font-charset:0; mso-generic-font-family:auto; 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text-align: center; "><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="color:black;"><br /></span></span></p>alexandre masinohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16226924854760980117noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3741208825294943882.post-81390837794182441152012-04-03T16:26:00.011-04:002012-04-03T17:15:30.000-04:00Yechel Gagnon : Public Art<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-v0BjptJXbP8/T3td60rQcGI/AAAAAAAAAYc/4taX9KuADDQ/s1600/Y.Gagnon%2B1.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 398px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-v0BjptJXbP8/T3td60rQcGI/AAAAAAAAAYc/4taX9KuADDQ/s400/Y.Gagnon%2B1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5727274616285589602" border="0" /></a></div><span style="font-family:arial;"></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family:times new roman;font-size:85%;"><a href="http://www.yechelgagnon.com/">Yechel Gagnon</a></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family:times new roman;font-size:85%;"><a href="http://www.yechelgagnon.com/"></a></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-style: italic;">Tong</span>, 2011<br />Cast aluminium, 247" x 107"</span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><a href="http://theatrelalicorne.com/"> Théâtre la Licorne</a>, Montréal</span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">Photo : <a href="http://www.marccramer.com/">Marc Cramer</a></span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /><br /><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.yechelgagnon.com/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Yechel Gagnon</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">'s Public Art Project @ </span></span><a href="http://theatrelalicorne.com/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Théâtre La Licorne</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br />4559, Avenue Papineau, Montréal, Québec<br /><br />Architects : </span></span><a href="http://www.arch-fabg.com/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">FABG</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-hWuKBC3SJJE/T3td1EWBdRI/AAAAAAAAAYQ/SkiniJhtLXo/s1600/Y.Gagnon%2B2.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-hWuKBC3SJJE/T3td1EWBdRI/AAAAAAAAAYQ/SkiniJhtLXo/s400/Y.Gagnon%2B2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5727274517412279570" border="0" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><a href="http://www.yechelgagnon.com/">Yechel Gagnon</a>, <span style="font-style: italic;">Tong</span>, 2011<br />Cast aluminium, 247" x 107"<br />Photo : <a href="http://www.marccramer.com/">Marc Cramer</a><br /></span></span></div><br /><br /> <style> <!-- /* Font Definitions */ @font-face {font-family:Cambria; panose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4; mso-font-charset:0; mso-generic-font-family:auto; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:3 0 0 0 1 0;} /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {mso-style-parent:""; margin-top:0cm; margin-right:0cm; margin-bottom:10.0pt; margin-left:0cm; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; 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" class="MsoNormal"> <style> <!-- /* Font Definitions */ @font-face {font-family:Cambria; panose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4; mso-font-charset:0; mso-generic-font-family:auto; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:3 0 0 0 1 0;} /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {mso-style-parent:""; margin-top:0cm; margin-right:0cm; margin-bottom:10.0pt; margin-left:0cm; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ascii-font-family:Cambria; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family:Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family:Cambria; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;} @page Section1 {size:612.0pt 792.0pt; margin:72.0pt 90.0pt 72.0pt 90.0pt; mso-header-margin:36.0pt; mso-footer-margin:36.0pt; mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 {page:Section1;} --> </style> </p><p style="text-align: justify; font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">The title of the mural </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Tong,</span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> is a Chinese term meaning </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Together</span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> which alludes to the noted adage “the whole is greater than the sum of its parts”. This is undoubtedly an apt concept to associate with the Art of theatre.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Indeed, a theatre play requires a strong collective effort to produce and it is as a group that we experience it as spectators. </span></span></span></p> <br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ZnSqlgJ8pQU/T3tduwQ3F2I/AAAAAAAAAYE/TXcbOaX-5vg/s1600/Y.Gagnon%2B3.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 258px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ZnSqlgJ8pQU/T3tduwQ3F2I/AAAAAAAAAYE/TXcbOaX-5vg/s400/Y.Gagnon%2B3.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5727274408942704482" border="0" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><a href="http://www.yechelgagnon.com/">Yechel Gagnon</a>, <span style="font-style: italic;">Tong</span> (detail), 2011<br />Photo : <a href="http://www.marccramer.com/">Marc Cramer</a><br /></span></span></div><br /> <style> <!-- /* Font Definitions */ @font-face {font-family:Cambria; panose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4; mso-font-charset:0; mso-generic-font-family:auto; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:3 0 0 0 1 0;} /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {mso-style-parent:""; margin-top:0cm; margin-right:0cm; margin-bottom:10.0pt; margin-left:0cm; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ascii-font-family:Cambria; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family:Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family:Cambria; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;} @page Section1 {size:612.0pt 792.0pt; margin:72.0pt 90.0pt 72.0pt 90.0pt; mso-header-margin:36.0pt; mso-footer-margin:36.0pt; mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 {page:Section1;} --> </style> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="Times New Roman";font-family:";" lang="EN-CA"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: justify; font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Creating public art projects triggers many new avenues in </span></span><a href="http://www.yechelgagnon.com/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Yechel Gagnon</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">’s production. For the </span></span><a href="http://theatrelalicorne.com/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Licorne Theatre</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">, Gagnon had to question materiality in an entirely new way in order to create a work that would sustain the harsh exterior conditions. After an extensive research period of experimenting with numerous materials, she found a technique to transfer her visual language, usually associated with plywood bas-reliefs, into cast aluminium, adding yet another layer of complexity to her practice.<br /></span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify; font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p><p face="times new roman" style="text-align: justify; " class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';">To read a great review of this installation published on </span><a href="http://www.yatzer.com/Tong-by-Yechel-Gagnon"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';">Yatzer click here</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';">.</span><br /></span></p> <br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-0OvvSjAbvjM/T3tdne5_7wI/AAAAAAAAAX4/YtSdAyBn9a8/s1600/Y.Gagnon%2B4.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 265px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-0OvvSjAbvjM/T3tdne5_7wI/AAAAAAAAAX4/YtSdAyBn9a8/s400/Y.Gagnon%2B4.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5727274284024327938" border="0" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><a href="http://www.yechelgagnon.com/">Yechel Gagnon</a>, <span style="font-style: italic;">Tong</span> (detail), 2011<br />Photo : <a href="http://www.marccramer.com/">Marc Cramer</a><br /></span></span></div><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-VsoBsPiCKhM/T3tdgFG676I/AAAAAAAAAXs/lleCdT--RpI/s1600/Y.Gagnon%2B5.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 262px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-VsoBsPiCKhM/T3tdgFG676I/AAAAAAAAAXs/lleCdT--RpI/s400/Y.Gagnon%2B5.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5727274156840120226" border="0" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><a href="http://www.yechelgagnon.com/">Yechel Gagnon</a>, <span style="font-style: italic;">Tong</span> (detail), 2011</span> </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:times new roman;">Photo : <a href="http://www.marccramer.com/">Marc Cramer</a></span></span><br /></div><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-0GNdblOwE8Q/T3tdZi6hVVI/AAAAAAAAAXg/K3qhctNivoc/s1600/Y.Gagnon%2B6.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 265px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-0GNdblOwE8Q/T3tdZi6hVVI/AAAAAAAAAXg/K3qhctNivoc/s400/Y.Gagnon%2B6.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5727274044582090066" border="0" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><a href="http://www.yechelgagnon.com/">Yechel Gagnon</a>, <span style="font-style: italic;">Tong</span> (detail), 2011</span> </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:times new roman;">Photo : <a href="http://www.marccramer.com/">Marc Cramer</a></span></span><br /></div><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-xR8Fa_Ig0iQ/T3tdRTSgiPI/AAAAAAAAAXU/tRa7XNFItSo/s1600/Y.Gagnon%2B7.