In exhibiting the work of painters Robert Bordo and Pierre Dorion, the René Blouin Gallery has a strange, beautiful show on their hands. Bordo's work deals with dualities and layers; his paintings consist of small images of varying degrees of realistic representation surrounded by a field of flat colour. Bordo paints paintings inside of paintings. It's a great trick, both visually, because of his skill as a painter, and conceptually.
Dorion also deals with layers in his series of paintings called 100 Images, albeit more literally. The paintings on display are all on a small scale and are all totally abstract. They consist of layer upon layer of colour. The layers are unevenly applied, in order that one may see the colour underneath. The visual effect is stunning, something like staring into a coloured fog. Mark Rothko would have been proud. At 372 Ste-Catherine W., #501, until Sept. 23.
In exhibiting the work of painters Robert Bordo and Pierre Dorion, the René Blouin Gallery has a strange, beautiful show on their hands. Bordo's work deals with dualities and layers; his paintings consist of small images of varying degrees of realistic representation surrounded by a field of flat colour. Bordo paints paintings inside of paintings. It's a great trick, both visually, because of his skill as a painter, and conceptually.