{"id":16328,"date":"2012-11-07T11:37:30","date_gmt":"2012-11-07T16:37:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artoronto.ca\/?p=16328"},"modified":"2012-12-09T12:06:28","modified_gmt":"2012-12-09T17:06:28","slug":"napoleon-brousseau-returning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/?p=16328","title":{"rendered":"Napoleon Brousseau \/ Returning"},"content":{"rendered":"

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November 8 –\u00a0December 8, 2012<\/strong>
\nOpening Reception: Saturday November 10, 4 – 8 p.m.
\nROBERT KANANAJ GALLERY<\/strong>
\n1267 Bloor St. W.
\nToronto, ON, M6H 1N7
\nT: 416.289.8855
\nE: info@robertkananajgallery.com
\nwww.robertkananajgallery.com
\nHours: Tues\u2013Sat 11\u20136 p.m.<\/p>\n

NAPOLEON BROUSSEAU<\/strong>
\nReturning – Le Fantome de la Memoire<\/strong><\/p>\n

Portraits traditionally portray a subject. At the outset of this series I named my portraits Anybody, Somebody, Everybody first and then went looking for subjects I didn\u2019t know in the process of my painting.<\/p>\n

The Method Meditative Rolling, Reckless Grinding, Poetic Brushing<\/strong><\/p>\n

These paintings are created mainly through a random system of rotary painting. I hand cut the rollers to rotary print a repetitive pattern. This style of working, I call RGB- Roll, Grind, Brush. Repeat, until the subject revealed itself.<\/p>\n

In a shamanic-like meditative process I simply keep rolling layers of paint using multiple colors at once until a face or scene emerges. At this point I seal the surface with epoxy. The next stage is searching for details using a grinder which is more random and chaotic. The roller sets a representational space in a forward and backward motion, the grinding accesses lost areas in a left to right reckless chaotic motion. It is alternatively static then chaotic, a particle then a wave. The subjects themselves can be elusive shape shifters. Searching for the subject in the painting can take a long time, such as Lady RGB which took over three years to complete.<\/p>\n

Le Fantome De La Memoire <\/strong><\/p>\n

The paintings portray apparitions, chimeras, real fragments from the imaginal realms; waking dreams, spectre\u2019s, phantasms, nebulous recollections, ghost portraits dancing between dimensions and meanings. In a world of hyper real imagery, they are the world view of people with facial blindness. They are portraits of eidolons- spirit images of living persons. The titles simply set a mood too begin the search for the subject. The works are titled with a subtitle that gives you an insight into what motivated the meditative rolling search.<\/p>\n

Napoleon Brousseau<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

November 8 – December 8, 2012<\/strong>
\nOpening: Saturday November 10, 4-8 pm<\/p>\n

ROBERT KANANAJ GALLERY<\/strong><\/p>\n

created through a random system of rotary painting<\/p>\n

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