BOXED SET LAUNCH

Thursday March 25, 8:30 PM
At the Gallery

The launch follows the screening of R69 [unfinished/inachevé], presented at FIFA – International Festival of Films on Art, in conjunction with Panorama of Quebec and Canada Video, curated by Nicole Gingras. The screening is at 6:30 PM in the J.A. de Sève Cinema at Concordia University.

Charles Gagnon: 4 Films
(DVD + publication)
– The Eighth Day/Le Huitième jour (1967)
– The Sound of Space/Le Son d’un espace (1968)
– Pierre Mercure 1927-1966 (1970)
– R69 [unfinished/inachevé] (1969-)
Soundtracks: Raymond Gervais, Mary Stephen
– Publication edited by Monika Kin Gagnon with texts by Monika Kin Gagnon and Mary Stephen in English, and by Raymond Gervais in French.

LAUNCH PRICE: $25

Charles Gagnon: 4 Films unites the 1960s experimental films of renowned multidisciplinary artist Charles Gagnon and highlights the intersection between film, painting, photography and music in his artistic œuvre. 4 Films resonates with the countercultural consciousness of the 1960s and is exemplary of avant-garde experimental collage and structuralist filmmaking aesthetics. Accompanied by an illustrated catalogue of film descriptions, essays and interviews, this collection illuminates Gagnon’s artistic career, and Québec and Canada’s art scene of the 1960s.

Charles Gagnon was born in Montréal Québec in 1934, where he lived until his death in 2003. Gagnon exhibited his paintings and photography extensively throughout his lifetime in individual and group exhibitions. He was the subject of two retrospectives of his work: the first at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts in 1978, which toured Canada, and the second, at the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal in 2001, which included his three completed films. His works are in major museum and private collections nationally and internationally. He was the recipient of numerous awards and prizes, including the Ordre du Québec in 1991 and the Prix Borduas in 1995. He received an Honorary Doctorate from l’Université de Montréal in 1991, and a Governor General’s Award in the Visual and Media Arts in 2002.

Monika Kin Gagnon has published widely on art, cultural politics and media since the 1980s, and teaches in Communication Studies at Concordia University. She is the author of Other Conundrums: Race, Culture and Canadian Art (2000) and with Toronto video artist, Richard Fung and eleven artists, 13 Conversations about Art and Cultural Race Politics (2002).

For more information: www.archivingr69.ca