TIMELENGTH
 
November 11 – December 22, 2004
Opening: Wednesday, November 10, 5:30 – 8 pm
 
Curator: Michèle Thériault
 
 
From November 11 to December 22 the Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery presents Timelength. Curated by Michèle Thériault this exhibition of video, film, and projection-based art inaugurates new programming for the Gallery that focuses on contemporary issues in Canadian and international art.
 
The moving and projected image is at the heart of a number of important exhibitions today that have transformed the exhibition space into a ‘black box’.  In these images, time itself becomes the subject of investigation. Within the darkened space of the Gallery Timelength explores the material aspects of duration as it unfolds in works that are linked by slowness, the quasi-fixedness of the image and the play of its opposite, and by the circumspect use of sound and silence. In this exhibition, video and film works by young artists from Canada -- Pascal Grandmaison, Gwen MacGregor, Jocelyn Robert -- and abroad -- Jeroen de Rijke and Willem de Rooij -- are brought into a dialogue with films by Michael Snow and Andy Warhol -- two artists who have transformed the notion of duration in the cinematic image since the sixties.
 
Timelength is accompanied by an exhibition catalogue with an essay by Stefan Jovanovic on filmic time.  It also includes two essays by the curator of the exhibition, Michèle Thériault. One examining duration in relation to excess and waiting, and the other addressing issues in connection with the presentation of film in a gallery context.
 
SPECIAL EVENT: A screening of Andy Warhol's film Empire will take place in conjunction with this exhibition.  Accompanied by local Montréal musicians, the screening of this 8-hour long film will take place at La Sala Rossa, at 4848, boul. St-Laurent, on December 12, beginning at 4 pm.  The launch of the Timelength catalogue will also take place at this time.
 
The Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery gratefully acknowledges the assistance of The Canada Council, the Conseil des art et des lettres du Québec, the Iris Westerberg Stern Fund, the Friends of the Gallery, the Royal Netherlands Embassy, Philip Spurrell of Circus Maximus, the Department of Communication Studies and the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema.
 
 
Schedule for film screenings in the exhibition:
 
Films
Jeroen de Rijke et Willem de Rooij : Bantar Gebang, 35mm, 10 min, 2000
Michael Snow : One Second in Montreal, 16mm, 26 min, 1969;
Side Seat Slides Paintings Sound Film, 16mm, 20 min, 1970;
See You Later/Au revoir, 16mm, 18 min, 1990
 
Programme 1         
November 11 - 13, November 30 - December 4, December 21 - 22
 
13 h               Bantar Gebang
13 h 30          One Second in Montreal
14 h 30          Bantar Gebang                               
15 h               Side Seat Slides Paintings Sound Film
16 h               Bantar Gebang
16 h 30          See You Later/Au revoir
17 h 30          Bantar Gebang
 
 
Programme 2         
November 16 - 20, December 7 - 11
 
13 h               Bantar Gebang
13 h 30          Side Seat Slides Paintings Sound Film                                                 
14 h 30          Bantar Gebang
15 h               See You Later/Au revoir
16 h               Bantar Gebang
16 h 30          One Second in Montreal
17 h 30          Bantar Gebang
 
 
Programme 3         
November 23 - 27, December 14 - 18
 
13 h               Bantar Gebang                               
13 h 30          See You Later/Au revoir
14 h 30          Bantar Gebang
15 h               One Second in Montreal
16 h               Bantar Gebang
16 h 30          Side Seat Slides Paintings Sound Film
17 h 30          Bantar Gebang
 
 

  

Jeroen de Rijke / Willem de Rooij
Bantar Gebang, Bekasi, West Java, May 2000
35mm colour film with optical sound, 10 min.
Courtesy Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne