Zilon Dans Son Élément/Zilon In His Element

Photo © Zilon Lazer 2014



Image en VRAC de l’artiste Zilon Lazer lors du Festival MURAL (Landmark) de Montréal.  Murale sur un édifice abandonné aux coins des rues St-Dominique et Marie-Anne, Montréal, Québec (et qui sera un jour détruit pour des beaux condos stérile).   Le tout s’est produit en 2 jours avec des Aérosols  et son  technicien de Lift ( to the Spirit to the Sky ) Daniel Duhamel.  Bravo Zilon!

Trailblazer and worldly artist Zilon Lazer worked his magic this weekend during Montreal's WALL Festival (Landmark) by spray-painting an abandoned grocery store on the corners of rue St-Dominique and rue Marie-Anne.  The building will eventually be destroyed making way for brand new, sterile condos.  Thanks to Lift Technician (to the Spirit to the Sky) Daniel Duhamel.  Congrats Zilon!



Photo © Zilon Lazer 2014



Photo © Zilon Lazer 2014



Photo © Stephanie Allaire 2014

Photo © Zilon Lazer 2014

Photo © Zilon Lazer 2014



Photo © Zilon Lazer 2014

Photo © Zilon Lazer 2014

Photo © Stephanie Allaire 2014

with permission from the artist Zilon Lazer

Pierre Dorion at Jack Shainman Gallery in New York June 5 to July 25, 2014

Pierre Dorion

June 5 – July 25, 2014
524 West 24th Street

Please join us for an opening reception with the artist on Thursday, June 5, 6 – 8 PM, with food available from the Red Hook Lobster truck.

Jack Shainman Gallery is pleased to present a solo exhibition of new paintings by Pierre Dorion. The show includes works which mark Dorion’s continued engagement with, and exploration of, architectural spaces, especially those of galleries and museums. From a Nicaraguan storefront in the afternoon sun to the shut gate of an art gallery, these paintings play with the tension between representation and abstraction.

Dorion’s process begins by photographing a myriad of exterior and interior architectural elements that fascinate him. He then selects photos to translate into paintings, and through the use of light and the elimination of detail, creates highly minimal, and frequently monochromatic compositions. In a 2013 Artdaily.org interview, Dorion explains his recent work as follows: “In the last few years, I’ve worked extensively from photographs that I’ve taken in galleries or museums on various trips and that consequently include certain works or fragments of works. My preference is for formally spare, very minimalist works, in which the boundaries between architecture and the artwork fade away in the painting.” Dorion’s paintings are imbued with an uncanny emptiness that distills fragments of reality, drawing influences from the history of the medium to engage in a conversation on Minimalism and abstraction.

Dorion’s exploration of Minimalism in this exhibition of new paintings is twofold as he both depicts works by well-known Minimalist artists and renders architectural spaces using the Minimalist tropes of non-expressivity, expansive color fields and gradients, and stark geometry. In his larger works, such as Untitled (BG), 2013, and Dusk IV, 2014, Dorion extracts details from architectural spaces which he has photographed in order to strip them of any particularity. These details become abstracted to such a degree that their ambiguity challenges representation; Untitled (BG) abstracts the doors of a freight elevator into a study in gray color fields. His smaller works depict installations of purely Minimalist work. Untitled (FS), 2014, shows an exhibition space with works by Fred Sandback. More than a mere illustration these paintings blend the architectural minimalism of the exhibition spaces with the Minimalist artworks on display. This creates a composition in which figure-ground distinctions are flattened resulting in a melancholic mysteriousness. By breaking down the boundaries between art and architecture and quoting Minimalist tropes, Dorion’s paintings create a tension between what is apparent at first sight and what is obscured, and between the surface and depth of the work itself.

Pierre Dorion lives and works in Montreal, Quebec.  His most recent solo exhibition was Pierre Dorion, which opened at the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal in October of 2012. This major exhibition included work from the past twenty years of Dorion’s career and was accompanied by a catalogue published by the museum featuring essays by Mark Lanctôt, David Deitcher, and Stephen Horne. The exhibition subsequently traveled to Dalhousie Art Gallery in Halifax, Nova Scotia, where it was on view through May of 2013.

Concurrently on view at 513 West 20th Street is a group show The Shape of Things from June 5th through July 25th.

The School, in Kinderhook, New York, is now open with an inaugural exhibition of work by Nick Cave. Additionally, an exhibition of new works by Nick Cave will be on view at both Chelsea gallery locations from September 4th to October 11th.

Gallery hours are Tuesday through Saturday from 10am to 6pm. Summer hours are Monday through Friday, from 10am to 6pm, beginning Monday, July 7th. For additional information and photographic material please contact the gallery at info@jackshainman.com.

