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Untitled
By Eddy Firmin
Located in Montreal, Quebec
The first decades of the 21st century shaped the period of reconfiguration of the "world order", according to Pedro Pablo Gómez1, into three options: "rewesternalization, dewesternal...
Category
2010s Contemporary Montreal - Sculptures
Materials
Brass
Untitled
By Eddy Firmin
Located in Montreal, Quebec
The first decades of the 21st century shaped the period of reconfiguration of the "world order", according to Pedro Pablo Gómez1, into three options: "rewesternalization, dewesternal...
Category
2010s Contemporary Montreal - Sculptures
Materials
Brass
Untitled
By Eddy Firmin
Located in Montreal, Quebec
The first decades of the 21st century shaped the period of reconfiguration of the "world order", according to Pedro Pablo Gómez1, into three options: "rewesternalization, dewesternal...
Category
2010s Contemporary Montreal - Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
Untitled pendant (Viagra)
By Colleen Wolstenholme
Located in Montreal, Quebec
I have been taking impressions of pills and creating a pill archive where pills are cast in silver and/or gold since 1995. At that time I was given pills as an answer to something th...
Category
2010s Contemporary Montreal - Sculptures
Materials
Silver
Magnum Opus (Champagne)
By Lucy Sparrow
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Ed. of 20
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Felt artist Lucy Sparrow is one of the most exciting and original artists working in the UK today. Her practice is quirky yet subversive, luring the audience in with her soft, tactile, colorful felt creations before hitting them hard with her comment on subjects from the demise of the traditional high street to censorship in pornography.
She took the art world by storm in Summer 2014 with the opening of her fully stocked felt Cornershop installation in London’s East End. With queues around the block and wall to wall media coverage, the installation was both a commercial and critical success. In 2016, the BBC commissioned Lucy to recreates the Crown Jewels in felt, to celebrate HRH The Queen’s official 90th birthday.
In May 2017, Lucy undertook her first solo show in the US, opening The Convenience Store, a New York bodega stocked with 9,000 felted...
Category
2010s Contemporary Montreal - Sculptures
Materials
Textile, Felt
Control of the Masses 17
By Sophie DeFrancesca
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Toronto artist Sophie DeFrancesca has always been fascinated by vintage fashion. Pictures of her mother wearing gorgeous frocks from the 40’s, 50’s and 60’s served as a connection to...
Category
2010s Contemporary Montreal - Sculptures
Materials
Mixed Media
My Japanese Boyfriend
By Lucy Sparrow
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Ed. of 20
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Felt artist Lucy Sparrow is one of ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Montreal - Sculptures
Materials
Textile, Felt
Control of the Masses 14
By Sophie DeFrancesca
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Toronto artist Sophie DeFrancesca has always been fascinated by vintage fashion. Pictures of her mother wearing gorgeous frocks from the 40’s, 50’s and 60’s served as a connection to...
Category
2010s Contemporary Montreal - Sculptures
Materials
Mixed Media
Riot
By Brandon Vickerd
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Brandon Vickerd has in the past explored anthropomorphic hybridity and technological impetus through taxidermy and mechanics. For the Wrong Place, Wrong Time exhibition, the artist revisits these themes, this time putting bronze casting in the spotlight. Vickerd imagines anachronistic and incongruous juxtapositions of this material, which is reminiscent of both antique statuary and modern public monuments. These associations provoke laughter or discomfort, and they detonate in the space of the gallery as well as in the urban setting in which a large part of its production is destined. This is undoubtedly where the contextual and temporal inconsistencies evoked by the title of the exhibition reside.
Inspired by the material tradition of bronze, the artist relies heavily on references to Greek mythology, which he likes to subvert. With Atlas (2019), Vickerd makes a reversal of the famous story of the bearer of the globe. Rather than bravely supporting the weight of the world, the Titan seems assailed by multiple spheres that hide the top of his body, leaving only his distinguished shoes and his dress pants. The sculpture Flora Hominis (2019) illustrates a transitional state between the human and the plant whose detail evokes the metamorphosis of the nymph Daphne into a tree, once immortalized by Bernini. The artist presents here a fragmentary study of this monument commissioned by the Royal Botanical Gardens of Burlington, Ontario. While the statue aims to honor the founder of the place, the latter is made paradoxically unrecognizable by the vegetation that proliferates on his face. In this way, Vickerd replaces the heroic celebration of his subjects with a partial occultation of their identity.
