{"id":2508,"date":"2015-11-27T17:13:59","date_gmt":"2015-11-27T17:13:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lelabo.ca\/en\/?p=2508"},"modified":"2017-07-20T19:44:53","modified_gmt":"2017-07-20T19:44:53","slug":"monologues-francis-montillaud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lelabo.ca\/en\/monologues-francis-montillaud\/","title":{"rendered":"Monologues – Francis Montillaud"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Opening<\/strong>
\nFriday, January 22, 2016 at 5 PM<\/p>\n

Artist Talk
\nModerated by Carsten Quell (in English, French and German)<\/strong>
\nFriday, January 22, 2016 at 5:30 PM<\/p>\n

Exhibition Dates
\nCo-presented by\u00a0Le Labo<\/strong>\u00a0and the\u00a0Goethe-Institut Toronto<\/strong><\/strong>
\nJanuary 22 \u2013 March 18, 2016<\/p>\n

Location
\n<\/strong>Goethe-Institut Toronto
\n<\/a><\/strong>100 University Ave, North Tower, 2nd floor
\nToronto ON
\nM5J 1V6<\/p>\n

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Gallery hours:<\/strong>
\nTuesday 1pm – 6pm;
\nWednesday & Thursday 3pm – 7:30pm;
\nSaturday 9:30am – 1:30pm<\/p>\n

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Here are few <\/b>exercises<\/b> that may help you better\u00a0<\/b>appreciate<\/b> this\u00a0exhibition<\/b><\/h4>\n

\u201cMonologues\u201d by artist, Francis <\/b>Montillaud<\/b><\/h3>\n

\u00a0Text by Guylaine Tousignant\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Imagine yourselves in a hotel room in France. Someone knocks at the door.<\/p>\n

Toc. Toc. Toc. Toc. Toc. Toc. Toc. Toc.<\/p>\n

No. Lets start over.<\/p>\n

Imagine yourself here, meaning where you are right now. You are who you are, whatever it means to exist, you are where you are, wherever or whatever this place may be, and you are reading this text whose main purpose is to introduce you to an artwork, the artist who created it and their way of thinking.<\/p>\n

In this case, the text discusses\u00a0an artwork called\u202fMonologues<\/em> and the artiste is named Francis Montillaud. You are maybe at the opening for his\u00a0show and the artiste is possibly in the room. Or, maybe you are reading this text out of context, which is not a bad idea either, because it may pique\u00a0your curiosity to discover more about this artist\u2019s work.<\/p>\n

Maybe you\u2019ll stop reading right now\u00a0because you still haven’t learned anything about\u00a0the work of art (except its title) or the artist (except their name), or about their way of thinking. In the short term, you may not\u00a0have learned anything.<\/p>\n

So let\u2019s start again:<\/p>\n