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CANADA / MONTREAL: VALÉRIE BLASS
until Sunday April 22 2012
Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal
T : +1 514 847 62 26
185, rue Sainte-Catherine Ouest (angle Jeanne-Mance)
H2X 3X5 Montreal
Canada
Born in Montreal in 1967, Valérie Blass explores the territories between animal, human and inanimate forms, creating strange, hybrid objects.
Employing virtually every sculptural technique—from moulding, casting, carving and modelling to assemblage and bricolage—, the impact of Valérie Blass’s work resides in the anachronistic way she navigates between two sculptural traditions. She makes free-standing, vertical, handmade, humanscale, autonomous pieces that locate her squarely within the classical tradition of figurative sculpture. But the diversity of her materials and the plethora of mass-produced, bought and found objects she uses, stemming from an enthusiastic engagement with the material culture of the twenty-first century, anchor her art in assemblage and bricolage.
This show, curated by Lesley Johnstone, is Blass’s largest exhibition to date, following her participation in the inaugural Québec Triennial at the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal in 2008 and numerous group and solo exhibitions in Montréal and across Canada.