Art show opens tommorrow

These USINE 106U people put together incredibly eclectic art shows with an obvious maniacal and wizardly delight in the linking and fusing of styles and origins. They also do what I think is a smart press thing, sending a small paragraph on the show and then a long list of alllll the artists involved, each one with a brief but utterly titilating and mysterious description. A pataphysician! Crikey!

You can get a glimpse of what this Usine 160U group is about at the Indyish Art Markets this week at the Fringe Fest!! The markets start tommorrow, and coincide with the opening of the Usine 106U show right down the block.

CINETIX
June 3rd to June 30th 2007
Opening Thursday June 7th 5hPM to 11hPM
USINE 106U
111 Roy E.
514-728-9349

USINE 106U is pleased to invite you to the opening of the monumental exhibition CINETIX presenting the artworks of 23 visual artists.

Photosensible paintings, machiavelical and kinetic sculptures, etchings, watercolors, modified plush toys, silkscreens, collages, oversized drawings and other stupefying figurative pieces shall multiply on all surfaces of the space. The exhibition takes place at USINE 106U, 111 Roy E. from June 3rd to June 30th 2007, and the opening will be held on Thursday June 7th from 5hPM to 11hPM. Opening hours are Saturday to Wednesday noon to 6hPM , Thursday & Friday from noon to 9hPM.

Mark Prent: The most controversial canadian sculptor of his generation, known worldwide for his hyper-realist nightmarish sculptures. He portrays with body molding techniques his inner visions, without altering the dramatic or emotional charge of the subject.

Eric Braün: Multidisciplinary artist (painting, sculpture, comics, etching), publisher of the anthology 106U and founder of USINE 106U. His graphic universe explores different materials with humor and lucidity.

La puce à l’agonie : Designer, painter and conceptor, her work in visual arts focuses on recomposing fragments linked to childhood and by mass-producing little pink cats.

Mimi Traillette : Cartoonist-photograph and designer, she creates colorful and entertaining pieces with influences coming from rock & roll , comics and aquatic depths..

Jean-Michel Cholette : His acrylic paintings are guided by an inspiration tapping into Pop Surrealism, lowbrow art and fantasy illustration. His cybernetic creatures and dislocated architectures take place in an aesthetic combining influences from science-fiction, ancient religious symbols, litterature and old family portraits.

Florent Veilleux : Kinetic sculptor and pataphysician, his monumental installations in motion have brought him international acclaim. The justness of his commentary as well as the absurdities of reality are depicted with a lot of humor.

Yves Milet-Desfougères: Well-known french etching artist and painter, he explores symbolical themes with his ethereal landscapes haunted by hallucinatory visions. Member of the surrealists in the 60′, he built his monumental carreer and is known of a handful of European collectors.

Daniel Erban: Brut artist to the core and mathematician, his oversize ink drawings on red paper are complex and decadent, translating by a transgressive gestual a dark and shocking universe, not without a certain humor.

Jean Pronovost : Painter and sculptor, with the stroke of a paintbrush, he transports the viewer from an Inca legend, or plunges us into the urban jungle. With the movement of a palette knife, he invokes forgotten gods. The powerful realism of his paintings and sculptures reveal a world where ancient symbols discover new meaning.

Arthur Desmarteaux: Painter, puppetteer, drawing and silkscreen artist, he attacks in a raw and sarcastic way the unpleasant side of modern living; an expressionnist vision of twisted realism, inspired by carnie imagery.

Allison Moore : Watercolor and drawing artist as well as puppetteer , her naïve and brut universe is in touch with animal life and humanabsurdity. Her expressionnist freehand drawings depict in detail strange and humorous situations.

Hollie Dzama: She like to sew dolls & clothing, paint & draw, sing, crochet (& knit sometimes), etc. She is also interested in fiber arts.

Lilitu Travaglini : French visual artist, she creates compositions born out of pagan unconscious and expressionnism with a few influences coming from art brut.

Sam Kerson: A nomadic and visionary artist with strong social and political inclinations, his pastels, linocuts and acrylics are filled with symbolic expression and vibrant colors translate the movement, heart of his work.

Serene Daoud: Drawer, animator and crafter of small and incredible objects, her meticulous work expresses visions out of fairy tales and animated movies.

Pedro Espinel-Ruiz: A colombian sculptor, he works with metal and carved stone. His totemic iconography juxtaposes perfectly with his choice of materials (discarded rairoad parts).

Edward Spider : Painter and drawer, his work combines medieval influences with futuristic compositions to create iconic post-cubist arcanes.

Iris: Visual artist and sculptor, her pen and ink drawings and her steel wire characters translate with a sinuous line a spirit free of taboos accompanied by a lot of humor.

Marc-André Nassar: Effervescent visual artist , his complex drawings are composed of fragments from the subconscious, translating through a great richness of textures the interior essence.

Stuart Rae: Sculptor and designer of dental jewelery, he masters in the sharpness of stylised minimal shapes, while taking the challenge of rendering aesthetic parasite subjects and human remains.

Joe Bébèl: A one-of-a-kind painter-sculptor, his meticulous work of assembling colorful psychedelic pieces displays a boundless creativity and an avant-garde approach to the object. Certain photosensible pieces have different levels of reading.

Louise Markus : Painter and sculptor, her work combines futuristic influences with polychromatic interpretation, juxtaposing improbable architectures with thematics from tribal cultures .

Guy Boutin: Painter and cartoonist, he masters in multicolored raw representations of his graphic imaginary between comics and graffiti art.

Contact: Eric Braün (514)728-9349