The sculptor deftly adjusts to classic themes the signifiers of the disappointed promises of modernist ideology. On the 50th anniversary of the first US moon landing, Oblivion (Dead Astronaut...
Category
2010s Contemporary Montreal - Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Paintpots (Maquette) (B/01/04)
By Sophie Ryder
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Ed. of 9
Sophie Ryder was born in London in 1963 and lives in the heart of the Gloucestershire countryside with her family. She studied visual arts at the Royal Academy Schools and ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Montreal - Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Évasion 3
By Guillaume Lachapelle
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Guillaume Lachapelle’s artistic practice is shaped predominantly by sculpture, expressed in the form of installations and detailed miniature models. Lachapelle presents playful unive...
Category
2010s Contemporary Montreal - Sculptures
Materials
Paint, Nylon
Untitled
By Eddy Firmin
Located in Montreal, Quebec
The first decades of the 21st century shaped the period of reconfiguration of the "world order", according to Pedro Pablo Gómez1, into three options: "rewesternalization, dewesternal...
Category
2010s Contemporary Montreal - Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Blondes Have More Fun
By Sophie DeFrancesca
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Toronto artist Sophie DeFrancesca has always been fascinated by vintage fashion. Pictures of her mother wearing gorgeous frocks from the 40’s, 50’s and 60’s served as a connection to...
Category
2010s Contemporary Montreal - Sculptures
Materials
Mixed Media
Untitled
By Eddy Firmin
Located in Montreal, Quebec
The first decades of the 21st century shaped the period of reconfiguration of the "world order", according to Pedro Pablo Gómez1, into three options: "rewesternalization, dewesternal...
Category
2010s Contemporary Montreal - Sculptures
Materials
Metal
The First Cut is the Deepest
By Jennifer Small
Located in Montreal, Quebec
For Nicolas Bourriaud, the flea market is a place where “past production is recycled and switches direction” and where “an object is given a new idea.” On the stalls of the flea market, objects are resurrected and given a second life. This is where Jennifer Small...
Category
2010s Contemporary Montreal - Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Untitled
By Eddy Firmin
Located in Montreal, Quebec
The first decades of the 21st century shaped the period of reconfiguration of the "world order", according to Pedro Pablo Gómez1, into three options: "rewesternalization, dewesternal...
Category
2010s Contemporary Montreal - Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Untitled
By Eddy Firmin
Located in Montreal, Quebec
The first decades of the 21st century shaped the period of reconfiguration of the "world order", according to Pedro Pablo Gómez1, into three options: "rewesternalization, dewesternal...
Category
2010s Contemporary Montreal - Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Girl Hugging Dog (B/12/16)
By Sophie Ryder
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Ed. of 25
Sophie Ryder was born in London in 1963 and lives in the heart of the Gloucestershire countryside with her family. She studied visual arts at the Royal Academy Schools and...
Category
2010s Contemporary Montreal - Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Sandcastle Sisters
By Joshua Jensen-Nagle
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Ed. of 15
For over a decade, Joshua Jensen-Nagle has captivated the viewer with his evocative large-scale photographs. Best known for his dreamy aerial beaches, expansive ski scenes...
Category
2010s Contemporary Montreal - Sculptures
Materials
Stainless Steel
signe émotionnel "égo", numéro 2
By Eddy Firmin
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Through his impactful self-portrait in thoughtfully ornamented ceramic, makes an uncomfortable connection between the slavery of the past and the slavery of today: overconsumption, a...
Category
2010s Contemporary Montreal - Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
Nuit Blanche
By Guillaume Lachapelle
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Text by Terence Sharpe
There is a moment in Andrei Tarkovsky’s Solaris (1972) when the character Hari commits suicide by drinking liquid oxygen. As she is not actually a human, but an artificial hybrid product of the mysterious planet and the protagonists’ memories, she heals rapidly and is alive again minutes later. Her choice to take her own life is poignant, seemingly the action of a being becoming aware of its hopeless infinitude. Her realization that while the men will die on the space station or elsewhere, her existence is that of immortality, a deeply alienating notion that causes her to seek her own destruction. The Montreal artist Guillaume Lachapelle has one work that prompts a sense of eternal alienation that echoes Hari’s tragedy. The work greets the viewer with a empty doorway flanked by clinically white bookshelves...
