Monday, September 03, 2007
Art Show: Kamikaze
:: Posted by Bryan @ 9/03/2007 02:17:00 AM KAMIKAZE September 4th to September 30th 2007 Opening Thursday September 6th 5hPM to 11hPM USINE 106U 111 Roy E. 514-728-9349
USINE 106U delicately invites you to the opening of the explosive exhibition KAMIKAZE presenting the artworks of 26 visual artists: Mark Prent, Eric Braun, La puce a l'agonie, Mimi Traillette, Jean-Michel Cholette, Away, Yves Milet-Desfougeres, Daniel Erban , Serge De Cotret, Nathalie Lacombe, Guy Boutin, Stuart Rae, Argonacon, Ron Simon, Sweet Grognasse, Haemi Kim, Nicolas Plamondon, Andre Demers, Cannibal Amical, Jerome Bertrand, Chloe Beaulac, Marc-Andre Nassar, Heather Kim, Maxlks, Florent Veilleux and Jacqueline Deschamps.
Pop-trash paintings, monumental sculptures, kinetic pieces, etchings, original drawings, modified plush toys, surrealist jewelry other fascinating curiosities will take over the space. The exhibition takes place at USINE 106U, 111 Roy E., Montreal from September 4th to September 30th 2007, and the opening will be held on Thursday September 6th 5hPM to 11hPM. Opening hours are Saturday to Wednesday noon to 6hPM , Thursday & Friday from noon to 9hPM.
Mark Prent: The most controversial canadian sculptor of his generation, known worldwide for his hyper-realist nightmarish sculptures. He portrays with body molding techniques his inner visions, without altering the dramatic or emotional charge of the subject.
Eric Braun: Multidisciplinary artist (painting, sculpture, comics, etching), publisher of the anthology 106U and founder of USINE 106U. His graphic universe explores different materials with humor and lucidity.
La puce a l'agonie: Designer, painter and conceptor, her work in visual arts focuses on recomposing fragments linked to childhood and by mass-producing little pink cats.
Mimi Traillette: Cartoonist-photograph and designer, she creates colorful and entertaining pieces with influences coming from rock & roll , comics and aquatic depths..
Jean-Michel Cholette: His acrylic paintings are guided by an inspiration tapping intoPop Surrealism, lowbrow art and fantasy illustration. His cybernetic creatures and dislocated architectures take place in an aesthetic combining influences from science-fiction, ancient religious symbols, litterature and old family portraits.
Away: Founder and drummer for the legendary band Voivod, also painter ans illustrator, his artwork is distinctive for its fusion between an apocalyptical vision and a more classical crosshatching technique
Yves Milet-Desfougeres: Well-known french etching artist and painter, he explores symbolical themes with his ethereal landscapes haunted by hallucinatory visions. Member of the surrealists in the 60', he built his monumental carreer and is known of a handful of European collectors.
Daniel Erban: Brut artist to the core and mathematician, his oversize ink drawings on red paper are complex and decadent, translating by a transgressive gestual a dark and shocking universe, not without a certain humor.
Guy Boutin: Painter and cartoonist, he masters in multicolored raw representations of his graphic imaginary between comics and graffiti art.
Stuart Rae: Sculptor and designer of dental jewelery, he masters in the sharpness of stylised minimal shapes, while taking the challenge of rendering aesthetic parasite subjects and human remains.
Serge De Cotret: Painter and photographer, his figurative work dwells its inspiration mainly in religious thematics and in the shadowy corners of the Eros.
Nathalie Lacombe : Visionary painter, her artwork juxtaposes plastician luminous explorations with actualised symbolist icons.
Argonacon: Dynamic visual artist, his silkscreens and drawings superimpose stylised realistic patterns with symbolic compositions in a minimal and refreshing way.
Ron Simon : Photographer and numeric artist, his works present a rich contraste between textured organic papers and his sensual semi-funerary numeric momifications.
Sweet Grognasse: A colorful visual artist, she works in graphic design and creates paintings, silkscreen and textiles in the tradition of pop-art.
Haemi Kim : Classically trained korean painter, she shows a skillfull master of technique through a symbolist oniric vision.
Nicolas Plamondon: Young illustrator and cartoonist, he masters in macabre humor with a remarquable finesse. His imagery invocates death and childhood.
Andre Demers: Painter, he persues an artistic direction since ten years. Using strictly acrylic paint, he proposes a personal iconography full of cynism. He is influences by several artistic currents, although his work is caracteristic of Pop-Art as well as Op-Art.
Cannibal Amical: Painter, the inside and outside of the human body come to light like many broken mirrors in her sentimentally extremist artwork. Blue-skinned girls are submitted to infamous tortures in a cardboard box universe where inner pain is always very picturesque
Jerome Bertrand: Illustrator , painter and sculptor craving for research on human psyche, contemplatig an oniric future vowed to excess.
Chloe Beaulac: Painter and silkscreen artist, her vivifying artwork explores intricate compositions through patterns inspired from pop iconography.
Marc-André Nassar: Effervescent visual artist , his complex drawings are composed of fragments from the subconscious, translating through a great richness of textures the interior essence.
Heather Kim: Young korean artist, her artistic vision explores through freehand line drawings an introspective poetic mindscape.
Maxlks : Painter and graffiti artist ,his colorful and chaotic compositions depict urban alienation throufh a constant research of new plastic forms.
Florent Veilleux: Kinetic sculptor and pataphysician, his monumental installations in motion have brought him international acclaim. The justness of his commentary as well as the absurdities of reality are depicted with a lot of humor.
Jacqueline Deschamps: Visual artist, she sculpts matter with a sewing machine needle. Her ceramic miniature figures are true caricatures. Her creative universe is playful, humoristic, and reaches back to the world of childhood. She collaborates with Florent Veilleux who sometimes builds her animated bases.
Contact: Eric Braun (514)728-9349 eric_braun_106u@hotmail.comLabels: events, exhibits, Montreal, Quebec
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