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Espaces messagers | Group exhibition
November 23, 2023

Espaces messagers | Group exhibition

Contemporary art is often considered the cradle of new perceptions and aesthetic conceptions of space. Using ink, pencil, paint, collage, ceramics, textiles, wood or fibre, eight artists explore the multiple facets of space in their own way, seeking to understand its complexity and possible combinations. Individually, they strive to capture the moment when human action, the process of creating, feeds into this research. The work of the hand becomes crucial. In “doing,” they build an artistic environment that responds to their own myths. ...

 

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Alexandra Duprez | Solo exhibition
October 19, 2023

Alexandra Duprez | Solo exhibition

C.O.A is proud to present the solo exhibition of Alexandra Duprez. From her beginnings in the mid-90s, Alexandra Duprez has developed an intuitive approach to drawing and painting, inspired by outsider art (art brut) and folk art. Her images conjure up a phantasmagorical, dreamlike world, populated by unsettling creatures, entangled shapes and multiplied eyes, somewhere between figuration and abstraction. ...

 

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Art Toronto | 2023
October 13, 2023

Art Toronto | 2023

Art Toronto opens its doors from October 26 to 29! A major event in Canada, this fair brings together collectors, galleries and artists from all over the world. C.O.A. will be attending again this year, to our great delight! ...

 

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Gallery Weekend | Montreal
September 21, 2023

Gallery Weekend | Montreal

For four days, visit Montreal’s contemporary art galleries and discover a wide selection of exhibitions showcasing the work of many artists. ...

 

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Arnaud L. Vidricaire | Solo exhibition
August 31, 2023

Arnaud L. Vidricaire | Solo exhibition

Born in 2000 in Quebec City (Canada), Arnaud L. Vidricaire lives and works in Montreal. His artistic practice takes the form of ambitious spatial installations, through which he tells the story of his inner turmoil. Emotional, non-conscious creations, his works begin with instinctive tracings on the surface of his graphic tablet. He saturates the screen with various tangles of lines, most of which he ultimately discards, retaining only the strongest compositions. ...

 

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Smoke Signals | Isaac Cordal
May 24, 2023

Smoke Signals | Isaac Cordal

For the third time since the beginning of our collaboration, Isaac Cordal presents a solo exhibition at C.O.A. A subversive and committed artist, he offers us a vision that is both playful and sharp of the major socio-political debates of our time. ...

 

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CARVANAL | France Trudel & Moe Piuze
April 13, 2023

CARVANAL | France Trudel & Moe Piuze

CARNAVAL, an exhibition featuring the works of France Trudel and Moe Piuze, conveys the most colourful of the two artists’ creations. The joyful arrangements follow one another, on canvas or on wood, to the benefit of two environments that are indeed singular, but common in one way: their constant search for the perfect juxtaposition. ...

 

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Duo | Vinna Begin & Benoit Blondeau
March 02, 2023

Duo | Vinna Begin & Benoit Blondeau

For those who don’t know yet, the acronym “C.O.A.” honours a vision we have been clinging to since the opening of the gallery: Créateurs d’Œuvres Atypiques (Creators of Atypical Work). It’s a gamble that we take again and again, one exhibition after another. The next one is no exception to the rule. So mark your calendars! On March 16th, Vinna Bégin and Benoit Blondeau’s duo exhibition starts. ...

 

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Moe Piuze at the Musée d'art de Joliette
February 15, 2023

Moe Piuze at the Musée d'art de Joliette

The disruptions we experience on a daily basis, both individually and collectively, prompt us to continually redefine our thought patterns. With that in mind, Moe Piuze has built the ideal studio where he can restructure his worries, ideas, and other aspects of his life through the technique of self-hypnosis—the ability to modify, at will, one’s state of consciousness between wakefulness and sleep to tap into the unconscious resources of the mind. ...

 

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Out 2023 | Group exhibition
January 18, 2023

Out 2023 | Group exhibition

C.O.A. launches its annual program with the third edition of Out, a critical exhibition about singularity and inclusion. The works of four artists, two of whom are neurodivergent, are brought together. This approach, from an aesthetic, but also societal point of view, is more important than ever in a world where neurodivergence is still perceived as a stigmatizing otherness. Beyond the artistic gesture, Out 2023 proposes a series of human encounters and a privileged opportunity to open up to the beauty of an atypical creation. ...

 

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Éric Nado | New limited edition
November 23, 2022

Éric Nado | New limited edition

In collaboration with Eric Nado, we are pleased to announce the launch of a new limited edition entitled “Remington 5,” which will be released on December 1, 2022, at noon, just in time for the holidays. ...

 

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Nos régions lumineuses (Our Luminous Regions) | Karine Locatelli  
November 23, 2022

Nos régions lumineuses (Our Luminous Regions) | Karine Locatelli  

Pieces of scenery, fragments of boréalia, Karine Locatelli illuminates the immense benevolence of nature in her art. With a finely textured and decontextualized visual poetry, mountains, snow piles in shopping centre parking lots, rocks bordering a river are rendered anew. ...

