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6/11/2012

Luc Paradis / Group show

Parisian Laundry, Montreal

Parisian Laundry is delighted to announce the gallery’s first solo presentation of Luc Paradis entitled POMPIA. The recent works assembled here exemplify the artist’s eclectic, detailed and captivating practice, inviting the viewer to experience a unique and enveloping universe.

POMPIA presents paintings, sculpture, collage and drawing. Paradis developed the exhibition by considering the idea of a group show by one artist. In its effect this exhibition reveals the artist’s practice that is at once diverse and focused. POMPIA recreates the experience of a studio visits with Paradis, it reflects the diversity of his influences while making evident everything that is considered and in conversation, including frames, plinths and the found objects incorporated into the installation. When discussing the work, Paradis ponders, “where and when does it come from”, symbolically questioning the nature of artwork through a removed sense of his own creations. The viewer is likewise invited to consider the work in reference to a history of art, pop culture, music and personal history, ultimately concluding that the intrigue of Paradis’ work lies in his uninhibited ways of incorporating a multitude of references.

Luc Paradis was born in 1979 in Vancouver BC, he is a self taught artist and musician currently living and working in Montreal, QC. His work will be featured in an upcoming solo exhibition at l’Oeil de poisson in Québec City. Paradis’s work has been presented in exhibitions throughout Canada including La Centrale Gallery in Montreal QC, and the 27th Symposium of Contemporary Art in Baie St Paul QC. Paradis has designed album artwork and posters for artists such as the Black Lips and Silver Mount Zion and his work was commissioned for a recent publication entitled Martine à la Plage published by La Meche. The work of Luc Paradis is found in various private collections in Canada and the United States as well as public collections such as the Collection prêt d’oeuvres d’art of the Musée national des beaux-arts de Québec.

Running parallel to the solo exhibition of Luc Paradis, PARISIAN LAUNDRY will present a group show of gallery artists in the Bunker and a selection of recent acquisitions from the Tedeschi collection in the 2nd floor space.

The gallery equally wishes to announce the opening of New York City’s upcoming Public Art Fund exhibition, Configurations on November 11, 2012. Configurations features new sculptures by PARISIAN LAUNDRY artist Valérie Blass. “This exhibition brings together a group of four artists—Valérie Blass, Katinka Bock, Esther, Kläs, and Allyson Vieira—who share an interest in the innate presence of freestanding, autonomous sculptures. Through aesthetic considerations that draw on improvisation and experimentation in the studio, their amorphous and corporeal forms also playfully connect to the classical tradition of sculpture—the statue, the monument, the bust, and the pedestal. Both intuitive and practical in their process, objects frequently emerge from a physical engagement with such diverse materials as clay, cement, drywall, aqua-resin, Styrofoam, ceramic, salvaged materials, metal, and wood, among others.” – Press Release Public Art Fund.

Image: Luc Paradis, Where Are We Going ?, 2011, Huile sur toile, 45 x 52"

Opening November 7, 6pm Artist in attendance

Parisian Laundry
3550 St-Antoine West Montreal, QC, Canada H4C 1A9
Hours: Tuesday to Saturday Noon-5pm. Private viewing is available by appointment.

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