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Blood, Sweat and Tears: Labours of Love

Galerie Donald Browne, Montreal Jul 19 to Aug 30 2008
Sorel Cohen <i>After Bacon/Muybridge: coupled figures/Whizzer Leg Toss</i> 1980–2008 Sorel Cohen After Bacon/Muybridge: coupled figures/Whizzer Leg Toss 1980–2008

Sorel Cohen <i>After Bacon/Muybridge: coupled figures/Whizzer Leg Toss</i> 1980–2008

Montreal commercial galleries have a commendable tradition of organizing thematic shows of their gallery artists for the dog days of summer. As is clear from the current Quebec Triennial exhibition at the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, Galerie Donald Browne is one of the hot galleries for new talent. In “Blood, Sweat and Tears,” Winston Churchill’s phrase for steadfast toil and resistance finds new life in the works of Paul Bureau, Sorel Cohen, Michel de Broin, Charles Stankievech and Eve K. Tremblay. Cohen is a standout with her 1980 photo suite After Bacon/Muybridge: coupled figures/Whizzer leg toss, which reprises a wrestling manoeuver as a set of elegant, slow-shutter, blurred figure studies. The textured surfaces of Bureau’s paintings and ceramics attest to their own kind of labour and love, as do Tremblay and de Broin’s droll Honeymoon photographs. (372 rue Ste Catherine O #524, Montreal QC)

Paul Bureau <i>Sans titre</i> 2008 and <i>Efflorescenses</i> 1996

Paul Bureau Sans titre 2008 and Efflorescenses 1996

Michel de Broin and Eve K. Tremblay <i>Honeymoon AP5 (corner)</i> 2002

Michel de Broin and Eve K. Tremblay Honeymoon AP5 (corner) 2002

This article was first published online on July 31, 2008.

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