Michel Daigneault: Ensemble Opératoire
Nicolas Fleming: Everything is going swimmingly
From February 21 to March 28 2015
Opening reception on Saturday February 21 at 3pm
Galerie Trois Points is pleased to present Ensemble Opératoire, a solo exhibition by the artist Michel Daigneault from February 21 to March 28. The artist continues his pictorial exploration by accentuating the notion of dialogical space, thereby orchestrating various « worlds » within the same painting.
Michel Daigneault’s compositions aim to break down the boundaries between figuration and abstraction; the abstract vocabulary stands alongside recognizable realities, creating pictorial spaces that engender various narrative possibilities. Tending more to allusion than illusion, Daigneault’s paintings are built by an accumulation and juxtaposition of areas of flat color, dispersing here and there moments of visual tension and fragments of narrative trails. The painter deploys these fragments of narrative structure so that they can only be partially inferred by the association of ideas and colors.
The color range Daigneault uses is central to our understanding of his work. The colors he choses act in an allusive manner as references to the real world. As with color, the painting’s title also plays a role in pointing towards various metaphoric readings, as much mechanism as allusion. The artist doesn’t try to eliminate the differences between the poetic and formal readings of painting, but rather chooses to allow those differences to butt up one against another.
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Galerie Trois Points is delighted to present Everything is going swimmingly, a solo exhibition by guest artist Nicolas Fleming from February 21st to March 28th. Exploring the gallery space’s sculptural potential, the artist proposes a site-specific installation challenging the white cube environment.
Everything is going swimmingly suggests an aesthetic proposition translating a strong desire to question the mediums’ specificities. With this installation, Nicolas Fleming exposes the viewer to an experience alluding to the confinement and the mysticism proper to places of worship. Within the surprising balance between an accumulation of objects displayed in a restricted space and means of economy, the artist offers the visitors an immersive experience where the clinical coldness of the light becomes matter, uncompromisingly marking details in the works.
From Nicolas Fleming’s spatial and formal explorations result an installation whose aesthetic addressses the codes of minimalism by borrowing those from the field of construction. By diverting the function of materials such as plaster, varnish, styrofoam or polyurethane, the artist challenges the idea of permanence and durability that prevails in architecture. While ennobling these materials and techniques, Fleming transforms our perception of both sculpture and painting. Through the direct work with the manufactured mediums, the artist injects a certain spontaneity resulting in an organic, imperfect appearance. Everything is going swimmingly borrows at once from statuary art, the monolithic and the monumental as well as referring to the industrial and the sacred.
(text: Galerie Trois Points)
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