Upcoming exhibitions and
call for applications
Milutin Gubash, In Union
Main hall
Damla Tamer, “Due to its nature, it only moves forward.”
Small Gallery
April 5th–May 12th, 2013
Opening: April 4th, 5pm
International Residency
Deadline to apply for a residency in 2014: June 1st, 2013
Darling Foundry, visual arts centre
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Montreal, QC, H3C 1R8
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Thursday until 10pm
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Milutin Gubash, In Union
Milutin Gubash’s In Union is a site-specific installation conceived especially for the Darling Foundry’s particular space and context. The exhibition draws its strength from several coincidental events in the artist’s professional life: the departure from his studio at the Darling Foundry, which he had kept since 2009; the end of an exhibition cycle presented in five different locations across Canada, in a less than two-year interval; the production of a first mid-career monographic catalogue.
This alignment of events led Milutin Gubash to question the pressure exercised by the art world, which forces the artist to constantly produce new works. His response is an exhaustive compilation of all his works, in the form of a non-chronological index of videos, photography, paintings, performance documentation, etc. At a glance, the public—including the artist—can see the totality of a life of production exceptionally well and interrogate the relevance of its materiality. This accumulation, looking pathetically like merchandise in transit in an airport hangar, which could also seem like a contemporary art museum storage space, constitutes Milutin Gubash’s critical response to the frantic rhythm of art-world production, a compulsive attitude always seeking to fill the void.
Born in Novi Sad (Serbia), Milutin Gubash has been living in Montreal since 2005. His work has been shown on a number of occasions in Quebec, Canada, the United States, as well as in Europe.
Damla Tamer, “Due to its nature, it only moves forward.”
It is not recently that I came across the thing that could do that, move on a single direction (due to its nature, proclaimed a medical essay outlining how a pisi pisi plant stalk made its way from a boy’s mouth, through his torso and out his ribs). Having already stolen from this object in previous works, I have to return to it with a hole in my pocket; or we return—neither as a self-appropriation nor in an effort of ‘exhausting the possibilities,’ as there are none to begin with in the field surrounding the encounter, only indeterminacies.
Works in the exhibition have different and sometimes seemingly contradictory operations, this difference not being due to ambiguity in a methodology, nor to irony (which jumps from one supposed ‘worldview’ to another and then back in two elegant strides), but due to the very state of ‘encounter,’ capable of accommodating both self-involvedness and world-involvedness within one unitary clumsy human experience.
Born in Istanbul, lives in Vancouver, BC. Damla Tamer received her MFA in Fine Arts from University of British Columbia in 2011 and has taught at the University of British Columbia (Vancouver and Okanagan) and Emily Carr University of Art and Design.
International Residency
Deadline to apply for a residency in 2014: June 1st, 2013
The International Residency program of the Canada Council for the Arts at the Darling Foundry has built a reputation as one of the world’s best artists’ residencies. This flagship program we have been running since 2008 stands out due to the exceptional conditions it offers to its guests. Over a six-month stay, the recipient gets a spacious 100 square-meter studio and a 23,000 CAD bursary to go towards his or her travel and living expenses as well as production costs. This top-notch residency is aimed at recognized visual artists from all over the world.
