Costa Rican-born, Montreal-based multidisciplinary artist Juan Ortiz-Apuy will walk participants through a presentation on contemporary collage and then facilitate a hands-on collage party for participants!
In what ways can collage be useful for sorting through and understanding contemporary image practices? Ortiz-Apuy will look at our image-saturated world and posit questions about various ways collage can speak critically using physical/metaphorical fragmentation and absurdist juxtapositions.
His solo exhibition “The Garden of Earthly Delights” will open in Gallery 44’s Main Gallery on January 13th.
https://gallery44.org/exhibitions/the-garden-earthly-delights
*Participants are encouraged to bring imagery they would like to use for the collage party. Gallery 44 will also supply basic materials.
Image: Juan Ortiz-apuy, A Small Lighting Revolution, 2015. Handcut collage on foamboard, 246x126 cm (50x97 in)
Juan Ortiz-apuy lives and works in Montreal since 2003. Ortiz-Apuy has a BFA from Concordia University, Montreal (2008), a Post-graduate Diploma from the Glasgow School of Art, Scotland (2009), and a MFA from NSCAD University, Halifax (2011).
His work has been exhibited across Canada and internationally. Recent exhibitions include Museum London, Gallery TWP, galerie Antoine ertaskiran, The MacLaren Arts Centre, A Space Gallery, and the Quebec City Biennial: Manif d'Art 7. In 2011, he was the recipient of the Halifax Regional Municipality Contemporary Visual Art Award. His work has been reviewed and published in various magazines, newspapers and books such Canadian Art, Le Devoir, The Gazette (Montreal), The Telegram (St. John's), The Toronto Star, and at MOMUS.ca. Essays about his work can also be found in various catalogues and brochures. Ortiz-apuy has recently completed artist-in-residency programs at Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art, the Atlantic Centre for the Arts, USA, and the Vermont Studio Center, USA (2016). Upcoming solo exhibitions include Gallery 44 and Truck Contemporary, and a residency at the Frans Masereel Centre in Belgium.
Ortiz-apuy is represented by galerie antoine ertaskiran.
