OPENING RECEPTION: FRIDAY 06 SEPTEMBER 2013, 8:00PM-10:00PM
Mallory Wilkinson
 |
|
OPENING RECEPTION | SATURDAY 07 SEPTEMBER 2013, 8:00PM-10:00PM SERIPOP (YANNICK DESRANLEAU & CHLOE LUM) | LOOMING HANNA HUR | AN ARMCHAIR AT A DIMMING WINDOW EVENT EXHIBITION WALK-THROUGH WITH SERIPOP (YANNICK DESRANLEAU & CHLOE LUM)
GALLERY HOURS FOR INTERVIEWS
LATEST RELEASES click titles to order online NEW! ISBN: 978-0-920397-61-9 ONE FOR ME AND ONE TO SHARE: ARTISTS' MULTIPLES AND EDITIONS ISBN: 978-0-920397-52-7 H& IT ON ISBN: 978-0-920397-60-2 ALSO AVAILABLE
Byproduct: On the excess of Embedded Art Pracitces Art and Cold Cash decentre Performance, [Performance] and Performers Pro Forma - Full Series afterthoughts
|
SERIPOP (YANNICK DESRANLEAU & CHLOE LUM) | LOOMING
Seripop (Yannick Desranleau and Chloe Lum): This Peculiar Bias Will Nonetheless Set Up A Vast Field For The Unforeseen, 2013. Photo: Éliane Excoffier. Yannick Desranleau and Chloe Lum present a new immersive, site-specific installation for their solo exhibition at YYZ. The duo continues using screenprinted paper in an environmental fashion. Combined with other material, the vast expanses of colored paper use the architectural qualities of the gallery as support for the articulation of the work. Titled Looming, this installation continues to explore the improvisational tangent that has been the characteristic of Lum and Desranleau’s later projects. In this work, their relationship with space is not only defined by the lining of its limits/boundaries with paper and other fragile materials, but also by the setting of materials under physical stresses that will provoke, suggest or sustain physical and visual events with unpredictable outcomes, inducing a continuous decision-making process during installation. Those intentional accidents make use of decay, collapse and failure as conceptual fire-starter. Their juxtaposition in a sentence-like sequence resolves in an open-ended formula multiplying its possible readings. EXHIBITION WALK-THROUGH WITH SERIPOP (YANNICK DESRANLEAU & CHLOE LUM) YANNICK DESRANLEAU and CHLOE LUM are based in Montréal and both studied at Concordia University. Their collaborative practice has spanned the fields of visual arts, music, and experimental graphic design. They have exhibited in Canada and abroad, notably at The Blackwood Gallery (University of Toronto, 2012), Musée d’Art Contemporain de Montréal (Québec Triennial 2011), Kunsthalle Wien (Vienna, Austria, 2010), BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art (Gateshead, England, 2009), and Whitechapel Project Space (London, England, 2007). Their work is included in the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, as well as other private and public collections. Until 2012, both were part of the avant-rock group AIDS Wolf. Desranleau and Lum are represented by Galerie Hugues Charbonneau. Yannick Desranleau & Chloe Lum gratefully acknowledge the support from de Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec.
HANNA HUR | AN ARMCHAIR AT A DIMMING WINDOW Hanna Hur: Still Life in D Minor, watercolour and oil on linen, 14 x 11 inches, 2013. Photo: Hanna Hur. As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect.[1] Franz Kafka’s seminal novella, The Metamorphosis, depicts the absurd transformation of his protagonist, Gregor Samsa, from human to insect. As Gregor and his family navigate their way through this precarious metamorphosis, themes of isolation and alienation, disconnect between mind and body, and loss of humanity surface. Through this story of unforeseen transformation, Kafka constructs a complex portrait of the physical and psychic interstices between one state and another. Hanna Hur’s exhibition at YYZ Artists’ Outlet dwells within the same mood present in Kafka’s The Metamorphosis. The exhibition’s title makes reference to a segment in the story detailing Gregor’s newfound method of looking out his window. By using an armchair that he pushes against the window frame, he is able to position his insect-body in a way that affords him a view. Gregor melancholically reflects on his former freedom as he gazes out his window and then, conversely, on his new vantage point: “For in reality day by day things that were even a little way off were growing dimmer…”[2] Kafka’s description of Gregor’s new way of seeing marks a pivotal point within the story – Gregor’s recognition of the disparities between his past and present state and his adaptation to his morphed physicality. Beginning from an altered consciousness and physical reality due to illness, Hur appropriates her new terms of existence – debilitation, prolonged solitude, loss of mental clarity, and abundance of time – as the tools and defining characteristics of this new body of work. She explores the notion of limitation-as-guide in art making, allowing her studio praxis to be regulated by what has been lost and negated in her body. Behind the imagery of each work, we are directed back to the body that made it: to its physical strides, efforts, and inertia. Through this new working process, Hur encounters a transformation in her approach to visual language, technique, and materiality. As process comes to the forefront, the work is broadened outside of normative expressive capacities; it functions for the artist as an agent to mobilize and measure time. Hur’s newest collection of work considers the body as active source behind the proscenium-like surface of each image[3] and implicates the artist’s working limitations as blueprint for content, form, and meaning. [1] Kafka, Franz. “The Metamorphosis.” Trans. Willa and Edwin Muir. Franz Kafka The Complete Stories. New York: Schocken Books Inc., 1971. 89-139. Print. [2] Kakfa, Franz. “The Metamorphosis.” Trans. Willa and Edwin Muir. Franz Kafa The Complete Stories. New York: Schocken Books Inc., 1971. 112. Print. [3] Bryson, Norman. “The Invisible Body.” Painting. Ed. Terry R. Myers. London: Whitechapel Gallery Ventures Limited, 2011. 39-41. Print. HANNA HUR is a mutli-disciplinary artist working in drawing, painting, and sculpture. She received a BFA from Concordia University in 2008. Hur has recently exhibited at Daniel Faria Gallery (Toronto,2013), O’Born Contemporary (Toronto, 2013), Galerie B-312 (Montréal, 2012), and Xpace (Toronto, 2012). Her work is included in an upcoming group exhibition curated by Micah Lexier at The Power Plant (Toronto, 2013). Hur lives and works in Toronto and is represented by O’Born Contemporary. BACK TO SCHOOL WITH YYZ LENDING LIBRARY
YYZBOOKS, 2012. Photo credit: Allan Kosmajac YYZ's latest initiative is aimed at making YYZBOOKS more accessible to the community. We wish to engage our visiting patrons by disseminating over twenty-years of collected Canadian art writing and to expand the discourse surrounding exhibitions presented in the gallery. After signing up for a free YYZ Library card designed by BILL BURNS and CRAIG RODMORE, you will be able to borrow from our collection of available books published and/or distributed by YYZBOOKS. Read more about the YYZ Lending Library here. YYZ ARTISTS' OUTLET T: 416.598.4546 |
|
|
|
