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JONATHAN PLANTE | ANGLE MORT
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The Galerie de l’UQAM presents the exhibition Angle mort by Jonathan Plante, a graduating master’s student in Visual and Media Arts at UQAM. The artist will reveal a series of paintings and prints on lenticular supports, a process that creates an impression of movement. Depending on the viewpoint of the observer, images appear, disappear and transform themselves. Plante activates the gaze and involves the viewer’s body in the experience of the image’s various temporalities.
On the occasion of the opening, the journal esse will launch its latest issue exploring the theme of the Library.
The exhibition
For Jonathan Plante, the Angle mort (Blind spot) is the gap created by setting the image into motion. In revisiting abstract painting, op art and kinetic art, as well as experimental cinema, the series of painting-screens comprising the exhibition explores, amplifies and systematizes the plastic character of the movement. The paintings and silkscreen prints on lenticular supports display images that foreground the indissociable link between the viewer’s movements and his or her perception.
The artist uses the term “kinoplastic” to describe his explorations of the painting’s temporalities. The word was first used by the art historian and essayist Élie Faure in his 1922 article “De la cinéplastique”. He here envisaged “an art where time would really become a dimension of space.” In redefining Faure’s investigations in the current context, Jonathan Plante draws inspiration from his thinking to enrich his research. How can one think the image in a society where attention is constantly lured by movement? Movement becomes the law of our relationship to the world and it formats the way in which we read it. According to Plante, this perpetual movement has nowadays become the tool of an economy based on the creation and commodification of experiences.
Opening: Tuesday, January 10, 5:30 pm.
Artist talk: Jonathan Plante. Part of the series "L’art observe".
Tuesday, February 7, 2017, from 12:45 pm to 1:45 pm
Galerie de l’UQAM.