Comments on: Subject lesson http://hour.ca/2004/04/15/subject-lesson/ Urbacom Fri, 14 Dec 2012 19:44:00 -0500 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: Jennifer Berardini http://hour.ca/2004/04/15/subject-lesson/#comment-47293 Jennifer Berardini Sat, 01 May 2004 12:12:35 +0000 http://hour.ca/2004/04/15/subject-lesson/#comment-47293 Sublimation into one's hands. The artists here have different psychic subliminal responses and turned them into their own work. Valerie's superimpositioning of her photographs on the works of Batheus shows her insight into the femininity of women. Culturally astounding and impressive. Kuras moves into the alien warped awareness of sublimination with his 1930ish depiction of art. Taking our minds and releasing them in another time. Different.. MacKenzie's diorama disoreintated, confusing forms of sublimation catch your eye and imagination. Are we trying to figure out our form and relationship to one another walking through a process of up hills and turns. I am not quite sure what MacKenzie is saying but I understand it in my own view as we are what we are made of. Sublimanly or not. I like art and its forms...different artists express the same intention through different ways and works of art. I find this article interesting and mind tempting to the psycic realm of interpretation. An awareness into ones being and beyond. Sublimation into one’s hands. The artists here have different psychic subliminal responses and turned them into their own work. Valerie’s superimpositioning of her photographs on the works of Batheus shows her insight into the femininity of women. Culturally astounding and impressive.

Kuras moves into the alien warped awareness of sublimination with his 1930ish depiction of art. Taking our minds and releasing them in another time. Different..

MacKenzie’s diorama disoreintated, confusing forms of sublimation catch your eye and imagination. Are we trying to figure out our form and relationship to one another walking through a process of up hills and turns. I am not quite sure what MacKenzie is saying but I understand it in my own view as we are what we are made of. Sublimanly or not.

I like art and its forms…different artists express the same intention through different ways and works of art. I find this article interesting and mind tempting to the psycic realm of interpretation. An awareness into ones being and beyond.

]]> By: Maria Cecillia Silva http://hour.ca/2004/04/15/subject-lesson/#comment-47294 Maria Cecillia Silva Tue, 20 Apr 2004 21:36:50 +0000 http://hour.ca/2004/04/15/subject-lesson/#comment-47294 Personally this type of work is not my cup of tea. However I am open to diversity and I respect the arts interpretation. I guess what I am always looking for is uniqueness and a connection between the artist work and my inner feeling of it . Lemontagne does not do much for me , but has interesting work. Personally this type of work is not my cup of tea. However I am open to diversity and I respect the arts interpretation. I guess what I am always looking for is uniqueness and a connection between the artist work and my inner feeling of it . Lemontagne does not do much for me , but has interesting work.

]]> By: Cedric Caspesyan http://hour.ca/2004/04/15/subject-lesson/#comment-47295 Cedric Caspesyan Sun, 18 Apr 2004 21:04:02 +0000 http://hour.ca/2004/04/15/subject-lesson/#comment-47295 I do not agree at all. And apparently I`m the only one who thinks MacKenzie was the real fun. As you mention, Lamontagne is using a strategy that we`ve seen a thousand times. Not that Balthus doesn`t deserve a mock, but nothing too shockingly original either. Kuras`s paintings are fine, but the sculptures look a little bit bland, like they are prototypes (compared to a computer desk seen in a recent Guy Laramée show as a comparison). They stand somewhere between painting and sculpture, but if anything felt "disjointed" is how they rest contemptly between representation and design. MacKenzie on the other hand is a poking fun at the sublime. I thought that his deapan attack at the tiring (but immortal) tradition of landscape was pertinent enough that it even replies to similar works made by previous artists on the subject (Holly King, Alain Benoit). He doesn`t hide anything, we even see his hands: it`s absolutely fake. How can you not have seen the hands of this guy literally "manipulating its subject" ? What is different to you between attacking Balthus or tragically mocking a deadend art tradition (because tragedy is inherent, natural disasters are not supposed to be comic, they represent our worst doom, what the work is adequatly pointing) ? The artist took the photos off. That was a mistake. Bubbling lamination supports sounded like an interesting art practice. Cheers . I do not agree at all. And apparently I`m the only one who thinks MacKenzie was the real fun.

As you mention, Lamontagne is using a strategy
that we`ve seen a thousand times. Not that Balthus
doesn`t deserve a mock, but nothing too shockingly
original either. Kuras`s paintings are fine, but the sculptures look a little bit bland, like they are prototypes (compared to a computer desk seen in a recent Guy Laramée show as a comparison).
They stand somewhere between painting and sculpture, but if anything felt “disjointed” is how they rest contemptly between representation and design.

MacKenzie on the other hand is a poking fun at the sublime. I thought that his deapan attack at the tiring (but immortal) tradition of landscape was pertinent enough that it even replies to similar works made by previous artists on the subject (Holly King, Alain Benoit).
He doesn`t hide anything, we even see his hands: it`s absolutely fake. How can you not have seen the hands of this guy literally “manipulating its subject” ?
What is different to you between attacking Balthus or tragically mocking a deadend art tradition (because tragedy is inherent, natural disasters are not supposed to be comic, they represent our worst doom, what the work is adequatly pointing) ?

The artist took the photos off. That was a mistake. Bubbling lamination supports sounded
like an interesting art practice.

Cheers .

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