Launch :: ORANGE: Contemporary Art Event of Saint-Hyacinthe

5pm – free

The curators Marcel
Blouin, Mélanie Boucher and Patrice Loubier are happy to invite you to
the launch of the following publication: ORANGE: Contemporary Art Event
of Saint-Hyacinthe.

To consider food
in the specific realm where it becomes a statement or material of contemporary
creation. To show that visual artists have increasingly employed alimentary
subjects and materials in their work since the 1960s, that they do so in addressing
issues, in adopting innovative means of production and presentation. To shed
insightful light on the phenomenon. To contribute to its understanding and recognition.

These aims underlie the writings of the thirteen contributors
to this publication, which helps advance a nascent area of thinking and bears
witness to an event of international scope: ORANGE: Contemporary Art Event of
Saint-Hyacinthe. ORANGE took place from August 29 to October 12, 2003, bringing
together works on the agrifood theme made by eighteen artists offering a variety
of perspectives. The curators, creators and theorists writing here take a sometimes
critical, sometimes poetic look at what art derives from the fact that we eat,
and what it gives in return.

The publication
and the event were produced by
EXPRESSION, Centre d’exposition de Saint-Hyacinthe.

The publication
Under the direction of Mélanie Boucher

Authors : Rosa
Berardo / Ron Benner / Marcel Blouin / Olga Boldyreff / Mélanie Boucher
/ Millie Chen / Darío Corbeira / Kim Dawn / Karoline Georges / Massimo
Guerrera / Patrice Loubier / André Louis Paré / Jean Philippe
Uzel.

The event

Curators:
Marcel Blouin / Mélanie Boucher / Patrice Loubier

Artists
: Laurette Atrux Tallau / Ron Benner / Stéphan Bernier / Olga Boldyreff
/ Diane Borsato / Michel Campeau / Millie Chen / Kim Dawn / Sylvie Fraser /
Claudie Gagnon / Karoline Georges / Massimo Guerrera / Paul McCarthy / Joe Montana
/ Nicolas Pinier / Susan Shantz / Althea Thauberger /World Tea Party