Massimo Guerrera’s art plays with an elusive element in our fast-paced modern world: presence and present-ness. For his last big solo exhibition, Darboral (ici, maintenant, avec l’impermanence de nos restes), he invited visitors to interact in the gallery space – and with each other – setting down a white canvas where he left "tools," sculptures and food, sometimes over days. While he’s partial to bodies, architecture and digestion as ways to express human intimacies, connections and exchanges, he’s absorbed in the creative process itself, using many tools (drawing, photography, video and sound recording) to capture perceptible fragments of shared experiences of space and time. His drawings – a series of them is currently on display at the Joyce Yahouda Gallery in the Belgo Building (372 Ste-Catherine W., room 516) – engage with similar themes of openness and reticence, towards both ourselves and others.
Words by Meg Hewings
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Meg Hewings uses pretty words to put forth a mood in the hopes that this will inspire to you to take in Massimo Guerrera’s display but let’s be honest, no one can convince you to attend an art showing unless you like the art to begin with. The art, at least the one piece shown here, is very organic and surreal. This isn’t for everyone but that’s OK, there’s plenty of other art in this city to be had. Get off your arse, leave the internet alone and go explore what this city has to offer. Just my humble suggestion.
Its one thing to be humble and it is another thing to be intolerant of an explanation to what is behind the creative process. No kidding that the art isn’t for everybody, who said it was? I am one of who knows how many that does not have to get of my ass to see art around town although I do and seeing it over the internet gives me a good idea of what to expect in black and white and it is an art form in itself too!