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FLESH GARDEN

Collaboration with YESSR

Santiago, Chile & Buenos Aires, Argentina

& La Petite Mort Gallery / Ottawa

July 6 – 29, 2012 / Vernissage Friday July 6 / 7 – 10pm

Co-curator Felipe Bracelis (Santiago, Chile) will be present on opening night

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FLESH GARDEN

This exhibition is an opportunity to cross meet South/North America, where geographical limits are exceeded by the visceral urge to create and meet. We expect our artists to chop limbs, scatter around organs, to take maximum advantage of multiple chromatic attributes of skin; here we can all be surgeons and butchers.

FLESH GARDEN will bring together artists from across the Americas to share the experience of representing the body in the New World. Canadian artists will be presented in the context of colleagues from the United States and South America in a travelling exhibition that will be presented in galleries in the Sala +18 (Santiago, Chile), in Casa Brandon (Buenos Aires, Argentina) and La Petite Morte Gallery (Ottawa, Canada).

FLESH GARDEN provides an opportunity for artists to collaborate with each other and to share with gallery visitors their paintings, photographs and mixed media collages depicting social and physical trauma. The images are linked through their shared exploration of corporeal extremes, invoking the anomalous and the exotic, the dismembered and the disturbing. Collectively, the figurative works visualize the external evidence of internal states of disintegration, disfigurement, and dysmorphia.

Between the tangible reality of lived experience and the surreality of psychic hallucination, this selection of artists in the Americas reflects their diverse responses to the terrain of the human body as the impact point of the social body.

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BUENOS AIRES @ Casa Brandon

March 15 – April 8th

SANTIAGO @ Sala +18

May 10th – June 3rd

OTTAWA @ La Petite Mort Gallery

July 6th – July 29th



ARTISTS:

Aleks Bartosik (Toronto, Canada)

Matthew Stradling (London, England)

Peter Shmelzer (Ottawa, Canada)

Nani Lamarque (Buenos Aires, Argentina)

Celio Braga (Sao Paulo, Brazil)

Lucas Simoes (Sao Paulo, Brazil)

Andrew Salgado (London, England / Born in Canada)

Martin La Roche (Santiago, Chile)

Rodrigo Cienfuegos (Santiago, Chile)

Felipe Bracelis (Santiago, Chile)

James Huctwith (Toronto, Canada)

Juan Carlos Noria (Barcelona, Spain / Born in Canada)

Martin Douville (Montreal, Canada)

Ashkan Honarvar (Amsterdam, / Born in Iran)

Scooter LaForge (New York, USA)

Francisco Navarrete Sitja (Santiago, Chile)

Hayden Menzies (Toronto, Canada)



Co-curator Felipe Bracelis, Santiago, Chile:

Felipe Bracelis is an emerging artists and curator from Chile. He is also the founder and director of YESSR, an art platform that includes fanzines, exhibitions and online publications. Bracelis became a regular name in student exhibitions in Chile during his last high school years, to later on become part of the Plan Basico en Artes Plasticas (University of Chile), where he first developed digital collage as a way to take a step aside from what he’s fellow students were doing.

In 2010 he founded the Yessr project curating he’s first exhibit at the University of Chile, including indumentary pieces, copies if YESSR1 fanzine and video work by him and Chilean performance artists Felipe Rivas San Martin and Gustavo Solar.

Felipe’s imagery reflects heavily on the relationship between landscape–technology and the human body, and his curatorial work has included artists from many latitudes of America, making him a very promising figure in the future of the Latin-American art world. During 2011 he had his first solo Exhibit Valle Central on Sala +18, Santiago; where he showed to the public his skills as a photographer, in several pieces that reflected country-side nostalgia to a metropolitan audience.KIDS ON TV:

Kids On TV emerged from the drainage pipe of a Toronto bathhouse in the spring of 2003. The group consists of John Caffery, Minus Smile, Roxy and Wolf. Their music explores the worlds of house, experimental rock, no-rave, punk, and soul. Their multi-media performance is apocalyptically gay and transforms environments with projections of their film and video work. In 2007, they released their debut album "Mixing Business With Pleasure" on Chicks on Speed Records (internationally) and Blocks Recording Club (Canada). The band has toured Europe and have played with Gang of Four, CrystalCastles, Ladytron, Dat Politics, Angie Reed, Les Georges Leningrad, and Lesbians on Ecstasy. They have worked and recorded with Boy George, traded remixes with Man Parrish, and recently collaborated with Yo Majesty, Katie Stelmanis, and Diamond Rings.

Merci,

Guy Berube, director

La Petite Mort Gallery