Jean-Philippe Harvey “these things take time”

TODAY:  an opening at Galerie Laroche/Joncas for the show “these things take time” by Jean-Philippe Harvey. 

untitled, oil on canvas, 2011

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From the press release by David Cantin:

“Painting is a fiction that the artist continuously renews. Can an artist become many painters at once? Paintings start in the studio, with what the artist chooses to leave behind him. Sometimes they are simply impossible to finish. Shouldn’t it be better to venture through what is imagined forbidden?”

“‘This work expresses truths often inadmissible even dubious at time, a call to an authentic self derision.”

It also makes mention of Bonnard, whose influence on the show is evident from the next painting:

These things take time, oil on canvas, 2011

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Show runs Nov.17 to Dec.25

The opening is this friday, Nov.18 from 5pm to 7pm.