Pascal Grandmaison
Artists' Outlook
Galerie B-312 is pleased to announce the second edition of vue d’ateliers—points de vue d’artistes, a series of studio visits from February 22 to June 20, 2012. Eleven artists have been invited to talk about their artistic approaches in the context of their studios. Experience the pulse of their practice. Understand the artist's relationship with their creative process, with their work and production context. Question concretely "how is this done? ". A chance to form questions but also discussions. Creating a space for informal exchanges: this series of studio visits is open to all. Places are limited and vary from one visit to another. Registrations will be on a first-come, first-served basis. The approximate duration of each meeting is one hour and thirty minutes.For a reservation: it is necessary to confirm your presence at Gallery B-312.The address of the studio will be confirmed upon reservation.
—WEDNESDAY MAY 23, 2012 AT 7 PM
Through the traces of an aesthetic that is stripped-down and meticulously shaped, Pascal Grandmaison's works depict a disconcerting distance and a detachment from reality, clearly affirmed. The subjects he is interested in are mainly about the means we use to capture the world, visually and intellectually. He uses photography, video and more recently, sculpture, through which he creates compositions with "disturbing strangeness". This "disturbing strangeness" arises from the artist's choice to overturn conventional reading codes and to point to inanimate subjects that have come out of their familiar surroundings and been re-examined through a surgical gaze.
The work of Pascal Grandmaison has been the subject of solo exhibitions at the Casino Luxembourg - Forum of Contemporary Art, the Carleton University Art Gallery, the National Gallery of Canada (Ottawa), the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, Jessica Bradley Art + Projects (Toronto), Galerie René Blouin (Montreal), Galerie Sequence (Chicoutimi), Contemporary Art Gallery (Vancouver), Galerie B-312 and Espace Vox (Montreal), Galerie BF 15 and Galerie Georges Verney-Carron (Lyon, France). Pascal Grandmaison has also participated in several group exhibitions including: Galeries de l’ancien Collège des Jésuites (Reims, France), the Canadian Cultural Centre (Paris, France), Existentie, (Gent, Belgium), Centre d’art contemporain (Meymac, France), Centre for Contemporary Art (Warsaw, Poland), Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Jack Shainman Gallery (New York), Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec , the 2005 International Biennial of Contemporary Art in Prague (Poland), Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art (Toronto), Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery at Concordia University (Montreal) and Edmonton Art Gallery (temporary exhibition). Since 2000, his video works have been presented in several festivals and biennials, including Italy, Switzerland, England, Germany, Portugal, the United States and Canada. Pascal Grandmaison is represented by René Blouin Gallery, Jessica Bradley Art + Projects and Jack Shainman Gallery.
Galerie B-312 is pleased to announce the second edition of vue d’ateliers—points de vue d’artistes, a series of studio visits from February 22 to June 20, 2012. Eleven artists have been invited to talk about their artistic approaches in the context of their studios. Experience the pulse of their practice. Understand the artist's relationship with their creative process, with their work and production context. Question concretely "how is this done? ". A chance to form questions but also discussions. Creating a space for informal exchanges: this series of studio visits is open to all. Places are limited and vary from one visit to another. Registrations will be on a first-come, first-served basis. The approximate duration of each meeting is one hour and thirty minutes.For a reservation: it is necessary to confirm your presence at Gallery B-312.The address of the studio will be confirmed upon reservation.