| 2010 | Luis Jacob - Luis Jacob: Tableaux Vivants, installation Fugue urbaine - in situ cavalcade |
June 17 - August 29 |
| Eija-Liisa Ahtila, Where is Where?, video installation | January 29 - April 25 |
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| 2009 | Hozrho, performance | February 22 - 27 |
| Michael A. Robinson - Throw Genre, installation |
March 12 - May 31 |
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| The Icelandic Love Corporation - Hospitality, installation | March 12 - May 31 |
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| Jana Sterbak - Waiting for High Water, video installation | June 18 - August 30 |
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| Rhonda Weppler & Trevor Mahovsky - Sun in an Empty Room, sculpture | June 18 - August 30 |
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| Michael Flomen - Blue Flyer II | 12 septembre - |
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| Shelley Miller - Cargo | 12 septembre - |
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Alain Paiement - Arrangements d'après nature |
September 12 - November 29 |
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| 2008 | Dominique Blais - Transposition (variations), video installation |
October 16 - December 7 |
Klaus Scherübel - SOME MORE NOTES on the Phenomenology of the Making: The Search for the Motivated, installation |
October 16 - December 7 | |
| Jean-François Laporte - Psukhô. installation and concerts |
September 25 - October 5 | |
| Unclassifiable, four video programs |
September 25 - October 5 | |
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Massimo Guerrera - A Hyphen between the Visible and the Invisible (Darboral), installation |
June 26 — August 31 | |
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Jessica Warboys - The Nightingale Song, installation |
June 26 — August 31 | |
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Jocelyne Alloucherie - Dust3, Photographs |
June 26 — August 31 |
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Sylvia Winkler & Stephen Koperl - German collective in residency at the Darling Foundry, artistic interventions |
June 26 — August 31 |
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Jean-Paul Ganem - Ombre de ville2, Vegetation wall |
June 26 — August 31 |
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Aude Moreau - Tapis de Sucre 3, Installation |
March 20 — June 1 | |
Charles Stankievech - Constellations, Sound
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March 20 — June 1 |
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Sancho Silva - Sonde / Probe, Canada Council for the Arts International Residency |
March 20 — June 1 |
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| INSTALLATIONS IN-SITU Portuguese artist Sancho Silva, the first to participate in the Canada Council for the Arts International Residency, presents an in situ installation. Probe is a wooden cabin, open to the public, to be built on the empty lot located on Queen Street by the Darling Foundry. Inside it, passersby will be confronted with a series of views relating to the lot’s condition within its urban context. In a deliberate distortion of the time-coordinates the cabin will work simultaneously as an archeological station, a museum and a prospective space. Sancho Silva holds a B.A. in Pure Mathematics from Trinity College in Dublin, an M.A. in philosophy of language from the university of Lisbon as well as an M.F.A. in sculpture from the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn. His work has been seen in Italy, Germany, Portugal, USA, France, Spain, Luxemburg, Malta, Egypt and Holland.
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2007 |
Plan large - 3 new outdoor projects within the city's downtownFollowing two projects, Natural Selection by Carlos and Jason Sanchez and When Dream Come True by Elena Willis, the Darling Foundry will present three new outdoor projects within the city's downtown. Playing with the ambiguity of the artistic and photographic image, Plan Large captures the viewer's attention by shocking images placed in the urban landscape. |
October |
Elena Willis (Montreal), photography |
October 18 - December 2 |
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| In her photographic compositions Elena Willis implicates the interaction of people in the face of a fatality, an importunate event that wrenches them from their daily life. Often situated in a natural background, in direct relation to nature, her characters act out an attitude or the scene of a premeditated act. Her images, which require important preparation, often capture an instantaneous movement that the artist wishes to conserve.
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Mathieu Beauséjour (Montréal) Monument, installation |
October 18 - December 2 |
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| Since 1994, Quartier Éphémère has promptly supported the practice of Mathieu Beauséjour. By developing a "semiotic terrorism" his conceptual work engages others through a redirecting of the object. In the spirit of resistance he approaches controversial topics, reflected in a political act. |
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Stan Douglas (Vancouver), Klatsassin, video installation and photography presented by Le Mois de la Photo |
September 6 - October 7 |
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| Klatsassin (2006) establishes a narrative process that defies the limits of cinematic language. By following a recombinant logic with a multiplicity points of view without beginning or end, the film presents some 850 unrepeating permutations of a murder that is presented over a period of 70 hours. Referring to Akira Kurosawa’s classic Rashomon (1950), the story is an expanding narrative process where levels of intrigue proliferate through combinations, flash-backs, and time-frame changes. The film is presented here with two series of photographs: Klatsassin, Character Portraits and Klatsassin, Western (2006).
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Jean Paul Ganem (France), vegetal installation |
August 12 - 1st frost |
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| Ombre de Ville as conceived by French artist Jean-Paul Ganem sits at the crossroads between visual arts and installation practice. Reflecting upon the aesthetic function of landscape and the environment the artist utilizes vegetation as the base material of his artistic practice. Working up the walls of the Darling Foundry and Cluny ArtBar this vertical garden presents a new aesthetic landscape and living urban space. Ombre de Ville is installed at the corner of Ottawa and Prince street and visible at all times, up until the first frost.