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 253px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-xR8Fa_Ig0iQ/T3tdRTSgiPI/AAAAAAAAAXU/tRa7XNFItSo/s400/Y.Gagnon%2B7.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5727273902948780274" border="0" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><a href="http://www.yechelgagnon.com/">Yechel Gagnon</a>, <span style="font-style: italic;">Tong</span> (detail), 2011</span> </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:times new roman;">Photo : <a href="http://www.marccramer.com/">Marc Cramer</a></span></span><br /></div>alexandre masinohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16226924854760980117noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3741208825294943882.post-37804551870970963762012-03-17T00:13:00.006-04:002012-03-17T00:36:32.605-04:00Encaustic & gold leaf<div style="text-align: center;"><br /><br /><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-BLj2VjeiA_U/T2QRNEFJaQI/AAAAAAAAAXI/cFjdH36tx9I/s1600/Masino%2BOffrandes%2B%2528Bijutsu%2529.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 313px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-BLj2VjeiA_U/T2QRNEFJaQI/AAAAAAAAAXI/cFjdH36tx9I/s400/Masino%2BOffrandes%2B%2528Bijutsu%2529.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5720716342798674178" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:85%;"><a style="font-family: times new roman;" href="http://www.alexandremasino.ca/"></a></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><a style="font-family: times new roman;" href="http://www.alexandremasino.ca/">Alexandre Masino</a><br style="font-family: times new roman;"><span style="font-style: italic; font-family: times new roman;">Offrandes (Bijutsu)</span><span style="font-family: times new roman;">, 2011</span><br style="font-family: times new roman;"><span style="font-family: times new roman;">Encaustic and gold leaf on panel</span><br style="font-family: times new roman;"><span style="font-family: times new roman;">28" x 36"</span></span><br /></div><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-RNAMph0EoTU/T2QRH443rRI/AAAAAAAAAW8/q9UaAVikT7Y/s1600/Masino%2BLe%2Bsacre%25CC%2581%2Bdu%2Bprofane.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 312px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-RNAMph0EoTU/T2QRH443rRI/AAAAAAAAAW8/q9UaAVikT7Y/s400/Masino%2BLe%2Bsacre%25CC%2581%2Bdu%2Bprofane.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5720716253895044370" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:100%;"><a style="font-family: times new roman;" href="http://www.alexandremasino.ca/">Alexandre Masino</a><br style="font-family: times new roman;"><span style="font-style: italic; font-family: times new roman;">Le sacré du profane (Bijutsu)</span><span style="font-family: times new roman;">, 2011</span><br style="font-family: times new roman;"><span style="font-family: times new roman;">Encaustic and gold leaf on panel</span><br style="font-family: times new roman;"><span style="font-family: times new roman;">28" x 36"</span></span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></div>alexandre masinohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16226924854760980117noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3741208825294943882.post-89709773216769688542011-12-20T17:19:00.006-05:002011-12-20T21:10:22.492-05:00Contre-Jour, Numéro 25<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Gtlrs4iKM-I/TvEK4LWoTOI/AAAAAAAAAWw/Fzl9F03eY0A/s1600/Couverture%2BCJ%2B25%2BMasino.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 393px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Gtlrs4iKM-I/TvEK4LWoTOI/AAAAAAAAAWw/Fzl9F03eY0A/s400/Couverture%2BCJ%2B25%2BMasino.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5688339764582304994" /></a><div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; ">Couverture de <i><a href="http://www.contre-jour.ca/">Contre-Jour</a></i>, cahiers littéraires</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Numéro 25, Automne 2011</span></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: Cambria; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">J’ai été invité à publier 20 tableaux dans le numéro actuel des cahiers littéraires </span><i><a href="http://www.contre-jour.ca/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Contre-Jour</span></a></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> (Numéro 25, Automne 2011). Cette collaboration est très intéressante puisque la revue invite un artiste par numéro, reproduit les oeuvres en grand format et donne beaucoup de latitude quant aux oeuvres proposées. Contrairement à un catalogue d’exposition qui se penche nécessairement sur la production récente, la revue couvre les dix dernières années de mon travail telle une mini rétrospective. En plus de tableaux de paysages, de natures mortes et de vues d'intérieurs, vous y retrouverez trois <a href="http://alexandremasino.blogspot.com/2010/06/encaustic-monotype.html">monotypes </a></span></span><a href="http://alexandremasino.blogspot.com/2010/06/encaustic-monotype.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: medium; "><a href="http://alexandremasino.blogspot.com/2010/06/encaustic-monotype.html">à l'encaustique</a>, technique d'oeuvre sur papier que je pratique depuis quelques années. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: Cambria; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: Cambria; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span><!--StartFragment--><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: Cambria; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">J’ai été particulièrement heureux d’être invité à collaborer au numéro actuel puisqu’il traite principalement de l’essai littéraire et de sa place dans le paysage québécois actuel. Intellectuellement riche et dense, ce numéro jumelle la rigueur conceptuelle à la prise de position subjective, ce qui me convient tout particulièrement. Je vous invite donc, si la chose vous intéresse, à consulter la revue en kiosque ou en libriaire. </span></span><!--EndFragment--> </span></div><div><br /></div><div><br /><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-wPMwOU-_f6A/TvEKuzeL4oI/AAAAAAAAAWk/F_5_LPL2UgY/s1600/Masino%2B-%2BGen%25C3%25A8se%2B%2528Portrait%2Bde%2BFayum%2529.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 277px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-wPMwOU-_f6A/TvEKuzeL4oI/AAAAAAAAAWk/F_5_LPL2UgY/s400/Masino%2B-%2BGen%25C3%25A8se%2B%2528Portrait%2Bde%2BFayum%2529.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5688339603552723586" /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.alexandremasino.ca/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; "></span></a><a href="http://www.alexandremasino.ca/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Alexandre Masino</span></a></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Genèse (Portrait de Fayoum au Louvre), 2008</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Encaustique et feuille d'or sur panneau</span></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; ">54.5 cm x 79 cm / 21.5" x 31"</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><u><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#0000EE;"><br /></span></u></div><br /></div></div>alexandre masinohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16226924854760980117noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3741208825294943882.post-65128524963575672952011-09-23T14:37:00.011-04:002011-09-23T22:59:12.636-04:00Oeuvre récente<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-oFA_V0mxZ8M/TnzToR5b1RI/AAAAAAAAAVg/B75D8L-jIC8/s1600/Masino-Poussi%25C3%25A8res%2Bd%2527%25C3%25A9toiles%2B%2528Sakura%2529.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 205px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-oFA_V0mxZ8M/TnzToR5b1RI/AAAAAAAAAVg/B75D8L-jIC8/s400/Masino-Poussi%25C3%25A8res%2Bd%2527%25C3%25A9toiles%2B%2528Sakura%2529.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5655627921023030546" /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://alexandremasino.ca/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Alexandre Masino</span></span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Poussières d'étoiles (Sakura)</span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">, 2011</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Encaustique sur panneau, 45" x 88.5"</span></span></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">for the english version of this text, please read my </span></span><a href="http://alexandremasino.blogspot.com/2011/06/recent-work.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">previous post</span></span></a></i></div><div><br /></div><div><!--StartFragment--> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Mon travail se situe à la frontière de la mimèsis et de l'invention; réponse à l'observation directe, à la mémoire et à l'imagination. La transition entre ces trois types de perception constitue un espace fertile où je participe à la mouvance du langage visuel comprenant parfaitement que l’art découle de l’art. Le périple que j’entreprends ne se situe pas seulement de par le monde mais à-travers le temps. Le territoire parcouru est le continent de l’art où l'expérience et l'histoire humaine sont fondamentales.</span></span><o:p></o:p></p> <!--EndFragment--> </div><div><br /><br /><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ReX3F2Wz-Mc/TnzTggswstI/AAAAAAAAAVY/U6irhlFX72k/s1600/Masino%2Bdetail%2B3.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"></a></div><div><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ReX3F2Wz-Mc/TnzTggswstI/AAAAAAAAAVY/U6irhlFX72k/s1600/Masino%2Bdetail%2B3.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="text-align: left;display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 267px; " src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ReX3F2Wz-Mc/TnzTggswstI/AAAAAAAAAVY/U6irhlFX72k/s400/Masino%2Bdetail%2B3.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5655627787557450450" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Poussières d'étoiles (Sakura), </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">détail</span></span></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> <!