Carte grise à Geneviève Cadieux

Opening on Thursday April 14, at 5 p.m.
From April 14 to May 21, 2005

The gallery is open Tuesday through Saturday from noon to 5 p.m.

Each year, within the context of Carte grise, Dazibao provides an opportunity to discover a particular artist’s view on contemporary photography via an exhibition and a publication. In this context Geneviève Cadieux has chosen to present a project including works by Rodney Graham, Pascal Grandmaison, Roni Horn, Kiki Smith as well as some of her works. Geneviève Cadieux has drawn from photography’s intrinsic qualities—reflection, inversion, duplication, reproduction, multiplication, enlargement, etc.—to focus on the notion of imprint, indeed even of doubles, casting, copies, serial representations of the real disrupted by the possibility of endless variations. The exhibition is accompanied by an essay by David Deitcher who questions our relationship to art and its interpretation, exploring in his own way the notion of multiple versions—varying experiences—of one object. Deitcher’s text along with reproductions of the works appears in a special leaflet available during the exhibition, which will be inserted in the summer 2005 issue of Parachute magazine.

Dazibao thanks Mrs Michiko Gagnon, Mr Jerry Gorovoy, Galerie René Blouin, Matthew Marks Gallery, Pace Wildenstein, Donald Young Gallery, the artists and the author for their generous contribution and its members for their support. Dazibao is a member of the Regroupement des centres d’artistes autogérés du Québec. Dazibao receives financial support from the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec, the Canada Council for the Arts and the Conseil des arts de Montréal.

Born in 1949 in Masqui, British Columbia, Rodney Graham studied at the University of British Columbia and Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, where he currently works and resides. While Rodney Graham is commonly described as a conceptual artist, the scope of his artistic and intellectual pursuits defies categorization. As an artist, writer, musician, and actor, he has made works that range across media and subject matter, inventing new approaches to landscape, literature, popular culture, music, and sound. An important solo exhibition entitled, Rodney Graham: A Little Thought, is currently in circulation (Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, Art Gallery of Ontario,Vancouver Art Gallery, and the Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia). The 303 Gallery (NY); Oakville Galleries (Ontario); Morris & Helen Belkin Art Gallery at the University of British Columbia; Madison Arts Center (Wisconsin); Donald Young Gallery (Chicago); Hauser & Wirth (Zurich); and The Whitechapel Art Gallery (London) recently held solo exhibitons of his work. Also, he has been featured in important group shows including Fast Forward, Zentrum for Kunst und Medientechnologie Karlsrush (Germany); C’est arrivé demain, at the Biennale d’Art Contemporain de Lyon; Crosscurrents at Century’s End: Selections from the Nueberger Berman Art Collection, Henry Art Gallery (Seattle); as well as within the context of the Biennale of Venice (1997) and the Documenta IX (1992).

Pascal Grandmaison, born in 1975, lives and works in Montreal. He uses video and photography to create images within a contemplative and durational framework. He has had solo exhibitions in Canada, at the Galerie René Bouin amongst others, and abroad (Lyon and NY), and he has been included in many group exhibitions such as Soundtrack, which toured in Canada, and Timelength, at the Leonard & Bina Ellen Gallery (Montreal). His work in video has been presented in festivals and biennales in Canada, Italy, England, Portugal and Switzerland. He has been invited to participate in the 2005 Prague Biennale.

Born in 1955, Roni Horn is an American sculptor, photographer, writer and installation artist. She studied at Rhode Island School of Design (Providence), and received an MFA at Yale University (Connecticut). She currently lives and works in New York. From 1975 she began to make regular excursions to Iceland, its landscape and isolation acting as a central influence on her practice. She has described her sculpture as being "site-dependent," borrowing from the vocabulary of Minimalism. Horn, therefore focuses on how the object is situated, and on its intrinsic material quality. Recent solo exhibitions were presented at Hauser & Wirth (London); Museum Folkwang Essen (Germany); The Art Institute of Chicago; Centre Georges-Pompidou (Paris); Musée National d’Art Moderne (Paris); Whitney Biennial Exhibition (NY); Venice Biennale; Dia Art Foundation (NY); Museu de Arte Contemporânea (Spain); Whitney Museum of American Art (NY); Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris; De Pont Foundation for Contemporary Art (Netherlands); Fotomuseum Winterthur (Switzerland); and the Wexner Center for the Arts (Columbus).