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Perrine Lievens (France), sculptures |
July 12 - August 26 |
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| Following a residence under the auspices of the exchange program with France, Perrine Lievens has been invited to present an exhibition at the Darling Foundry. The artist shifts the meaning of everyday objects or common forms through the use of different mediums of representation: a balcony in neon, a cloud in sugar, a porthole in a video image, a rainbow on a sheet of water. The projects developed during her residency, as well as older ones, will be presented.
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Rainer Eisch (Switzerland), Nous serions-nous jamais rencontrés ?, installation |
July 12 - August 26 |
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| In a time where the cinema tends to opt for digital film while abandoning traditional film, Rainer Eisch projects, with the help of a 16mm projector, artificial landscapes created by 3D animation, thus meshing two seemingly antagonistic modes. As in the cinema it becomes more and more difficult to distinguish the computer generated scenes from the ones shot on film; the moving image of Rainer Eisch transforms our understanding of the real.
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Risa Hatayama (Japan), Drift, installation in collaboration with Mathieu Bouchard |
March 22 - May 27 |
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| Originally from Japan, young artist Risa Hatayama will present a video and interactive sound environment in collaboration with computer programmer Mathieu Bouchard. The spectator will be immersed in a poetic world inspired by Rainer Maria Rilke's "Sonnets to Orpheus," where a computer program will generate the sound of the space amplified in real time, seven video pieces and seven soundtracks in a loop. Engaging a meditative tone, the images evoke interiority by exploring themes of death, love, time and memory. |
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Jennifer Stillwell (Winnipeg, Canada), installation |
March 22 - May 27 |
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| Winnipeg artist Jennifer Stillwell proposes a reflection on the notions of space, time and architectural scale. Objects used in day to day life are transformed, diverted, and participate to re-configure the exhibition space. From her visual parameters, she conceptualizes a landscape consisting of gravel sprinkled in green plastics baskets assembled to form a grid. The installation will offer contrast and visual oscillation between the raw character of the stone and the plastic. Her work also integrates a performative videography documenting the various stages of production. |
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Art Matters - Concordia University, Group exhibition |
March 3 - March 14 |
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| During the annual event, Art Matters, the Darling Foundry welcomes young artists from Concordia University. The young curator and artist, Margaret Haines, will present fifteen works on a humanistic theme. With the occasion of Montreal's Nuit Blanche (White Night) a series of performances will be presented by the multidisciplinary collective Fynal Glaise. |
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2006 |
Justin Stephens, paintings |
November 24 - December 23 |
Opening of Darling Foundry's Phase 2 |
October 26 |
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Plan large |
September 28 |
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| Les Frères Sanchez and Elena Willis |
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Karilee Fuglem, installation |
September 21 - November 19 |
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Montréal Sound Matter |
July 6 - August 27 |
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Pierre Bourgault, sculpture |
June 22 - August 27 |
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MUTEK Festival |
May 31 - June 4t |
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Plan large |
May 11 |
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| Les Frères Sanchez and Elena Willis |
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Opening of Darling Foundry's Phase 2: 17 studios dedicated to creation and production |
Spring |
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Giorgia Volpe (Brazil), photographs |
March 23 - May 21 |
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Joey Morgan, (true) science {comparative II anatomie}, installation |
March 23 - May 21 |
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2005 |
Jérôme Ruby (Montreal) |
December 2 - December 22 |
Catalog launch, Jean-Pierre Aubé |
1er décembre |
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Samuel Roy-Bois (Montreal/New York) |
October 7 - November 20 |
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Richard Greaves (Beauce) |
October 7 - November 20 |
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Voitures à controverse: group exhibition |
July 22 - September 22 |
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| "Débraye : voitures à controverse" is an exhibition which denounces the misdeed of the car on the natural, social and psychologic environment. The Visuals Art Center Quartier Éphémère/ Darling Foundry had invited some artists to present a polemic piece around the car and its negative impacts. This exhibition is linked to the actuality (we think about Kyoto). Pollution, durable development, aggressiveness, segregation, and overconsumption will be some subjects developed. Several artists will make a few concrete interventions outdoor, in the urbain space. |
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Karim Ghelloussi (France) |
June 9 - July 10 |
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Wyn Geleynse (Ontario) |
June 9 - July 10 |
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Obsolescence |
May 12 - June 18 |
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| True to its mission to create art in the heart of the city, Quartier Ephémère highlights the old Canada Maltage buildings in this exhibit—part of the history of the Lachine Canal. Although abandoned for many years now, the buildings remain an excellent example of the exceptional architecture of the time, with their unique clay silos. This exhibit can only be seen in the dark, as it is a light-show on the silos. Although Axel Morgenthaler is well-known for his stage-lighting skills, he likes to light up other places within the city. The Canada Maltage project features these magnificent silos and the graffiti painted upon them today. |
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Turkey Dreams, Suzanne Dery (Montréal) |
March 15 - May 1 |
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Infrasense, KIT / Robert Saucier (Angleterre/Montréal) |
March 15 - May 1 |
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Les Dômes de glace, Steve Topping/Ana Rewakowicz (Montréal) |
February 26 - Until thaw |
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2004 |
Marie-Claude Pratte |
November 18 — December 19 |
