« LAST MINUTE » 14 juillet au 16 août | July 14 to August 16
vernissage 14 juillet 18h00 | July 14 ~ 6:00PM
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Second solo exhibition of Jason Botkin’s work in Montreal following the success of [TRANS]FORMATIONS in 2008. “Last Minute” is an installation of large-scale figurative paintings, exploring notions that our collective ability to imagine different realities, and thus striving for the impossible, is an essential step towards real political and social action. This exhibition coincides with the Montreal-wide Extreme Painting exhibition, which showcases new, aggressive, take-no-prisoners art that will fill 16 galleries this summer.
Marking a notable move from earlier charcoal on vellum works, while at the same time breaking from the geometric predictability of the square/rectangular canvas, the images of “Last Minute” are cut from plywood like giant paper dolls, scattered throughout the space in a play of composition, the walls themselves becoming a canvas.
Figures turn inside out, dressed in their emperor’s finest; bodies unwrapped to explore inner worlds, emotions, and ideas; vapors and cloud permeate architectural structures of unknown purpose; buildings chart impossible perspectives, cities in chaos; geometric forms emerge from and are swallowed by the imagined inner workings of internal landscapes.
These various elements form a tapestry of self divined utopias and personal myth. These offerings are made with the belief that change is possible, when we reinterpret our ingrained social identities and then test deeply entrenched, and often flawed social realities.
Born in Denver, Colorado in 1974, Jason Botkin received his BFA with honours at the Alberta College of Art and Design. Botkin lives and works in Montreal.
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