Prochaine exposition à Toronto avec les Barbies dans le vinaigre 1995-2005
THE AMOEBIC WORKSHOP: A SUBMERGED EXHIBITION
Jessica Drenk, Gabriel Lalonde, and Claudia Wieser
Curated by Astarte Rowe
Presented at Critical Distance Centre for Curators, Toronto
September 21 — October 22, 2016
About the artist : GABRIEL LALONDE
Gabriel Lalonde (b. 1945) is a prolific poet and self-taught visual
artist who lives and works in Hudson, Québec. His canvases, composed of
found materials such as wood debris and clapboard, chairs, empty cans,
Barbies, metal, and roof shingles, serve as explorations into the syntax
of lost time, eroded existence, faded amorousness, and the general
effects of wear and tear. Paintings often attest to the
dematerialisation of ‘text’ as the signifier of civilised society, and
are reminiscent of Symbolist graffiti, or the scribbled calligraphy of
Cy Twombly. Lalonde recuperates and recycles the overspill of speech,
religious discourse, and words, processing the detritus of what
Ferdinand de Saussure distinguished as la parole (speech) into abstract
imagery pertaining to the structure of la langue (language). In this
sense, Lalonde’s art is a factory for the disassembly of verse into
semiotic ‘units,’ ‘traces,’ ‘marks,’ and ‘lines,’ which become
archeological remainders of the poetic.
Lalonde’s works have been
exhibited widely in gallery exhibitions and fairs in Canada, the US,
France, the UK, Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands, and the UAE.
Astarte Rowe, curator.
Astarte Rowe, curator.
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