COLLAGE REVIEW
Mixed Grill at Espace Robert Poulin, Montreal
Since arriving on the scene a few years ago, Espace Robert Poulin has put forth a consistent collection of contemporary art with a strong focus on art brut, outsider art, and other art that finds beauty in the brutality of the human condition. Kolaj #13 has a review of the gallery’s 20 June to 8 August 2015 exhibition “Mixed Grill III”.
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While art on view trades in the gothic, the melancholic, and the deranged, Gallery Director Robert Poulin routinely assembles collections of work that is expertly made, technically proficient, intently expressive and colourful.
Poulin presented the art in “Mixed Grill III” in clusters, choosing to mix work by different artists rather than the more traditional presentation of collections. The effect is to see the works in community with each other.
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Espace Robert Poulin, in Montreal’s Little Italy, is online at espacerobertpoulin.com.
Images:
(top)
Installation view of “Mixed Grill III” at Espace Robert Poulin
(centre)
Metamorphosis (detail) by Anna Torma
diptych: each panel, 63″x39″x4″; mixed media on canvas; 2008
(bottom)
Equating the New with the Good by Jim Sanders
33″x22″; mixed media on paper