--StartFragment--> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';">Mon travail est avant tout pictural prenant son sens dans l'expérience physique et dans la perpétuelle métamorphose qui se déroule sous nos yeux. Ainsi, le tableau vu de près offre une réalité tout autre que le même tableau vu à distance, ou encore, réagit et se transforme selon la lumière ambiante éclairant sa surface. Bon nombre de peintres ont parlé de ce moment où la peinture "se lève", "advient" et prend tout son sens. Dans mon cas</span></span></span><span lang="EN-CA"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';">,</span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"> ce moment survient lorsque le spectateur prend le temps, face à l'œuvre, de mettre en rapport le sujet et le fond, la lumière et l'ombre, l'image et la surface, et tous ces éléments en relation à l'ensemble.</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <!--EndFragment--> </span></i></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#0000EE;"><u><br /></u></span></div><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ReX3F2Wz-Mc/TnzTggswstI/AAAAAAAAAVY/U6irhlFX72k/s1600/Masino%2Bdetail%2B3.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"></a><br /><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-uDatzXe9-ec/TnzTXxivd-I/AAAAAAAAAVQ/tsgZoNzH3tw/s1600/Masino%2Bdetail%2B1.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-uDatzXe9-ec/TnzTXxivd-I/AAAAAAAAAVQ/tsgZoNzH3tw/s400/Masino%2Bdetail%2B1.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5655627637460006882" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-uDatzXe9-ec/TnzTXxivd-I/AAAAAAAAAVQ/tsgZoNzH3tw/s1600/Masino%2Bdetail%2B1.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"></a><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Poussières d'étoiles (Sakura)</span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">, détail</span></span></div><div><!--StartFragment--> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Palatino;mso-fareast-Times New Roman"font-family:";"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';">Je peins à l'encaustique des tableaux où la versatilité, la sensualité et la richesse du médium font contrepoids à une imagerie dépouillée et contemplative. Indépendamment du sujet traité, que j’utilise le paysage, la nature morte ou le nu, nous pouvons lier mes oeuvres à une certainte “immensité intime”. </span></span><o:p></o:p></p> <!--EndFragment--> </div><div><br /><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-MUjO7SODlck/TnzTPaOJaUI/AAAAAAAAAVI/swSDJ__YZ4M/s1600/Masino%2Bdetail%2B2.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-MUjO7SODlck/TnzTPaOJaUI/AAAAAAAAAVI/swSDJ__YZ4M/s400/Masino%2Bdetail%2B2.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5655627493760657730" /></a></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Poussières d'étoiles (Sakura)</span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">, détail</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Palatino;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Mon utilisation de l'encaustique, avec sa physicalité, ses transparences et ses empâtements me permet de créer des oeuvres figuratives de façon à ce que le geste de peindre soit aussi porteur que le sujet représenté. Perpétuel aller-retour entre matière et signifiant, l'inévitable dualisme de la peinture me fascine et par conséquent mon travail se concentre sur cet infime instant de transition où ces deux réalités oscillent l'une avec l'autre.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Palatino;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Palatino;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-eabLrBv0dqk/TnzS_rZM5DI/AAAAAAAAAVA/qqMSS-9Juiw/s1600/Masino%2BStudio.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-eabLrBv0dqk/TnzS_rZM5DI/AAAAAAAAAVA/qqMSS-9Juiw/s400/Masino%2BStudio.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5655627223492518962" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Poussières d'étoiles (Sakura)</span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> dans</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-eabLrBv0dqk/TnzS_rZM5DI/AAAAAAAAAVA/qqMSS-9Juiw/s1600/Masino%2BStudio.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"></a></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">mon atelier à Longueuil, 2011</span></span></div>alexandre masinohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16226924854760980117noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3741208825294943882.post-20039700000860442072011-09-23T13:00:00.000-04:002011-09-23T22:33:44.714-04:00Quote : John Lennon<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-lvNQsoNOeH8/TnzhSf2ZkkI/AAAAAAAAAVw/vQoCzqnDsTc/s1600/John%2BLennon.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 314px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-lvNQsoNOeH8/TnzhSf2ZkkI/AAAAAAAAAVw/vQoCzqnDsTc/s320/John%2BLennon.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5655642939974062658" /></a><br /><div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#0000EE;"><u><br /></u></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#0000EE;"><u><br /></u></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"> <!--StartFragment--><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans.</span></span></i><!--EndFragment--> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></i></div></div>alexandre masinohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16226924854760980117noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3741208825294943882.post-1558214539248771322011-06-06T16:10:00.009-04:002011-06-06T17:51:46.600-04:00Recent Work<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-7pnH3-kOz9E/Te1E8IEZfTI/AAAAAAAAAU4/KdNlmDc1M9Q/s1600/Masino_Transfigurations.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 130px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-7pnH3-kOz9E/Te1E8IEZfTI/AAAAAAAAAU4/KdNlmDc1M9Q/s400/Masino_Transfigurations.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5615220110149647666" /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://alexandremasino.ca/">Alexandre Masino</a></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Transfigurations</span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">, 2011</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Encaustic on panel, 31.5" x 96"</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><!--StartFragment--> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">My paintings border between mimesis and invention; responding to observed reality, memory and imaginative perception. The transition between what is real, remembered or imagined creates a fertile territory for me to evoke the very notion that art derives from art. The journey we undertake is not only a journey through the world but beyond time. The continent that we travel is the continent of art where human history and experience are fundamental.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:Palatino"> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <!--EndFragment--> </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/--iTe_bpgjCY/Te1E3CdPoBI/AAAAAAAAAUw/QR9lmlzwQFQ/s1600/Masino_Detail_1.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/--iTe_bpgjCY/Te1E3CdPoBI/AAAAAAAAAUw/QR9lmlzwQFQ/s400/Masino_Detail_1.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5615220022743900178" /></a><div style="text-align: center; "><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Transfigurations</span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">, detail</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> <!--StartFragment--> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">My approach is foremost pictorial and is deeply rooted in the constant metamorphosis inherent to the physical act of looking. A painting must offer many different realities according to the distance from which it is viewed and the ambient lighting hitting the surface. Many painters have evoked this very instant when the painting “rises”, when it “happens” and suddenly takes all its meaning. In my work this moment may only happen when one takes the time to look and place the subject in relation with the background, the light with the shadows, the image and the surface, and all these elements in relation with the complete picture.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Palatino;"><br /></span></p> <!--EndFragment--> </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; "><br /></span><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-c2dbtB_k0oo/Te1ExerkJdI/AAAAAAAAAUo/IJIPJ_2_qYg/s1600/Masino_Detail_2.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 275px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-c2dbtB_k0oo/Te1ExerkJdI/AAAAAAAAAUo/IJIPJ_2_qYg/s400/Masino_Detail_2.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5615219927240943058" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; "><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Transfigurations</i>, detail</div></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: medium; "><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: medium; ">I create encaustic paintings where the richness, sensuality and versatility of the medium echo a minimal and contemplative imagery. Whether I use landscapes, still lifes or nudes, I like to approach my subjects matters in relation to some “intimate immensity”.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-v2ppVIuFMkE/Te1ErCk1zuI/AAAAAAAAAUg/Hyn6iB98Wt8/s1600/Masino_Detail_3.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-v2ppVIuFMkE/Te1ErCk1zuI/AAAAAAAAAUg/Hyn6iB98Wt8/s400/Masino_Detail_3.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5615219816617332450" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; "><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Transfigurations</i>, detail</div></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> <!--StartFragment--> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">My use of encaustic, with its physicality, impasto and transparencies, allows me to create figurative works in which the gesture, the actual act of painting, is just as important and meaningful as the depicted subject. In this regard I am compelled by the inevitable dualism between matter and meaning that we find at the core of painting. Consequently my work focuses on this infinite moment where these realities oscillate.