| Marie-Claude Pratte’s paintings reflect and denounce society’s ills and fraudulent fronts: “In painting, I aim to transpose actual events into portraits of society and works of modern history.” She creates raw figures inspired by characters from our cities’ streets. At the Darling Foundry, she presents a panorama of Montreal’s own peculiar streets, with its atypical facades and eccentric personalities. |
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Alexandre David |
September 23 — November 18 |
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| Montreal artist Alexandre David has been practicing multiple art forms—sculpting, painting, and photography, since the early 90’s. For this exhibit, the Darling Foundry presents a sampling of his sculptures; long geometric forms made of plywood which suggest a link to architecture without making any overt reference to it. Although his work might be called formalistic by some, he disagrees: “I think my sculptures are also imprinted with emotion; objects jutting starkly into space generate a particular sensation, a feeling not felt in our daily lives, a sense of something coming close to us even as it remains autonomous.” |
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Cat Loray |
September 23 — November 14 |
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| Renowned French artist Cat Loray paints and sculpts with a deft movement which “builds and destroys at the same time, in a process which forms and transforms endlessly.” At once figurative and abstract, her geometric forms placed on large, flat, white surfaces reflect the organic world. Her sculptures also constitute a kind of minimal representativity, an effacement or ambiguity, in 3 dimensions. Cat Loray was an artist in residence at Quartier Ephémère in 2000. This exhibition is the result of her stay. |
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Jean-Pierre Aubé |
July 8 — September 5 |
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| Aubé is a visual artist who has always incorporated strong scientific elements into his work. Inspired by natural elements and landscapes, he engages in conceptual discourse. He has recently become interested in low frequency sound waves and electromagnetic variations around the earth. At the Darling Foundry from July to September, he reroutes sounds, produced constantly at the hydroelectric power station across the street from the Foundry, into his installation. |
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Juan Geuer
Commissioned by James Campbell |
July 8 — September 5 |
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| The artist conducts an intervention in the small gallery space of the Darling Foundry by presenting three pieces using laser beam. He proposes to “study our perception of the relationship between science and art and to research our creative habits in order to adapt to new visions as well as to encourage the spectators towards preparing for unforeseen situations to come.” |
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Perte de Signal |
May 27 — June 20 |
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| Founded by 5 young Montreal artists in 1997, “Lost Signal” is a non-profit organization promoting young artists and emerging analog culture on the national and international scene. Nimbus Project Alexis Bellavance, Ariane De Blois, Nelly-Eve Rajotte This audio-visual presentation carries the spectator across a virtual landscape broken into its composite parts and precisely laid out. Although travellers walk but a single road, they are exposed to differing interpretations of the world which surrounds them. The story-line is revealed gradually, as if part of a novel, or a movie, with the same sense that each new discovery brings about the next one. At once virtual and real, we are pulled to proceed through a landscape which is yet non-existant. This giant “trompe l’oeil” imposes its view of the world upon those who travel through it, enclosing the spectator’s own perceptions. |
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Eric Sauvé |
May 27— June 20 |
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| Eric Sauvé sculpts with materials both seductive and dangerous. By choosing blunt, sometimes-caustic objects for his work, the artist uses the tension created by mixing fragile and dangerous materials to exacerbate the spectator’s own sense of vulnerability. In this exhibit, Sauvé installs a series of 8 lamps made of multiple shards of broken glass. Strategically hung about 7 feet up from the floor, the public inevitably crouches downward protectively as it passes under what are veritable swords of Damocles. “Drawing spectators in by their light and form, these lamps inspire admiration. With faces uplifted, spectators stare in awe, yet in their effort to get a closer look, they inevitably feel intimidated, frightened even, by the broken glass and its inherent threat of danger.” |
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Brian Jungen |
March 12 - May 9 |
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| Habitat 04 is a reinterpretation of Montreal’s famous architectural landmark Habitat 67. Transformed into an ideal city for stray cats, this sculpture will also serve as a vehicle for adoption. The cats living in the community can be observed by the public, who will have the opportunity to adopt them, under the supervision of the SPCA. www.spca.com www.catrionajeffries.com www.woodruffforpets.com |
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2003 |
Patrick Evans |
December 11, 2003 – January 18, 2004 |
| Architecture/Photography The limits of Defense is an architectural investigation into the bunkers set up along the Atlantic and Pacific coasts of Canada during World War II. |
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Hors Pairs / Outside references |
October 21 - December 7 |
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| In presenting Hors Pairs/ Outside references Quartier Éphémère explores, for the first time in its programming history, outsider art (art brut or undisciplined art). Organized in collaboration with la Société des arts indisciplinés, the exhibition gathering Papa Palmerino and The Grand Antonio propose an important retrospective of the creative production of those two quasi-mythical Montrealers who have made the tapestry of their lives a remarkable ongoing artwork. www.sai.qc.ca |
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Festival International de Nouvelle Danse (FIND) |
September - October |
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| Carlos Amorales – September 27th / October 4th – Video installation Battery Opera – October 9th, 10th, 11th www.festivalnouvelledanse.ca |
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Plan Large |
From September 25 - September 2005 |
