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The EZ Montreal Art Podcast. Episode 13: Pierre Dorion; Barry Allikas; Sayeh Sarfaraz, Eve K. Tremblay, Mathieu Levesque, Guy Boutin

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In today’s episode Chris ‘Zeke’ Hand and Eloi Desjardins from Un Show de Mot’Arts discuss the Pierre Dorion, Barry Allikas and Sayeh Sarfaraz exhibits in Griffintown at Galerie Rene Blouin, Galerie Division and Galerie Antoine Ertaskiran. Along with exhibitions by Eve K. Tremblay at Galerie Hugues Charbonneau, Mathieu Levesque at Galerie Trois Points and Guy Boutin at Espace Robert Poulin, all in the Belgo Building.

The EZ Montreal Art Podcast episode 13

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Specifically (and beyond the artists and galleries) The Arsenal, the impending Galerie Rene Blouin move, Shirin Neshat, the War in the Middle East, Bourgeois exhibits vs. Political exhibits, Attendance Figures, Ray Bradbury (who is not Canadian), Saul Bellow, Frank Gehry, Thinking too much, Talking with Hugues Charbonneau, the Agac Awards, The next EZ Montreal Art Podcast, Gordon Matta Clark, Roger Bellemare, Pierre Trahan, the Collection Majudia, Designing a meal, the fact that Eloi doesn’t like cartooning, then Zeke tries to inquire as to the root of why Eloi doesn’t like Guy Boutin’s work, the Comix and Bande Dessine scene, Fabric art, the Sympathy for the Devil exhibit at MACM, Free tickets and the Trivia Question (remember if you email ezmontrealart@gmail.com the answer, you can win an amazing prize!)

If you would like to hear the previous episodes of The EZ Montreal Art Podcast click here: Episode 12, Episode 11, Episode 10, Episode 9, Episode 8, Episode 7, Episode 6, Episode 5, Episode 4, Episode 3, Episode 2, Episode 1.

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The EZ Montreal Art Podcast. Episode 12: The Canadian Biennale 2012; The Builders/Les bâtisseurs

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In today’s episode Chris ‘Zeke’ Hand and Eloi Desjardins from Un Show de Mot’Arts discuss The Canadian Biennale 2012; The Builders/Les bâtisseurs.

The EZ Montreal Art Podcast episode 12

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Specifically Marc Mayer, Edward Burtynsky, Michael Snow, broken art exhibited in museums, Qavavau Manumie, Headbutting, how the Canadian Bienniale 2012 is a colaboration between three museums, the annoying title, Dil Hildebrand, the layout and set up of the exhibit, the price of admission, Lynne Cohen, Max Dean, David Altmejd, the prices for Canadian art, Terence Gower, Chairs, Video Art, Headphones, HG Wells, Buckminster Fuller, Scripts, Parliament/Funkadelic, Aznan France, Zeke’s adolescence, Lynne Marsh, the waitress makes an interruption and Zeke goes to pay the bill, Marcel Dzama, David Hoffos, Wayne Baerwaldt (and it was Scott Burnham who walked out on the Montreal Bienniale), Young & Giroux, Jim Breukelman, Jon Pylypchuk, Brian Jungen, Michel De Broin, the surprising amount of artists in the show who have not exhibited in Montreal, Mark Soo, Benoît Aquin, 1972 Baseball Cards, Sarah Anne Johnson, Michael Merrill, Zeke’s nephew’s drawings, Winnie the Pooh, Marcel Duchamp, Bruce Nauman, Fluxus, Dada, The Clock, the Montreal Biennale, Manif d’art, Mois de la photo, Via Rail ticket sale, a suggestion for Marc Mayer, and the trivia question.

If you would like to hear the previous episodes of The EZ Montreal Art Podcast click here: Episode 11, Episode 10, Episode 9, Episode 8, Episode 7, Episode 6, Episode 5, Episode 4, Episode 3, Episode 2, Episode 1.

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The EZ Montreal Art Podcast. Episode 11

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In today’s episode Chris ‘Zeke’ Hand and Eloi Desjardins from Un Show de Mot’Arts discuss the various exhibits that are not part of Brooklyn/Montreal or Montreal/Brooklyn.

