by Benoit Depelteau
Espace 40 is a new gallery in Montreal’s Mile End that keeps collage in focus. Kolaj Editor Benoit Depelteau paid a visit and talked about the gallery’s initial offerings in their opening show, “Aperçu_Preview_14”.
As I continued to wander through the gallery, I was surprised to observe the intensity and liveliness that are, in my mind, significant in recent collage practice. Most of the featured artists, in their own practice and style, work in a way that leaves plenty of room for intuition and spontaneity: a quality mentioned a few times when one of the gallery’s owners, Denis Dulude, talks about his [well-documented] interest in collage…Over the years, this type, graphic and motion graphics designer has produced a copious amount of explorative pieces using screen printing and collage, the most recent large scale examples being presented in this exhibition. His work Scène 3, Prise 2, using multiple layers of street posters as a support, combines typography, images and textures into a skillfully deconstructed composition.
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INFORMATION
Espace 40
Suite 108
160 St. Viateur Street East
Montreal, Quebec H2T 1A8 Canada
(514) 271-0220
Hours:
Monday-Wednesday, 11AM-6PM
Thursday-Friday, 11AM-7PM
Saturday, 11AM-5PM
Image:
Scène 3, Prise 2
by Denis Dulude
60″x48”
mixed media on paper
2013
Courtesy of the artist and Espace 40, Montreal