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:Palatino;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <!--EndFragment--> </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; "><br /></span><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Rs-I4kpSF2M/Te1EkOJi7-I/AAAAAAAAAUY/pT7SHDouPyc/s1600/Masino_Detail_4.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Rs-I4kpSF2M/Te1EkOJi7-I/AAAAAAAAAUY/pT7SHDouPyc/s400/Masino_Detail_4.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5615219699464990690" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; "><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Transfigurations</i>, detail</div></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-TQvhRfoe4LA/Te1EZKOreaI/AAAAAAAAAUQ/H5yZSYcKSsQ/s1600/Masino%2B-%2BStudio.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-TQvhRfoe4LA/Te1EZKOreaI/AAAAAAAAAUQ/H5yZSYcKSsQ/s400/Masino%2B-%2BStudio.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5615219509434218914" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; "><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Transfigurations</i>, 2011</div></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; ">At night, in my studio</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; "><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; "><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; "><br /></span></div>alexandre masinohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16226924854760980117noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3741208825294943882.post-69091609650401579612011-05-16T15:47:00.000-04:002011-05-16T15:56:29.281-04:00Quote : Albert Einstein<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-_tdQ0apmJ-g/TcX28V8YPMI/AAAAAAAAAUE/Z3Drk-y8wb8/s1600/einstein.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 238px; height: 320px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-_tdQ0apmJ-g/TcX28V8YPMI/AAAAAAAAAUE/Z3Drk-y8wb8/s320/einstein.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5604156827875425474" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#0000EE;"><u><br /></u></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 20px; font-family:'times new roman';font-size:small;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 20px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><i><br /></i></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 20px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><i><br /></i></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 20px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><i>Imagination is more important than knowledge, </i></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 20px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><i>for while knowledge points to all there is, imagination points to all there will be.</i></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 20px; font-size:small;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 20px; font-size:small;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 20px; font-size:small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Quote taken from "Smart Moves, Why learning is not all in your head" by Carla Hannaford, Ph.D.</span></div></span>alexandre masinohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16226924854760980117noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3741208825294943882.post-51638042143113453902011-05-07T13:43:00.014-04:002011-05-07T14:46:34.198-04:00Yechel Gagnon : Public Art<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Gb7yq5hErnQ/TcWGWNQhpUI/AAAAAAAAAT0/8UO3eTME6p8/s1600/YG%2B01.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 290px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Gb7yq5hErnQ/TcWGWNQhpUI/AAAAAAAAAT0/8UO3eTME6p8/s400/YG%2B01.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5604033027406669122" /></a><span><span><div><div style="text-align: center; "><a href="http://yechelgagnon.com/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Yechel Gagnon</span></a></div></div><div style="text-align: center; "><span><span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Entre brume et nuage</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">, 2010</span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center; "><span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Graphite and graphite powder on Mylar</span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center; "><span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Ink on Stonehenge paper mounted on aluminium</span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center; "><span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">113.5" x 583.5" / 288 x 1482 cm</span></span></span></div><div><div style="text-align: center; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Photo : </span><a href="http://www.marccramer.com/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Marc Cramer</span></a></div></div><br /><br /></span></span><div><span><span><br /></span></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span><a href="http://yechelgagnon.com/">Yechel Gagnon's</a><span> Public Art Projet @ </span><a href="http://www.brebeuf.qc.ca/accueil">College Jean-de-Brébeuf</a></span></div><div style="text-align: center;">5625 rue Decelles, Montréal, Québec</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span><span><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span><span>Architects : </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><a href="http://www.msdl.ca/">Menkès Shooner Dagenais LeTourneux</a></span></div><!--StartFragment--><!--EndFragment--> <div style="text-align: center;"><span><span><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><span><span><br /></span></span><div><div><div><div><div><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ig5NdHc9pBE/TcWGKd1hsjI/AAAAAAAAATs/TcipL39cvs0/s1600/YG%2B02.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 178px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ig5NdHc9pBE/TcWGKd1hsjI/AAAAAAAAATs/TcipL39cvs0/s400/YG%2B02.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5604032825698398770" /></a></div><span><span><div><div style="text-align: center; "><a href="http://yechelgagnon.com/"></a></div></div><div style="text-align: center; "><span><span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; "><a href="http://yechelgagnon.com/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; ">Yechel Gagnon</span></a></span></i></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center; "><span><span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Entre brume et nuage</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">, 2010</span></span></span></div><div><div style="text-align: center; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Photo : </span><a href="http://www.marccramer.com/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Marc Cramer</span></a></div></div><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#0000EE;"><u><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000000;"></span></u></span></span></span></div><span><span><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family:Times;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;">Yechel Gagnon presents </span>Entre brume et nuage</span></i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family:Times;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Entre ciel et terre</i>,<i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"> </i>two very distinct works in appearance which </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Times;mso-fareast-font-family:Times; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language: EN-US">consist of a rich dialogue where the points of reference </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family:Times;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">are subtle yet substantial.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family:Times;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US"></span> <!--StartFragment--><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-font-family:Times;mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">The space offered at the college, through the long corridor and the grand foyer, is double and unique; double in its dimensions and functions, unique by its majestic architecture that embraces the exterior garden and its natural elements.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Gagnon chose to use the two different techniques that we may see here, carved plywood and a frottage drawing.</span><!--EndFragment--> </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><!--StartFragment--><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-font-family:Times;mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">The triptych <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">Entre brume et nuage </i>is created from the plywood bas-reliefs seen in the corridor, but we may look in vain searching which panel corresponds to a particular drawing since the rubbing is a process whereby an entire new work is created by displacement of the paper.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Entre brume et nuage </i>presents an imagery oscillating between abstraction and an imaginary landscape echoing a certain tradition of Chinese ink painting.</span><!--EndFragment--></div><!--StartFragment--><div><br /></div><br /><br /></span></span><div><div><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-_ty0zgbK7A0/TcWGFpl13UI/AAAAAAAAATk/i5YRCFDElF4/s1600/YG%2B03.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-_ty0zgbK7A0/TcWGFpl13UI/AAAAAAAAATk/i5YRCFDElF4/s400/YG%2B03.