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21/3/2012

Chris Kline - Manon De Pauw

Diaz Contemporary, Toronto

Chris Kline
Dividers

Diaz Contemporary is pleased to present Chris Kline’s first exhibition with the gallery. Kline combines understated materials with subtle visual mechanisms to produce works that are complex and expansive. In this series, as in previous works, Kline reveals the architecture of the painting, emphasizing both frame and image; structure and surface. The idea of painting as both action and object is nuanced, as the language of modernist abstraction convolutes to accept new meaning.

The soft colour variations, visible borders and markings of these paintings can evoke certain experiences of vision and materiality as well as historical painting genres, while at the same time lingering on the threshold of abstraction's boundless space. We have access to an exploration of the processes involved in the physical form of a painting, and are encouraged to re-visit the definitions of the inside and the outside of a work of art.

The Dividers lie between systematic hard edge composition and an indeterminate sensuousness, a contrast set up by the geometric forms that appear on the edges of hazy colour fields. The paintings refer to themselves as well as their surroundings in the language of light, shadow, layers and space. The material characteristics of the painting and the canvas resemble aspects of the gallery space and vice versa – a corner, a ray of light, a shadow on an interior wall. Moreover, the translucent poplin surface calls our attention to the act of looking, simultaneously concealing and revealing, supporting or creating space.

Born in Ontario, Chris Kline attended Queen’s University (B.A. Honors) and the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design. His recent solo exhibition, Bright Limit, organized by Oakville Galleries is now touring at the Southern Alberta Art Gallery. Kline has been a semifinalist in the RBC Painting Prize, and long-listed for the Sobey Art Award. His work was also featured in the 2011 Quebec Triennial. His work is in the collection of the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Halifax, the Musée d’art contemporain, Montreal, and the Musée d’art de Joliette, Quebec, as well as private and corporate collections. He currently lives and works in Montreal, and is also represented by Galerie René Blouin.

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Manon De Pauw
Ordinary Matter

Diaz Contemporary is pleased to present Manon De Pauw’s first exhibition with the gallery. De Pauw’s work involves an exploration of the relationships between images and performative presence. Drawing from the conditions of photography, film, video, and other image-making technologies, particularly in the realm of light and shadow, she creates meditative, intriguing and luminescent compositions. Her use of time, transparency and movement serve to push our understanding of images beyond the constraints of a two dimensional plane, and the viewer becomes lost between space, object, and surface.

L’arena is a video diptych that plays on the flow and form, appearance and disappearance of a group of performers behind a translucent screen. Through their strange task, they reveal in real time the creation process of an image in constant motion.

The title of the Ordinary Matter series comes from the cosmological term defining all that is visible in the universe, including our own bodies. These human scale photograms are the result of light illuminating the shape of different objects on the surface of the photographic paper.

Manon De Pauw has held exhibitions at the Canadian Cultural Centre in Paris (2012), the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia (2011), Cambrige Art Galleries (2010), the Southern Alberta Art Gallery (2010), Galerie de l’UQAM (2009), Optica (2007), and Trinity Square Video (2007), among others. Her work has been shown in numerous events in Canada and abroad, such as the MACM Quebec Triennial 2008, Festival TransAmériques (2008), and the 8è Bienal de video y nuevos medios de Santiago 2007 (Chili). It can be found in the collections of the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, and the Collection d’œuvres d’art de l’UQAM. In 2010, she was guest curator at the MACM for the series Point of vue on the Collection. In 2011, she was shortlisted for the Sobey Art Award. She has toured world wide with Danièle Desnoyers and her dance company Le carré des Lombes, as a collaborator and video-performer. She lives and works in Montreal, teaches at Concordia University and is also represented by Galerie Division.

Opening Thursday 22 March 6 to 8 pm

Diaz Contemporary
100 Niagara Street (at Tecumseth) Toronto
Gallery Hours: Tuesday through Saturday, 11-6
Admission free

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