In the 5th century B.C., when Herodotus sought to understand the causes of the war between the Greeks and the Persians, he painted— with the help of words — a world in the shape of
Réal Party, Propriétés privées
Chantier Art 3 Event
Ateliers Jean Brillant, Montréal
Spring 2012
While Apple’s geolocation software recently “lost” two users in the middle of the Australian desert and China announced that it will begin a satellite counteroffensive, proposing an alternative to the American GPS hegemony by
In this imaginary constellation, the hope for a better life, for a radical discovery of the self—since all voyages are a kind of personal conversion—are associated with the existence, somewhere, of a rare, special place, at which one must arrive […] To be modern is
Restoring artworks—in this case, sculpture—is painstaking and complex work. Some are exterior installations, set up in public space; others are in the collections of museums, corporations or individuals, while others are part of the imposing corpus of our religious heritage. Whether we are dealing with
The activities of conservation professionals are traditionally based on preserving the original materials of a cultural property.1 The principle of this activity closely allies the notion of an object’s original material integrity with that
Daniel Buren’s Les deux plateaux is a work that is squarely at the core of the controversies of its era. Contested at the time it was installed in 1985, it continued to be so in
Considered one of the most illustrious figures of 18th century Quebec sculpture, Pierre-Noël Levasseur (1690-1770) was born in Quebec City and was raised among a dynasty of sculptors. Without a doubt the greatest ornamentalist and
Endlessly amassed, the dwarves, midgets, small things, miniatures and
Guy Laramée, Guan Yin
Galerie d’Art d’Outremont
May 3—27, 2012
The world is large, but in us it is deep as the sea.
–Rainer Maria Rilke
Art sometimes may be created through excessiveness. But
Defining the boundless is not an easy task—actually, it is almost as dizzying to think about it as it is to experience it. One can sometimes grasp it as the infinite
Since it was uploaded last summer Jonathan Gales’ short film Megalomania 1 has aroused fascination with its protagonists, a city and its architecture portrayed as an incommensurable and immobile construction site. A truly post-humanist product, Megalomania’s