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5604032742954491202" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px; "><a href="http://yechelgagnon.com/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; ">Yechel Gagnon</span></a></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; "></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px; "><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; ">Entre brume et nuage</span></i></span>, 2010</span></span></span></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Photo : <a href="http://www.marccramer.com/">Marc Cramer</a></span></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#0000EE;"><u><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; "><div style="text-align: center; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><br /></span></div></span></u></span></div><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-_ty0zgbK7A0/TcWGFpl13UI/AAAAAAAAATk/i5YRCFDElF4/s1600/YG%2B03.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"></a><br /><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-QHyyIAV9Uuw/TcWF_SV6XMI/AAAAAAAAATc/BLeGCT1GQFI/s1600/YG%2B04.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 193px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-QHyyIAV9Uuw/TcWF_SV6XMI/AAAAAAAAATc/BLeGCT1GQFI/s400/YG%2B04.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5604032633634446530" /></a></div><span><span><div><div style="text-align: center; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; "><a href="http://yechelgagnon.com/">Yechel Gagnon</a></span></div></div><div style="text-align: center; "><span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; "><i>Entre brume et nuage</i>, 2010</span></span></span></div><div><div style="text-align: center; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; ">Photo : <a href="http://www.marccramer.com/">Marc Cramer</a></span></div></div><br /></span></span><span><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></div></span><div><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-_LKZflQYOjs/TcWF6oTuACI/AAAAAAAAATU/IiMF657mh8k/s1600/YG%2B05.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 240px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-_LKZflQYOjs/TcWF6oTuACI/AAAAAAAAATU/IiMF657mh8k/s400/YG%2B05.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5604032553631481890" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://yechelgagnon.com/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Yechel</span></a><a href="http://yechelgagnon.com/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></a><a href="http://yechelgagnon.com/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Gagnon</span></a></div></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Entre brume et nuage</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">, 2010</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Photo : </span><a href="http://www.alexandremasino.ca/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Alexandre </span></a><a href="http://www.alexandremasino.ca/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Masino</span></a></div><div><br /></div><div><br /><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-cGF2sqHvmP4/TcWFy2AksnI/AAAAAAAAATM/EaeIg1TLPOA/s1600/YG%2B06.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 288px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-cGF2sqHvmP4/TcWFy2AksnI/AAAAAAAAATM/EaeIg1TLPOA/s400/YG%2B06.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5604032419870323314" /></a></div><div><div><div style="text-align: center; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; "><a href="http://yechelgagnon.com/">Yechel Gagnon</a></span></div></div><div style="text-align: center; "><span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; "><i>Entre ciel et terre</i>, 2010</span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Carved poplar plywood</span></div><div style="text-align: center; "><span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; ">174" x 803.5" / 442 x 2041 cm</span></span></span></div><div><div style="text-align: center; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; ">Photo : <a href="http://www.marccramer.com/">Marc Cramer</a></span></div></div></div><span><span><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">In the corridor, </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Entre ciel et terre</span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> also unveils a series of imaginary spaces. Each bas-relief has its own entity, but an attentive eye will discern a long flowing movement from one panel to the other similar to a large imperceptible tide.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> <!--StartFragment--><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-font-family:Times;mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Consisting of different formats, the bas-reliefs are integrated between the existing architectural vertical lines of the wall.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>They accentuate the rhythm in symbiosis with the architecture. Wood, an organic element par excellence, crosses the transparency of the window to rejoin the beauty of the exterior garden.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>This garden also visible from the foyer is no stranger to the inspiration that underlines the design of the frottage drawings.</span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-font-family:Times;mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US"> <!--StartFragment--> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">One who stops to consider the profound convergence of all these elements will have the pleasure to find themselves in presence of a single work of art where architecture, garden, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">Entre brume et nuage</i>, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">Entre ciel et terre </i>are complicit in upholding a single dialogue.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman""><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; "><span><span>Collaboration : </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><a href="http://alexandremasino.ca/">Alexandre Masino</a>, <a href="http://www.voxphoto.com/fd/artiste_select.php?artiste=105">Yan Giguère</a>, <a href="http://www.bandeapart.fm/artistes/Entree.aspx?id=4769">Christian Miron</a>, Louis Lussier, Pierre Charrier, Gisèle Millet et Renée Joubert</span></span> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u><br /></u></p></span></span></span></div></span></span><div><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-LDQuJ0wGZ0Q/TcWFrpQWHJI/AAAAAAAAATE/mKe5DVp4tAk/s1600/YG%2B07.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 294px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-LDQuJ0wGZ0Q/TcWFrpQWHJI/AAAAAAAAATE/mKe5DVp4tAk/s400/YG%2B07.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5604032296187731090" /></a></div><div><div><div style="text-align: center; "></div></div><div style="text-align: center; "><span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; "><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; "><a href="http://yechelgagnon.com/">Yechel Gagnon</a></span></i></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center; "><span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; "><i>Entre ciel et terre</i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; ">, 2010</span></span></span></div><div><div style="text-align: center; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; ">Photo : <a href="http://www.marccramer.com/">Marc Cramer</a></span></div></div></div><div><u><br /></u></div><div><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-LDQuJ0wGZ0Q/TcWFrpQWHJI/AAAAAAAAATE/mKe5DVp4tAk/s1600/YG%2B07.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"></a><span><span><br /></span></span><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-l0tShsFwh3A/TcWFk39dwwI/AAAAAAAAAS8/JUU_40n4i30/s1600/YG%2B08.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 193px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-l0tShsFwh3A/TcWFk39dwwI/AAAAAAAAAS8/JUU_40n4i30/s400/YG%2B08.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5604032179875988226" /></a></div><span><span><div><div style="text-align: center; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; "><a href="http://yechelgagnon.com/">Yechel Gagnon</a></span></div></div><div style="text-align: center; "><span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; "><i>Entre ciel et terre</i>, 2010</span></span></span></div><div><div style="text-align: center; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; ">Photo : Pierre Charrier</span></div></div><br /></span></span><div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#0000EE;"><u><br /></u></span></div><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-rjWpv6zrecY/TcWFbPvITjI/AAAAAAAAAS0/uUcQAvnqfkc/s1600/YG%2B09.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-rjWpv6zrecY/TcWFbPvITjI/AAAAAAAAAS0/uUcQAvnqfkc/s400/YG%2B09.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5604032014459620914" /></a></div><span><span><div><div style="text-align: center; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; "><a href="http://yechelgagnon.com/">Yechel Gagnon</a></span></div></div><div style="text-align: center; "><span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; "><i>Entre ciel et terre</i>, 2010</span></span></span></div><div><div style="text-align: center; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; ">Photo : <a href="http://www.marccramer.com/">Marc Cramer</a></span></div></div><br /></span></span><div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#0000EE;"><u><br /></u></span></div><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Cx976pFf1zo/TcWFSyYZeWI/AAAAAAAAASs/N_YFcSeOUNc/s1600/YG%2B10.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 346px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Cx976pFf1zo/TcWFSyYZeWI/AAAAAAAAASs/N_YFcSeOUNc/s400/YG%2B10.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5604031869140695394" /></a><span><span><div><div style="text-align: center; "><a href="http://yechelgagnon.com/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Yechel Gagnon</span></a></div></div><div style="text-align: center; "><span><span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Entre ciel et terre</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">, 2010</span></span></span></div><div><div style="text-align: center; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Photo : </span><a href="http://www.marccramer.com/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Marc Cramer</span></a></div></div><div style="text-align: center; "><br /></div><div style="text-align: center; "><br /></div></span></span><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-T5LorVZ8Yhc/TcWFN4u1GwI/AAAAAAAAASk/_oPj5RaVI8M/s1600/YG%2B11.