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| Interpretation by artists on billboards in the city Milutin Gubash, canadian artist from Calgary His photograph A Walk in the Park is presented on an outdoor luminous panel on Duke street between William and Ottawa streets in the Griffintown area. In 1999, Milutin Gubash began to systematically collect and ‘study’ the articles published in a daily newspaper from Calgary, Alberta, the city where he was raised. This web-project, as with all his work for the past four years, draws upon the content of this ‘archive’ as both source material and inspiration. Various articulations of the larger ongoing project the artist have engaged with in this period of time have attempted to reconsider photographic tropes of ‘narrative’, ‘monumentality’, ‘documentary’, and ‘landscape’. www.iprojects.org/tragedies |
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Le Mois de la photo |
September 3 - October 12 |
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| Organisms invited www.moisdelaphoto.com |
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Buy-Sellf : Import / Export |
July 8 - August 31 |
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| Buy-Sellf, the French artist collective, will take over the exhibition spaces with an installation of the sales mechanism that will allow for the purchase of sundry editions and utopian projects by correspondence. On the occasion of their fourth catalogue, in which the work of several Canadian artists will be included, Quartier Éphémère will collaborate with Galerie Clark on the production and presentation of many of these works. www.buy-sellf.com www.clarkplaza.org |
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Les Sœurs Couture |
April 11 - June 1 |
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| Les sœurs Couture practice an art of assembly that also qualifies as a subversive "art of the garage", both because they integrate into their installations artifacts scavenged from the studio and garage of their grandfather. In their production, they reprise mechanical routines that evoke, in a dynamic fashion, the whole notion of "process" which is so integral to their development. |
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Christoph Brech |
May 8 - June 1 |
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| Video installation in the gallery. Christoph Brech, a highly regarded German artist in his homeland, presents an impressive video-graphic work at the Darling Foundry. His remarkable meditative piece accompanied by its interpretation by Dmitri Shostakovich and the Symphony for the Orchestra of Chamber Opus 110 a, is a magnificent creation, one that the Quartier Éphémère takes great pride in presenting at the Foundry. Brech works and lives in Munich (Germany). His works have been shown in important structures, notably the Haus de Kunst in Munich. The Council of Arts and Letters of Québec have invited him to Québec for a yearlong residency in the sector of the Bavière in Québec. A catalogue of his work, Passageworks by James D. Campbell is published by Éditions Quartier Éphémère. |
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Diana Shearwood |
March 14 - May 4 |
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| Photographer Diana Shearwood was commissioned by Quartier Éphémère to document silo n°5 for the Silophone project. A selection of these outsized images of some of the most beautiful instances of North American postmodern industrial architecture will be exhibited. |
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In Residence 2003 |
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| Karim Gheloussi Jean Pierre Aubé Jean François Laporte |
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2002 |
Michel Lemieux |
November 13 - December 4 |
| For the rehearsal and presentation of his next show, Michel Lemieux is using the big space of the Foundry. Being more and more connected with visual arts, the welcoming of Michel Lemieux by Quartier Éphémère corresponding to his willing to mix various publics to different kind of creation. www.4dart.com |
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Carmen Ruchiensky |
November 13 - December 22 |
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| Carmen Ruchiensky, a Montréal emerging artist, is showing in the gallery space huge paintings referring to gastronomy, one abstract made from wine dripping "7 jours à Paris" and a figure one "Buffet à volonté" representing an orgiac buffet. |
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Anthony Burnham |
August 17 - September 22 |
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| Quartier Éphémère presents an exhibit of Anthony Burnham’s most recent work. Reunited under a title that immediately evokes the programmatic spirit, Burnham captures both the once utopist spirit that fostered the suburbs as well as its banality when he delves into a critique of socio-political nature found in urbanism and suburban life. |
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Sonorama |
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| Sound: Jérôme Noetinger, Lionel Marchetti (Grenoble) and Martin Tétreault, Jean-François Laporte, Jean-Pierre Gauthier, Magali Babin, Nathalie Dion (Montreal)…etc. Images: Xavier Quérel, Christophe Cardoen, Étienne Caire, Gaëlle Rouard (Grenoble), Carolyn Faber (Chicago) The Cube situates itself between installation and concert. The film directors and musicians perform from within the cube made out of screens, 8 meters wide and 3 meters high, they do not come out. The viewing public circles the cube freely sometimes stopping in front of one of the faces. Visually, it is a game of light, projection, shadows of images in movement where The Cube can be seen as a magnificent sculpture that creates unbelievable light movements. Musically, it consists of a game between a piano keyboard and various sonar bodies all in mechanic electro-acoustic made house. |
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Khôra |
August 29 - September 20 |
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| September 15th at 7pm: performance by Jean-François Laporte and Martin Ouellet (Montreal). Khôra is a sonar/performance installation that reunites many originally acoustic instruments made from simple materials. Originally intended for manipulation solely by humans, these instruments are enriched wholeheartedly by Khôra’s mechanic system that assures a degree of precision, a power and fidelity that transcends human limitations. Tubes, bowls and blowing cans animate the sonar space to a state of racket without hyper-real manipulation or amplification, creating a natural profoundness that embraces the supernatural. |
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Ultra Vide |
June 20 - August 4 |
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| For the occasion of the Darling Foundry’s inauguration, Quartier Éphémère presents installations by five young artists. In the tradition of Feng Shui the accent is placed on the balance of elements in the space, a symbol of renaissance harmony. Patrick Beaulieu, Serge Provost, Mickaël Robinson, Carl Ruttan and Maria Sheriff each appropriate an element (wood, metal, water, fire and earth) and infuse it into the space to make up the first exhibit in the newly renovated Darling Foundry. |
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Biennale de Montréal 2002 |
September 26 - November 3 |