The EZ Montreal Art Podcast episode 11

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Specifically Mathieu Beausejour‘s Le soleil invincible at Antoine Ertaskiran (where Chris ‘Zeke’ Hand points out that M. Beausejour pretty much copied Jürgen Mayer-Hermann). The multiple Serge Lemoyne exhibits at Lacerte, Yves Laroche and Loto Quebec. In passing, Zeke laments the prices of contemporary Quebecois art in comparison to other contemporary art.

Zeke and Eloi then talk about the Marcel Barbeau exhibit at Galerie Lounge TD in the Maison Rio Tinto Alcan above L’Astral, Winnie Truong and Max Wyse at Galerie Trois Points, Karen Trask and Andréanne Godin at Circa, then mention how they had a similar talk in French on the radio show Un Show de Mot’Arts. Then finally Zeke asks the trivia question of the week (email your answer to ezmontrealart@gmail.com, and you can win an amazing prize)!

If you would like to hear the previous episodes of The EZ Montreal Art Podcast click here: Episode 10, Episode 9, Episode 8, Episode 7, Episode 6, Episode 5, Episode 4, Episode 3, Episode 2, Episode 1.

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The EZ Montreal Art Podcast. Episode 10

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In today’s episode Chris ‘Zeke’ Hand and Eloi Desjardins from Un Show de Mot’Arts discuss the various exhibits that are part of the Montreal/Brooklyn artistic encounter.

The EZ Montreal Art Podcast episode 10

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Specifically Julie Favreau, Patrick Martinez, Steven Brower, and Mathieu Beausejour at Galerie Clark. Videozones at the Galerie de l’UQAM – where Rosemarie Padovano’s Paloma, Michel de Broin’s Cut into the Dark, Sophie Bélair-Clement‘s Interlude 1974 are talked about and Elisa Kreisinger’s & Marc Faletti’s video

is compared to that of Kutiman‘s (which is not part of the exhibit).

The discussion continues about the exhibit at Articule re-marquer le territoire with Jérôme Havre, Michelle Lacombe, Emilie Roz, Patricia Smith and the show at Optica with Sylvie Cotton, Sebastein Cliche, Chelsea Knight and Mark Tribe.

We then wrap up the show with our first ever Monteal Art Trivia Question. Email us the response, and have a chance to win an amazing prize!

If you would like to hear the previous episodes of The EZ Montreal Art Podcast click here: Episode 9, Episode 8, Episode 7, Episode 6, Episode 5, Episode 4, Episode 3, Episode 2, Episode 1.

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Les Ballets Jazz de Montréal 40th Anniversary Program. Fuel, Closer and Harry.

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This audio business isn’t as easy as falling out of bed… I initially recorded this piece about the performance of Les Ballets Jazz de Montréal that I saw somewhere at the very beginning of October. And here it is, the beginning of November and I’m finally able to post it. Go Figure!

Les Ballets Jazz de Montréal 40th Anniversary Program. Fuel, Closer and Harry.

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The other review that I reference is this one, from Rover by someone named Cerys Wilson. There are also reviews from Dfdanse and Dance News Montreal. If you’d like to hear Fuel by Julia Wolfe click on this link. If you’d like to hear Mad Rush by Philip Glass, click on this link. Unfortunately I do not have the playlist for Harry.

The Ballets Jazz de Montreal’s calendar is here. (From my quick scan, they were last here in January 2011 and I don’t know when before that as it doesn’t go further back than 2008. Their blurbs on Fuel and Harry are here and here. It appears that whomever is responsible for their website doesn’t consider Closer as being in their repertoire.

I initially wanted to list off all the dancer’s names (for what would the performance be without the dancers?) But for the most part, they don’t have individual websites and I no longer have my list of who danced in what. So I’m going to have to settle for a simple list copy/pasted from Les Ballets Jazz de Montréal’s website. Antonios Bougiouris, Morgane Le Tiec, Céline Cassone, Alexander Hille, Christina Bodie, James Gregg, Kevin Delaney, Christian Denice, Youri De Wilde, Alyssa Desmarais, Brett Taylor, Alexandra Gherchman, Andie Masazza. They all were very good. (But what I don’t understand is how they can all simultaneously also be former dancers from Les Ballets Jazz de Montréal. It doesn’tmake sense to me at all).

And lastly the background music during my piece is from Jazz Friends 2012

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The Montreal Restaurant List, November version

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I’ve updated the Montreal Restaurant List. A couple of places have been taken off the “to try” side, some to disappear forever some to make to the “done and worth going back side.” And there have been some additions to the “to try” side as well. I’ve also added a list of “Must Eat” dishes at some iconic restaurants in town.