 

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A Little Lost | Adam Handler 
October 06, 2022

A Little Lost | Adam Handler 

The exhibition “A Little Lost” seeks to reflect the insecurities and vulnerabilities that tend to reside in artists. Usually, artists create in the solitude and comfort of their studio. The moment the works leave that shelter, they are exposed to the public eye. This state of mind is at the origin of the formulations found on Adam Handler’s paintings, which express self-doubt.

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Art Toronto | 2022
October 04, 2022

Art Toronto | 2022

Art Toronto, a well-established art fair in the contemporary community, will open its doors October 27 to 30, 2022 at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre. For this occasion, C.O.A is pleased to present the recent works of several artists...

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Encre là ! | Toma-L
September 02, 2022

Encre là ! | Toma-L

The exhibition “Encre là !” stems from an inexhaustible thought in the artist’s head: ink there, there, there or … there? The unconscious is the conductor in this chaos where series of melted faces are painted like a boiling magma on the verge of implosion. Such is the powerful image that Toma-L delivers to us. ...

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PAPIER Montreal | 2022
August 09, 2022

PAPIER Montreal | 2022

The next edition will mark the fifteenth edition of Papier and will take place from August 26 to 28 at the same location as last year, the Grand Quay of the Old Port of Montreal. ...

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Gallery Weekend Montreal | 2022
June 04, 2022

Gallery Weekend Montreal | 2022

For four days, AGAC member galleries open their doors to the public and offer a variety of activities in Montreal. This is the perfect time to discover numerous exhibitions and to meet and exchange with gallery owners, artists and other important players in the art world. ...

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The Present is a Gift | Danny Gretscher
June 03, 2022

The Present is a Gift | Danny Gretscher

After a first exhibition in 2018, C.O.A gallery renews the pleasure and presents a new solo by Danny Gretscher in Montreal. Based in Berlin, Gretscher first studied graphic design before turning to painting in one fell swoop, and has been doing so since his first studio in 2004. With “The Present is a Gift,” he attempts to embody a return to simplicity. ...

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Quests | Valérie Gobeil
May 03, 2022

Quests | Valérie Gobeil

Quest, each piece Valérie Gobeil is one. She goes on a search without necessarily knowing where it will take her exactly. In a rigorous approach while being curious, she tries to explore the pictorial possibilities of fiber. ...

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« Puberté / Puberty » | Laurence Philomène
March 22, 2022

« Puberté / Puberty » | Laurence Philomène

The exhibition “Puberté / Puberty” echoes the book of the same title by Laurence Philomène, a Montreal-based non-binary artist who creates colourful photographs inspired by their experiences as a transgender person with a chronic illness. “Puberté / Puberty” is based on a self-portrait work exploring the process of trans-identification. ...

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Foire en art actuel de Québec | 2022
March 15, 2022

Foire en art actuel de Québec | 2022

C.O.A participates in the Foire en art actuel de Québec (Quebec Contemporary Art Fair) 

For its eighth edition, the Foire en art actuel de Québec (FAAQ) will hold a booth presenting seven AGAC member galleries from Montreal and Quebec City, in a more traditional deployment. Indeed, as in previous editions, each of the participating galleries will have its own booth to introduce you to their represented artists. C.O.A will be part of the FAAQ and you will be able to discover new works by Valérie Gobeil, Karine Locatelli, Éric Nado, Moe Piuze and Ooloosie Saila. ...

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Double solo | Yannick Chayer & Erkut Terliksiz
February 17, 2022

Double solo | Yannick Chayer & Erkut Terliksiz

A double solo exhibition splits the gallery into two distinct, yet not contradictory, worlds. When we first encounter the work of Montreal artist Yannick Chayer (Quebec, Canada), we’re confronted with abstract forms that coexist with the figurative in scenes that are both free and pictorial. Chayer is interested in experimental music and his art, similarly, is casual and does not rely on any pre-established narrative. ...

 

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Instinctuel | Group Exhibition
January 06, 2022

Instinctuel | Group Exhibition

With “Instinctuel,” C.O.A presents an exhibition free of all constraints, where seven local and international artists communicate their desire to reveal their own essence. Through a very basic palette, the exhibition emphasizes the brutality in the treatment of the subject rather than the complexity of the work. A weave of superimpositions, lines, colours and multiple materials share the walls of the gallery, where the artists are presented in turn. ...

 

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Alexandra Levasseur | Solo exhibition
November 13, 2021

Alexandra Levasseur | Solo exhibition

Alexandra Levasseur’s plastic practice proposes two dissimilar but not contradictory readings. A multidisciplinary artist, she paints, sculpts, and animates driven by a deep interest in, on the one hand, a scientific approach to the relationship between humankind and nature, and, on the other, the mythological, even mystical interpretation that one can draw from it. The works that make up this exhibition entitled “Tourner autour du soleil” (Circling the Sun) gravitate between these two worlds, one scientific and the other spiritual. ...

 

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