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26/2/2014

Nicolas Lachance / Thomas Begin

Darling Foundry visual arts centre, Montreal

Nicolas Lachance
Framing Smoke / Cadrer la fumée

Curator Caroline Andrieux

Framing Smoke /Cadrer la Fuméecomes across as a laboratory given over to Nicolas Lachance’s experiments, gathering a set of works made by different methods that are drawn into a conversation to probe the mediums of painting and photography. By a resonance effect, wavering between mass products and chance operations, processed materials and process itself, the artist interrogates the strategies specific to the creation of a picture and a composition, the relations between production and reproduction, while inhabiting historicised styles and forms.

The artist does not seek (or only rarely seeks) to compose, preferring to reproduce, stick, transpose photographs (Recollection) and objects from reality (Filtres), or again to allow the image to form by itself(Bloom), with the aim of withholding the creative gesture. In a parallel process, an avalanche of styles and techniques intermingle, signifying the artist’s detachment from any given artistic family while demonstrating his ability to explore them all. This is echoed by a flux of dead images, plastified posters that society generates to saturation, then abandons by a roadside or in a hard drive (Recollection). Lamination, multiplication and scaling for convenience are just so many stages in the stripping of aura from those reproductions. The artist collects such residue in order to seal it within white canvas, taping up the images of collective memory like mummies.

The Bloom series is the trace of an antinomic gesture of construction and deconstruction, namely that of painting and unpainting the surface of the canvas. A superimposition of ultrathin monochrome layers is applied, and then, in the opposite process to this accumulation, the artist withdraws matter from this surface by abrasion. This improbably reveals abstract images that put in question the very principle of composition. Again, these images appear sealed, under a polished surface whose ambiguity suggest a photographic quality.

Nicolas Lachance
Nicolas Lachance lives and works in Montreal. He holds a BA from UQAM (2009). In recent years he has presented his works at Regart centre in Québec, Clark centre and Lilian Rodriguez gallery. He is currently working on two solo exhibitions for the spring of 2014 at the Maison des Arts of Laval and at the Darling Foundry. His works are in the collection of Prêt d'oeuvres d'art of MNBAQ and private collections in Canada.

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Thomas Bégin
Byte by byte

Curator Eric Mattson

BYTE BY BYTE is a sound installation that calls on the most basic features of the digital information concept. The work is composed of eight stations, like an archaic choir made up of recycled musical equipment (amplifiers, bass cabinets, guitars, resonance chambers, and cymbals), clusters of fluorescent tubes, and a computer. In this strange sound system Thomas Bégin has designed, the data code is directly transcribed as a musical score. The device literally produces digital music by reading one by one the octets drawn from various files, which are then turned into pulses of electricity and light. This transcoding gives rise to a composition that allows the most physical aspects of digital inscription (sequences, motifs, rhythms and textures) to appear. Singing a slow-motion flux of data, the set of sculptures performs an endless work whose music flows from its own decay.

BYTE BY BYTE may be viewed as a sound composition naively conceptualized by a sculptor. The artist is showing us collections of objects that have a formal coherence and is carrying out musical research by giving us an orchestration that plays with the specific acoustics of the site. This conflation of roles happens to provide a clue to reading the project. Where one might expect to hear music by a composer assisted by a computer, one is instead faced by the noise of the tool as dismantled and rearranged by a sculptor. All that remains of this self-undermining appropriation, shorn of primary functionalities, is the tool’s internal structure as highlighted and used in the crudest fashion. The artist will present an intervention in this installation in direct relation to this exhibition, thanks to a grant from the Canada Council for the Arts aimed at projects by art organizations.

On the occasion of MONTRÉAL EN LUMIÈRE and Nuit Blanche, the Darling Foundry presents an Electric Night on March 1st from 7 pm to 2 am.
This evening will be an opportunity to discover the two new exhibitions of the season, and will also include mulled wine tasting and an outdoor art projection by IMCA SC collective (Concordia University).

March 20, 2014 6 pm to 7 pm
Nicolas Lachance will present his exhibition Framing Smoke/ Cadrer la fumée with Caroline Andrieux (curator of the exhibition) during an open discussion with the public.
On the same evening, chilian artist Javier Gonzalez-Pesce will assess his residency time at the Darling Foundry.

Image: Nicolas Lachance

More informations:
Laurent Sasiela tel: 514 392.1554 fax: 514 392.0579 laurent@fonderiedarling.org

Vernissage thursday, February 27, from 5 pm to 10 pm

Darling Foundry, visual arts center
745 Ottawa Street Montreal, QC, H3C 1R8
Hours:
Wednesday–Sunday noon–7pm,
Thursday noon–10pm
Free admission.

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