134340 SOON ∫

Opening May 23rd, 4 pm
134430 SOON – Patrick BERNATCHEZ
Donald Browne Art Contemporain, Belgo Bldg, suite 524
Exhibition from May 23 to June 20th

May19th, 2009 Montréal — Galerie Donald Browne presents 134340 SOON by Patrick Bernatchez, from May 23rd to July 11th 2009.

Pluto in Transit

With Soon Patrick Bernatchez toys with the conventions of film promotion campaigns through the creation of an ensemble announcing a film still in the making. Inverting the logic of his recent approach, the artist here elevates the visual objects above the film that they reference. Among these visuals is a series of monochrome TV color bar posters, a large-scale plexiglas encased Hollywood style film poster featuring a simian in a space suit, and a 2001: A Space Odyssey inspired trailer displayed on a minute screen surface where the colour bars and the space ape reveal their singular shape shifting roles as they transit through a phantasmagoric setting. Soon is all about such shifts and transits: a shift and transit between the image supports that are teaser posters and the vehicle that is film, between a trailer named Pluton (in honour of the former planet) and a soon-to-be film called 134340 (the current designation of the demoded stellar object), and finally a shift and transit between the concrete elements of a promotional vision and a wobbly future orbit of makings and unmakings where nothing promises to be quite as it first appeared.

Patrick Bernatchez’s videos are being exposed across Europe and New York. His recent shows include: The Cabinet – Italie, curator Grazia de Palma, Artist’s Space The Black Room, New York, commissaire Joseph del Pesco, EXPRMNTL Galerie, Toulouse, France, curator Manon Bara and Ken Weaver , Les rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin/Madrid, Prefix – Institute of Contemporary Art, Curator Scott Macleod and opening in June a solo exhibit at Stedelijk museum’s-Hertogenbosch, Curator Elly Stegeman in Holland.