Kiki Smith was born in 1954 in Nuremberg, Germany, from American parents. She lives in New York where she is well recognized for her evocative sculptures, drawings, and prints. The recurrent subject matter in Smith’s work has been the body as a receptacle for knowledge, belief, and storytelling. Her work has evolved to incorporate animals, domestic objects, and narrative tropes from classical mythology and folk tales. She has recently had solo shows at The Museum of Modern Art (NY); Barbara Krakow Gallery (NY); Galerie Lelong (Paris and Zurich); The Fabric Workshop and Museum (Philadelphia); Pace Wildenstein (NY); Galerie René Blouin (Montreal); St. Louis Art Museum (Missouri); Carnegie Museum of Art (Pittsburgh); The Museum of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles); and The Whitechapel Art Gallery (London). Recent group shows include Me & More, Kunstmuseum Luzern (Switzerland); The Body Transformed, National Gallery of Canada; Disturbance, Raffaela Cortese (Milan); Unnatural Science, Mass MocA (Massachusetts); Maria Magdalena, Museum voor Schone Kunsten (Belgium); Regarding Beauty: The Nude in 20th Century Art, Kunsthalle in Emden (Germany); and Metamorphing: Transformation in Science, Art and Mythology, The Science Museum (London). Smith has participated in the Whitney Biennial three times in the past decade and received the Skowhegan Medal for Sculpture in 2000. Smith’s work is in numerous prominent museum collections, including the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (NY), the Metropolitan Museum of Art (NY), and the Museum of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles). A major retrospective of Smith’s prints and multiples took place at New York's Museum of Modern Art in 2003-04.

Geneviève Cadieux was born in 1955 in Montreal where she lives and works. Her work is situated within the ambiguous locus between photographic and filmic modes of representation. In her production, the photographic image occupies a central position focusing on such subjects as the human body, landscape and language. While the majority of her work utilizes large scale photographs, she has also used sculpture (bronze and glass), sound, film and video projections. Since the beginning of the 1980s, her work has been the subject of several solo exhibitions, notably at the Institute of Contemporary Art (London); Musée d’art contemporain de Rochechouart (France); Nouveau Musée (Villeurbanne, France); Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen (Belgium); Bonner Kunstverein (Germany); Tate Gallery (London); Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal; Galerie René Blouin (Montreal); Cleveland Centre for Contemporary Art; Pittsburgh Centre for the Arts; Morris & Helen Belkin Art Gallery at the University of British Columbia; Montreal Museum of Fine Arts and more recently, at the Americas Society (NY). As well, she has been presented in several major group shows, amongst others, at the National Gallery of Canada; the Centre Georges-Pompidou (France); the New Museum of Contemporary Art (NY), the Centro d’Art Reina Sofia (Madrid) and at the Setagaya Art Museum (Tokyo). In 1993, she was a recipient of the prestigious Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst Award (Berlin). As an invited professor, she has taught at l’École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts de Paris, l’École d’art de Grenoble, the Universitat Politècnica de València (Spain), and at the University of Illinois at Chicago, College of Architecture and the Arts. She is now an associate professor in the Faculty of Fine Arts of Concordia University (Montreal).

David Deitcher holds a bachelor and master’s degree from New York University and a Ph.D. from the Graduate Center, City University of New York. Art historian, critic and author, he has published several essays in Artforum, Art in America, Frieze, Parkett and Village Voice. He has also contributed to a number of anthologies and monographs on artists such as Felix Gonzales-Torres, Wolgang Tillmans and Isaac Julien. He has edited The Question of Equality: Lesbian and Gay Politics in America since Stonewall, organized the exhibition and wrote the text for the catalogue Dear Friends: American Photographs of Men Together, 1840-1917, presented at the International Center of Photography (NY). He has taught at the University of Rochester, at the California Institute of the Arts and at the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College. Since 1992, he has taught contemporary art history and critical theory at Cooper Union (NY).