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Andre Seleanu, art critic and exhibition curator based in Montreal, born in Romania in 1957. He writes reviews and reports on Canadian and international contemporary art. Author of an essay on the aesthetics and philosophy of contemporary art: Comprendre l'art contemporain (Understanding Contemporary Art), 2021 Montreal and Le Conflit de l'art contemporain (The Conflict of Contemporary Art) 2021, Paris.
Biography
Since 1996, André Seleanu has been contributing to the magazine Vie des Arts, a leading French-language publication in Quebec and Canada, as well as internationally. The critic has written cover stories on contemporary art in Colombia (2007), contemporary art in Cuba (2008, 2014, 2015), Spanish artist Ángel Mateo Charris (2009), Montreal artist Ariane Thézé (2011), who works in the genre of autofiction, a documentary trip to Central America, etc.
He contributed to the Toronto-based magazine Canadian Art (2016 The Beaver Hall Group a Montreal women painters movement from the 1920’s) and the British Museum's magazine The Medal, as well as the Montreal Archives of Contemporary Art.
The writer works within a cultural framework linked to global culture, an approach that involves the interaction of history and sociology, geography and aesthetics. He is influenced by the English historian Arnold Toynbee's concept of encounters between cultures; the critic explores a series of reciprocal influences and cultural interfaces in his writings on art. He explores the notion of hybridity, rhizome, différance, energy, etc. The critic also addresses contemporary art in East Asia, as well as that of Latin America, where African, indigenous, and Western influences meet. He also explores the work of artists who work between cultures: Asia-Canada, etc.
He is interested in contemporary art theory, exploring postmodern and neo-structuralist influences contrasted with modernist content in current art.
Since the mid-1990s, André Seleanu has covered the art scenes in Montreal and Canada, writing about (among others): Edmund Alleyn, Michel Beaucage (painting), Claude Millette (sculpture), Suzanne Reid (wood engraving), Léonel Jules (painting and teaching), Paul Cloutier (engraving), Carole Simard-Laflamme (conceptual art based on textile art), Hélène Goulet (painting), Robert Savoie (painting), Jean-Paul Lafrance, Catherine Young Bates (landscape painting), Jacques Newashish (contemporary Canadian Indigenous painting), Inuit sculpture, Tony Urquhart (sculpture and installation), Jana Sterbak (Canada, installation), Rusdi Genest (sculpture), and more.
Among the international artists featured: Damien Hirst, Wafaa Bilal (political art, Iraq and US), Vik Muniz (Brazil and US), Fernando Botero, Thomas Hirschhorn (Switzerland), Pippilotti Rist (Switzerland, video installation), Bärbel Rothaar, Berlin (conceptual painting and video), Majka Kwiatkowska (Poland, painting), Peter Doig (Canada and Great Britain)
Monographs on artists: Michel Beaucage (Quebec), Luis-Fernando Suarez (Quebec), Silvia Albuixech (Argentina), etc.
Lecture tour in Argentina in 2016, at the invitation of the Argentinian government, to discuss contemporary Latin American art in Buenos Aires, San Miguel de Tucuman, and Cordoba.
Published books:
Comprendre l’art contemporain Understanding Contemporary Art (tactile art, semiotic art) Éditions Mots en toile Montreal 2021
Le Conflit de l’art contemporain The Conflict of Contemporary Art Éditions L'Harmattan Paris 2021
Description: These essays establish criteria for comparing postmodern or post-conceptual art, which is based on a semiotic and intellectual foundation, with modern art, and even art that preceded it, which has a strong tactile (chromatic, textural) component. In this case, the image—whether in painting or sculpture—is felt through a kinesthetic process. Philosophers such as Derrida, Deleuze, Husserl, Merleau-Ponty, and writers on art such as Bernard Berenson and Anton Ehrenzweig, among others, are invoked in the argument. Contemporary art historian Aude de Kerros discusses these essays in detail in her two latest books, L'art caché enfin dévoilé (Hidden Art Finally Revealed) and Art contemporain Manipulation et géopolitique (Contemporary Art: Manipulation and Geopolitics) (Éditions Éyrolles, Paris 2023 and 2024).
Some essay reviews
2022 Émilie Belkessam Revue Internationale d’art contemporain, Paris
2023 Aude de Kerros Revue internationale de géopolitique, Paris Le Conflit de l’art contemporain
Exhibition curator
Painting September 11, 2003 Galerie Ma Vitrine (Montreal)
The Gaze and the Passion, 2009, Bolivar
Cultural Centre, Montreal: Ten Montreal painters of Latin American origin
Six Great Montreal Painters’2022-2023 Galerie BOA Montreal
Website: www.andreseleanu.com
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Andre Seleanu, art critic and exhibition curator based in Montreal, born in Romania in 1957. He writes reviews and reports on Canadian and international contemporary art. Author of an essay on the aesthetics and philosophy of contemporary art: Comprendre l'art contemporain (Understanding Contemporary Art), 2021 Montreal and Le Conflit de l'art contemporain (The Conflict of Contemporary Art) 2021, Paris.
