WANNA PIECE OF THE ACTION?

La Petite Mort Gallery available for rent for all your needs....

Along with monthly exhibitions, the gallery has become a home for  
workshops and multi faceted productions,
a relaxed meeting ground for raw talent , and a melting pot of young  
and old, exchanging ideas.
The owner Guy Berube, proposes to receive, in an exclusive manner,  
your colleagues, friends and customers. The 1500 square foot gallery,  
situated at 306 Cumberland, in proximity to the Ottawa Byward Market,  
is a non conventional space, open for private gatherings.
A beautiful environment, with a main gallery, with a lower level  
space with kitchen and private restroom, able to receive as much as  
200 guests.

You formulate it, we adapt the space.

One night vernissage & Exhibit, Xmas Party, Reading Club, Honorary  
Reception, Book Launch, Music Recital, Poetry Reading, Press conference,
Film Location, Wine Tasting, Product Unveiling, Exhibitions and  
artistic installation by other galleries, and so much more...

Contact by email only please: guy@lapetitemortgallery.com
Also, check out our rental section of the website, with full info on  
rental fees & conditions.

PLEASE READ THIS FIRST: this answers a majority of your questions,  
including rates.
http://www.lapetitemortgallery.com/guidelines.pdf

Schedule according to availability.

Guy Berube, Director
La Petite Mort Gallery
306 Cumberland Street
Ottawa, ON  K1N 7H9
www.lapetitemortgallery.com

WHAT THEY ARE SAYING:

La Petite Mort (a French reference to the tense throes of orgasm) is  
a befitting name for a gallery with an appetite for the ecstatic.  
Definitely sexy and committed to indulgence, La Petite Mort is an  
eclectic ode to diversity. Home to a wide range of contemporary  
artwork, including paintings, sculptures, photographs, "objets  
trouvés" & mixed media, the gallery's owner, Guy Bérubé, is focused  
on examining the synergy between artistic expression and crafty  
design, guided by the principle that the harmony of the two result in  
the highest form of creation. Weekly events at the gallery, such as  
the 'One Night Stand' art-happening every Friday, keep the space  
consistently vibrant, while stunning exhibits showcase a colorful mix  
of local, regional & international contemporary talent that will  
appeal to creative collectors.

- Andrew Ritchie, PRESTON Magazine


As contemporary art and industrial design have come to occupy an  
increasingly larger space in the consciousness of today's consumers,  
the line between "design" and "art" continues to blur, even at times  
to disappear. Consequently, La Petite Mort has created a new space  
dedicated to exploring this shifting, evolving dialogue. The new  
gallery will present work which bridges these two disciplines, fusing  
craft and production, art and design, outsider and mainstream,  
designer and producer. This is an approach which we've followed from  
the early days of being artists and designers, and we are now  
positioned to pursue it in a much more focused way.

- Tony Martins, GUERILLA Magazine


Guy Bérubé’s vision for La Petite Mort is truly – and perhaps  
surprisingly, given the gallery’s name – a vision of social  
ethics. He sees the artist’s struggle with self-awareness through  
visual art reflected back to the viewer not as passive recipient but  
as active participant in the creative endeavour. A signature feature  
of LPM is the feeling of discomfort many of the artworks evoke,  
which, as is the goal of subversive art, reflects the viewer’s  
personal projections back upon herself.

This discomfort is a necessary part of Bérubé’s aesthetic and  
ethical sensibility. It recognizes the role of art in alienation and  
in critical transformation, for cultural progress is usually provoked  
by the ideas invoked at the boundaries of our communities. LPM  
artists represent subjects at the margins of contemporary Canadian  
urban society - the sublime as well as the homeless and the  
schizophrenic – no different than most mainstream art since the post- 
Renaissance period. Not here to shock nor to entertain, however, M.  
Bérubé as LPM gallery owner and director is here to provide an  
inclusive forum for today’s Canadian artists, including those  
typically sidelined by mainstream society and those simply unable to  
function normally within it.

LPM gives the Canadian visual arts community an edge that not only  
gives art a vehicle for its traditional cultural role, but is  
acknowledged for giving Canadian Art that edge that contributes to  
its recognition on the world stage.

- Martha Stewart Living Magazine