Sarindar Dhaliwal
Montreal, Galerie D'Este
DHC/ART: FLOW CHART
Located in Old Montreal, DHC/ART is an exhibition space that operates admission-free and without public funding. "What characterizes all of the presentations we’ve done is a sense of engagement with the world at large," says the institution's curator John Zeppetelli.
Michael Merrill: Nights at the Museum
Is painting’s recent surge about accelerated aesthetic vitality or calculated “condo art”? Cameron Skene poses the question and finds hope for fine-art fans in the museum-themed works of Michael Merrill, currently on view in Montreal.
Michal Rovner
The first work that you stumble upon in Michal Rovner’s exhibition at DHC/ART Foundation for Contemporary Art dispels any doubt about the depth of the Israeli artist’s aesthetic.
Places: Joe Battat’s Playhouse
Things are changing for Montreal, the perennial little brother of North America’s big cities and big art scenes. In a review of last year’s Québec Triennial, the Globe and Mail asked, “Is Montreal the real art capital of Canada?” It’s now a fair question.
Barry Allikas: Event Horizons
Montreal painter Barry Allikas combines the enigmatic with the sinister in his latest works. Alternately evoking rave parties, Motherwell paintings, and hard-edge traditions, Allikas creates meeting places between intent and action.
Valérie Blass
Parisian Laundry, an expansive three-storey gallery in the alternately dilapidated and gentrified Montreal district of St-Henri, is a strangely suitable venue for the work of the Montreal sculptor Valérie Blass.
François Lacasse
The Montreal artist François Lacasse is nestled in one of those rare sweet spots for a painter: where the technical means and the aesthetic end are the same, leaving the viewer sometimes wondering whether he is looking at art or craft.
Québec Triennial
The new Québec Triennial occupies the entire Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal and reaches across differences in medium, language, age and gender to get at the strongest aesthetic currents in the province. And currently, as a province, we look rather like Duchamp on crack.
Pascal Grandmaison
Stanley Kubrick wasn’t much for dialogue. He let the camera tell the story, often leaving his viewers wading through a narrative in a bath of visually expressed ideas.