APOTHEOSE
July 2nd to July 28th 2008
Opening Thursday July 3rd 5hPM to 11hPM
USINE 106U
111 Roy E.
514-728-9349
USINE 106U is exploding with joy to invite you the opening of the
gigantic exhibition APOTHEOSE presenting the artworks of 27 visual
artists: Mark Prent, Eric Braün, La puce à l'agonie, Mimi Traillette,
Yves Milet-Desfougères, Daniel Erban , Ashley West, Ron Simon, Sweet
Grognasse, Sam Kerson, Florent Veilleux, Scott Ferry, Majka
Kwiatowska, Rupert Bottenberg, Jean-François Montagne, Frederic
Chabot, Cedric Taillon, Scott Draper, Philippe Girard, Steve Godin,
Jasmin Guimont-Fortin, Nicolas Plamondon, Diane Labarre, Olivier
Lefebvre, Papparazit, Cecile Gilovannini and Flo. Hallucinogenic
paintings, pop-trash silkscreens, kinetic sculptures, etchings,
original drawings, modified plush toys, surrealist jewelry other
fascinating curiosities will massively take over the space. The
exhibition takes place at USINE 106U, 111 Roy E. from July 2nd to
July 28th 2008, and the opening will be held on Thursday July 3rd from
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 Braün: 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 à 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..
Yves Milet-Desfougères: 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.
Sweet Grognasse: A colorful visual artist, she works in graphic design
and creates paintings, silkscreen and textiles in the tradition of
pop-art.
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.
Majka Kwiatowska : Polish expressionnist artist, her paintings and
drawings depict the harsh reality and past of a graphic conscience who
grew up in post-war Poland, contributing to the Solidarnosc movement.
Her twisted characters, alcoholic and dark are sublimely rendered by
a graphism that is simultaneously brut and sensible.
Ron Simon: Photographer and numeric artist, his works present a rich
contraste between textured organic papers and his sensual
semi-funerary numeric momifications.
Rupert Bottenberg: Painter and illustrator out of the Montreal comics
scene, his dreamy colorful world juxtaposes collages and drawings with
essential and very refined aesthetics.
Sam Kerson: A nomadic and visionary artist with strong social and
political inclinations, his pastels, linocuts and acrylics are filled
with symbolic expression and vibrant colors translate the movement,
heart of his work.
Frederic Chabot : Painter and graffiti artist from Montreal, his work
feature realistic portrait with a mix of tribal and urban graphic
influences.
Jean-François Montagne: Painter and designer, his artwork and plush
toys have a minimalistic sharp-colored edge populated by an improbable
fauna.
Cedric Taillon : Painter, illustrator and drawing artist, his artwork,
charged with delerious humort, renders a mastering of the drawing
technique through bold compositions.
Jasmin Guimont-Fortin : Young painter and drawing artist, his graphic
universe oscillates between trash and onirism. The technique, both
brute and sensible, depicts subjects of a sometime disquieting nature.
Papparazit : Young swiss cartoonist and illustrator, his artwork
combines sharp rendering techniques with grotesque cartoony subjects.
Steve Godin: A true visionary visual artist , he also works in cinema.
His drawings and paintings of a classical quality explore ancient
pagan rituals through a surrealist organic spirituality.
Scott Draper : Young North Bay artist with extraordinary technique and
vision, he studied art in a north Ontario art school. He questions and
expresses the belief that people live alone, in different universes
and through mysterious ways they discover dark spaces of gothic
contemporary proportions.
Ashley West: Visual artist, her papier maâché paintings and
sculptures express a dream-like nightmarish universe inspired by
visions from childhood. Her sobre palette add a refinement to her
stylised aesthetics.
Scott Ferry: Painter, drawing and mixed media artist born and raised
in Los Angeles, growing up in the punk, gothic and chaos orientated
80's. He has exhibited in solo and group shows in California, Arizona,
Washington, and Quebec. He works in the medium of drawing, painting
and mixed media. His artwork traverses a personal mythic world wrapped
in metaphors, beautiful and painfully violent experiences, the
sadistic, the masochistic and funny innuendos.
Flo : French silkscreen and drawing artist, his compositions juxtapose
techno-anatomical patterns in a retro and futuristic aesthetic.
Nicolas Plamondon: Young illustrator and cartoonist, he masters in
macabre humor with a remarquable finesse. His imagery invocates death
and childhood.
Cecile Gilovannini : Young swiss illustrator, her work is
characteristised by a dark and childish universe filled with
expressionist distorted cats.
Olivier Lefebvre : Accomplished painter and sculptor, his artwork
carries through a complex and stylised composition, animalistic and
symbolist representations, relying on an well-mastered technique.
Diane Labarre : Painter and drawing artist, her half-abstract
compositions in ink and acrylics depicts expressive bodies in a
timeless universe.
Philippe Girard : Painter and drawing artist, his complex artwork in
pencil and acrylics explores organic anotomical themes through oniric
and symbolist compositions.
Contact: Eric Braün (514)728-9349
[email protected]
www.myspace.com/usine106u
www.alientv.org
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