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INTROSPECTIVE:MARIE BOURDAGESPresented by: Pharand Doren Art
First ever Toronto exhibit of expressionist artist Marie Bourdages
“Introspective: Marie Bourdages” is an inward look at the Acadian born expressionist's art spanning over two decades, from Montreal to NYC and Europe - for the first time in Toronto. Themes of angst and mortality prevail at times as animalist allegory, others in intimate narrative. Eroticism receives a new treatment across genders in nuanced, distorted images. Bourdages, also known as “Mady”, references her life experience, that of a God-fearing upbringing, a sensual awakening to as well as a situating of - her sexuality and inherent, pervasive contrasts brought on by a heightened sensitivity. Her private world is shared in her art and reaches across the board in a call to humanness first, human constructs later. Bourdages is not concerned with the rigidity of forms, but rather the immediate poignancy conveyed. She has been called “brutally honest” in early critiques, the “heir to Munch” in another. Her paintings are issued from a filterless, to not say guileless, mind. Her vision translates into something ethereal on the canvas albeit nightmarish at times. Bourdages explores neurosis-inducing situations, only to come out “exorcised” by the act of committing brush to canvas, and purged of fears. Her work is catalytic to the eye, and debunks by providing an outlet for self-expression out of the mind’s deeper recesses. The lasting effect is a tacit connectivity among people that have found a brief pillar of understanding in many a painting by Marie Bourdages.
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Starts: Jul 1, 2009 Ends: Jul 5, 2009
At: Gladstone Hotel, 1214 Queen Street West, Toronto
Playing: Friday
Thursday
Wednesday
Saturday
Sunday
Times: 11am - 5pm
Cost: Free
Getting there:
The Gladstone Hotel is located at 1214 Queen Street West at the corner of Gladstone Avenue and Queen Street just east of Dufferin Street. The Queen streetcar stops right outside the hotel for easy TTC access.
For more information contact:
Noel K
Phone:
1 866 929 7033
Email:
staff@pharanddoren.com