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| Quartier Éphémère is proud to welcome the 3rd edition of Montréal Biennale at the Darling Foundry. The CIAC is presenting art pieces by Betty Goodwin and Alain Paiement. The space is also dedicated to the presentation of performances and conferences. www.ciac.ca |
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In Residence 2002 |
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| Stéphane Tesson (February-May) Lilian Bourgeat (June to August) Denis Brun (dates to be confirmed) |
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2001 |
Plan large |
Ongoing project |
| www.immixtion.net/planlarge Presented from September 2001, at the corner of Duke and Ottawa street in Montreal, these three site specific interventions using abandoned billboards make up an integral part of the Month of the Photo, 2001. |
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Tunnel |
July - August 2001 |
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Within the depth of the Wellington tunnel, closed to the public for 8 years, Quartier Éphémère presents 3 artists’ projects reinterpreting the poetic dimension of this mysterious urban space. July 2001Sonic installation by Francisco Lopez (Spain) August 26, 2001Installation by Portable Palace (New York) Quartier Éphémère presents Portable Palace: Evelina Domnich and Dimitry Gelfand, two Russian artists now living in New York. By projecting sound, light, and water onto steam in order to create layers of light and images, the artists transform the Wellington Tunnel into a space for observing the big bang (origin of the universe). The dissipating nature of the materials used lends a sense of movement to the image and evokes the birth of the universe, where the first layers of creation rose from the void to join with celestial layers. The unpredictable, continuous movement leaves the impression that Domnitch and Gelfand- like the God of the Universe- have succeeded in animating inanimate matter, of giving life and spirit, to an immaterial world. Surrounded in halos of light and colour, the mysterious presence in the tunnel shows itself, then shies away, amplifying the strangeness of the abandoned cityscape in which it lives. |
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Silophone |
June 2000 – June 2001 |
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| Silophone is the elevator n°5 of the Ports of Montreal, transformed into a musical instrument. Created by an artist collective headed by a composer and an architect, Silophone is an ambitious idea allied to architecture, heritage, new media and music. Murmuring ephemeral sounds in a now abandoned industrial silo that saw intense industrial activity over 80 years ago, the inaccessible space of the cement cylinder is relayed to a communication grid that honors the acoustic and spatial qualities of the space. Bringing back to life an emblematic monument of Montreal next to the public through its artistic and interactive vocation, Silophone proposes a conceptual and sonore interpretation of silo n°5. More than a dozen invited artists composed its original composition along with a sonore observation point built at the foot of the silo. There was a historical exhibition (Centre d’Histoire de Montréal) as well as a panel of architects (Docomomo Québec) and a public forum (AQPI) make up just some of the many elements developed around this project. Silophone is presented in partnership by The Society of Arts and Technology (SAT), Bell and la Chaîne culturelle de Radio-Canada (official sponsor). For more information on Silophone please see: www.silophone.net, (514) 844-5555. |
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In Residence 2001 |
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| Pierre jean Giloux (March-May) Alexandra Sa (June-August) Maud Revel (August-October) 4 French artists in Montreal Jean Pierre Aubé Canadian artist in France |
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2000 |
Andréas Oldörp |
September |
| This German artist produces installation work with a sonic component. In the depths of the Darling foundry, Andreas Oldörp has created a visual and sonorous installation comprised of a series of glass tubes of different lengths, mounted and juxtaposed on stems of metal. The slender stems and transparency of the glass tubing provide stark contrast form the industrial atmosphere of the foundry. Hydrogen gas circulates continuously within the tubes, producing a variety of sounds, gentle and discreet tones that subtly infiltrate the space. |
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August 5, 2000 |
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| The young label Constellation presents 2 musical collectives: Fly pan am (Montreal) and Do make say think (Toronto) at the Darling Foundry. |
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Donna Ackrey & Yvette Poorter |
July - August |
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| These two artists, one who lives in Toronto the other in Montreal, met at Concordia University and have collaborated on numerous projects. While both maintain an individual artistic practice, they continue to collaborate on specific projects. Palaindrome comprises of two interventions: The first is a constructed dwelling inside the Darling Foundry, built from furniture found discarded in the street. The second is the construction of utopian interior sites within the urban environment from palettes of wood. Both installations play on the theme of domestic and exterior space, and the social phenomenon of moving day, July 1st, in Quebec. |
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Silophone - [the user] (silo n.5, port of Montreal) |
June 2000 to June 2001 |
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| Silophone is the transformation of grain elevator n.5 in the old port of Montreal into a musical instrument. Conceived by an artists' collective formed of an architect and a composer, Silophone ambitiously combines architecture, heritage, new technologies and music. Sounds are projected into the silo, abandoned of intense industrial activity for over 80 years, and transformed by its remarkable spatial and acoustic properties. Through Internet, telephone and audio technologies, Silophone celebrates the grain elevator's history and proposes a re-evaluation of the site as an acoustic and conceptual work of art. A web site (www.silophone.net), a toll-free phone number (1-877-511-silo or 844-5555 in Montreal), the Sonic Observatory, a historical exhibition, an architects' discussion group (organized by Docomomo Québec), and a public forum (organized by AQPI) comprise the principal activities developed around Silophone. Over 15 sound artists have also been commissioned to compose original works for the Silophone. |
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Du cinéma et des restes urbains
(Window projections of the centre de diffusion de l’UQAM) |
May 2000 |