Category
2010s Contemporary Montreal - Sculptures
Materials
LED Light, Plaster, Wood, Plexiglass
Untitled
By Eddy Firmin
Located in Montreal, Quebec
The first decades of the 21st century shaped the period of reconfiguration of the "world order", according to Pedro Pablo Gómez1, into three options: "rewesternalization, dewesternal...
Category
2010s Contemporary Montreal - Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Untitled
By Eddy Firmin
Located in Montreal, Quebec
The first decades of the 21st century shaped the period of reconfiguration of the "world order", according to Pedro Pablo Gómez1, into three options: "rewesternalization, dewesternal...
Category
2010s Contemporary Montreal - Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Second Engagement
By Jonathan Seliger
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Jonathan Seliger makes meticulous reproductions/ interpretations of mass produced objects and containers for everyday consumables. Here, having departed from his signature painted ca...
Category
2010s Contemporary Montreal - Sculptures
Materials
Enamel, Copper
Untitled
By Eddy Firmin
Located in Montreal, Quebec
The first decades of the 21st century shaped the period of reconfiguration of the "world order", according to Pedro Pablo Gómez1, into three options: "rewesternalization, dewesternal...
Category
2010s Contemporary Montreal - Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Lights Out
By Guillaume Lachapelle
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Guillaume Lachapelle’s artistic practice is shaped predominantly by sculpture, expressed in the form of installations and detailed miniature models. Lachapelle presents playful unive...
Category
2010s Contemporary Montreal - Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Untitled (diptych)
By Eddy Firmin
Located in Montreal, Quebec
The first decades of the 21st century shaped the period of reconfiguration of the "world order", according to Pedro Pablo Gómez1, into three options: "rewesternalization, dewesternal...
Category
2010s Contemporary Montreal - Sculptures
Materials
Metal
649 and Extra (diptych)
By Jennifer Small
Located in Montreal, Quebec
For Nicolas Bourriaud, the flea market is a place where “past production is recycled and switches direction” and where “an object is given a new idea.” On the stalls of the flea mar...
Category
2010s Contemporary Montreal - Sculptures
Materials
Alabaster
Untitled
By Eddy Firmin
Located in Montreal, Quebec
The first decades of the 21st century shaped the period of reconfiguration of the "world order", according to Pedro Pablo Gómez1, into three options: "rewesternalization, dewesternal...
Category
2010s Contemporary Montreal - Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Leather, Wood, Plastic, Plaster, Mixed Media
Lucy's Charms (Cereals)
By Lucy Sparrow
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Ed. of 20
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Felt artist Lucy Sparrow is one of ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Montreal - Sculptures
Materials
Textile, Felt
Untitled
By Eddy Firmin
Located in Montreal, Quebec
The first decades of the 21st century shaped the period of reconfiguration of the "world order", according to Pedro Pablo Gómez1, into three options: "rewesternalization, dewesternal...
Category
2010s Contemporary Montreal - Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Oblivion (Dead Astronaut #2)
By Brandon Vickerd
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Purposely diverse, my work straddles the line between high and low culture, acting as a catalyst for critical thought and addressing the failed promise of a modernist future predicated on boundless scientific advancement. Whether through craftsmanship, the creation of spectacle, or humour, my goal is to provoke the viewer into questioning the dominate myth of progress ingrained in Western world views.
A satellite resting lifeless in a crater, recalling a modern day Icarus whose faith in technology lead to hubris and imminent demise as he fell back to earth; a ghost clad in chrome, cloaked in the reflective guise of the machine it seems fit to haunt; machines sporting deer antlers and locked in never ending combat – these are just some of the motifs I utilize to articulate my concerns about technology and failure. Elements of this work appear as wonderfully crude relics of past visions of the future, as vehicles or potential doomsday weapons mirroring the excesses of the cold war and the space race, while also recalling proto-modernist sculpture of the same period. I attempt to highlight our nostalgia for a past, when science held the promise of a limitless future, and not the very strange and often frightening world of tomorrow we find ourselves living in today. My work is a lexicon of no-longer-relevant representation created with a critical eye towards modernism, but also empathy for a tarnished idealism.
In the past several years my exhibited projects have been diverse in form and content, including site specific interventions, kinetic sculpture, public performances and object based sculpture. My public installations deliberately do not reveal themselves as sculpture, but seek to insert an anomaly into the viewer’s experience of the everyday. Projects such as Northern Satellite trigger a discourse centered on our conflicting ways of understanding landscape by creating a narrative where a Global Positioning Satellite has collided with the earth. In gallery exhibitions I engage the audience through employing the language of monumental figurative sculpture by subverting dominant cultural narratives by creating monuments to popular culture characters (Dead Astronaut...
