Category Archive: Art
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Papier 08 – Montreal’s Contemporary Art Fair
Today i’m straying from photography. This past weekend in Montreal, the Paper art fair was on. So work with mainly painting and drawing. I went to the opening night and it was really crowded but did manage to see some really nice work. There was a small piece by Julie Ouellet, who is represented by [...]
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Artists from CCP
I was just browsing The Centre for Contemporary Photography‘s website and came across these really interesting artists. Mathieu Bernard-Reymond’s dreamy work, his Disparitions series is really quite nice. I love how Michael Corridore mixes his commercial and artistic work. Dorota Mytych’s work is absolutely beautiful, the detail is amazing.
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Tim Lee, winner of the Sobey Art Award
Yesterday at the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto, the winner of this years Sobey Art Award was announced. Short listed were artist Daniel Barrow from Winnipeg, Terence Koh from Mississauga, Ont, Raphaëlle de Groot from Montreal, Mario Doucette from Moncton and Tim Lee from Vancouver. Tim Lee is the artist that captivated the Sobey’s Curatorial [...]
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Marc Seguin
A couple of months ago, i was in Toronto and stopped in at the Corkin Gallery. One of the exhibitors was Marc Seguin. I was really intrigued by his work and the rawness that he delivered. His pieces were quite big and i loved the empty space, the untidiness and the texture that he used. [...]
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Damien Hirst and Birkin Bags
Just read an article titled “Damien Hirst’s art ‘absurd’ and ‘tacky’, says critic Robert Hughes, in the London Telegraph. The article writes that if Hirsts‘ empire continues to grow at this rate that he will soon be worth more than auction house Sotheby’s. Now that’s an artist making money, he’s not looking for any federal [...]