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 293px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-T5LorVZ8Yhc/TcWFN4u1GwI/AAAAAAAAASk/_oPj5RaVI8M/s400/YG%2B11.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5604031784946047746" /></a></div><span><span><div><div style="text-align: center; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; "><a href="http://yechelgagnon.com/">Yechel Gagnon</a></span></div></div><div style="text-align: center; "><span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; "><i>Entre ciel et terre</i>, 2010</span></span></span></div><div><div style="text-align: center; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; ">Photo : <a href="http://www.marccramer.com/">Marc Cramer</a></span></div></div><br /><br /></span></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#0000EE;"><u></u></span><span><span></span></span><br /></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>alexandre masinohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16226924854760980117noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3741208825294943882.post-28979282914560323872011-04-20T20:56:00.006-04:002011-04-20T22:26:10.578-04:00Yechel Gagnon; Spheris Gallery<div><br /></div><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-wkOe7XX1j2s/Ta-BQ2LhtmI/AAAAAAAAASc/S778iklLAIg/s1600/YG%2B2.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 238px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-wkOe7XX1j2s/Ta-BQ2LhtmI/AAAAAAAAASc/S778iklLAIg/s400/YG%2B2.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5597834988266567266" /></a><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; line-height: 15px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; line-height: normal; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Yechel Gagnon</span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; line-height: 15px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; line-height: normal; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Nomad</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">, 2011</span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; line-height: 15px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; line-height: normal; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Carved custom-made plywood, </span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman'; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">47" x 28"</span></span></div></div></span><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><a href="http://www.yechelgagnon.com/">Yechel Gagnon's</a> solo show at the <a href="http://www.spherisgallery.com/">Spheris Gallery</a></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">April 30 to May 31, 2011</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Vernissage April 30, from 6 to 7:30 PM</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small; border-collapse: collapse; line-height: 15px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; "><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; line-height: 15px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Press Release :</span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; line-height: 15px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span><!--StartFragment--><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><a href="http://www.spherisgallery.com/">Spheris Gallery</a> is pleased to announce an exhibition of works by <a href="http://www.yechelgagnon.com/">Yechel Gagnon</a>. Her signature plywood pieces and etchings will be on view April 30 – May 31. A reception will be held on Saturday, April 30, from 6 to 7:30 PM.</span></span><!--EndFragment--><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; line-height: 15px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; line-height: 15px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span><!--StartFragment--><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Gagnon finds inspiration in an unlikely material, plywood. Working her material of choice with power and hand tools Gagnon removes layers of wood and glue to reveal hidden patterns and create gestural and contemplative works.</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; line-height: 15px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></span></div><!--StartFragment--><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; line-height: 15px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; line-height: normal; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Inspired by the unique nature of each plywood sheet, Gagnon is in constant “dialogue” with her material, at times allowing unique features to guide her creative process and at other times imposing her aesthetic vision upon the wood. Gagnon states “The wood stratification contains an intriguing vocabulary of knots, textures, hues and manufacturing defects that creates their character. In the beginning I have to take them into account but soon I am carried by these elements which stimulate my imagination.”</span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Gagnon’s plywood works are accompanied by a new series of etchings that continue her inquiry into layering and gestural mark making. The permanence of her mark on the plate mirrors the </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; line-height: 15px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; line-height: normal; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">permanence of her cuts into the plywood. The subtle layers produced by aquatint add texture akin to that found in the wood veneer of the panel works. As Gagnon states “both techniques express a large spectrum of possibilities within a limited palette, bringing the attention to nuances and values, calling the viewer’s willingness to see and imagine in its own way what is mostly suggested."</span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><br /><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-i71CNtTx4Yk/Ta-BKh7EgZI/AAAAAAAAASU/PqdaG5Lkfpc/s1600/Miyajima%2BI.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 221px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-i71CNtTx4Yk/Ta-BKh7EgZI/AAAAAAAAASU/PqdaG5Lkfpc/s400/Miyajima%2BI.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5597834879749620114" /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; line-height: 15px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; line-height: normal; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Yechel Gagnon</span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; line-height: 15px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; line-height: normal; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Miyajima I</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">, 2011</span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; line-height: 15px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; line-height: normal; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Sugar-lift, aquatint and spit-bite on Arches paper</span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; line-height: 15px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; line-height: normal; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">14.5" x 26", Edition/9</span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; line-height: 15px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; line-height: normal; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "><br /></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; line-height: 15px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; line-height: normal; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "><a href="http://www.yechelgagnon.com/">Yechel Gagnon</a> lives and works in Montreal and is the recipient of grants from both the Canada Council for the Arts and the Conseil des Arts et des Lettres du Québec. Her work is held in many private and public collections including the Osler Hoskin & Harcourt Collection Toronto and the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "></span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; line-height: 15px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; line-height: normal; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "><br /></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; line-height: 15px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; line-height: normal; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "><a href="http://www.spherisgallery.com/">The Spheris Gallery</a> is open Tuesday – Saturday, 10:00 – 5:00, and by appointment.</span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; line-height: 15px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; line-height: normal; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; "><div style="text-align: center; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; line-height: 15px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; ">59 South Main Street, </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: medium; border-collapse: collapse; line-height: 15px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">Hanover, NH</span></div><div style="text-align: center; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; line-height: 15px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; ">(603) 640-6155</span></span></span></div></span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#0000EE;"><u><br /></u></span></div></div></div>alexandre masinohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16226924854760980117noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3741208825294943882.post-63773932355544250972011-03-29T09:33:00.004-04:002011-03-29T09:50:12.661-04:00Fabienne Verdier<div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#0000EE;"><u><br /></u></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dwkHVnauZPXOJ6nZyrZjtDAaAum91Yc67E_lZHKgZXDgYDtBLOdqlOf5WiKZ7KVnCdYIWjY-YziP4AnR6hqlA' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.fabienneverdier.com/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';">Fabienne Verdier</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"> is a French painter who studied caligraphy and traditional ink painting in China for more than 10 years at a time when it was mostly closed to outsiders. Have a look at her website, it is dense with inspirational information such as paintings and quotes from painters and thinkers from different traditions. It takes a while to click everywhere and on every little "+" but it is worth it as a whole landscape unfolds for us (</span></span><a href="http://www.fabienneverdier.com/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';">click here</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';">).