This has been a difficult summer in a difficult year. My mother, my live-in partner of seven years, died at ninety-three years of age, very unexpectedly, at the end of April, and I took a big man’s fall in the Gaspé on the first day of my August vacation, bruising my good eye and leaving […]
Ma découverte, il y a une dizaine d’années, de la « vue circulaire » depuis le sommet du mont Buet, imaginée par Horace-Bénédict de Saussure et exécutée par Bourrit en 1776, fut une révélation. La formule anamorphique qu’il a mise au point pour ce dessin correspond exactement à celle que j’utilise depuis 1999 pour enregistrer, […]
I had to laugh when I first saw the couch and the two white plugs right smack in the middle of the pink wall. There were other elements that contributed to this impromptu mise en scène – a mini Christmas tree with lights, a column painted in loud green and yellow, a bunch of purple […]
Nous nous sommes rencontrés dans sa demeure. D’un étage à l’autre, je découvre une collection d’œuvres qui traduit la vision particulière de celui qui les a rassemblées. Les œuvres coexistent parmi tant d’autres objets, matériaux et surfaces tout aussi particulières. Des tissus, des pièces de verre, des boiseries… Nous avons discuté de sites et d’espaces […]
Having known each other for at least thirty years, Gabor Szilasi and Chuck Samuels seized the opportunity to work together for the first time after being selected individually by Alexandre Taillefer and Debbie Zakaib for the Sitegeist project. Their aim was to produce two separate but linked works, each one issuing from their distinct approach […]
Having known each other for at least thirty years, Gabor Szilasi and Chuck Samuels seized the opportunity to work together for the first time after being selected individually by Alexandre Taillefer and Debbie Zakaib for the Sitegeist project. Their aim was to produce two separate but linked works, each one issuing from their distinct approach […]