Martin Beck, Group, 2012. Woodcut on paper. Courtesy the artist and 47 Canal, New York.

CONVERSATION
WITH MARTIN BECK, VINCENT BONIN AND MICHÈLE THÉRIAULT

Saturday November 17
At the Gallery, in English.
FREE ADMISSION

Martin Beck lives in New York and Vienna where he holds a professorship at the Academy of Fine Arts. In conjunction with his artistic practice, Beck also writes about art, design, and architecture. He also occasionally works as an exhibition designer.
Recent exhibitions and projects include Presentation at 47 Canal (2012), Remodel at Ludlow 38 in New York (with Ken Saylor) and Communitas at Camera Austria, Graz (2011); contributions to the Twenty-Ninth São Paulo and the Fourth Bucharest Biennales (2010); and Panel 2:”Nothing better than a touch of ecology and catastrophe to unite the social classes” at Gasworks, London (2008). Beck is the author of About the Relative Size of Things in the Universe (2007), An Exhibit viewed played populated (2005), and the recently published The Aspen Complex (2012). the particular way in which a thing exists, organized by the Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery at Concordia University in Montreal, is the first exhibition to bring together and examine projects produced over the last ten years.

Vincent Bonin is an author and independent curator. From 2000 to 2007, he worked as an archivist at the Daniel Langlois Foundation for Art, Science, and Technology (Montréal). As a curator, he notably organized Documentary Protocols (1967-1975) (two exhibitions and a publication) at the Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery, Concordia University (2007-10). He is co-curator with Catherine Morris of Materializing Six Years: Lucy R. Lippard and the Emergence of Conceptual Art currently on at the Brooklyn Museum. Bonin is the author of numerous essays about the social meaning of archives and the refashioning of the documentary genre in the field of contemporary art as well as on institutional critique.

Michèle Thériault is Director of the Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery at Concordia University where she has developed a program that reflects upon contemporary artistic production and curatorial activity in relation to the recent history of contemporary art. She has curated many exhibitions such as Timelength (2004); Claude Tousignant. 3 paintings, 1 sculpture, 3 spaces (2005); the first exhibition in North American of Harun Farocki’s installations “One image doesn’t take the place of another” (2007); Silvia Kolbowski. Nothing and Everything (2009). She is also the co-curator of Traffic, Conceptual Art in Canada, 1965-1980. Her essays and articles have appeared in exhibition catalogues, anthologies and journals. Thériault is interested in translational issues in art, reflexive frameworks, knowledge in art and in the site of exhibition. In the 1990s she was associate curator of contemporary art at the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto.

Martin Beck, 2012.

NO PHOTOGRAPHS, VISITING HOURS WEEKENDS ONLY 8 AM TO 8 PM
A presentation by Martin Beck

Wednesday December 5
At the Gallery, in English.
FREE ADMISSION

1.

In making a structural cartop panel a great deal of care has to be given to accuracy, particularly to getting the crotches between the flanges the correct distances apart, these points become the tips of the structural panel and thus determine the edges. The holes are also important; the end holes should be as close to the corners as possible. Bring them back just far enough so the connecting bolts can be fitted through.

2.

The love density effect is interesting because it is counterintuitive. We very well might have guessed that the amount of love in a commune would be directly associated with stability; instead we find that there is an inverse association…. The extensive literature on cohesiveness would lead us to believe that the proposition, love density equals group stability, is well established. In fact, there is no evidence for this except in the very special circumstance of men in combat situations.

3.

6 cups vegetable broth
2 cups uncooked soybeans
1 cup cottage cheese
1-pound can tomatoes, undrained
2 onions, halved and sliced
1 onion, chopped
2 tablespoons tamari
2 tablespoons honey
½ teaspoon salt
¼ teaspoon black pepper

James Benning, Easy Rider, 2012. Courtesy of the artist.

SCREENINGS
TWO RECENT WORKS BY AMERICAN ARTIST JAMES BENNING
Presented in collaboration with the Cinémathèque québecoise
(Artist present)

Thursday January 17 at 6:30 pm
Salle Fernand-Seguin, Cinémathèque québécoise
Easy Rider, 2012. 95 min.
Followed by:
James Benning in conversation with Martin Beck

Friday January 18 at 6:30 pm
Salle Fernand-Seguin, Cinémathèque québécoise
Nightfall, 2011. 98 min.
Artist present

Cinémathèque québécoise admission: adults $8, students/seniors $7
Cinémathèque québécoise
335, boul. De Maisonneuve Est
Montréal, QC H2X 1K1
Métro Berri-UQAM, De Maisonneuve exit