Remember to print it up double-sided and keep it in your wallet so that you have it with you at all times when it might prove useful – that or download it to your phone. As per usual if you have any comments, suggestions or ideas, please feel free to email me at zeke@zeke.com. And if anyone is interested, the previous versions have been downloaded more than 2,300 times.

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The EZ Montreal Art Podcast, episode 9: Pierre Dorion, Janet Biggs & Aude Moreau

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Last week, Eloi Desjardins from Un Show de Mot’Arts and I got together to talk about the Pierre Dorion, Janet Biggs and Aude Moreau exhibits at the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal.

The EZ Montreal Art Podcast episode 9

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The only thing I could really find online were these two excerpts from videos by Ms. Biggs. M. Dorion does not appear to do the internet and Mlle. Moreau hasn’t updated her website in a couple of years.

If you would like to hear the previous episodes of The EZ Montreal Art Podcast click here: Episode 8, Episode 7, Episode 6, Episode 5, Episode 4, Episode 3, Episode 2, Episode 1.

And don’t forget to listen to Un Show de Mot’Arts on Tuesday at 10:30 on CISM, 89.3 FM.

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La Vache Folle Imperial Milk Stout by Microbrasserie Charlevoix

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The second beercast/podcast on beer/Zekecast on beer, whatever. This time I’m drinking La Vache Folle Imperial Milk Stout from the Microbrasserie Charlevoix. Again there isn’t an awful lot about it on the internet.

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La Vache Folle Imperial Milk Stout (close up of the head)
La Vache Folle Imperial Milk Stout (close up of the head)

I bought mine at Epicerie Unique, 4109 Saint Laurent, in Montreal. Some other links you might like are Denis Reid, the artist who designed the label. The Wikipedia definition of Imperial stout. And then I would like to thank Brad Slyde for the background music.

La Vache Folle Imperial Milk Stout (front label)
La Vache Folle Imperial Milk Stout (front label)

The Cole’s notes version: It’s a really nice beer, the taste, smell and look do not go together as you would expect. But all of them are good. More designed to be drunk in the woods or wood cabin during the winter, it is nonetheless mighty tasty at the tail end of the summer. Black as night with 9% alcohol by volume, drink it slowly.

La Vache Folle Imperial Milk Stout (back label)
La Vache Folle Imperial Milk Stout (back label)
La Vache Folle Imperial Milk Stout (in the glass)
La Vache Folle Imperial Milk Stout (in the glass)
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The EZ Montreal Art Podcast, episode 8: Sylvain Bouthillette, L’Art du Style, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Galerie de Bellefeuille

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Last month, Eloi Desjardins from Un Show de Mot’Arts and I got together to talk about Sylvain Bouthillette‘s 15 Hertz exhibit at Galerie Trois Points, L’Art du Style at Les Ailes de la Mode, The New Sculpture Garden at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts and Beyond Photorealism at Galerie de Bellefeuille.

The EZ Montreal Art Podcast episode 8

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Installation view of Sylvain Bouthillette's 15 Hertz at Galerie Trois Points
Installation view of Sylvain Bouthillette’s 15 Hertz at Galerie Trois Points
Flavie Boucher's entry in L'Art du Style at Les Ailes de la Mode
Flavie Boucher’s entry in L’Art du Style at Les Ailes de la Mode
View of the New Sculpture Garden at the Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal
View of the New Sculpture Garden at the Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal

Unfortunately I do not have any pictures from Beyond Photorealism at Galerie de Bellefeuille.

If you would like to hear the previous episodes of The EZ Montreal Art Podcast click here: Episode 7, Episode 6, Episode 5, Episode 4, Episode 3, Episode 2, Episode 1.

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The October (ok, late September) Restaurant List is up

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It’s been a while. We jump from version 3.01 to 3.04. Numerous changes all over the place, both on the places to try side and on the worthwhile side. On top of that I also did some changes to the formatting. Hopefully, it will make it easier to read. Zeke’s October Montreal Restaurant List.

Remember to print it up double-sided and keep it in your wallet so that you have it with you at all times when it might prove useful – that or download it to your phone. And if anybody is interested the list has been downloaded about 830 times, so far.