NYAB Event - Pascal Grandmaison "The Inverted Ghost"

Pascal Grandmaison "The Inverted Ghost"

This event has ended.
At Jack Shainman Gallery
Media: Photography, Film

Grandmaison has become known for the contemplative themes of his large-scale photographs and works in film and video. Capturing a psychological complexity through a minimal and detached perspective, his diverse subjects range from pensive portrait images to deep meditation on the legacies of modernist architecture and an ongoing analysis of the operations of photography and filmmaking.

Grandmaison refers to this exhibition (which includes a number of large-scale photographic diptychs and two films) as an exploration of reality and truth, how we deal with the transformation of fact, and how subjectiveness can create an illusion of the real. The title of the exhibition "The Inverted Ghost" posits the idea of the polarization between reality and fiction with the ghost alluding to both that which is hidden and that which is invisible. Six photographic diptychs of the same name visually present the "The Inverted Ghost" as an abstract monster-like form made of viscous black oil, split in two, its eyes vacuous holes. The color black represents what might lie beneath, (the inversion of ), the white sheet that typically gives the ghost it's form.

Pascal Grandmaison was born in Montreal, Canada, in 1975. He earned his degree in visual art from UQAM (Montreal) and has exhibited extensively in Canada and Europe. Most recently his work was the subject of "Le Grand Jour" and "Double Take", two one-person shows at Carleton University Art Gallery, 2008, and the Art Gallery of Hamilton 2008-2009, (Canada), for which the two institutions co-produced a catalogue. Grandmaison has also mounted solo exhibitions at Galerie BF 15 (Lyon, France), Contemporary Art Gallery (Vancouver), Galerie B-312 and Espace Vox (Montreal). In 2006 he had an important solo exhibition at the Musee d'art contemporain de Montreal that toured to the National Gallery of Canada. He has been included in group exhibitions at the Musee National des Beaux-Arts du Quebec, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, the Edmonton Art Gallery, the Museum of Canadian Contemoporary Art (Toronto), Casino Luxembourg - Forum d'art contemporain (Luxembroug), as well as the Prague Biennial 2005.