Cinémas de l’industrie

Caroline Martel (Montreal)
September 12 to October 17, 2009 | Opening Saturday, September 12 at 4:00 p.m.

The first in a series of three exhibitions devoted to the re-use of images, Cinémas de l’industrie
proposes ways of thinking about the mutation of images in two works created out of a vast body of industrial films. In the first piece, two distinct projections resonate with each other as if scenes from the heritage of industrial films suddenly revealed landmark works from film history. In the second piece, Caroline Martel examines the ways in which chemical alterations in the film stock over time affect our reading of it. Through scrupulous montage, she uses archives like words of a language, a raw material that raises the crucial question of intellectual property.

Caroline Martel is a filmmaker and researcher living in Montreal. Le Fantôme de l’opératrice, a montage film made in 2004 and the recipient of many awards, earned her international recognition.

Into Black… et pas
blanc comme neige

Rob Kovitz (Winnipeg) and Jason Dodge (USA)
October 24 to November 28, 2009 |Opening Saturday, October 24 at 4:00 p.m.

The two artists in this second exhibition of the re-use series explore the genesis of stories without
narration. Rob Kovitz’s work is entitled Ice Fishing in Gimli, the definitive version of a monumental
“novel” of more than 4,000 pages made up of a meticulous assemblage of quotations and images
taken from various sources. To create Into Black, Jason Dodge gave six people living in six places on the planet a sheet of unexposed photographic paper and asked them to expose it at sunrise the day of the equinox. Both artists use specific sites to give shape to their story in works which reconnect the visual and the narrative, giving the viewer-reader a decisive role in the construction of their meaning.

Rob Kovitz uses various sources to create books and Internet projects. He lives in Winnipeg, where he operates his publishing house, Treyf.

Jason Dodge was born in the United States and now lives in Berlin. His work is exhibited regularly
around the world. The presentation of the present work has been made possible through the kind
assistance of the Yvon Lambert gallery in Paris.

Special Archives Event

Thursday, December 3, 2009 at 7:00 p.m.

The archivist and independent curator Vincent Bonin will give a presentation on the various ways in which archives are used in contemporary visual art, focusing on works by Martel, Kovitz and Samuels. A special screening will follow of short films made mostly out of archival documents, selected by Jean-Claude Bustros, filmmaker and professor at Concordia University.

Collage Party !

Saturday, December 5 beginning at 7:00 p.m.

Paul Butler, multidisciplinary artist and director of The Other Gallery, a nomadic art space, hosts a special archival Collage Party at Dazibao : come give new life to old archives and raise a glass on the occasion of this event where generations, music, glue and paper will mix !

Before Photography

Chuck Samuels (Montreal)
January 9 to February 13, 2010 | Opening Saturday, January 9 at 4:00 p.m.

Chuck Samuels closes the series of exhibitions around the recuperation and appropriation of images with an exuberant and rigorous study of the depiction of photographers in popular cinema and television of the 1950s. This work, much more than a stylistic exercise, grew out of Samuels’ enquiry into the nature of his connection to his father, a man who all his life expressed his love for his family by photographing them. Revisiting the family archives, his personal memories and the iconography which surrounded his father, Samuels weaves together events and inventions, bringing out through the construction of his own figure an unstoppable critical and aesthetic strategy : fiction.

Since 1980, Chuck Samuels has used photography and cinema to enquire into the philosophical
issues around memory and the construction of the self in a body of work shaded with irony. He lives in Montreal and his work has been exhibited both in Canada and abroad.

Box

Olivia Boudreau (Montreal)
February 20 to March 27, 2010 | Opening Saturday, February 20 at 4:00 p.m.

For Box, Olivia Boudreau filmed 23 hours in a stall. In La Levée, we make out in the darkness
the bottom moulding of a wall and a pair of legs, along which slide a woman’s panties. Each of
the boxes in the present exhibition reveals a creature out of which develop prolific imaginary
connections: a horse, a young woman. Between these works and their viewer arises a game,
a movement between what is shown and is not, between the powerful symbolic charge of the
image and the impossibility of grasping it completely while the image lasts. It is in this negative
space that the artist’s experience and that of the viewer can enter into dialogue.

Olivia Boudreau is a video and performance artist who lives in Montreal. She is currently
pursuing a Master’s degree in Visual and Media Arts at UQÀM.

Legacy

Benny Nemerofsky Ramsay (Montreal)
April 10 to May 15, 2010 | Masked opening Saturday, April 10 at 4:00 p.m.

Benny Nemerofsky Ramsay will exhibit two videos created in the context of the residency offered
yearly by PRIM and Dazibao. In OH and Legacy, he takes to the stage in intense, almost shamanlike, musical performances. The incontestably playful aspect of his work, with its masquerades and masks, does not cancel out the artistic enquiry underlying it, an enquiry into the relationship between the ephemeral and the sublime and between music and the image, creating a rhetoric for the expression of identity in popular culture.