</span></span></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><img src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-sQYPtdgSI20/TZHfusCGi7I/AAAAAAAAAR0/VRw0W2NDTN4/s320/665183-gf.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5589494605730450354" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 195px; height: 320px; " /></span></div></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';">Pour ceux qui parlent français, son livre </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><a href="http://www.amazon.ca/PASSAGERE-DU-SILENCE-Fabienne-Verdier/dp/2226141855/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&qid=1300928871&sr=8-5">Passagère du silence</a> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; ">(<a href="http://www.renaud-bray.com/Livres_Produit.aspx?id=665183&def=Passag%C3%A8re+du+silence%2cVERDIER%2c+FABIENNE%2c9782253114666">Livre de poche</a>)</span>,</span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"> raconte son parcours, ses longues années d'études et les étapes qui l'ont menée à sa production actuelle. C'est un livre fascinant qui nous dépeint la Chine et le long apprentissage de techniques traditionnelles mais principalement la dévotion et la force de caractère d'une femme exeptionelle.</span></span></div>alexandre masinohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16226924854760980117noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3741208825294943882.post-63280258257614568702011-03-23T16:46:00.001-04:002011-03-23T23:15:19.169-04:00Quote : Albert Einstein<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-cxTVkh-Q9vI/TYq0N2I7eJI/AAAAAAAAARc/ztCTUP_MeJk/s1600/einstein_1.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-cxTVkh-Q9vI/TYq0N2I7eJI/AAAAAAAAARc/ztCTUP_MeJk/s320/einstein_1.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5587476437670787218" /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Learning is experience.</span></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Everything else is just information.</span></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Quote taken from "Smart Moves, Why learning is not all in your head" by Carla Hannaford, Ph.D.</span></span></div>alexandre masinohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16226924854760980117noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3741208825294943882.post-10045690682022960742011-01-30T09:13:00.012-05:002011-01-30T10:50:20.245-05:00Tom Hopkins 1944-2011<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_veMpD1oSEhM/TUV8q4sUsgI/AAAAAAAAARI/GnG9bVuc3Eo/s1600/Tom%2BHopkins%2B%252B%2BA.%2BMasino.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 262px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_veMpD1oSEhM/TUV8q4sUsgI/AAAAAAAAARI/GnG9bVuc3Eo/s400/Tom%2BHopkins%2B%252B%2BA.%2BMasino.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5567993590528127490" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.tomhopkinsart.com/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Tom Hopkins</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> and me (back in my skinny days) </span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">at the opening of my show </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">La Vie immédiate</span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> in 2000</span></span></div></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><!--StartFragment--><span style="font-family:Times;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">When I was studying with Tom at Concordia, 18 years ago, he brought me a cartoon he had found in a newspaper, showing a grungy artist asking his accountant if drug could be considered artist's material. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family:Times;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family:Times;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">I don't know about that, but right now I definitely feel like I could use something…</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family:Times;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family:Times;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">That was Tom, always sharing jokes with everybody. Even recently he sent me a youtube link towards a stand up comedian talking about French people… </span><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OK8uPFwL4Xk"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">(link)</span></a></span><!--EndFragment--></div><div><br /></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_veMpD1oSEhM/TUV8kKT-miI/AAAAAAAAARA/_O7piorkdyc/s1600/August%2B2011.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 285px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_veMpD1oSEhM/TUV8kKT-miI/AAAAAAAAARA/_O7piorkdyc/s400/August%2B2011.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5567993474998770210" /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.tomhopkinsart.com/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Tom</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> and I at a great gathering we had at his country place last August </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Photo by </span><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/30317999@N04/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Fabian Jean</span></a></div></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><!--StartFragment--><span style="font-family:Times;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">It is a cliché when someone passes away to talk about their generosity, but in Tom's case, it would be a crime not to mention it over and over again. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family:Times;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family:Times;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">I was Tom's student, then his assistant for many years and his studio neighbour for more then 10 years. I can say that working for him I have learned more about being a painter than throughout my whole art education. That was Tom, the most generous person I have known with his knowledge, his advices, his time. When I was working for him, stretching canvases and so on, I joked with him that he didn't need a studio assistant, he needed a secretary to take care of his phone calls. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family:Times;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_veMpD1oSEhM/TUV8c-SyIjI/AAAAAAAAAQ4/g3UFi2TdYG0/s1600/Tom%2BHopkins%2B1.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_veMpD1oSEhM/TUV8c-SyIjI/AAAAAAAAAQ4/g3UFi2TdYG0/s400/Tom%2BHopkins%2B1.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5567993351513449010" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:small;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><a href="http://www.tomhopkinsart.com/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Tom Hopkins</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">, Photo by </span><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/30317999@N04/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Fabian Jean</span></a></span></div></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Times;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Times;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">When our studios were door to door, we had each other's key. We used each other's tools, which means mostly that I was using his tools, and I would come over to drink his coffee and eat his famous studio stew. Tom's door was literally always open for me but it was the same with all the artists and all the students who needed advices. It is true for me and I know it is true for many of us: I would not be the painter that I am if it was not for Tom. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family:Times;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family:Times;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Tom's death is a tragedy for all of us. We lost someone important, but my thoughts go out to you Joan, </span><a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1965525/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Anna</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> and </span><a href="http://jacobhopkinsphotography.com/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Jacob</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">. </span></span><!--EndFragment--><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family:Times;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_veMpD1oSEhM/TUV8W9K51ZI/AAAAAAAAAQw/J1Ty73smcAg/s1600/Tom%2BHopkins%2B%2540%2BMolinari%2BFoundation.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 224px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_veMpD1oSEhM/TUV8W9K51ZI/AAAAAAAAAQw/J1Ty73smcAg/s400/Tom%2BHopkins%2B%2540%2BMolinari%2BFoundation.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5567993248132748690" /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><a href="http://www.tomhopkinsart.com/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Tom Hopkins</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> at the </span><a href="http://www.naturehumaine.com/en/culturels/fondation-molinari/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Molinari Foundation</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">, Photo by </span><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/30317999@N04/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Fabian Jean</span></a></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><!