Category
2010s Contemporary Montreal - Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Chunky Charms (Tiffany)
By Jonathan Seliger
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Jonathan Seliger makes meticulous reproductions/ interpretations of mass produced objects and containers for everyday consumables. Here, having departed from his signature painted canvas constructions to explore aluminum, bronze and stainless steel fabrications which are sprayed with automotive enamels, he takes the once popular slogan “Super Size It” to the extreme presenting larger-than-life versions of a milk carton and a Hermes bag...
Category
2010s Contemporary Montreal - Sculptures
Materials
Enamel, Copper
Devil in the Details
By Jonathan Seliger
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Jonathan Seliger makes meticulous reproductions/ interpretations of mass produced objects and containers for everyday consumables. Here, having departed from his signature painted ca...
Category
2010s Contemporary Montreal - Sculptures
Materials
Enamel, Copper
Golden Slumbers
By Jennifer Small
Located in Montreal, Quebec
For Nicolas Bourriaud, the flea market is a place where “past production is recycled and switches direction” and where “an object is given a new idea.” On the stalls of the flea market, objects are resurrected and given a second life. This is where Jennifer Small...
Category
2010s Contemporary Montreal - Sculptures
Materials
Acrylic, Plaster, Plastic
Espaces sans espèces III (Koala)
By Karine Payette
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Karine Payette builds vast dreamlike settings from hyperrealistic, banal objects in order to produce something narrative that evokes the precariousness of the world. The artist plays...
Category
2010s Contemporary Montreal - Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Untitled
By Eddy Firmin
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Through his impactful self-portrait in thoughtfully ornamented ceramic, makes an uncomfortable connection between the slavery of the past and the slavery of today: overconsumption, a...
Category
2010s Contemporary Montreal - Sculptures
Materials
Wood, Ceramic, Plastic, Mixed Media
Birdboy
By Brandon Vickerd
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Brandon Vickerd has in the past explored anthropomorphic hybridity and technological impetus through taxidermy and mechanics. For the Wrong Place, Wrong Time exhibition, the artist revisits these themes, this time putting bronze casting in the spotlight. Vickerd imagines anachronistic and incongruous juxtapositions of this material, which is reminiscent of both antique statuary and modern public monuments. These associations provoke laughter or discomfort, and they detonate in the space of the gallery as well as in the urban setting in which a large part of its production is destined. This is undoubtedly where the contextual and temporal inconsistencies evoked by the title of the exhibition reside.
Inspired by the material tradition of bronze, the artist relies heavily on references to Greek mythology, which he likes to subvert. With Atlas (2019), Vickerd makes a reversal of the famous story of the bearer of the globe. Rather than bravely supporting the weight of the world, the Titan seems assailed by multiple spheres that hide the top of his body, leaving only his distinguished shoes and his dress pants. The sculpture Flora Hominis (2019) illustrates a transitional state between the human and the plant whose detail evokes the metamorphosis of the nymph Daphne into a tree, once immortalized by Bernini. The artist presents here a fragmentary study of this monument commissioned by the Royal Botanical Gardens of Burlington, Ontario. While the statue aims to honor the founder of the place, the latter is made paradoxically unrecognizable by the vegetation that proliferates on his face. In this way, Vickerd replaces the heroic celebration of his subjects with a partial occultation of their identity.
The sculptor deftly adjusts to classic themes the signifiers of the disappointed promises of modernist ideology. On the 50th anniversary of the first US moon landing, Oblivion (Dead Astronaut...
Category
2010s Contemporary Montreal - Sculptures
Materials
Concrete
Stable (medium Hermes)
By Jonathan Seliger
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Jonathan Seliger makes meticulous reproductions/ interpretations of mass produced objects and containers for everyday consumables. Here, having departed from his signature painted canvas constructions to explore aluminum, bronze and stainless steel fabrications which are sprayed with automotive enamels, he takes the once popular slogan “Super Size It” to the extreme presenting larger-than-life versions of a milk carton and a Hermes bag...
Category
2010s Contemporary Montreal - Sculptures
Materials
Bronze, Enamel
signe émotionnel "égo"
By Eddy Firmin
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Through his impactful self-portrait in thoughtfully ornamented ceramic, makes an uncomfortable connection between the slavery of the past and the slavery of today: overconsumption, a...
