Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery, Concordia University

Located in Downtown Montreal at Concordia University, the Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery is a place that reflects upon the practice of contemporary artmaking, the public at large and youth are able to experience art as a way of thinking and of being in the world. The Gallery presents exhibitions, artist and curator talks, organizes public debates, concerts and film screenings as well as offers various educational programs. It is also a publisher of catalogues, collection of essays, brochures and electronic publications. The Gallery has a collection of Canadian art.

Montreal

ellengallery.concordia.ca

ellen.artgallery@concordia.ca

9 titles

François Lemieux - Going to, Making Do, Passing Just the Same

Edith Brunette, François Lemieux
Going to, Making Do, Passing Just the Same

2021

bilingual edition (English / French)

In a series of essays the artist Edith Brunette and François Lemieux outline collectively a few proposals on the question of inhabiting as put forward from their multiple and tenuous attachements to the land.

Vincent Meessen - Blues Klair

Vincent Meessen
Blues Klair

2021

bilingual edition (English / French)

This book furthers the reflection that was given form in the exhibition Blues Klair, a site to test History in terms of the present. A series of essays probes the enduring presence of colonialism as well as of alliances and cultural crossovers across time and space through the filter of the colour blue.

$Vincent Bonin - D\'un discours qui ne serait pas du semblant / Actors, Networks, Theories$

Vincent Bonin
D'un discours qui ne serait pas du semblant / Actors, Networks, Theories

2018

bilingual edition (English / French)

This book examines the notion of deferred receptions of theories and art through language, context and translations.Vincent Bonin explores the gap between the publication of a text in one language and that of its translation (using the example of the French Theory), or between the inaugural presentation of an artwork in one context and its subsequent display. A critical reflection on the discourses surrounding contemporary art practices.

$I\'d rather something ambiguous. Mais précis à la fois$

I'd rather something ambiguous. Mais précis à la fois

2017

bilingual edition (English / French)

Accompanying the eponymous exhibition project by Sophie Bélair Clément and Marie Claire Forté, this catalogue continues a polyvocal inquiry into the idea of being called upon and tasked with giving an account of oneself.

Kent Monkman - Interpellations - Three Essays on Kent Monkman

Kent Monkman
Interpellations – Three Essays on Kent Monkman

2015

bilingual edition (English / French)

Three art historians offer perspectives and analyses on Monkman's work that address history and genre painting, the queered Romantic landscape, the shifting and unfixed subject, race, sexuality, conquest and sovereignty, and modern versus discontinuous temporality.

$Olivia Boudreau - L\'Oscillation du visible$

Olivia Boudreau
L'Oscillation du visible

2014

bilingual edition (English / French)

~~28.00~~ 25.00 €

First monograph.

Martin Beck - The particular way in which a thing exists

Martin Beck
The particular way in which a thing exists

2014

bilingual edition (English / French)

Ten years of artmaking by Martin Beck, at the intersection of art, design, architecture, and historical inquiry.

Raymond Gervais - 3 x 1

Raymond Gervais
3 x 1

2011

bilingual edition (English / French)

~~28.00~~ 25.00 €

Reference monograph.

$Harun Farocki - One image doesn\'t take the place of the previous one$

Harun Farocki
One image doesn't take the place of the previous one

2008

bilingual edition (English / French)

The first publication in North America devoted to the installation work of the German filmmaker Harun Farocki.