--StartFragment--><span style="font-family:Times;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">The only comfort that we can share is to know that through his actions, Tom is definitely an important part of us. It is now up to us to keep his vision alive, to share our knowledge, to help each other in this difficult career that is ours and to keep sharing the jokes that make the hard times bearable.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Times;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family:Times;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Thank you Tom.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family:Times;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family:Times;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family:Times;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">It was a true honour for me to share this obituary at Tom's funeral yesterday. </span></span></div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Times;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family:Times;"><a href="http://www.montrealgazette.com/entertainment/Montreal+artist+dead/4165583/story.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Article in the Montreal's Gazette</span></a></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><a href="http://www.thechronicleherald.ca/ArtsLife/1224375.html">Article in Halifax' Chronicle Herald</a></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div>alexandre masinohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16226924854760980117noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3741208825294943882.post-18280576722576824342010-09-17T17:34:00.002-04:002010-12-22T18:06:32.707-05:00Affordable Art Fair, New York<div><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_veMpD1oSEhM/TJEgvQRZCgI/AAAAAAAAAP8/3sBtLJ7SmKQ/s1600/IMG_17052009_201832.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 156px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_veMpD1oSEhM/TJEgvQRZCgI/AAAAAAAAAP8/3sBtLJ7SmKQ/s320/IMG_17052009_201832.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5517227014699420162" /></a><div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#0000EE;"><u><br /></u></span></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_veMpD1oSEhM/TJEgvQRZCgI/AAAAAAAAAP8/3sBtLJ7SmKQ/s1600/IMG_17052009_201832.jpg"></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><br /></span></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">My gallery from Calgary, </span></span><a href="http://www.theweissgallery.com/dynamic/artist.asp?ArtistID=7&Category=Contemporary%20Artists"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">The Weiss Gallery</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">, is showing at the </span></span><a href="http://www.aafnyc.com/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">AAF</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> in </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">New York</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">. They are taking with them a good group of my monotypes and some encaustic on panel. If you are in the New York area at the end of September, you should try to attend this event. I think the concept of this fair is really interesting as it is a great place to see the work of younger artists and galleries who do their work in backing them up. Usually fairs are so expensive that galleries will display their big names; in this case the whole purpose is to do the opposite and promote works that are not priced over the top. I will be driving down to attend the opening night, visit the fair and see some art in New York. If you want to attend and save on the ticket, the fair is open for free on Friday night October 1st from 6 pm to 8 pm. Making art accessible is their moto.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><a href="http://www.aafnyc.com/">AAF New York City Fall 2010</a></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">September 30 - October 3, 2010</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">7 West New York (7 West and 34th Street)</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Private Preview</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Wednesday, September 29, 2010</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">6:00 PM - 9:00 PM</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><h1 style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-style: normal; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; color: rgb(237, 3, 124); letter-spacing: 0.6px; display: block; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></span></h1><h1 style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-style: normal; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; color: rgb(237, 3, 124); letter-spacing: 0.6px; display: block; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></h1></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"> </span></span></div></div>alexandre masinohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16226924854760980117noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3741208825294943882.post-88361049754804903622010-09-11T10:54:00.013-04:002010-09-11T18:25:29.312-04:00The Mona Lisa Curse<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_veMpD1oSEhM/TIuruytVxZI/AAAAAAAAAP0/kk8nC8S-qEg/s1600/monalisacurse-658x1024.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 206px; height: 320px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_veMpD1oSEhM/TIuruytVxZI/AAAAAAAAAP0/kk8nC8S-qEg/s320/monalisacurse-658x1024.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5515690989019579794" /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EbQ0GqX0Its"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">The Mona Lisa Curse</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> by Robert Hughes</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Hughes_(critic)">Robert Hughes</a>, the art critic for the Times Magazine might have been controversial at times but I value his opinions even when I don't agree with him. He is profoundly erudite and his positions are based on knowledge, good research and critical thinking. He wrote several books that found their way onto my shelves, either on Lucian Freud, Frank Auerbach and the most complete book on Goya that I ever read. If you are interested by History, by Spain or by the lives of painters at the time, it is definitly a must. In parallel to this book he realized a documentary titled <i>Goya: Crazy like a Genius</i> that is relatively easy to find. You may also read a very interesting collection of his essays in <i>Nothing if not Critical </i>and his memoir published in 2007 titled <i>Things I Didn't Know.</i></div><div><br /></div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_veMpD1oSEhM/TIumCUGiUYI/AAAAAAAAAPc/_SDpL1Hke0g/s1600/Goya.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 200px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_veMpD1oSEhM/TIumCUGiUYI/AAAAAAAAAPc/_SDpL1Hke0g/s200/Goya.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5515684727331377538" /></a><div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#0000EE;"><u><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; "><a href="http://www.amazon.ca/Goya-Robert-Hughes/dp/0375711287/ref=sr_1_14?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1284220636&sr=1-14"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Amazon Can</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">. - </span><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Goya-Robert-Hughes/dp/0375711287/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1284220737&sr=8-1"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Amazon US</span></a></span></u></span></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_veMpD1oSEhM/TIumCUGiUYI/AAAAAAAAAPc/_SDpL1Hke0g/s1600/Goya.jpg"></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#0000EE;"><u><br /></u></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;">He produced and directed a movie on the art market and the spin the art world has taken in the last 40 years. The great thing is that we can watch the entire movie on <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EbQ0GqX0Its">Youtube</a> by clicking the 12 segments of 6 minutes each. The movie is fascinating for its overview of the art scene in New York since the 1960s. Hughes underlines and critizices the imperialism of the market within the art world and the total power given to speculation and personal taste (or lack of) of the wealthiest. I agree with him, it is not because someone pays a fortune for a portrait by Klimt that it transforms this painting in the most important painting of the century, as the new owner claims. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dyYcwof-W2aiPAYeOOHaZUbbFwISBmplgiuCTEyugRmh9lYafRa1J4zIAekQh6KMIMk-6r8bWHRjYK1TMXU' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">I never believed that it was possible for an artist to follow up on their previously sold pieces. I know some artists want the buyer to sign a contract stating that the artist will make a cut on the resales of the work. In theory it is great but how can you enforce this? In any case, Hughes talks about a group of artists who tried to install an Artist Royalty Bill, stating that artists should benefit from the huge profit some investors do at auctions reselling their works. I don't believe an artist can achieve this by himself but it's true, a national or international bill could rectify a situation that is completely bizarre. Lets not forget that the art market is the most unregulated market that exists... If you are curious to know how unregulated the wheels of the market are, there's a great book called T<i>he $12 Million Stuffed Shark: The Curious Economics of Contemporary Art</i> by Don Thompson. </div>alexandre masinohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16226924854760980117noreply@blogger.com2