Curated by Nancy Campbell, this exhibition will feature recent works by first generation Cape Dorset artist Papiara Tukiki, whose unique drawings capture a world of fantasy, animals and traditional life.

“The work of Papiara Tukiki is, like that of many senior artists in Cape Dorset, having a renaissance. The re-invigorated pencil work, the larger scale paper and the fresh graphic approach is combined with traditional recollections of the land, myths, and animals.”

Excerpt from catalogue essay by Nancy Campbell

Luc Courchesne took part in the emergence of media arts thirty years ago when, as a video artist inspired by a generation of experimental filmmakers such as Michael Snow and Hollis Frampton, he adopted computer technologies. First delving into interactive portraiture, a great artistic tradition re-articulated in a new mould, his work has recently turned to another important genre, that of landscape. With his installations, “panoscopic” images, and a device of his own making used to create a sense of visual immersion, he transforms spectators into a visitors, actors and inhabitants of his experiential crafts. Born 1952 in Québec, Courchesne received a Bachelor’s degree from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax (1974), and a Master of Science in Visual Studies from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge (1984). He began his explorations in interactive video in 1984 when he co-authored Elastic Movies, one of the earliest experiments in the field, and since produced about 30 installation works and image series including Encyclopedia Chiaroscuro (1987), Portrait One (1990), Family Portrait (1993), Hall of Shadows (1996), Landscape One (1997),Passages (1998), Rendez-vous… (1999), Panoscopic Journal (1999-), Panoscope 360° (2000-), The Visitor: Living by Numbers (2001), Untitled (2004),Where are you? (2005), Horizons (2007), the Shores Series (2008-) and Icons (2009) in a co-creation with artist and choreographer Marie Chouinard.

His work is part of major collections in North America, Europe and Asia and has been shown extensively in galleries and museums worldwide including: the Museum of Modern Art (New York), the Art Gallery of New South Wales (Sydney), Tokyo’s InterCommunication Center (ICC), La Villette (Paris), ZKM/Medienmuseum (Karlsruhe), the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, the National Gallery of Canada, the Fundacion La Caixa (Barcelona) and Beijing’s National Art Museum of China. Based in Montreal, Luc Courchesne is professor of design at Université de Montréal, founding member of the Society for Art and Technology [SAT], board member of the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec and member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts.

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Framed Immersions
2 mars – 13 avril

Luc Courchesne participe à l’émergence des arts médiatiques et numériques il y a 30 ans alors que, vidéaste inspiré par une génération de cinéastes expérimentaux tels Michael Snow et Hollis Frampton, il adopte les technologies informatiques. Ses travaux portent d’abord sur le portrait interactif, une grande tradition artistique qui cherche sa nouvelle expression. Plus récemment c’est sur le paysage un autre genre important que porte son attention. Inventeur d’un dispositif qui permet l’immersion visuelle, il contribue par ses installations et ses images «panoscopiques» à transformer le spectateur de l’ouvre en visiteur, acteur et même habitant de ses dispositifs expérienciels.

Né au Québec en 1952, Courchesne a reçu un baccalauréat du Nova Scotia College of Art and Design (Halifax) et en 1984, et un Master of Science in Visual Studies, du Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge). Sa pratique artistique prend son essor en 1984 alors qu’il co-réalise Elastic Movies, une des premièes oeuvres utilisant la vidéo interactive. Il a créé depuis une trentaine d’installations et de séries d’images dont Encyclopédie clair-obscure (1987), Portrait no.1 (1990), Portrait de famille (1993), Salon des ombres (1996), Paysage no. 1 (1997), Passages (1998), Rendez-vous…(1999), Journal panoscopique (1999-), Panoscope 360° (2000), The Visitor: Living by Numbers (2001), Sans titre (2004), T’es où? (2005), Horizons(2007), la série de vidéo panoramiques Rivages (2008-), Icones (2009), une installation vidéo co-créée avec l’artiste et chorégraphe Marie Chouinard, et Vous êtes ici (2010).

