Sans faire abstrait, an exhibition on contemporary painting organized by Galerie Art Mûr in Montréal Much of the discourse of painting has been obsessed with making clear distinctions between abstract and representational painting. A battery of new terms has been invented and old ones refigured in order to define them better. It is interesting to …
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Michel Daigneault at McBride Contemporain
Michel Daigneault at McBride Contemporain Michel Daigneault’s art practice has for many years focused on Investigating what constitutes abstraction today and thereby exploring how abstraction relates to larger social forces. Michel Daigneault has exhibited his paintings in numerous solo and group shows across Canada, in the US and France. His work is represented in many …
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Holly Ward – humynatur3 Exhibition
Holly Ward’s humynatur3 explores the dissolution of Nature/Culture distinctions as emergent in the Anthropocene, a new geological era wherein human activity has influenced the course of all non-human systems, towards unprecedented outcomes. In this context, hierarchical classifications distinguishing between biological organisms, environmental processes and ‘animal’ vs. human pursuits are dissolved, creating the ‘Terra Incognita’ of …