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| Invited by Quartier Éphémère to present an in-situ intervention within the context of the "cinema and urban remains" festival, the two artists whose work involves cinema as a recurring or semi-recurring theme. Mark Lewis reflected on the nature of cinema. Smithfield, shot in 35mm, consists of a 4 min tracking shot where the camera moves around a wedge-shaped, late 19th century building situated opposite London's Smithfield market. Kristina Solomoukha and Régine Galland, use the filmic medium occasionally, and here present an anonymous 16mm documentary, shot in Montreal in the 1960s, which portrays the visit of engineers to a construction site along the St-Lawrence river (catalogue in production). |
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In Residence |
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| Kristina Solomoukha (April-June) Sandrine Guérin (July-September) Serge Provost (August-October) Jérome Ruby (October-December) Saadane Afif (January-March 2001) 4 French artists in Montreal Mathieu Beauséjour (July-September) 1 Canadian artist in France |
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1999 |
The Darling Foundry |
January 1999 - August 2001 |
| For several years, Quartier Éphémère has been preparing the establishment of a visual arts centre in the Faubourg des Recollets neighbourhood. The organization wishes to support artistic creation, production, and promotion of the work of young artists, through the creation of professional structures (artistic and technical studios, production offices, exhibition hall, and a multifunctional room) within a formerly abandoned industrial site. Several events attracting a large and diversified public have already taken place in the foundry (Panique au faubourg, Infinithéâtre, Philippe Dubuc, Palaindrome, Constellation, Le Nénuphar, a Silophone concert) and demonstrate the interest stimulated by the site. Quartier Éphémère's conversion of the Darling foundry into a visual arts centre affirms the presence of a cultural element within the future city of multimedia. Quartier Éphémère aims to reinforce the position of the artistic community, already active for several years in this part of the city, by providing access to a space and resources according to its needs. The presence of a dynamic site of collaboration and exchange, open to the general public, enables the community to flourish and expand, to improve the quality of life, and to participate in the development of the future multimedia city. |
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Infinithéâtre |
November 1999 | |
| Infinithéâtre presents 20 performances of Endgame by Samuel Beckett (Darling Foundry) |
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Marcus Macdonald |
September - October |
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| This multimedia installation comprising sound, light and visuals valorized the impressive space of the abandoned Wellington tunnel, formerly used for traffic passing under the Lachine Canal. Parallel to his visual work – a pool of water playing on reflections and perspectives – Marcus Macdonald invited musician Frank Légale and singer Sophie Herché to perform within the depths of the tunnel. |
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Philippe Dubud |
September 1999-2000 | |
| Presentation of MOntreal fashion designer Philippe Dubuc's collection at the Darling Foundry |
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Gilles Picouet |
July 27 - August 22 |
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| During his residence, this French artist created a concrete sculpture based on the form of a puzzle. Created for presentation in the public space, Quartier Éphémère negotiated with le Café Union in the Faubourg des Recollets to make use of its magnificent terrace. Displayed in the form of a gigantic puzzle at the centre of the space, the sculpture imposed on the everyday life of the café and its clientele. |
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Main d'oeuvre |
May 1999 |
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| Main d'œuvre in the context of the "Printemps du Québec à Paris" event Quartier Éphémère invites five artists in residence followed by an exhibition in its Parisian sister organization, Usine Éphémère. A stay of six weeks allowed these young artists to be immersed in a professional artistic life overseas. |
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1994 1998 |
Quartier Éphémère occupies an old warehouse (15000 sq.ft) at 16 Prince Street in Old Montreal, offering eight studios, technical workshop, and offices for production and promotion. Over thirty artists occupy the works spaces, fifty exhibitions and other events take place, most of which are produced or co-produced by the centre (ex :Panique au Faubourg). |
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1998 |
Tsuneko Taniuchi |
November 8 - December 20 |
| Japanese artist Tsuneko Taniuchi set out to expose the inherent failings of modern capitalist cultures, focussing particularly on the social, political, and cultural circumstances of women in the late 20th century. Using a combination of video, photography, installation and performance, Taniuchi played with our confusion around reality and art to promote women’s liberation from a world in which male power continues to reign. Tsuneko Taniuchi was an artist-in-residence for 3 months. |
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Marie-Claude Pratte |
November 8 - December 20 |
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Thomas McIntosh |
October 10 - November 11 |
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| These 2 artists were particularly fascinated with the natural and physical environment surrounding Quartier Ephémère’s art centre. Thomas McIntosh transformed a small obscure room into a sound-space reminiscent of Silo No.5 (on the banks of the Lachine Canal). Jean-Paul Aubé built a water purification system using water from the former St-Pierre River to raise questions about nature and our relationship to it. |
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The Flators |
August 22 – September 27 |
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| “The Flators,” created an inflatable sculpture from plastic and blue swimming pool materials. Installed just meters away from the Lachine Canal, its presence suggested a wave unfurling in the exhibition room. Another of their sculptures overflowed from Anthony Burnham’s 2nd floor studio windows, like a waterfall. |
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Laura Martin |
August 22 – September 27 |
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| Laura Martin produced a series of 4 photographic self-portraits superimposed upon 90,000 plastic “Liberté” yoghurt container lids collected from supermarkets in Ontario and Québec. This was the first opportunity for Quartier Ephémère to work closely with industry in the creation of an artistic concept. |
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The Death of the Party |
July 17 - August 16 |
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| Luigi Discenza, Emmanuel Galland, Jean-Pierre Gauthier, Diana Sherwood, Stéphanie Shepherd, and special musical guests Marybelle Frappier and Mirko Sabatini Under the direction of Michael Robinson, this exhibit housed various artists’ works under the common theme: The Death of the Party. |
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Christian Leclerc |
