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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.

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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.

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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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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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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.

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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 EZ Montreal Art Podcast episode 7

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Earlier this month Eloi Desjardins from Un Show de Mot’Arts and I got together to talk about the Interactions art exhibit at the Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery, Derby by Jean-François Caissy at Galerie Clark and Rejouer/déjouer le folklore : Suisse – Québec at the Maison de la Culture Frontenac in Montreal.

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We also briefly discuss the opening of Galerie Antoine Ertaskiran, the death of Armand Tatossian, and because we were recording outside in Parc Claude Jutra we got to see a Google Street View Car.

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

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The EZ Montreal Art Podcast episode 6. Montreal Fall Art Previews

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Last month Eloi Desjardins from Un Show de Mot’Arts and I got together to discuss the fall art preview articles that appeared in La Presse, Le Devoir, and Art Intake.

The EZ Montreal Art Podcast episode 6

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

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The EZ Montreal Art Podcast, episode 5, Melanie Gilligan at Vox

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Last month Eloi Desjardins from Un show de mot’arts and I got together to discuss art in Montreal in the summer. We were in Joliette to see the Jacques Hurtubise exhibit there (more on it later) but the conversation quickly got focused on the Melanie Gilligan exhibit Popular Unrest at Galerie Vox. This is the second part of a recording we made at the same time as the The EZ Montreal Art Podcast episode 4, Ryoji Ikeda at DHC/Art.

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More Art and the Law

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Let’s hope that it never gets to this here. On one hand I’m eternally frustrated with the values of Canadian Art (old and new). On the flip side, I’m kind of glad that no one (to my knowledge) has resorted to a court of law to prove (or disprove) the authenticity of an artwork. Last week the New York Times reported on a messy and sordid case whether works attributed to “Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning and Mark Rothko — are clearly originals or obvious fakes.”

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Peter Paul Biro will have his day in court

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The Montreal forensic art specialist who saw his career go up in smoke after a very damning article in the New Yorker in 2010 has clarified what and what cannot be tried in court.

The full 95 page ruling is available here. As I hear any more news I’ll let you know, but my best guess is that the only people who will be happy with the outcome are the lawyers.