Benny Nemerofsky Ramsay is a Montreal-born artist, diarist and aspiring bon vivant. His work
has won numerous awards and has been exhibited widely in Europe, Asia and North America.

This exhibition is part of Dazibao’s artist in residence program, operated jointly with PRIM.

Living Things :
Carte grise à Roy Arden

Roy Arden (Vancouver), Geneviève Cadieux (Montreal), Olga Chagaoutdinova (Montreal), Moyra Davey (USA), Anthony Hernandez (USA), Jochen Lempert (Germany), Stephen Waddell (Vancouver), Jeff Wall (Vancouver), Wols (Germany).
May 22 to June 26, 2010 | Opening Saturday, May 22 at 4:00 p.m.

Each year, Dazibao invites an artist to curate an exhibition entitled Carte grise. Drawing freely from the work of nine artists, Roy Arden has assembled a collection of studies of things. As an enumeration, these images, detached from the context of their creation, are presented apart from any aesthetic or moral hierarchy. They show various organisms: human, animal, vegetable. Arden uses them to re-examine description, for which photography has been a primary vehicle, and the function it serves in contemporary art.

Roy Arden is a Vancouver-based artist. His videographic and photographic work is in numerous
museum collections. Arden contributed to many publications and curated several exhibitions of
Canadian and international art.

TOURING EXHIBITIONS

mécanismes d’intérieurs

Manon Labrecque

mécanismes d’intérieurs is a touring exhibition of the Conseil des
arts de Montréal en tournée, created and produced by Dazibao.

Coming near you, from September 2009 !

Maison de la culture Notre-Dame-de-Grâce
September 3 to October 18, 2009
Maison de la culture Mercier
March 6 to April 11, 2010
Salle de diffusion Parc-Extension
May 13 to June 13, 2010

Entre états | Between States

Darren Ell

Entre états/Between States is a touring exhibition of the Conseil des
arts de Montréal en tournée, created and produced by Dazibao.

Last chance!

Centre culturel de Verdun
September 5 to November 1st, 2009

Gravité

Bas Jan Ader

This exhibition is presented in collaboration with Patrick Painter
Editions and the Bas Jan Ader Estate.

Presented by the Blackwood Gallery (University of Toronto,
Mississauga) at Hart House (University of Toronto, St. George
Campus) during the ScotiaBank Nuit Blanche on October 3, 2009.

Neutral Ground (Regina)
March 6 to April 3, 2010

PORTABLE EXHIBITION

Dazibao continues to make available its portable exhibition for children, composed of video works. The exhibition, accompanied by activities and set up for a few hours in a school or day care, provides children with an opportunity to experience contemporary art.

For information: Amélie Brault

IT’S FREE !

EXTRAS !

• Book launch of Risk Colour Book on September 10, 2009 at 6:30 p.m. on the occasion of the
  2009 edition of the Mois de la photo à Montréal at Ateliers Jean Brillant, 3550 Saint-Jacques St. W., Montreal.
• Keep an eye out for Dazibao’s dinner screenings this fall at the restaurant L’Atelier. An extraordinary opportunity to awaken all your senses in pleasant company !
• Don’t miss the special collaboration between Dazibao and the magazine Génération d’idées around the concept of re-using images and the copyright issue.
• 2 x 8 : Experience the mysteries flowing under the immaculate ice of Gimli by signing up for one of the intimate readings of Ice Fishing in Gimli by Rob Kovitz. Be sure to sign up in advance, there are only two times eight places !
• The gallery will remain open during the Montreal High Lights Festival’s All-Nighter, making it
  possible for the public to view all 23 hours of Olivia Boudreau’s work Box without interruption.
• For the exhibition Legacy, Benny Nemerofsky Ramsay and Dazibao invite you to a masked opening ! The masks will be designed by the artist and available upon entry.
• Dazibao offers, upon request, guided group visits to the gallery. Take advantage of this opportunity !

OUR PUBLICATION PROGRAM

Gustavo Artigas

Risk Colour Book

Edited by France Choinière
Les éditions Dazibao, Les portables series

Risk Colour Book is the result of an encounter between two bodies of work, both involved with the concept of risk. Whether we are dealing with an inventory of toxic pigments and their possible secondary effects or with a performance recreating the moment when a pedestrian is struck by a car, Gustavo Artigas explores the various possible kinds of risk, disasters and accidents. Through recording, repetition and the staging of action, Artigas exposes the fragility of the body, subjected to a cunningly latent violence.

The series Les portables brings together publications which use the concept of the book as a space to disseminate photography. Dedicated exclusively to the work of one artist, each title of the series is a travelling exhibition with unlimited venues and circulation.

With this book, Dazibao rewards Gustavo Artigas, recipient of the Dazibao Award, conferred forthe first time during the 2007 edition of the Mois de la photo à Montréal.

• Book launch on September 10, 2009 at 6:30 p.m. on the occasion of the 2009 edition of the Mois de la photo à Montréal at Ateliers Jean Brillant, 3550 Saint-Jacques St. W., Montreal.