November 8–December 1, 2012
Opening November 7, 6pm Artist in attendance
PARISIAN LAUNDRY
3550 St-Antoine West
Montreal, QC, Canada H4C 1A9
PARISIAN LAUNDRY is delighted to announce the gallery’s first solo presentation of Luc Paradis, titled POMPIA. The recent works assembled here exemplify the artist’s eclectic, detailed and captivating practice, inviting the viewer to experience a unique and enveloping universe.
POMPIA presents paintings, sculpture, collage and drawing. Paradis developed the exhibition by considering the idea of a group show by one artist. In its effect this exhibition reveals the artist’s practice that is at once diverse and focused. POMPIA recreates the experience of a studio visit with Paradis, it reflects the diversity of his influences while making evident everything that is considered and in conversation, including frames, plinths and the found objects incorporated into the installation. When discussing the work, Paradis ponders, “where and when does it come from,” symbolically questioning the nature of artwork through a removed sense of his own creations. The viewer is likewise invited to consider the work in reference to a history of art, pop culture, music and personal history, ultimately concluding that the intrigue of Paradis’s work lies in his uninhibited ways of incorporating a multitude of references.
Luc Paradis was born in 1979 in Vancouver BC. He is a self-taught artist and musician currently living and working in Montreal. His work will be featured in an upcoming solo exhibition at l’Oeil de poisson in Québec City. Paradis’s work has been presented in exhibitions throughout Canada including La Centrale Gallery in Montreal and the 27th Symposium of Contemporary Art in Baie St Paul. Paradis has designed album artwork and posters for artists such as the Black Lips and Silver Mount Zion and his work was commissioned for a recent publication titled Martine à la Plage, published by La Meche. The work of Luc Paradis is found in various private collections in Canada and the United States as well as public collections such as the Collection prêt d’oeuvres d’art of the Musée national des beaux-arts de Québec.
Running parallel to the solo exhibition of Luc Paradis, PARISIAN LAUNDRY will present a group show of gallery artists in the Bunker and a selection of recent acquisitions from the Tedeschi collection in the second floor space.
The gallery equally wishes to announce our participation in the inaugural edition of Untitled. Art Fair in Miami Beach, running from December 5th to the 9th. PARISIAN LAUNDRY will present a two-person exhibition featuring Valérie Blass and Rick Leong.