Exhibitions

Maskull Lasserre

30 November 2013 - 18 January 2014 At zero eight hundred hours, March 2010, the air dusty and already acrid with avgas and exploded ordinance, a convoy was to deploy on foot from Forward Operating Base Masum Ghar in Kandahar province, Afghanistan, with aid for a nearby town. They would then join a convoy of LAV-25s and... Read More

Dil Hildebrand : Et ainsi de suite... @ Centre Space (Toronto)

21 November - 21 December 2013 There have been several surprising style- and subject changes in Dil Hildebrand’s practice since 2006,when he quit his job as a theatre set painter, and went back to school for an MFA. In light of these surprising breaks, continuities stand out. First of all, Hildebrand remains a traditional studio painter,... Read More

Tyson Parks @ pfoac221

14 November - 21 December 2013 Squint is the first in a series of installations in which Tyson Parks invents new processes to explore the relationship between form, image, motion, time, perception, and memory. This series of invented process artworks is called 'Mnetractoscopes'; a term coined by Parks, taken from Latin and Greek etymology, which roughly... Read More

Résolution des conflits

Kota Ezawa Bjørn Melhus Klængur Gunnarsson Daniel Froidevaux & Elisa Gonzalez 10 October - 16 November 2013 Pierre-François Ouellette art contemporain is pleased to present a thematic group exhibition entitled Conflict Resolution featuring video work by five artists: Kota Ezawa, Bjørn Melhus, Klængur Gunnarsson, Daniel Froidevaux and Elisa Gonzalez. This exhibition explores several notions of internal conflict categorized by social, political and technological attempts toward resolution. Selected... Read More

Geneviève et Matthieu @ pfoac221

21 September - 19 October 2013 La Jamésie: A New Found Art World? In their interdisciplinary work-in-progress La Jamésie, which will culminate in a 1,000 kilometre road-trip across the little-known Jamesian region of Northern Quebec, the collective duo Geneviève et Matthieu imagine a new land where all the artistically-inclined and socially-inept of the world can finally... Read More

Chih-Chien Wang @ Centre Space (Toronto)

12 September - 12 October 2013 Green Is Our Shadow, a selection of ten images This series of images are to be presented together in the same space to form a visual dialogue among different gestures, body parts, objects and processes. The images came from various projects ranging from 2004 to 2011, and each project had... Read More

Alexandre Castonguay : Inscriptions

24 August - 28 September 2013 The exhibition proposes an insight into the process by which codes shape our perception as they assemble, generate, re-engineer or erase information in the course of producing an image. Whether performative or documentary, the assembled works reveal the relationship between data and the personal or mediated self. Iterative in nature,... Read More

John Latour: Kindred spirits @ Centre Space (Toronto)

22 June - 27 July 2013 John Latour Kindred Spirits With age and the passing of time comes a sense of the “narrative arc” of people’s lives. For almost half a century, I have watched the lives of my friends and family members play out like novels in front of me. I have seen my parents... Read More

John Player et Glenda Leon

7 June - 20 July 2013 'John Player states: “I look for something that gives me fear in the paintings.” His work conjures an understated sense of paranoia, of suffocation even. There is a spare, even minimal quality to his work – a limited palette and often banal or uneventful subject matter. In one aspect, however,... Read More

Musique vierge - Jérôme Fortin

Projets spéciaux 18 May - 1 June 2013 Musique vierge is a series of nine digital prints done at the Centre Sagamie in Alma (Quebec) in 2012 and limited to an edition of 10. The series presents blank musical staves created using paper cut from various magazines and newspapers. Only the narrow space used to separate articles has... Read More

Sugar Cubes - TESTKLANG

Projets spéciaux 18 May - 1 June 2013 Pierre-François Ouellette art contemporain presents an exhibition of art works by the German music label Testklang proposed by Thomas Weber. After release concerts in Berlin, Stockholm and New York, the exhibition Sugar Cubes is a world premiere and will be the first opportunity for audiences to experience Testklang's unique and... Read More

No homo : art, assistants, et émulation Kent Monkman @ pfoac221

New works by Don Monkman, Brad Tinmouth, Brian Rideout and Rory Dean curated by Kent Monkman 2 May - 8 June 2013 “A n d i f h e w a n t s o m e p u s s y t h a t ’ s a n o - n o / I o n l y f u c k w i t h b a d b... Read More

Karilee Fuglem : Everything held together (pour l'instant)

27 March - 11 May 2013 Pierre-François Ouellette art contemporain ispleased to present an intimate look at the constant exploration of Karilee Fuglem; wherein her studio is transported and re-created in the gallery. Rather than a clinical demonstration of the artist's practice, Fuglem invites visitors to discover links between materials, shapes, shadows and light play which... Read More

Charles-Antoine Blais Métivier @ pfoac221

16 March - 20 April 2013 The accumulation, formal abstraction and (hyper)mediatisation of images of the personal are the three directions that Charles-Antoine Blais Métivier explores through his work. Purposefully wandering through urban and virtual spaces with the rigor of an anthropologist, the artist appropriates, catalogues, analyses and reveals the poetic potential of renderings degraded by... Read More

Luc Courchesne : Immersions Encadrées @ Centre Space (Toronto)

2 March - 13 April 2013 Pierre-François Ouellette art contemporain presents the first solo exhibition of Luc Courchesne at Centre Space, Toronto. Following his invitation to the Bank of Montreal Project Room in 2011 presenting an interactive portrait of Toronto's streets - this new body of work presented at Centre Space continues the artist's embrace with... Read More

Adad Hannah: Travaux récents

7 February - 16 March 2013 Pierre-François Ouellette art contemporain is pleased to present a selection of works produced by Adad Hannah over the course of the last three years at the request of museum institutions. Hannah had the privilege to receive commissions by institutions on several continents to create new bodies of work: in Europe... Read More

Edward Maloney @ pfoac221

26 January - 9 March 2013 Initially conceived for World Event Young Artists 2012 during the Cultural Olympiad in Nottingham, England, Edward Maloney's immersive video installation, Figments of Reality, is exhibited for the first time in Montreal at pfoac221. Projected life size onto the gallery's wall is a 7 minute video of a small, Little Italy... Read More

Maskull Lasserre : Fable @ Centre Space (Toronto)

1 December 2012 - 19 January 2013 Drawing on materials collected from the artist's environment, this show of three-dimensional work presents dissections of everyday objects. These reveal an alternative anatomy of both material and expectation, evoking narratives of culture and mortality often overlooked in everyday things. Maskull Lasserre was born in Alberta in 1978, he lives and... Read More