Marti Cormand Exhibition
Josee Bienvenu Gallery
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Josee Bienvenu Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of new paintings and drawings by Marti Cormand. In a world oversaturated with things and signs, where a fear of the void seems more prevalent than ever, cluttering is part of an ecological and political reality. Marti Cormand portrays the foreign and astonishing fact of a residual and discomposed world. A testimony to the degradation of certainty and to the emergence of a more hopeful era, the exhibition is a close-up view on blemished contemporary landscapes. His work documents inconvenient migrations and relationships that emerge from odd encounters in a dumpster.
Marti Cormand operates within the systems of traditional landscape and abstraction to bring his work to an articulate point of self-consciousness: it constantly reminds us art is a theater of manipulated information, as in Zabriskie Point, a graphite drawing depicting a constellation of disseminated minute objects on a deep, dark backdrop.
Garbage is both the ending and departure point of this new body of work. The close-ups on objects rescued from the confusion of a dumpster imply that the chaos is left behind. The abandoned objects, singled out on vacant backgrounds are painted with an extraordinary level of care and attention. Qualities of transparency, density, light, shadows and extreme precision in the manner of the Dutch School of Painting are applied to render a discarded umbrella, pieces of corrugated cardboard, crumpled paper, broken boxes, open magazines etc…
[Image: Marti Cormand "Umbrella (Red on Green)" (2009) oil on paper, 16 x 22 in.]
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Schedule
from September 10, 2009 to October 24, 2009
Opening Reception on 2009-09-10 from 18:00 to 20:00