Métro, by Charlotte Mercille
Mar 28, 2019
Plusieurs mardis par année, le centre d’art Arsenal art contemporain Montréal engage la conversation avec des artistes de tous les horizons dans ses vastes galeries.
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Plusieurs mardis par année, le centre d’art Arsenal art contemporain Montréal engage la conversation avec des artistes de tous les horizons dans ses vastes galeries.
Read MoreTwice a year, hundreds of America's most hardcore gun enthusiasts flock to the northern Arizona desert to spend a weekend firing military-grade weapons at pickup trucks, storage containers, and grounded propeller planes.
Read MoreOpen through April 18 at Arsenal Contemporary is Canadian artist Nicolas Baier’s “Nervure’s Path.” This is Baier’s first solo exhibition in the United States, continuing his work with exploring technology’s evolution and its influence on human life.
Read MoreTammi Campbell lives and works in Saskatoon Canada, Her show at Arsenal Contemporary NY on the Lower East Side borrowed from major modernists and contemporary artists--Joseph Albers and Frank Stella among them--and then adds quite literally a contemporary cover, in the form of seemingly real package materials--bubble wrap, masking tape, etc.
Read MoreElectric lights dot the walls of Nadia Belerique and Sojourner Truth Parsons’ exhibition at Daniel Faria Gallery. Illuminating the spaces between paintings, Belerique’s orbs double as a second sun, echoing the flat yellow circles in Parsons’ paintings.
Read MoreAt Migrations, the new exhibition by English sculptor Mat Chivers, there's a huge piece that dominates the space. It looks sort of like a lumpy figure sitting slouched on the ground.
Read MoreEn 2018, le Musée d’art de Joliette invitait le sculpteur anglais Mat Chivers en résidence de production au Québec, afin qu’il crée un nouveau corpus d’œuvres en dialogue avec le milieu de l’intelligence artificielle, en pleine ébullition à Montréal
Read MoreMolding and firing clay is among the oldest recorded human activities. In the Ancient Near East, clay was imprinted with tiny lines to keep records of grain and other goods. The Greeks made clay vessels for eating and drinking and for honoring the dead, the surfaces covered in intricate geometric designs and abstracted figures.
Read MoreArsenal Toronto is proud to present Enchantment, the first international solo exhibition by Greg Ito presenting paintings, sculpture, and installation that explores the state of lucid dreaming where daily life collapses into fantasy, nightmare, hope, failure, and the unforseen future.
Read MoreJennifer Alleyn est de ces cinéastes qui tournent trop peu. Pour toutes sortes de raisons, financières surtout, on ne se le cachera pas. Beaucoup d’appelés, peu d’élus, et encore moins d’éluEs.
Read MoreDuring the inaugural Antarctic Biennale in 2017, held aboard research vessels surrounded by icy desolation, the artist Juliana Cerqueira Leite met the architect Barbara Imhof while working on shee (Self-Deploying Habitat for Extreme Environments), inflatable housing for inhospitable terrain.
Read MoreDécoulant d'un chagrin d'amour durement vécu par Jennifer Alleyn, Impetus est une oeuvre à la fois humaniste, poétique et expérimentale sur la quête du bonheur.
Read MoreOver an extensive career, Nicola L journeyed from Morocco, where she was born, to Paris, the city where she first encountered Nouveau Réalisme to great influence, to New York, where she took roost in the Chelsea Hotel, and Ibiza, whose sun-kissed coast inspired the artist’s longstanding concern for the skin’s warm envelopment.
Read MoreThe suggestively placed knobs and shiny surfaces of feminist artist Nicola L’s functional sculptures tempt the viewer to stroke, poke, pull and touch. A commode, coffee table, bookshelf and two “sofas” playing dress-up as furniture invite sublimation and use while mocking the impulse to realize an absurd desire.
Read MoreJulie Favreau is known for mixing mediums to create immersive environments that heighten the viewers’ attention to touch.
Read MoreArtist Nicola L., best known for her anthropomorphic, functional sculptures, died on December 31, 2018, at age 81. From a white, foot-shaped sofa to a curvy yellow cabinet with a round face and suggestive, nipplesque drawer pulls, L.’s artwork cheekily merged principles of art, design, and furniture.
Read MoreConceptual French artist Nicola L., whose feminist work has been experiencing newfound recognition in recent years, died on Monday in Los Angeles at the age of 81. Her shape-shifting art, which spans sculpture, painting, performance, and furniture, often explored the human (and mostly the female) body.
Read More"It would be perfect for jewelry," says a gallery visitor at New York's Arsenal Contemporary to the woman next to him, tugging open the nipple drawer of Nicola L.'s La Femme Commode and contemplating its obvious use: storage.
Read MoreNicola L was making art around the same time as other household pop art names like Andy Warhol. But while Warhol has a huge exhibition at the Whitney right now (with a sick gift shop), Nicola L. didn't get her first major retrospective until last year.
Read MoreArsenal Contemporary is pleased to present the Brazilian, Brooklyn-based artist, Juliana Cerqueira Leite’s first solo presentation in New York, Until Different. The exhibition opens 13 September and runs through 4 November, 2018.
Juliana Cerqueira Leite reformulates physical presences and absences in the world and body, negating the mere reassertion of subjects and their environments through acts of pivotal transformation.