May 30 - June 27 |
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| French artist Christian Leclerc conceived of a special project for Quartier Ephémère and gallery B-312 in the Belgo Building, that of transforming two distinct spaces to create a new, unified workplace, using furnishings and other elements found on the premises along with actual personnel and their work-stations. The unifying element: an orange grid pattern on the floor. Another installation by Jeanne Bourrat was also featured. The notion of revealing both a question for thought and grey matter in both galleries has a way of destabilizing the public as it forces us to revise our usual way of understanding workplaces. Christian Leclerc and Jeanne Bourrat were artists-in-residence at Quartier Ephémère in 1997 and 1998, respectively. |
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Rodrigue Bélanger |
April 17 - May 24 |
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| Rodrigue Bélanger is a Québecois artist. In his photographic works, express his interested in the occupation of photographic surfaces by different interior and exterior masses. Another equally treated theme in his work is the revelatory aspect of photography. Often contrasted with each other, at times even imperceptible, working at the limits of minimalism his works propose a reflection on vision itself. |
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Edouard Sautai |
April 17 - May 24 |
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| Quartier Ephémère’s artist-in-residence in the fall of ’97, Edouard Sautai developed a series of conceptual designs. Using ballpoint pen on large white paper, he filled his canvas with thousands of straight, parallel lines. In sharp contrast to this meticulous and laborious work, he created a series of wind-machines, playful and light, in the style of Tinguely. |
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Buoy |
April 1 – 8, 1998 |
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| This exhibit was presented by the students of sculpture at Concordia University, under the direction of Trevor Gould, with the aim of allowing young artists to experience their first professional showing in Montreal. |
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Diana Sherwood |
February 27 – March 29 |
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| A boat construction and repair factory for old boats, the Weir Factory, inspired the photographs of Diana Shearwood. Before major renovations were conducted on the factory by the architects of Atelier in Situ, that preserved and revalued the industrial aesthetic of the old building, Shearwood captured its angles, hung the lights and fixed its colours onto film. The richness of the industrial interior space in which the traces of man and the patina of time meet, confront, and superimpose one another. These industrial “still-lives” are developed on arched paper. A catalogue, “The Zone,” containing 30 of Sherwood’s photographs, was also produced for this exhibit (edited by Behaviour). |
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1997 |
Relative Presents |
December 5 1997 -January 18 1998 |
| This exchange, between le Centre d'Art Contemporain de Rueil-Malmaison and Québecois and French artists was commissioned by Pierre-Juan Sugier (French) and François Dion (Canadian). These works question the process of time from the perspective of installation, photography, and sculpture. Lightly drawing upon the Pop art style, banal daily objects are implicated in the creation of poetry and social critique. Publication of a catalogue. |
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In Residence – 4 French artists in Montreal |
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| Jeanne Bourrat Laura Martin Philippe Jack Tsuneko Taniuchi |
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Katie Bethune-Leaman |
October - November |
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| This first solo exhibition for Katie Bethune-Leaman expressed the artist’s intention in a variety of ways. She creates her world drawing inspiration from cartoons, comics, toys, and mass media, all of which she recasts within the gallery space or in situations. |
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Howard Ursuliak |
September - October |
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| Quartier Ephémère is taken advantage of the Month of the Photo in Montreal in order to present the photographs of Vancouver artist Howard Ursuliak. True to the western-Canadian tradition, his still life photos, taken inside stores and other public places (often abandoned, insignificant places), are striking in their composition, colour and light. Howard Ursuliak’s works are also showing as part of a group exhibit Bonus, at the Contemporary Art Gallery. |
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Jean-Luc Blanc |
September 2 - October 12 |
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| The French artist Jean Luc Blanc was invited for a residency this summer. Out of his experience here, he presents his work created on site. He’s exclusively graphic work was inspired by various imaginary sources: literature, cinema, show business, and sports. |
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III |
July 17 - August 24 |
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| Three young artists without commonality, a painter, a video artist, and sculptor, present their work on the occasion of this summer group exhibit. Julien Babien, who has occupied a Quartier Éphémère studio for over a year, presents paintings and collages in large format composed of numerous vertical panels. Manon Lévesque presents one of her last audio-video creations, an intimate piece based upon the symmetrical composition of the human body. Sheriff’s sculptural work is composed of invented forms where the lith?? is used in wave and particle structure to refer to the relationship between the immaterial essence of the matter and its simultaneously constant nature. The dialogue between this abstract language and the literary or melodic nature of emotions forms the basis for her artistic enquiries. |
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La Relève |
July – August 1997 |
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| In collaboration with the Association Usines Éphémère, Quartier Éphémère organised an exhibit of young, Québecois artistes at the Éphémère Hospital in Paris during July and August, 1997. La Relève unites five artists who have already shown a personal exhibit at Quartier Éphémère, accounting for their various processes and techniques. The centre obtained support for this exhibit from the Permanente Commission of France-Québec and from the Minister of French Culture from the Department of International Affaires. |
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Panique au Faubourg (Panic at the Faubourg) |
May – June 1997 |
