The Factory Media Centre is proud to announce that Philippe Blanchard will be exhibiting his installation, “New Troglodytes: Supercrawl”, at FMC from September 10 – 19, 2018, as our Supercrawl 2018 featured artist. The exhibition will be on preview September 10 and 12 from 10:30am – 6pm. In addition, On September 14 from 11am – 3pm, Philippe will be conducting an “RGB Mask Workshop”, as part of the Hamilton Conservatory for the Arts “YouthCrawl” initiative. The show will officially open on September 14 from 7pm – 11pm and will remain on view until September 19 at 6pm.
Exhibition Title:
Philippe Blanchard’s “New Troglodytes: Supercrawl”
Exhibition Dates:
Preview – September 10 & 12, 2018 from 10:30am – 6pm
Opening – September 14, 2018 from 7pm – 11pm
On view – September 14 (7pm – 11pm), September 15 (12pm – 11pm), September 16 (12pm – 6pm), September 17 (10:30 – 6pm), and September 19 (10:30am – 6pm)
Workshop Title:
“RGB Mask Workshop”
Workshop Date:
September 14 from 11am – 3pm (open to HCA “YouthCrawl” participants only, sorry!)
EXHIBITION DESCRIPTION:
Philippe Blanchard’s “New Troglodytes: Supercrawl” explores animation as an immersive and expanded art form. Playing with the reaction of pigment to specific wavelengths of light, computer-controlled LED lighting “animates” screen-printed wallpaper covering shapes in the exhibition space. The animated stalactites and stalagmites evoke both a futuristic, room-scale animated gif and a lo-fi prehistoric cave. Viewers of the work (the eponymous “New Troglodytes”) are invited to consider an alternate version of animation coming from an imaginary prehistory of digital media.
Click HERE to see video documentation of the “New Troglodytes” exhibition.
(video courtesy of Philippe Blanchard, via www.philippeblanchard.com)
WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION:
Using red, green and blue materials that react to computer-controlled lighting in the workshop space, participants will create animated masks to wear and activate inside the “New Troglodytes: Supercrawl” installation. Artist Philippe Blanchard will walk participants through his creative process, research into the science of colour and installation art techniques.
Click HERE to see examples of the “RGB Mask Workshop”.
(images courtesy of Philippe Blanchard, via www.philippeblanchard.com)
ARTIST BIO:
Philippe Blanchard is a Toronto-based artist, animator and teacher. His diverse creative background (film production, digital visual effects, studio arts) has informed an interdisciplinary practice combining animation, installation, light shows, drawing, painting and printmaking. Recent projects include expanded animation installations at Open Studio, TAIS, Ontario Place (Toronto), and Galerie du Nouvel-Ontario (Sudbury). He has recently exhibited at Sinan Mansions (Shanghai); Festival Chromatic (Paris); Centro de Artes de Guanajuato, San Pedro Museo de Arte in Puebla, the National Museum of Print in Mexico City (Mexico); Glendon Gallery (Toronto), Cambridge Galleries (Cambridge ON), and ARPRIM (Montreal), all work featuring screen-printed imagery animated by computer-controlled coloured lighting.
Philippe Blanchard’s single-channel animation work has been shown at Rencontres Internationales Paris-Berlin, Festival du Nouveau Cinéma (Montreal), Pop Montreal Festival, Mattress Factory (Pittsburgh), The Kitchen (New York), RISD (Providence RI), Hirshhorn Museum (Washington DC), National Museum of Women in the Arts (Washington DC), LACMA (Los Angeles), San Francisco Art Institute, Cal Arts (Valencia, CA), Institute of Contemporary Art (Boston), Impakt Festival (Utrecht NL), Center for Contemporary Arts (Glasgow), the Power Plant, the Ottawa Art Gallery, InterAccess, Angell Gallery and AGYU.
Philippe Blanchard is currently Chair of Media & Installation Art and Associate Professor at OCAD University in Toronto.