News from Galerie Elena Lee
October 1, 2009
September to October
Susan Edgerley, Unfurl, 2009On September 8, 5-7pm, one of Susan Edgerley’s recent installations, ‘Unfurl’, was unveiled at Galerie Elena Lee.
This work is about complexity; the complexity with which we live, and the complexity within ourselves. The work unites several of these multiple layers together in a poetic visual metaphor addressing the issues related to our existence and our need to find union, meaning and understanding.
The piece speaks strongly about duality; duality within the very essence of our existence.
Glass also is dual, both a liquid and a solid, material and strong; or illusory, fragile and unseen…an ideal metaphor for the human condition.
Light, a vital component in this work, is an extraordinary transformative force, which brings the sculpture to life and completes both the composition and the interpretation. It unites form with formlessness, making each entirely dependent upon the other. There is no shadow without light and the work does not reveal itself in its entirety without its cast. The sculpture was on display throughout September and October 2009.
October to November
Patrick Primeau, October 20 to November17, 2009. Patrick Primeau, a graduate from Espace VERRE, has over the years acquired an astonishing mastery in the old Venetian glass blowing techniques: murrini, incalmo, reticello, filigrano and battuto. He constantly refines his skills by working with masters in their field and experimenting with new shapes. What sets him apart from a mere ‘virtuoso’ of his craft is his pure sense of the subtleties of form and his way of transforming traditional practice into a very contemporary interpretation of its sculptural possibilities. It is not astonishing that in 2005 the city of Montréal awarded him the ‘Prix François-Houdé’.
