L’événement Passage à découvert est de retour à la Galerie de l’UQAM. Cette exposition est rendue possible grâce à la collaboration de l’École des arts visuels et médiatiques de l'UQAM (ÉAVM) qui y présentera les travaux de ses finissants au programme de baccalauréat, lesquels formeront la prochaine relève artistique et pédagogique du milieu des arts québécois.

Exposition

L’exposition Passage à découvert témoigne de la force créatrice, de la capacité d’innovation et de l’indépendance d’esprit des étudiants de l’ÉAVM et de leur capacité à adapter leurs pratiques diversifiées à un contexte de diffusion à la fois public et professionnel. Les pratiques des étudiants exposés abordent diverses disciplines, telles que le dessin, la sculpture, la peinture, la gravure, la photographie et les arts médiatiques. L’exposition met en valeur l’approche multidisciplinaire privilégiée au programme de baccalauréat de l’École des arts visuels et médiatiques de l’UQAM.

Grande fête de fin d’études

Le vernissage du 4 avril sera l’occasion d’une grande fête de fin d’études et, lors de cette soirée inaugurale, une publication regroupant les travaux de plus de 50 finissants fera l’objet d’un lancement.

De plus, huit prix et bourses d’excellence seront remis à des étudiants : les prix d’excellence Jacques-de-Tonnancour, Irène-Sénécal, Robert-Wolfe et École des arts visuels et médiatiques; la bourse Charest-Wallot; ainsi que les prix du Centre des arts et des fibres du Québec (Diagonale) et du Bureauphile. En plus de ce lot de prix et mentions annuels, l’École des arts visuels et médiatiques est fière d’annoncer un nouveau prix rendu possible grâce à la contribution de Faux-Cadres Canal.

École des arts visuels et médiatiques de l’UQAM

Depuis sa création, l’École des arts visuels et médiatiques de l’UQAM se tient à l’affût des enjeux artistiques en mouvance et compte parmi les plus importantes écoles universitaires au Canada, tant au niveau de la création que de l’enseignement des arts visuels. Le nombre d’artistes formés à l’UQAM et reconnus sur les plans national et international témoigne de son engagement dans la communauté. Mentionnons David Altmejd, Gwenaël Bélanger, Hugo Bergeron, Valérie Blass, Belinda Campbell, Raphaëlle de Groot, Cynthia Girard, Isabelle Hayeur, Isabelle Jalbert, Thierry Marceau, Stéphane LaRue, Mathieu Latulipe, Mathieu Lefebvre, Michel Goulet, Alain Paiement, Ianick Raymond ainsi que les nombreux diplômés du profil enseignement qui se distinguent par le caractère novateur de leurs pratiques et approches de l’enseignement des arts.

Renseignements

Tél. : 514 987-8421
www.galerie.uqam.ca

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The Galerie de l’UQAM is currently developing a project to mount a cabinet of curiosities called La Petite Collection. This will be made up of an assortment of multiple objects made by artists, most of which will be limited editions. Proposed in 2009, this idea grew out of a scientific and museological approach that aims to highlight and promote the collection’s academic research vocation. Putting together a contemporary cabinet of curiosities—primarily focused on numbered and signed objects—fulfills the desire to constitute a body of research that will stimulate reflection on new exhibition modes and welcome different types of objects so as to explore novel collection avenues in an original manner. Moreover, it will draw attention to the processes used by a number of contemporary artists, and represent the practices of nationally and internationally renown artists.

Solo Snow. Œuvres de / Works of Michael Snow ends its tour in Montreal, at the Galerie de l’UQAM. Initially presented at Le Fresnoy, in France, and then at Akbank Sanat, in Turkey, the exhibition features a body of photographic, video and sound works and installations of Michael Snow, one of the most inspiring figures in the art world in recent decades. It is curated by Louise Déry and produced in partnership with Le Fresnoy.