Son travail fait partie de plusieurs grandes collections d’Amérique du Nord, d’Europe et d’Asie et a a été présenté dans le cadre de plus de 80 expositions importantes à travers le monde. Il a notamment fait l’objet d’une exposition dans la série Projects au Museum of Modern Art de New York en 1994 et a participé à plusieurs événements importants dont la Biennale ’95 de Kwangju en Corée à l’invitation de Nam June Paik. En 1997, son installation Paysage no. 1 a mérité avec le Grand Prix de la première Biennale du NTT InterCommunication Center de Tokyo et en 1999 l’Award of distinction dans la catégorie Interactive art des Prix Ars Electronica à Linz en Autriche.

Luc Courchesne vit et travaille à Montréal. Il est membre fondateur de la Société des arts technologiques et, depuis 1989, professeur à l’Ecole de design industriel de l’Université de Montréal ou il initie les étudiants à la médiatique et aux problématiques du design expérienciel.

December 1, 2012 – January 19, 2013

Pierre-François Ouellette art contemporain est fier de présenter les nouvelles oeuvres de Maskull Lasserre. Venez découvrir les sculptures de ce jeune artiste qui a fait l’objet de l’attention de la revue Canadian Art cet automne et du Washington Post l’an dernier! Des images des oeuvres en production sont disponibles www.pfoac.com.

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Pierre-François Ouellette art contemporain at Centre Space present new works by Maskull Lasserre. Check out the sculptor that was featured in Canadian Art magazine this Fall and highlighted last year in the Washington Post! All works are available at www.pfoac.com.

Pierre-François Ouellette art contemporain at
Art Toronto 2012: Toronto International Art Fair
Metro Toronto Convention Centre
Booth 1008

Roberto Pellegrinuzzi
Nature morte (fleur courgette) I
2012
Carbon ink photograph on mylar
200 cm x 160 cm (78.5″ X 63.5″)
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Drawings by Shuvinai Ashoona

September 15 – October 10, 2012

CENTRE SPACE,65 GEORGE STREET,TORONTO

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Feheley Fine Arts is pleased to present a new exhibition of drawings by Cape Dorset artist Shuvinai Ashoona at Centre Space.  The World is a recurring theme in recent work by Shuvinai Ashoona.  Her drawings often depict multiple images of planet earth. This exhibition presents her exploration of time and space, local and global issues through this series of drawings.

There will be a Gallery Talk on September 22, 3pm as part of the Gallery Hop Toronto, organized by the Canadian Art Foundation.  Curator Nancy Campbell will be in discussion with artist John Noestheden who completed a major collaborative project with Shuvinai Ashoona in 2008 that became the inspiration for this series of drawings.

Shuvinai Ashoona was born in Cape Dorset, Nunavut in 1961.  Her artistic heritage is considerable; she is the granddaughter of renowned graphic artist Pitseolak Ashoona and the daughter of sculptor Kiawak Ashoona.  This is her second solo exhibition at Feheley Fine Arts and her first in Centre Space.  An illustrated catalogue will be available.

Her work has been featured in group exhibitions across Canada as well as in the United States and Europe.  Exhibitions in public institutions include Shuvinai Ashoona and Shary Boyle at the Justina M. Barnicke Gallery, Hart House, University of Toronto; Oh Canada, Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, North Adams; Inuit Modern, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto and Sanaugavut: Inuit Art from the Canadian Arctic, National Museum, New Delhi.

Carleton University Art Gallery has recently published a monograph on Shuvinai Ashoona which serves as the catalogue for their 2009 solo exhibition of her work.  Her drawings are included in the collections of the Art Gallery of Ontario, National Gallery of Canada, McMichael Canadian Art Collection, Toronto Dominion Bank Group and numerous private collections.

Earth and Sky, the collaboration with artist John Noestheden which sparked this new series of drawings was commissioned for a city block-long installation inBasel, Switzerland in 2008. Shown in banner form during the 2008 Nuit Blanche and at the 2012 Sydney Biennale, it will again be exhibited in Spring 2013, mounted over the impressive entrance path to the National Gallery of Canada. The original collaborative drawing is in the collection of the National Gallery of Canada.

