Galerie Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery, Montréal


Hello,
Would you kindly include the following event listing in your  calendar  
for the Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery?
Many thanks,

Caroline Boileau
Agente aux communications / Communications officer (514) 848-2424 ext  
4778  caroline.boileau@concordia.ca


August 30 - October 27, 2012

INTERACTIONS

Bertille Bak, Olivia Boudreau, Louis-Philippe Côté, Rachel Echenberg,  
Erin Gee, Nelson Henricks, John Massey, Thérèse Mastroiacovo, Alana  
Riley, Jana Sterbak, Sharif Waked, Hong-Kai Wang

Curator: Mélanie Rainville

Opening: Wednesday, August 29, 5:30 pm-7:30 pm
Artist talk by Hong-Kai Wang: Thursday, August 30 at 4 pm


In celebration of its 50th anniversary, the Gallery launches its fall  
season with the thought-provoking group exhibition Interactions.  
Presenting a wide range of practices—from paintings to installations  
and videos, some of which are featured in its collection, Interactions  
explores how we may access and interpret contemporary artworks.

Interactions, an exhibition that offers both a pedagogical and  
esthetic experience, deals with the reception and interpretation of  
contemporary art by investigating the rift that persists between art  
and the public, one that is often transformed into controversy.  
Interactions explores the constantly shifting relationship between art  
and viewer. It raises such questions on the reception of artworks as:  
What is our relationship to contemporary artworks, and how do we  
interpret them? What impact do they have on our way of understanding  
and reflecting on the world around us? What role does art play in  
society?

Interactions uses varied curatorial strategies that nuance our  
understanding of the reception and interpretation of contemporary art.  
Artworks are exhibited in conjunction with written and verbal  
responses to these works by thirty participants from various  
backgrounds and levels of experience with contemporary art.  
Interactions presents also a selection of documents on various  
controversies that have arisen in Québec and Canadian art contexts.

Interactions initiates a process of reflection within the art milieu  
on a question that is often only debated when it becomes the subject  
of a controversy fueled by the media.

Participants: Rose-Marie Arbour, Olivier Asselin, Guylaine Beaudry,  
Anne Bérubé, Claude R. Blouin, Nicole Burisch, Kevin Calixte, Adam  
Cantor, Professor Norman Cornett, Timothy Dallett, Louise Dandurand,  
Denise Desautels, Martin Dicaire, Jason Friedman, Amelia Jones,  
Stéphanie Julien, Tania Laliberté, Nicole Lattuca, Marc James Léger,  
Fabien Loszach, François Morelli, Claude Poissant, Eduardo Ralickas,  
Anil Ramcharand, Raymond Saint-Pierre, Cheryl Sim, Dominique Sirois- 
Rouleau, Erandy Vergara Vargas, Anne Whitelaw, Ida Zhang

Image :
Jana Sterbak, Artist as Combustible, 1986. Color photograph. Purchase  
- Special Purchase Assistance Grant, Canada Council for the Arts,  
2002. Collection, Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery, Concordia  
University. Photo : Richard-Max Tremblay


Gallery hours: Tuesday to Friday, 12:00 – 6:00 PM, Saturdays 12:00 –  
5:00 PM
Address: 1400, boul. De Maisonneuve West, ground floor J.W. McConnell  
Library Building Métro Guy-Concordia
General information: 514 848-2424 ext. 4750   www.ellengallery.concordia.ca
Events & tours: Marina Polosa, 514 848-2424 ext. 4778 marina.polosa@concordia.ca
Free admission – wheelchair accessible





Caroline Boileau
Agente aux communications / Communications Officer
À la Galerie les mercredis et jeudis
At the Gallery on Wednesdays and Thursdays




Galerie Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery
Université Concordia University
1400, boulevard de Maisonneuve ouest, LB-165
Montréal, Québec   H3G 1M8
tél:  (514) 848-2424 x 4778
fax: (514) 848-4751
www.ellengallery.concordia.ca