Leopold Plotek Campane

Campane – Leopold Plotek

french / english
ISBN: 978-098659336-9
McClure Gallery, 2013
available: McClure Gallery
$24.95 +tx

Annual Student Exhibition 2013

Vernissage: Thursday April 4, 2013 at 6 pm
Exhibition: April 5 to 20, 2013

Exhibition Press Release:

Students registered in the School of Art’s winter session are invited to exhibit their work in our Annual Student Exhibition. The exhibition, which includes hundreds of works in a wide variety of media, gives students the experience of seeing their work in the context of a professional gallery. It also provides an opportunity for students and public to see the great diversity of creative activity that takes place at the Centre.

Nicolas Fleming Je n’écrirai pas beaucoup de livres

Exhibition: Mai 3 to 25, 2013
Vernissage: Thursday May 2 at 6 pm

The McClure Gallery is pleased to present the recent work of Nicolas Fleming. The exhibition, Je n’ecrirai pas beaucoup de livres, brings together a host of objects created, modified and/or apropriated that fluctuate between painting and sculpture, including at times a touch of the performative. The artist approaches the space of the gallery in much the same way as he does the materials with which he works – transforming and manipulating it in order to continue to explore the issues and questions that preoccupy him.

Those pre-occupations – both spatial and aesthetic – emerge from experiences that consitute his daily life – working on renovation projects, mounting exhibitions or other types of manual labour. Through his artistic interventions, Fleming launches a kind of commentary upon the formal rules and ideologies surrounding the act of painting, proposing new paths of research and solutions. For instance, he considers every step in the process as an end in itself. His work is in constant metamorphosis; he abandons each element only at the point where, in his view, it appropriately participates in his reflections.

The works in the McClure Gallery exhibition underline the importance Fleming accords to the physical reality of his materials as well as to the act of creation itself. Moreover, he interacts very consciously with the specific characteristics of the exhibition space, either working with those specificities in a kind of dialogical relationship or intervening to alter the space physically to better serve his aesthetic objectives. The unique aspect of Fleming’s installations, which readily evoke references to daily labour, provokes our reflection upon the gestures and decisions inherent in creation.

Inquiétante étrangeté et autres fantasmagories

Commissaire invitée: Véronique La Perrière M.
Exhibition: May 31 to June 22, 2013
Vernissage: Thursday May 30 at 6 pm
Invited Curator : Véronique La Perrière M.

The McClure Gallery is pleased to feature the exhibition, « Inquiétante étrangeté et autres fantasmagories » organized by invited guest curator Véronique La Perrière M.
The exhibition focuses on drawing as an artistic practice and brings together the work of artists Julie Lequin, Kristin Bjornerud, Martin Lord, Marigold Santos and Pierre Durette. The works selected find coherence and unity through their shared exploration of poetic narration, specifically as derived from the realm of dreams and the phantasmagorical. The theme of the exhibition is liberally inspired by notions of the “uncanny,” as developed, for instance, in the stories of the romantic writer E.T.A. Hoffmann.

Emerging out of a figurative drawing practice, the works of each artist express a very personal and singular pictoral universe, which nonetheless navigates a shared imaginary, a common and visible poetic. The exhibition seeks to underline particular artistic preocupations and aesthetic tendencies as evocative signs of our epoch.

Julie Lequin, a multidisciplinary artist working in video, performance, drawing and writing, explores themes that bring together autobiography, autofiction and questions of identity. Between narrative, poetry and humour, her installation of drawings emerges from fragments of both a real and a dreamed life. (www.julielequin.com)

Kristin Bjornerud is recognised for her delicate drawings, intricately pieced together from poetic narratives. In a language that draws from folklore, fantasy and magic realism, she presents an ensemble of watercolours and gouaches that bear witness to her pictorial universe and personal mythologies. (www.galleryjones.com/Kristin_Bjornerud.html)

Martin Lord drawing practice oscillates ingeniously between diagrams, pictograms and technical representation. His works often fascinate and astonish with their mysterious instructions. Using fragments of the body and architectural elements, the drawings featured in this exhibition propose an unexpected narration (www.martinlord.info)

Marigold Santos, continues her visual investigation into issues of fragmentation and reconfiguration in a novel installation based on two series of drawings realized over the last few years. The new work hones in on Santos’ preoccupation with crystallography and the notion of dismemberment. (www.marigoldsantos.com)

Pierre Durette’s installation combines both recent drawings and sculpture. The artist’s new body of work explores themes of ritual and ritual offerings. The codified images he articulates provide a glimpse into both abstract and poetic narratives situated precariously between the strange and the familiar. (www.pierredurette.com)