PRESS RELEASE

Luis Jacob: Tableaux Vivants and Fugue urbaine at the Darling Foundry

Montreal, June 11, 2010 — To begin its summer programme, the Darling Foundry is pleased to invite you to the opening if its two exhibitions Luis Jacob: Tableaux Vivants, and Fugue urbaine on Thursday June 17 at 5 pm. For a special event, a special program: The launch of Brandon LaBelle’s new book, Acoustic Territories: Sound Culture and Everyday Life and a Studio-open-doors. Not to be missed!

 

Luis Jacob, Luis Jacob: Tableaux Vivants
Installation, June 17 - August 29: opening Thursday June 17, 5 pm. Curator: Marie Fraser

For Luis Jacob: Tableaux Vivants, the artist presents a solo exhibition surveying his past works and a new installation created especially for this project. In the large gallery of the Darling Foundry, Luis Jacob has produced an installation that takes the form of a gallery-within-the-gallery. Within this newly built space, a “white cube” gallery with one glass wall, viewers will see a group of twelve monochrome paintings displayed— the degree-zero of the pictorial tradition associated with the painting as tableau. Seen from the outside of this space, through the glass wall, viewers will become part of a tableau vivant that points to our shared presence in the gallery and the conventions of viewing that orient aesthetic experience.

Alongside, a constellation of works from Album VIII (2009) and Evicted Studios at 9 Hannah Avenue; November 1999 (1999) will allow viewers to discover the work that Luis Jacob has produced in recent years. Album VIII gathers images that, through processes of visual association, compose a proliferating narrative around various themes: mapping, construction and the manufactured “sub-conscious”, embodiment, the fabrication of worlds, and the possibility of transformation.
Evicted Studios at 9 Hannah Avenue; November 1999 are a series of photographs that depict various disused spaces in an old industrial building in Toronto, which until the end of the 90’s had provided artists and artisans with studio space. The spaces were captured soon after the building's occupants had been evicted to allow for the redevelopment of the site; they appear in various states of tidiness or chaos, registering remnants of their former occupants' lives.

Born in 1970, Luis Jacob is a Toronto-based artist. He acquired renown on the international artistic scene with his participation in Documenta 12 in Kassel in 2007. His solo exhibitions include the Städtisches Museum Abteiberg of Mönchengladbach, the Hamburg Kunstverein, the Art Gallery of Ontario, the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery of the University of British Columbia, and the Musée d’art de Joliette. His work is currently on view at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in the exhibition Haunted: Contemporary Photography/Video/Performance, and in the Kunsthalle Bern in the exhibition Animism.

Fugue urbaine
In situ cavalcade, June 17 - August 29: opening Thursday June 17, 5 pm. Curator: Esther Bourdages

Antoine Nessi, Rature, 2010

Fugue urbaine presents a cavalcade of in situ works from Canadian and International artists that unite Ottawa St from East to West, from Faubourg des Récollets to Griffintown. Centered around two sites, the former New City Gas building and two viaducts beneath Bonaventure Highway and the railway, artistry intertwines with the urban fabric at a time when Griffintown faces increasing uncertainty ahead of a major redevelopment.

Facing renewed upheaval, the artists were asked to reflect on the sites: they recuperated the past and incorporated the present, inspired by the hopes and anxieties— as well as the social, political and economic realities— of Griffintown’s residents. With this event, the Darling Foundry hopes to give impetus to Ottawa Street's transformation into a "cultural corridor".

 

Thursday June 17, at 5 pm: Opening, Book launch and Studio-open-doors

During the opening of the two exhibitions, Brandon LaBelle, an artist from Fugue urbaine, will be officially launching his new book, Acoustic Territories: Sound Culture and Everyday Life.* Another exceptional event planned for the evening is the Darling Foundry Studio-open-doors. The public will be able to explore the creative spaces of artists like Montreal-based Guillaume Labrie and international resident Korean artist Eva Jung. Finally, the duet Sylvia Winkler and Stéphane Köperl will play their public intervention Make No $mall Plans(2008).

*Acoustic Territories Sound Culture and Everyday Life, Brandon LaBelle, Continuum Press, New York, London, 2010.

 

Place publique

This summer, the Darling Foundry is once again pleased to host an urban oasis, as Ottawa St will be pedestrianized between Queen and Prince. As part of Fugue urbaine, it will stage musical performances throughout the season. Dates to be revealed soon at www.fonderiedarling.org.

The Darling Foundry is an avant-garde visual arts centre that supports the creation, production and promotion of emerging artists’ work. The Darling Foundry presents original exhibitions and offers creation studios, international artistic residencies, in situ projects, and more.

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Darling Foundry
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