February 27–April 20, 2014
Opening: Thursday, February 27, 5pm
Darling Foundry, visual arts center
745 Ottawa Street
Montreal, QC, H3C 1R8
Hours: Wednesday–Sunday noon–7pm,
Thursday noon–10pm
T +514 392 1554
info [at] fonderiedarling.org
Thomas Bégin: BYTE BY BYTE
Curator: Éric Mattson
BYTE BY BYTE is a sound installation that calls on the most basic features of the digital information concept. The work is composed of eight stations, like an archaic choir made up of recycled musical equipment (amplifiers, bass cabinets, guitars, resonance chambers, and cymbals), clusters of fluorescent tubes, and a computer. In this strange sound system Thomas Bégin has designed, the data code is directly transcribed as a musical score.
The device literally produces digital music by reading one by one the octets drawn from various files, which are then turned into pulses of electricity and light. This transcoding gives rise to a composition that allows the most physical aspects of digital inscription (sequences, motifs, rhythms and textures) to appear. Singing a slow-motion flux of data, the set of sculptures performs an endless work whose music flows from its own decay.
Nicolas Lachance: Framing Smoke / Cadrer la fumée
Curator: Caroline Andrieux
Nicolas Lachance’s works might appear as a laboratory for his experiments in the tradition of early XXth-century geometric abstraction, rather than as a space devoted to the interpretation of a real or imaginary object. His approach could also be called heterogeneous, since the ways his works look and are made vary so much from one series to the next, going from the abstract to the figurative, from industrial enamel to oil painting, from brushing to back-projected images. That is not even counting the many ways the artist exploits them through his medium and his ceaseless investigations aiming to get out of the frame, to capture the ungraspable, to bring out manifold layers of interpretation. All these initiatives reflect the artist’s constant questioning of his chosen technique—painting—but above all, a mise en abyme of recurring themes such as those of absence, emptiness, and memory.
Events
Electric night at the Darling Foundry
Saturday March 1, 7pm–2am
Free entrance, open to all
On the occasion of MONTRÉAL EN LUMIÈRE and Nuit Blanche, the Darling Foundry presents an Electric Night on March 1 from 7pm to 2am.This evening will be an opportunity to discover the two new exhibitions of the season, and will also include mulled wine and an outdoor art projection by IMCA SC collective (Concordia University).
Meeting: Javier Gonzalez-Pesce, Nicolas Lachance
Thursday, March 20, 6pm
Free entrance, open to all
Nicolas Lachance will present his exhibition Framing Smoke/ Cadrer la fumée with Caroline Andrieux (curator of the exhibition) during an open discussion with the public.
On the same evening, Chilean artist Javier Gonzalez-Pesce will explain his residency experience at the Darling Foundry.
Concert by Thomas Bégin
Thursday, April 3, 7:30pm
Free entrance, open to all
Thomas Bégin will perform a concert in his installation with other musicians, in direct relation to his current exhibition, BYTE BY BYTE.
