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Saturday, April 2, 2011
- 4:00pm to 7:00pm
Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art, 460
Portage Avenue
Plug In ICA presents an occasion to
mark the passing of former Winnipeg
artist Gordon Lebredt and launch the publication of Gordon Lebredt:
Nonworks 1975–2008, co-published by Plug In Editions and the Centre
for Contemporary Canadian Art, and distributed
by Art Metropole.
Gordon Lebredt, artist, writer,
theorist, scholar, designer and motorcycle
mechanic, passed away at home in Toronto on Saturday, February 26th, 2011
with his partner Lin Gibson, his beloved daughter Simone, and his crazy
little dog Lola,
by his side.
Known for its rigorous conceptualism
and ambitious materiality, the work
of Gordon Lebredt is among Canada’s most challenging and gratifying.
Alongside Lebredt’s significant record of exhibitions, publications and
interventions is a parallel body of unrealized work—a sprawling
hypothetical topology of surfaces, abutments, expanses and disjunctions in
which words, objects and images struggle to find and
mark their place.
Gordon Lebredt: Nonworks
1975–2008 collects Lebredt’s
unrealized proposals from a thirty-three-year period—a major retrospective
of a body of work that exists only as possibility. Designed and typeset by
Lebredt himself, and edited by Lin Gibson, the book contains approximately
125 works presented as drawings, schematics and sketches rendered in pencil,
ink, spray paint and type, as well as texts by Ian Carr-Harris, Gary Michael
Dault, Lin Gibson, Andy Patton, Yvonne Lammerich and Yam Lau and a prologue
by David Court
and Josh Thorpe.
Everyone is welcome and
admission is free.
Title: Gordon Lebredt: Nonworks
1975–2008
Dimensions: 9”
x 8.5”
Pages: 177
Publishers: Plug In Editions and Centre for
Contemporary Canadian
Art
Retail: $50
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