Images and additional information is attached to this release.   For more details, please contact:

Patricia Feheley
416 323 1373
feheley@centre-space.ca

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MY GRANDPA’S MOTHER (2011), Ink and coloured pencil, 25.5 x 19.5

SUNAMI (2011), Ink and coloured pencil, 24.5 x 10.5”

WORLD MONSTER (2012), Ink and coloured pencil, 48.5 x 49”|

EARTHS WITH PEOPLE ON THEM (2011), Ink and coloured pencil, 19.5 x 25.5”

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SHUVINAI’S WORLD(S)’

Excerpts from the Catalogue essay by Bruce Hunter

From her earliest works, the art of Shuvinai Ashoona has been informed by the influences of community, history and personal experience, and the spiritual connections made through memory, story and fantasy. Over time, the emerging field against which these influences played out has been the rock strewn shore of Cape Dorset, which for millennia has edged and interacted with its own parallel and elemental marine universe.

Incorporated onto pristine and extended white surfaces, favourite images such as tents have been connected by ink line and organized into precisely rendered coastal pebble and rock landscapes.  Shuvinai’s elemental tent image has now transitioned from a simple sheltered protection that is connected to the landscape through an architectural organization of physical supports, to a world – a world that even utilizes botanical and imagination-conceived tendrils to link to her other world(s) for compositional strength.

In Shuvinai’s compositions however, her world(s) never collide – they touch, they eclipse, and sometimes they simply and elegantly float in perfect harmony with each other, but always in sensitivity to nature. Shuvinai’s tendrils surround her world(s) in such a way that the eye is led around the image by these connections.

Shuvinai has an intuitive sense of compositional elements, and they always rest securely in nature. Her world(s) are a floating and colour-infused metaphor for the centre of family life that is positioned on an axis in space and held in place through a galactic network of anchors and supports extending from within the larger community.

One world has now become many for Shuvinai, and each represents the twin expanding universes of her external and internal creative explorations. The once flattened and extended white field against which the original, precisely organized ink line renderings were grouped and distributed, has now been replaced by a sky; a sky that is spatially but carefully worked in colour and balance and extended out to the image edge, much like the horizon of heaven.

Pierre-François Ouellette Art Contemporain is pleased to present a solo exhibition of Jérôme Fortin at Centre Space (Toronto).  This exhibition will provide an overview of his work from the last 10 years and coincides with his current participation in Dreamland at the Textile Museum of Canada.

The public is invited to meet the artist on August 16th from 5 to 7pm.
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Jérôme Fortin was born in Joliette in 1971, he lives and works in Montreal. 
Since 1996 he has had more than a twenty solo exhibitions including shows in Prague, Pretoria, Tokyo, Paris, Toronto and Montreal. His work has been presented in group exhibitions in Istanbul, Berlin, Bologna, Brussels, Paris, Cuba, Barcelona, Beijing and New York. Fortin has also actively participated in international artists’ residencies, notably at the World Financial Center Arts and Events (New York), la Fondation Christoph-Merian (Basel), Fonca (Mexico D.F.), la Cité internationale des arts (Paris), the Ludwig Foundation of Cuba (Havana) and Tokyo Wonder Site (Tokyo). In 2007 Fortin had a major solo exhibition at the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal (MACM) and in 2004 he was a laureate of the City of Montreal’s Prix Pierre Ayot. His works can be found in several public collections including those of the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, the Musée national des beaux-arts du Quebec, the Musée de Joliette, the Pretoria Art Museum, the National Museum of China, the Bibliothèque et archives nationales du Québec, the Canada Council Art Bank, the City of Montreal, and in several major corporate and private collections worldwide.

This exhibition will encompass works from his most renowned series including Bagatelle, Seascapes/Marines, Tondos, Écrans/Screens, Ostinatos.

For more information and to book an interview with the artist who will be in Toronto on August 16:

(416) 323-1373
pfoac@centre-space.ca
65 George Street, Toronto

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16 août – 8 septembre 2012

Jérôme Fortin est né à Joliette en 1971. Il vit et travaille à Montréal. 