Biography
Since 1996, André Seleanu has been contributing to the magazine Vie des Arts, a leading French-language publication in Quebec and Canada, as well as internationally. The critic has written cover stories on contemporary art in Colombia (2007), contemporary art in Cuba (2008, 2014, 2015), Spanish artist Ángel Mateo Charris (2009), Montreal artist Ariane Thézé (2011), who works in the genre of autofiction, a documentary trip to Central America, etc.
He contributed to the Toronto-based magazine Canadian Art (2016 The Beaver Hall Group a Montreal women painters movement from the 1920’s) and the British Museum's magazine The Medal, as well as the Montreal Archives of Contemporary Art.
The writer works within a cultural framework linked to global culture, an approach that involves the interaction of history and sociology, geography and aesthetics. He is influenced by the English historian Arnold Toynbee's concept of encounters between cultures; the critic explores a series of reciprocal influences and cultural interfaces in his writings on art. He explores the notion of hybridity, rhizome, différance, energy, etc. The critic also addresses contemporary art in East Asia, as well as that of Latin America, where African, indigenous, and Western influences meet. He also explores the work of artists who work between cultures: Asia-Canada, etc.
He is interested in contemporary art theory, exploring postmodern and neo-structuralist influences contrasted with modernist content in current art.
Since the mid-1990s, André Seleanu has covered the art scenes in Montreal and Canada, writing about (among others): Edmund Alleyn, Michel Beaucage (painting), Claude Millette (sculpture), Suzanne Reid (wood engraving), Léonel Jules (painting and teaching), Paul Cloutier (engraving), Carole Simard-Laflamme (conceptual art based on textile art), Hélène Goulet (painting), Robert Savoie (painting), Jean-Paul Lafrance, Catherine Young Bates (landscape painting), Jacques Newashish (contemporary Canadian Indigenous painting), Inuit sculpture, Tony Urquhart (sculpture and installation), Jana Sterbak (Canada, installation), Rusdi Genest (sculpture), and more.
Among the international artists featured: Damien Hirst, Wafaa Bilal (political art, Iraq and US), Vik Muniz (Brazil and US), Fernando Botero, Thomas Hirschhorn (Switzerland), Pippilotti Rist (Switzerland, video installation), Bärbel Rothaar, Berlin (conceptual painting and video), Majka Kwiatkowska (Poland, painting), Peter Doig (Canada and Great Britain)
Monographs on artists: Michel Beaucage (Quebec), Luis-Fernando Suarez (Quebec), Silvia Albuixech (Argentina), etc.
Lecture tour in Argentina in 2016, at the invitation of the Argentinian government, to discuss contemporary Latin American art in Buenos Aires, San Miguel de Tucuman, and Cordoba.
Published books:
Comprendre l’art contemporain Understanding Contemporary Art (tactile art, semiotic art) Éditions Mots en toile Montreal 2021
Le Conflit de l’art contemporain The Conflict of Contemporary Art Éditions L'Harmattan Paris 2021
Description: These essays establish criteria for comparing postmodern or post-conceptual art, which is based on a semiotic and intellectual foundation, with modern art, and even art that preceded it, which has a strong tactile (chromatic, textural) component. In this case, the image—whether in painting or sculpture—is felt through a kinesthetic process. Philosophers such as Derrida, Deleuze, Husserl, Merleau-Ponty, and writers on art such as Bernard Berenson and Anton Ehrenzweig, among others, are invoked in the argument. Contemporary art historian Aude de Kerros discusses these essays in detail in her two latest books, L'art caché enfin dévoilé (Hidden Art Finally Revealed) and Art contemporain Manipulation et géopolitique (Contemporary Art: Manipulation and Geopolitics) (Éditions Éyrolles, Paris 2023 and 2024).
Some essay reviews
2022 Émilie Belkessam Revue Internationale d’art contemporain, Paris
2023 Aude de Kerros Revue internationale de géopolitique, Paris Le Conflit de l’art contemporain
Exhibition curator
Painting September 11, 2003 Galerie Ma Vitrine (Montreal)
The Gaze and the Passion, 2009, Bolivar
Cultural Centre, Montreal: Ten Montreal painters of Latin American origin
Six Great Montreal Painters’2022-2023 Galerie BOA Montreal
Website: www.andreseleanu.com
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