Category
2010s Contemporary Montreal - Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
signe émotionnel "égo", numéro 3
By Eddy Firmin
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Through his impactful self-portrait in thoughtfully ornamented ceramic, makes an uncomfortable connection between the slavery of the past and the slavery of today: overconsumption, a...
Category
2010s Contemporary Montreal - Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
Two separate events (diptych)
By Bevan Ramsay
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Bevan Ramsay completed his graduate degree in sculpture nearly a decade ago, but it's only now that he feels he has truly graduated from his MFA. This liberating feeling comes with a...
Category
2010s Contemporary Montreal - Sculptures
Materials
Glass, Porcelain, Wood
Ketch22
By Lucy Sparrow
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Ed. of 10
Felt artist Lucy Sparrow is one of the most exciting and original artists working in the UK today. Her practice is quirky yet subversive, luring the audience in with her soft, tactile, colorful felt creations before hitting them hard with her comment on subjects from the demise of the traditional high street to censorship in pornography.
She took the art world by storm in Summer 2014 with the opening of her fully stocked felt Cornershop installation in London’s East End. With queues around the block and wall to wall media coverage, the installation was both a commercial and critical success. In 2016, the BBC commissioned Lucy to recreates the Crown Jewels in felt, to celebrate HRH The Queen’s official 90th birthday.
In May 2017, Lucy undertook her first solo show in the US, opening The Convenience Store, a New York bodega stocked with 9,000 felted artworks...
Category
2010s Contemporary Montreal - Sculptures
Materials
Textile, Felt
À Perpétuité
By Karine Payette
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Karine Payette builds vast dreamlike settings from hyperrealistic, banal objects in order to produce something narrative that evokes the precariousness of the world. The artist plays...
Category
2010s Contemporary Montreal - Sculptures
Materials
Mixed Media, Glass, Ink, LED Light, Acrylic
Untitled
By Eddy Firmin
Located in Montreal, Quebec
The first decades of the 21st century shaped the period of reconfiguration of the "world order", according to Pedro Pablo Gómez1, into three options: "rewesternalization, dewesternal...
Category
2010s Contemporary Montreal - Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Mixed Media
Bleur
By Greg Payce
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Alive with history, movement, and possibility, Greg Payce’s vessels become animated before our eyes. Processions of figures emerge from negative space, projections of vibrant pattern...
Category
2010s Contemporary Montreal - Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain
Untitled (Hermes)
By Jonathan Seliger
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Jonathan Seliger makes meticulous reproductions/ interpretations of mass produced objects and containers for everyday consumables. Here, having departed from his signature painted canvas constructions to explore aluminum, bronze and stainless steel fabrications which are sprayed with automotive enamels, he takes the once popular slogan “Super Size It” to the extreme presenting larger-than-life versions of a milk carton and a Hermes bag...
Category
2010s Contemporary Montreal - Sculptures
Materials
Enamel, Bronze
Birds of a Feather
By Jennifer Small
Located in Montreal, Quebec
For Nicolas Bourriaud, the flea market is a place where “past production is recycled and switches direction” and where “an object is given a new idea.” On the stalls of the flea market, objects are resurrected and given a second life. This is where Jennifer Small...
Category
2010s Contemporary Montreal - Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Untitled
By Eddy Firmin
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Through his impactful self-portrait in thoughtfully ornamented ceramic, makes an uncomfortable connection between the slavery of the past and the slavery of today: overconsumption, a...
Category
2010s Contemporary Montreal - Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Talk to Me
By Bevan Ramsay
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Bevan Ramsay completed his graduate degree in sculpture nearly a decade ago, but it's only now that he feels he has truly graduated from his MFA. This liberating feeling comes with a...
Category
2010s Contemporary Montreal - Sculptures
Materials
Stone, Metal
Untitled
By Eddy Firmin
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Through his impactful self-portrait in thoughtfully ornamented ceramic, makes an uncomfortable connection between the slavery of the past and the slavery of today: overconsumption, a...
Category
2010s Contemporary Montreal - Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Plastic, Wood, Mixed Media
Hugging, Maquette (B/08/05)
By Sophie Ryder
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Ed. of 9
Sophie Ryder was born in London in 1963 and lives in the heart of the Gloucestershire countryside with her family. She studied visual arts at the Royal Academy Schools and ...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Montreal - Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
The Dance
By Bevan Ramsay
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Bevan Ramsay completed his graduate degree in sculpture nearly a decade ago, but it's only now that he feels he has truly graduated from his MFA. This liberating feeling comes with a...