Depuis 1996, il a présenté plus d’une vingtaine d’expositions personnelles à Prague, Pretoria, Tokyo, Paris, Toronto et Montréal. Il a participé à de nombreuses expositions collectives à Istanbul, Berlin, Bologne, Bruxelles, Paris, Cuba, Barcelone, Beijing et New York. Plusieurs résidences d’artiste font partie de son parcours, notamment au World Financial Center Arts and Events (New York), Fondation Christoph-Merian (Bâle), Fonca (Mexico D.F.), la Cité internationale des arts (Paris), Ludwig Foundation de Cuba (La Havanne), Tokyo Wonder Site (Tokyo). En 2007, les travaux de Fortin ont fait l’objet d’une exposition personnelle au Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal (MACM). Il a reçu en 2004 le Prix Pierre-Ayot de la ville de Montréal. Ses œuvres figurent dans plusieurs collections dont celles du Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, Musée de Joliette, Pretoria art museum, National Museum of China, Bibliothèque et archives nationales du Québec, Banque d’oeuvres d’art du Conseil des arts du Canada, Ville de Montréal, d’entreprises et particulières.

Cette exposition regroupe des oeuvres de ses séries les plus réputées tel que Bagatelle, Seascapes/Marines, Tondos, Écrans/Screens et Ostinatos

Pour plus de renseignements et pour une rencontre avec l’artiste qui sera à Toronto le 16 août :

(416) 323-1373
pfoac@centre-space.ca
65 George Street, Toronto

A wonderful article of Kent Monkman’s show “Miss America” featured on “In Toronto Magazine”  Click here for the article.

KENT MONKMAN @ CENTRE SPACE

June 14^th – August 11^th, 2012

Pierre-François Ouellette Art Contemporain is pleased to present a solo exhibition of Kent Monkman at Centre Space Toronto. This exhibition entitled Miss America will focus on three recent paintings (Miss America, Flow and Descent into Amnesia) and some videos including Dance to Miss Chief. The exhibition will open to the public on Thursday June 14th and run until August 11th.

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KENT MONKMAN @ CENTRE SPACE

14 juin – 11 août 2012

Pierre-François Ouellette art contemporain est heureuse de présenter une exposition solo de Kent Monkman à Centre Space (Toronto). Cette exposition intitulée Miss America se concentrera sur trois peintures récentes(Miss America, Flow et Descent into Amnesia) et sur quelques vidéos, y compris Dance to Miss Chief. L’exposition sera ouverte au public du jeudi 14 juin au 11 août.

Pour lire l’essai de Steve Loft et voir les vues d’installation, cliquer ici.

North, South, East, West: All directions point to 65 George St., Toronto this Thursday February 23rd: All in one spot, the art of the Canadian North comes South to Toronto in Dorset Now at Feheley Fine Arts (of Toronto), while the art of French sculptor Rodin is reflected through a contemporary lens in Adad Hannah’s Unwrapping Rodin, presented by Pierre-François Ouellette art contemporain (of Montreal). And Toronto meets Montreal as Pat Feheley and Pierre-François Ouellette join forces to launch a new mash up of contemporary art at Centre Space.

Feheley and Ouellette are proud to announce the inauguration of Centre Space, a new concept for a contemporary art gallery opening to the public Friday February 24th. After many successful years in Yorkville, Feheley Fine Arts recently moved to a new venue: 65 George Street in downtown Toronto (east of Jarvis Street and south of King Street East).

Centre Space is a shared commercial “white cube” exhibition space located within the new Feheley gallery. Feheley Fine Arts and Pierre-François Ouellette art contemporain will each program four to five independent exhibitions per year of their respective artists – providing access to a broad spectrum of contemporary practices by Northern artists, artists from Quebec and elsewhere. Centre Space provides an exceptional opportunity to see works by artists who are ground-breaking in their fields.

“Pierre-François has a history of pushing the boundaries in his exhibitions by featuring museum-quality works of art in both large and small formats, and in a range of media,” says Feheley. “This fits with my stance of challenging the traditional view of Inuit art by championing contemporary Inuit artists working in new scale, new media, and new subject matter.”