The exhibition

Solo Snow. Œuvres de / Works of Michael Snow wants to provide an account of the experimental nature of this pioneer of media arts. His prolific, protean practice reinvents itself through the ceaselessly replayed exploration of a large range of visual and auditory phenomena, and grows through the mutations of technological advances have made possible. His practice is in perfect resonance with the latest issues of research and dissemination in media art while being an integral part of their genesis and development. The body of works exhibited here poses a challenge to assessing Snow’s output, and highlighting recurrent features, such as the motif of the window as a frame, the interplay of interior/exterior and recto/verso, the metamorphosis, stretching or contraction of the image and sound, the representation of the technical referent (photographic, cinematic or audio), the relationship between object and image, and reflection on time and space.

Any exhibition of Michael Snow’s oeuvre can only be a sampling, an attempt to round out a sequence, an incomplete montage, an unfinished picture. Every Snow exhibition sets us before a vast territory to survey, where the various genres, procedures, arrangements and displacements between mediums put us within reach and earshot of sensations and meanings that target and affect a necessarily fleeting part of an imaginary and symbolic world transmitted through the experience of the image. Contact with the work becomes a rare occasion to turn our interest to the nature of the image and, following Snow’s example, attempt in turn to fold and unfold its motifs, open or compress its space, accelerate or slow its speed. This exhibition is the artist’s second collaboration with Galerie de l’UQAM, where his Solar breath, (Northern Caryatids) was the subject of a solo show and a companion booklet in 2005.

Catalogue

The exhibition is accompanied by a bilingual publication, co-published by Le Fresnoy and Galerie de l’UQAM, which includes an essay by the curator, Louise Déry, as well as texts by the artist, by Érik Bullot, film director; by Jacinto Lageira, art critic; and by Stéfani de Loppinot, film director and historian.

The artist

Michael Snow was born in Toronto, where he lives and works. His renowned talent and prolific output span the fields of painting, sculpture, video, film, photography, holography, drawing, writing and music. He made his first film in 1956. Wavelength (1967) brought him to the forefront of international avant-garde cinema. The excellence of his work and his contribution to the visual and media arts have been widely recognized with awards and honours, including he won the Governor General's Award in Visual and Media Arts (Film) in 2000. In 1995 he was named Chevalier de l’Ordre des arts et des lettres, France, and in 1981 he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada, promoted to Companion in 2007. He also holds several honorary degrees including one from UQAM, awarded in 2008. Since representing Canada at the 1970 Venice Biennale, he has exhibited at leading modern and contemporary art museums, performed and recorded as a pianist, presented his films at international festivals and executed a number of public art commissions.

The curator

Louise Déry holds a Ph.D. in art history and has headed Galerie de l'UQAM since 1997, working with artists such as Manon de Pauw, Dominique Blain, Raphaëlle de Groot, Nancy Spero, David Altmejd, Stéphane La Rue, Daniel Buren, Giuseppe Penone, Sarkis and Shary Boyle. She is the author of the first monograph on David Altmejd and curated his presentation at the 2007 Venice Biennale. In 2007, she received the inaugural Hnatyshyn Foundation Award for Curatorial Excellence in Contemporary Visual Art.

Support

Canada Council for the Arts

Free activities

Noontime Contemporary Art: Every Thursday, 1:00 to 1:45 pm

A guide will be on hand to discuss the works and answer visitors’ questions.
Open to all. No reservation required.

Guided tour of the exhibition and Campus tour of public art

Available for groups any time
Reservation required: 514-987-3000, ext. 1424, or belisle.julie@uqam.ca

To schedule an interview with the artist, contact Maude N. Béland at 514-987-3000, ext. 1707, or beland.maude_n@uqam.ca

Among the artists who focus on the representation of the subject, there are many works which deliberately leave the affective links between image and gaze in a state of fluctuation. In fact, several do so by involving the body in a manner that is far removed from its normative representation. Beyond the gaze, it is to the body, to its sensory experiences and its visceral memory, that the artists presented here speak. It is as though the images they create were impregnated with a corporeality that is indissociable from their worldview. The artists chosen for this exhibition—all women—share this wish to reach the other by way of an organic experience of the work, one of affects and desires, that can do without the gaze’s viewing distance.

 Le dernier été de la raison [The last summer of reason] is a video work featuring the testimony of photographers who covered Algeria’s black decade (1990-2000). This was the period of the Algerian Civil War, which plunged the country into a killing frenzy of successive attacks and massacres. Twenty years later, the work returns to this tragedy to question our present memory.