MORE MILLENNIAL MUSING
Sholem Krishtalka
"Was part of a continuing musing upon and celebration
of the turn of the millennium, the Maison de la Culture Plateau Mont-Royal
has mounted Agglomeration, a group show consisting of paintings, sculptures
and installations. The show is largely interested in more conceptual
rather than figurative works and in metaphysical themes: language, the
sign, space and the landscape.
There are some excellent works here that are more than capable of fronting for
the intellectually heavy themes, the best of which are in painting and installation
categories. Luce Pelletier's "Queue leu leu murmures" belongs to the
latter.
Consisting of about 100 handmade toy cars, the work combines playfulness,
formal beauty and thought. In the painting category, Mark Mullins' monumentally
huge abstract compositions, "Lost Horizons", are utterly absorbing
visual experience: They are, despite their enormous size, delicate, sensual and
entirely ethereal.
By: Sholem Krishtalka
2000 Mirror, August
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