jusqu'au 11 avril | until April 11
vernissage 20 mars 20h00 | March 20 ~ 8:00PM
lecagibi.ca
EMILY COOK - BETTINA FORGET - SARAH HALLMAN - RICHARD ROSSETTO ~ curator : Jenny McMaster
Marginalia is defined as annotations on the pages of printed and published texts or the embellishments of illuminated manuscripts. This exhibit expands the term to include a third definition, the images and non images which inhabit the margins of a note taker's page. The concept for this exhibition sprung from a fascination with explicit an implicit connections between images and notations as well as between notations and spontaneous pictorial additions. It explores the relationship between the subject of attention and the constant commentary of a personal stream of consciousness that cannot be shut off.
Marginalia enlists the varied talents of Toronto Artist Emily Cook, Ottawa Artist Sarah Hallman and Montreal artists Richard Rossetto and Bettina Forget. Bettina Forget's series “The Weather Diaries” uses both subtle tonal variations and hand written notations to journal day to day environmental conditions. Both of these recording methods employ codes likely unfamiliar to the viewer. Neither the meteorological symbols, old Germanic script or delicate hues of water colour convey a readily available message. We are left to imagine the contents of a foreign lexicon, to unravel the artist's personal formal language and to attempt to glean the relationship between the two. Ottawa artist, Sarah Hallman's work evokes an atmosphere of day dream with the distinct flavour of a childhood work book. Animals, some of them pets and some of them woodland creatures, make appearances. Loosely inscribed fauna and various insignia amble about their natural habitat, the familiar red and blue lines of ruled note paper.
