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Catch-up from September 20, 2023: The exhibition The abstract landscape and the novel The Uncanny Valley

Il restera toujours la culture
Radio-Canada

Elsa Pépin, Audrey Martel, Heather et Arizona O'Neil proposent des suggestions littéraires; Mara Joly parle de la série Après le déluge; Marianne Desautels-Marissal et Émile Roy ont vu l'exposition Le paysage abstrait, d'Edward Burtynsky; L'écrivaine J.D. Kurtness revient sur son livre, La vallée de l'étrange.

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Bob Ezrin wants you to rethink consumer culture

By Chris Dart
CBC Arts

The super-producer's collaboration with Edward Burtynsky looks at humanity's impact on the world around us.

Ezrin is the co-producer of In the Wake of Progress, an immersive short film based on the 40 year career of Canadian photographer Edward Burtynsky. (The other co-producer is Burtynsky himself.) The film, which looks at the effects of resource extraction around the world, made its debut last year, and is currently the centrepiece of a Burtynsky exhibition called Le paysage abstrait, on now at Montreal's Arsenal Contemporary Art gallery.

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We are gradually realizing the impact of humans on the environment

FM 98.5

Columnist Fadwa Lapierre, who went to the Arsenal Contemporary Art to attend the exhibition The Abstract Landscape by the artist Edward Burtynsky, paints the portrait on Sunday, on the show Even le weekend.

“At first, we find it magnificent because they are landscape photos, but little by little, we realize the impact of humans on the environment, and therefore of our consumption.” – Fadwa Lapierre

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«Le paysage abstrait»: Edward Burtynsky, une abstraction lyrique engagée

By Stéphane Baillargeon
Le Devoir

Photographiés de très loin et de très haut par l’oeil unique du Canadien Edward Burtynsky, un étang d’eau salée du Sénégal évoque une toile de l’abstraction lyrique, le delta du Colorado fait immédiatement penser à une oeuvre de l’expressionnisme abstrait et d’autres prises encore de champs ou de mines, captées aux quatre coins du monde, rappellent les travaux de Clyfford Still, d’Hedda Sterne ou Adolph Gottlieb.

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LEGENDARY RECORD PRODUCER BOB EZRIN DROPS BY CHOM

By Randy Renaud
CHOM 97.7

Bob Ezrin produced The Wall for Pink Floyd, Peter Gabriel's debut album, Destroyer for Kiss, Alice Cooper's classic early albums, U2's latest album, as well as albums for Deep Purple, Rod Stewart, Jane's Addiction; and he dropped by the CHOM studios to discuss a new multi-media production that he is involved in, called Le Paysage Abstrait, at the Arsenal Contemporary Art Gallery all this month. Randy Renaud talks with the legendary Canadian producer about his remarkable career, and the many artists he has worked with, and Ezrin shares personal stories about Peter Gabriel, The Edge, and Pink Floyd, and reveals whether he is still friends with Roger Waters. 

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