Kreativephasen Berlin - Lion Dub I - II and II

Compiled and mixed by Kreativephasen Berlin, the Lion Dub series offers a wide range of beautiful, happy, inspiring, reggae music for dub fans around the world!  Keeping underground music free and alive! Be happy!

http://kreativephasen.bandcamp.com/track/lion-dub-100-dub

 

 

 

http://kreativephasen.bandcamp.com/track/lion-dub-ii-100-dub

 

 

http://kreativephasen.bandcamp.com/track/lion-dub-iii-100-dub

 

 

 

http://kreativephasen.bandcamp.com/track/raum-287

 

 

 

 

Pierre Dorion and Nicolas Lachance - Galerie René Blouin May 10th to June 21st, 2014

For further information you can contact us at:

Galerie René Blouin
10, rue King
Montréal, Qc H3C  2N9
514-393-9969

Email: g.rb@videotron.ca

www.galeriereneblouin.com

Gallery Hours:

Tuesday through Friday from 10 am to 5:30 pm
Saturdays from 11 am to 5 pm and by appointment

Pierre Dorion - Galerie René Blouin - Salle 3 - April 12 to June 21, 2014

Pierre Dorion’s paintings occupy a wondrous space between the flatness of formal abstraction and a seductive spatial depth often tangible of photorealism. His new solo exhibition at Galerie Blouin, in Montreal, presents a suite of new works that emphasize even further his preoccupation with the depiction of light.  Dorion’s minimalist compositions of interior architectural details act as a stage for luminous reflections, radiant streaks and gentle glows.  The prominence of light featured in Dorion’s paintings also sustains the works’ relationship to their photographic source imagery.

Occupying Dorion’s works is an affective sense of absence, creating an intriguing dissonance with the depicted light’s warmth and seduction.  Yet it is Dorion’s treatment of light and how it is ultimately perceived that remains the artist’s focus.

For further information you can contact us at:

Galerie René Blouin

10, rue King

Montréal, Qc H3C  2N9

514-393-9969

Email: g.rb@videotron.ca

www.galeriereneblouin.com

Gallery Hours:

Tuesday through Friday from 10 am to 5:30 pm
Saturdays from 11 am to 5 pm and by appointment





RateYourMusic.com

In September 2012, I posted a critique here on the Berlin blog PostPunkOddities.

http://www.ppodd.info/

Always on the hunt for obscure music gems and rarities, I recently happened across   rateyourmusic.com, a site which gives a nod to the excellent PPodd.  For those of us who were there and new fans of this genre of music, you will definitely enjoy what rateyourmusic’s Wardruna list has to offer.  There was so much indy music in the air then that one could not possibly keep up with every new emerging group, so here’s another site that shines the light on other odd or unique post-punk artists who were hugely influential during the late 70s and early 80s.  If you lived and breathed those times like my generation did you’ll recognize a lot of these bands.  As you scroll through the list, memories of wildly pogo dancing to these bands on club dancefloors or live in small, jammed, sweaty clubs flood your mind. 

Please note this list and discography of each artist does not expand to include vids, bios or external links but if you do a little digging you’ll find most of them on music sites and YouTube.  Let's keep this great music alive!

Here’s a couple of cool discoveries I found on YouTube:

 

 http://rateyourmusic.com/list/Wardruna/post_punk_oddities/1/

Experimental sound artist Glasklinge Zeitenlicht keeps underground music alive and best of all, free!

“Music of Midnightradio11 is subject to no form and no rule established by me.  It happens in the moment that it happens.  It... is not being formed in my head in advance.  It is formed during creation.  Midnightradio11 and Eisenlager are the two projects I have been pursuing since the year 2000.  The sounds that evolve during creation reflect my humor, my fear, my life experiences and current events."...

Whether you’re a novice or a seasoned master in the appreciation of industrial experimental music, Dark Ambient & Electric Sounds international avant-garde music is not only a delightful blog where you can discover free legal mp3 downloads, but also get an audio education on the wonderful world of Ambient, Electronic, Experimental and Industrial music.  Sub-genres such as atmospheric, coldwave, dark ambient, downtempo, trip, lo-fi, jazz, drum‘n bass, breaks, dubstep, EBM, ethereal, field recordings post-metal, ambient rhythmic ambient, shoegaze, dream rock and synthwave aptly reflect the music they represent.  Accompanying LP cover arts are creative, innovative, unique and thought-provoking, expressing each artist’s unique image and headspace.  





Mutation - glasklinge zeitenlicht

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0RyVLvLTW9o

It began in 2000 in Dortmund, Germany with “Eisenlager” followed-up in 2003 by a free mp3 download portal and the 2008 free music only atonal experimental electronisch blog “Midnight Radio11”.   In 2013, Midnight Radio Compilation began releasing monthly high quality mp3 and FLAC format albums picked from DA&ES's extensive artist catalogue.  To date, MRC is at its twenty fifth issue including four personal Glasklinge samplers and a new release is set for the end of February.  Take the time to read the artist bios and enter into their sometimes dark but always intriguing audio visual world of experimental music. 

  

http://vimeo.com/51591130



Everything you need to get going is on the left-hand sidebar, from an extensive artist A-Z index and external links to an eclectic catalogue (“Kategorien”), which is a nice mix of bands and duo/solo artists, many of whom are unsigned and self-produced.  This guy really knows what he’s doing and is way ahead of the curve!  Since 2000, he has been passionately sourcing the web for wonderful free music from all corners of the globe and the results do not disappoint!  Subscribe to his blog and you can start your day listening to new arrivals as they load up into your in-box.  It is a truly enjoyable site to explore and is Glasklinge Zeiteinlicht's legacy to the world to “save and spread the underground”.



E Mauer - glasklinge zeitenlicht

Other links:

http://www.eisenlager.com

http://avantgarde.glasklinge.de/

http://www.youtube.com/user/glaslichter

with permission from Glasklinge Zeitenlicht