Category
2010s Contemporary Montreal - Sculptures
Materials
Mixed Media
Time Takes a Cigarette
By Jennifer Small
Located in Montreal, Quebec
For Nicolas Bourriaud, the flea market is a place where “past production is recycled and switches direction” and where “an object is given a new idea.” On the stalls of the flea market, objects are resurrected and given a second life. This is where Jennifer Small...
Category
2010s Contemporary Montreal - Sculptures
Materials
Mixed Media, Paint
Beach Ball
By Joshua Jensen-Nagle
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Ed. of 15
For over a decade, Joshua Jensen-Nagle has captivated the viewer with his evocative large-scale photographs. Best known for his dreamy aerial beaches, expansive ski scenes...
Category
2010s Contemporary Montreal - Sculptures
Materials
Stainless Steel
Transfiguration
By Greg Payce
Located in Montreal, Quebec
6 elements.
Alive with history, movement, and possibility, Greg Payce’s vessels become animated before our eyes. Processions of figures emerge from negative space, projections of vi...
Category
2010s Contemporary Montreal - Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain
Model for Monument to the White Squirrel
By Brandon Vickerd
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Brandon Vickerd has in the past explored anthropomorphic hybridity and technological impetus through taxidermy and mechanics. For the Wrong Place, Wrong Time exhibition, the artist revisits these themes, this time putting bronze casting in the spotlight. Vickerd imagines anachronistic and incongruous juxtapositions of this material, which is reminiscent of both antique statuary and modern public monuments. These associations provoke laughter or discomfort, and they detonate in the space of the gallery as well as in the urban setting in which a large part of its production is destined. This is undoubtedly where the contextual and temporal inconsistencies evoked by the title of the exhibition reside.
Inspired by the material tradition of bronze, the artist relies heavily on references to Greek mythology, which he likes to subvert. With Atlas (2019), Vickerd makes a reversal of the famous story of the bearer of the globe. Rather than bravely supporting the weight of the world, the Titan seems assailed by multiple spheres that hide the top of his body, leaving only his distinguished shoes and his dress pants. The sculpture Flora Hominis (2019) illustrates a transitional state between the human and the plant whose detail evokes the metamorphosis of the nymph Daphne into a tree, once immortalized by Bernini. The artist presents here a fragmentary study of this monument commissioned by the Royal Botanical Gardens of Burlington, Ontario. While the statue aims to honor the founder of the place, the latter is made paradoxically unrecognizable by the vegetation that proliferates on his face. In this way, Vickerd replaces the heroic celebration of his subjects with a partial occultation of their identity.
The sculptor deftly adjusts to classic themes the signifiers of the disappointed promises of modernist ideology. On the 50th anniversary of the first US moon landing, Oblivion (Dead Astronaut...
Category
2010s Contemporary Montreal - Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Untitled
By Guillaume Lachapelle
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Guillaume Lachapelle’s artistic practice is shaped predominantly by sculpture, expressed in the form of installations and detailed miniature models. Lachapelle presents playful universes which combine objects of undetermined purpose; in this way, he opens the conventions of our reality to fresh disposition. The architecture of his models – which Lachapelle has recently begun to make with the help of the latest 3-D printing technology – shows motifs originating from the everyday, certainly, but seeming strange, alienating or even uncanny when combined as the artist chooses. A kind of transition between two worlds often appears in Lachapelle’s work – for example when the model of a library filled with books curves inwards and reveals a mysterious opening pointing into darkness – these are the artist’s references to spaces and occurrences which may be concealed below the surface of outward semblance.
Guillaume Lachapelle has participated in several solo and group exhibitions including Manèges at Circa – Centre d’Exposition Art Contemporain (Montreal) in 2006; Quebec Gold at the Ancien Collège des Jésuites (Rheims, France) in 2008 and in Abracadabra (Edward Day...
Category
2010s Contemporary Montreal - Sculptures
Materials
Nylon, Acrylic
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Doxa Used
Iconic Sex And The City Dress
Sculpture Nude Outdoor
Pig Pin
Bronze Kitten
Cesar Compression
7 Fold Tie
Maple Seed
Rabbit Sketches