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| Panique au Faubourg is a Public Art event organized in the industrial neighbourhood of Montreal – le Faubourg des Récollets and Old Griffintown – that creates an alliance between visual arts and heritage. The event is conceptualized as a kind of adventure maze, inviting the visitors to explore the area where they encounter the works of the artists and the strange sites of the Faubourg des Récollets and Old Griffintown, having been considered the heart of the Canadian economy at the beginning of the century. Publication of the exhibit catalogue Panique au Faubourg, Éditions Quartier Éphémère. |
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Jacky Lafargue & Louis Couturier |
April – May 1997 |
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| “Images et Propos Mobiles was created because we wanted to take a momentary break from the habitual art scene to explore the more open, older but also the more uncertain site of expression found on the street. It is this photographic work that makes public the image of people who paradoxically live a contemporary hardship, that of exclusion. We met with a hundred people in the situation of exclusion in Montreal and Lyon. 30 allowed themselves to be photographed. Out of these we chose 8 portraits that we then associated with phrases. Each one is then transformed into a media icon…”. This conceptual piece was engaged by the two artists and presented to Quartier Éphémère in the form of posters and video, explaining their concept and process. The artists carried out a final intervention in the street during the exhibit. |
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Emmanuel Brillard |
April - May |
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| Emmanuel Brillard presents an exhibit entitled Je me souviens… in the foyer and his studio in which he recounts mythic sites destroyed by fire or flood in homage to the make believe worlds or : Pompeï, Atlantis, and the Garden of Eden. |
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Régine Kolle |
February - March |
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| A German artist in residence, Up to Space/Down to Earth demonstrates the entirety of the work she created during her stay in Montreal in the autumn of 1996. |
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1996 |
Eugénie Shinkle |
December 1996 – January 1997 |
| The photographer Eugénie Shinkle has occupied a Quartier Éphémère studio since January 1996. This solo show presents a new series of work between photo and composition. Beloved to the public, she has been equally acclaimed by speciality magazines such as ETC Montreal and Parachute. SHOWOFF For the occasion of Eugénie Shinkle’s exhibit, a multi-disciplinary event was organized with : Tammy Forsythe & Tusket, Éric Saint-Amand, Éric Pettigrew, Suzanne Miller (Dance), KNURL (Experimental Music), Mad Max, Vitamine S, Thunderbold, Peter Pan, Pills (DJ’s) Evelyne Le Calvet (Trapéziste), Double U (Vidéo). |
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L’Affaire Corridart |
October 1996 |
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| To commemorate the 1976 destruction of over twenty artists works by the City of Montreal services, Quartier Éphémère presents an exhibit of pieces, artefacts and video that demonstrate what occurred during l’Affaire Corridart (Corridart is a play on words, referring to a hallway/corridor or a bullfight/corrida). A debate on freedom of expression and censorship was organized to conclude the exhibit. |
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Stéphanie Granger |
September – October 1996 |
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| While elaborating on piece on seduction, this artist demonstrates her extreme curiosity in new ways of diffusing images: CD-Rom, projections, video, and Internet…etc. |
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MADE |
July 6 / August 25 1996 |
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| The works in this exhibition do not respond to any one formal or conceptual thematic preoccupation. Perhaps emblematizing a moment of relaxation vis-à-vis the traditional group exhibition, the informal manner in which each of the works in this exhibition are assembled here, can also be considered a procedure of mixing avant-gardes in resistance to the neoconservative desire for unity, order, security, and identity.
While this exhibition seeks to examine the very rules of the rules for exhibitions, individually, the works also challenge the viewer on many accounts. Art, in this case, no longer responds simply to the question “What is beautiful?”, but rather “What is art to be?”. The artist working without rules, takes on the responsibility of establishing the rules. The works are moments and events whose very documentation becomes a form of artistic production. |
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Gigi Perron |
May – June 1996 |
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| Gigi Perron always talks about a fictitious populace; these same imaginary characters become the unique subjects of her paintings. Sitting, standing, sleeping, alone or in company, obsessed, they occupy the entirety of the canvas. Ten or so recent paintings make up this exhibit in small, medium and large formats, painted in oil. Gigi Perron was born in Montreal in 1960 where she continues to work and live. |
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Les Ateliers |
March – May 1996 |
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| A group exhibit that presents the works of artists currently occupying studios at Quartier Éphémère: the painter Julien Babin, a multimedia installation by Paul Landon, the sculptor Jean Paul Mauny, and a French artist in residence along with the photographer Eugénie Shinkle. |
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1995 |
Olivier Sorrentino |
November – December 1995 |
| A young artist born in 1969, the work of Olivier Sorrentino articulates around representation. In Crux Dissimulata, he presents 5 pieces that play with political words and ideas. |
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Luis Molina-Pantin |
September 12 - October 22 |
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Hervé Le Nost |
September 8 - October 22 |
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Mario Cournoyer |
July – August |
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Mathieu Beauséjour |
May - July |
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Thibaut Boyer |
March 14 - April 21 |
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Michael A. Robinson |
January 24 - March 5 |
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État de Lieux (State of the premises) |
October 1994- January 1995 |
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| Inaugural exhibition for the opening of the Quartier Éphémère Visual Arts Centre, situated on 16, rue Prince. The space allows artists access to 4 studios, 1 exhibit space, 2 production offices and a technical studio. The first exhibit, État des lieux, sets the tone of the center’s politics: young artists with different nationalities and forms of expression are united under the theme of diversity. Following this exhibit the artists have solo shows and international exchanges are formalized most notably with the government of France. |
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