Darling Foundry, visual arts center
745 Ottawa Street
Montreal, QC, H3C 1R8
Hours: Wednesday–Sunday noon–7pm,
Thursday noon–10pm
T +1 514 392 1554
info [at] fonderiedarling.org
Soirée Porcelaine
Fundraiser and 20th anniversary of Quartier Éphémère
Wednesday, May 21
Come and celebrate with us the 20th anniversary of Quartier Éphémère, the organization that founded the Darling Foundry, on Wednesday, May 21!
From 6 to 8pm, our generous donors and the artist will be honoured during a private cocktail. During the evening, guests will enjoy previews of the two exhibitions of Dora Garcia and Christina Zurfluh and discover the studios of all artists in residency. Enjoy performances, an art sale and a unique cocktail dinner designed by the restaurant Le Serpent, all to the sound of the baroque ensemble Les Boréades.
Starting from 8pm, our dance party is open to all, with DJ Maus and many others.
Exhibitions
Dora Garcia: Of Crimes and Dreams
May 21–August 24
Curator: Chantal Pontbriand
Video (great hall)
The exhibition Of Crimes and Dreams unfolds on the backdrop of a series of group conversations in the spring of 2013 at the Montperrin psychiatric hospital in Aix-en-Provence, where Dora Garcia had people read James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake and Félix Guattari’s 65 rêves de Franz Kafka, as a pretext for talking about what is real and unreal before the camera. The film Désordre (2013), an offshoot of this project, will be shown, along with Hôtel Wolfers (2007) and The Joycean Society (2013), the previous films it echoes. This closes the circle traced since Hôtel Wolfers in which Beckett, Kafka, Joyce, Walser wander as in a dream, in their capacity as models of the “minor literature” theorized by Deleuze. J. Lacan Wallpaper (2013) covers one of the walls to mark the blindspots of inner space, as Lacan’s hieroglyphs for the unconscious bloom like discreet flowers on its partitions. Thus, crimes and dreams go side by side and haunt us from all sides, revealing the complexity and richness of the imagination.
Christina Zurfluh: Barré
May 21–August 24
Paintings (small gallery)
Christina Zurfluh’s images provoke a new and different view of painting. Her approach is unconventional, witness her intense play with colour, the colour fields arranged in stripes and superimposed layers of colors, the traces of footprints and the white flecks, thrown with painterly ease onto many of her works, also smeared with black.
In the narrow rectangular exhibition space of the Darling Foundry, her paintings, arranged in a serial rhythm, are reflected in the room’s columns and expand naturally into sculptures. The horizontally separated two-part color areas, at times reminiscent of the garishness of Pop Art, simultaneously contradict and complement each other. As a counterpart to this, two of Zurfluh’s large Divided works are placed at the ends of the exhibition space, whose vertical colour fields create transitions that set apart even as they unite.
Artist’s talk: Barbara Perea
Thursday, May 29, 6pm
Free admission
Barbara Perea is a Mexican curator, critic and lecturer in residency at the Darling Foundry. On Thursday, May 29, she will present the fruit of her research in a talk open to all.
Artists’ talk: Tris Vonna-Michell and Capucine Vanderbrouck
Thursday, June 19, 6pm
Free admission
Tris Vonna-Michell (International Residency) and Capucine Vanderbrouck (Swiss Studio) will present their research and residency experiences at the Darling Foundry in a public talk.