For his first exhibition at Centre Space, Ouellette has selected Adad Hannah’s large-scale photographic suite, Unwrapping Rodin which was first presented in the Fall of 2010 at the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal. This exhibition coincides with the presentation of two videos from the Traces series by Adad Hannah at the Art Gallery of Ontario’s installation, “Watch This Space: Contemporary Art from the AGO collection.”

Feheley Fine Arts’ lofty new space shows to full effect the impact of contemporary Inuit art. Feheley has selected for the inaugural exhibition, Dorset Now, a group show of top contemporary Inuit drawings in varying scale by artists including Shuvinai Ashoona, Itee Pootoogook, Tim Pitsiulak, Jutai Toonoo, and Ohotaq Mikkigak.

feheleyfinearts@centre-space.ca

pfoac@centre-space.ca

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TORONTO ET MONTRÉAL SE RENCONTRENT @ CENTRE SPACE

Une nouvelle galerie collaborative ouvre ses portes le 24 février 2012

Nord, sud, est, ouest : toutes directions mènent au 65 George St., Toronto, ce jeudi 23 février. En un même lieu, l’art du Nord canadien visite le sud, avec Dorset Now à Feheley Fine Arts (de Toronto), et l’art du sculpteur français Rodin est revisité à travers une lunette contemporaine, dans Unwrapping Rodin d’Adad Hannah, présentée par Pierre-François Ouellette art contemporain (de Montréal). Aussi, Toronto y rencontre Montréal, tandis que Pat Feheley et Pierre-François Ouellette s’unissent pour inaugurer un nouvel espace d’exposition avec un assortiment percutant d’œuvres contemporaines.

Feheley et Ouellette sont fiers d’annoncer l’inauguration de Centre Space, un nouveau concept pour une galerie d’art contemporain ouvrant au public le vendredi 24 février. Après plusieurs années fructueuses à Yorkville, Feheley Fine Arts a récemment élu domicile au 65 George Street, au centre-ville de Toronto (à l’est de la rue Jarvis et au sud de la rue King).

Centre Space est un espace d’exposition commercial de type « cube blanc », situé à même la nouvelle galerie Feheley. Pierre-François Ouellette art contemporain et Feheley Fine Arts y programmeront chacun quatre à cinq expositions annuelles de leurs artistes respectifs – donnant accès à un vaste éventail de pratiques contemporaines d’artistes du Grand Nord, d’artistes du Québec et d’ailleurs. Centre Space offre de formidables possibilités de découverte, en proposant des œuvres d’artistes remarquablement novateurs.

« Pierre-François est connu pour ses expositions qui repoussent les frontières, de même que pour sa présentation d’œuvres de qualité musée, réalisées en grands et en petits formats et dans une variété de techniques », explique Feheley. « Et cette façon de faire convient tout à fait à ma position qui questionne la vision traditionnelle de l’art inuit en défendant des artistes inuits contemporains travaillant avec de nouveaux formats, des nouvelles techniques et de nouveaux sujets. »

Pour sa première exposition à Centre Space, Ouellette a retenu la suite photographique de grand format d’Adad Hannah, Unwrapping Rodin, qui a été présentée pour la première fois à l’automne 2010, au Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal. Cette exposition coïncide avec la présentation de deux vidéos de la série Traces d’Adad Hannah, dans le cadre de Sentez l’espace : art contemporain de la collection de l’AGO, au Musée des beaux-arts de l’Ontario.

Les nouveaux locaux de la nouvelle galerie Feheley Fine Arts permettent de saisir le plein impact de l’art inuit contemporain. Pour l’inauguration des lieux, Feheley a organisé Dorset Now, une exposition de groupe présentant le meilleur du dessin inuit contemporain dans divers formats, par des artistes tels Shuvinai Ashoona, Itee Pootoogook, Tim Pitsiulak, Jutai Toonoo, et Ohotaq Mikkigak.

feheleyfinearts@centre-space.ca

pfoac@centre-space.ca