News and reviews of current and past painting exhibitions at the Belgo.
Sarah Bertrand-Hamel’s new exhibit, Contingencies, at the Joyce Yahouda Gallery is a perfect introduction to her unusual practice. In this series Bertrand-Hamel has cut and sewn together pieces of paper like a quilt. Some of these works are from paper she made herself, while others have designs and images painted and printed on them....
Richard Mill‘s Recent Paintings now on exhibition at Galerie Trois Points fuse sculpture and minimalist painting, contrasting the flat surface of his canvases with the geometric, three-dimensional aspects of the found objects he includes in his œuvre. Architectural elements dot the exhibition space, such a a slender wooden arch spanning the ends of a...
En Masse artists are presenting their personal artworks at Galerie Pangée – in technicolour! Known for their enormous black-and-white collaborative murals, the Salon Masse showcases the artists’ personal projects, which range from screen prints to painted skateboards. The walls at Galerie Pangée are covered from floor to ceiling with quirky neo-pop art, large-scale drawings,...
Benjamin King paints “a world that has been chewed up and frozen.” Somewhere between abstraction and figuration, King’s landscapes currently on show at Galerie Laroche/Joncas are populated with stubby tree trunks, their branches sticking up like amputated arms. Cartoon-like semi-circular hills transform into clouds, and then, sometimes, all that is left is a composition...
Pierre Julien‘s vivid hard-edge abstract paintings currently on exhibition at Galerie Nicolas Robert vibrate with colour. Floating on perfectly smooth, flat colour fields, small geometric forms shimmer, their sharp edges breathing, blurring, radiating. By removing all figurative references, Julien allows the spectator to make an emotional connection to the colours – complementary reds and...
In honour of the art fair PAPIER12 this weekend, this week’s selection of four noteworthy artworks in the galleries of the Belgo building are works on paper. Clockwise from top left: Sarah Bertrand-Hamel at Galerie Joyce Yahouda, Laurent Craste at Galerie SAS, David K. Ross at Galerie B-312, Amy Ball at Les Territoires
This week’s selection of four noteworthy artworks on show in the galleries of the Belgo building focuses on the artists’ skilled use of the monochromatic palette. Clockwise from top left: Roberto Pellegrinuzzi at Pierre François Ouellette Art Contemporain, Joe Lima at Galerie Nicolas Robert, Jannick Deslauriers at Galerie SAS, David Gillanders at Galerie Trois...
Robert Poulin is part of the group of art collectors who are featured in the Montreal-wide series of exhibitions titled COLLECTIONNER. Poulin’s official show is at the Maison de la Culture Marie-Uguay, but you may also want to make a bee-line to the Belgo building, where he is regularly exhibiting works from his own...
ONE RANDOM YEAR Is life a collection of random events or a story with a narrative? Bettina Forget‘s project One Random Year explores this question. The artist took a one-minute video every day during 2011 and created a 365-minute movie of her life. Says the artist: “Does my life have an over-arching narrative, one that I’m...
Roger Bellemare and Christian Lambert are presenting another star-studded exhibition: Mésures de Silence features artworks by A-list artists such as Joseph Beuys, John Cage, Josef Albers, and Betty Goodwin. The works on display run the gamut from minimalist works (Galerie Bellemare’s forté), over small sculptures and objects, to representational paintings. What holds everything together...
Highlighting outstanding art shows in the Belgo from 2008 - 2011.
