Between Observation and Intervention: The Painted Photographs of Melvin Charney
The Americas Society, New York
May 1 – July 31, 2008
Melvin Charney, Cities on the Move… The Swinging Burbs…, 2003-06, oil pastel and acrylic.
Image: metiviergallery.com
VoCA was quite taken with the exhibition of Melvin Charney’s architectural, city-inspired paintings at Toronto’s Metivier Gallery in April 2006. Now a major exhibition of the artist’s work has opened at the Amercias Society in New York.
Charney, a well-known artist and architect, designed the fantastic sculpture garden over the road from the Canadian Centre for Architecture in Montreal.
Charney has said of his Bodyworks series: “(They) attempt to render visible shifts in the meaning of ciry life. In these works, business card-like grids (enlarged laser reproductions from the back pages of giveaway newspaper weeklies advertising the sex-trade) are overlaid with drawings of armor-like sections of skin that seem to have peeled away from the body’s core.”
Melvin Charney, The American City: Ieho Ming & Friends, Manhattan, 1989, 1999-2000, oil pastel and acrylic.
Image: metiviergallery.com
If we had the means, we would buy Charney’s work – that’s how much we like it.
Melvin Charney is represented by Nicholas Metivier Gallery, Toronto. Click HERE.
More info on the exhibition is right HERE.
À l’intérieur/Inside
Paço Das Artes, São Paulo
May 5 2008 – 20 July, 2008
Lynn Hughes & Simon Laroche, Perversely Interactive System. Image: molior.ca
Artists have always created spaces for uniting with inner worlds. This exhibition of media art uses space and time to explore the idea of interiority, or inner space.
The works in this exhibition contest the superficiality of our Society of the Specacle, while incorporating the language of new media.
Alexandre Castonguay, Arbre, 2006, LCD screens, DVD players. Image: pfoac.com
Lynn Hughes and Simon Laroche’s Perversely Interactive System and Jean Dubois’ Tact, beewoo’s habitgram and Alexandre Castonguay’s Digitale are some of the works on view.
Please visit Group Molior’s website HERE.
Alexandre Castonguay is represented by Pierre Francois Ouellette Art Contemporain, Montreal. Click HERE.
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3 comments ↓
I’ve noted your fondness for the CCA, and though I share it, it’s always bittersweet to think that Phyllis Lambert who is the sister of C.R. Bronfman, and like her kin all have foundations that public money flows through and oftentimes for projects in the US (Vivendi Universal) and Israel (Foreign Relations Office), unbeknownst to Canadians.
PS: Although the CCA may be protected from the fates of some “national institutions” that have been sold to the Americans, such as Montreal’s Expos and one of the beer companies..
by the Bronfmans in the past.
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