David
Moore: The Reality of Absence
The Museum Brochure for David
Moore's Exhibition starting November 11th, 2007.
A
retrospective exhibition of works by the well known artist David
Moore will open November 11th, 2007.
David Moore has been living in Quebec since 1964. He was born in
Dublin, Ireland, and obtained a bachelors degree from the University
of Dublin (1964). Moore arrived in Quebec in 1964, and proceeded to
study for a second bachelor’s degree in visual arts from the École
des beaux-arts de Montréal, University du Québec à Montréal (UQAM)
(1970), followed by a Masters in Art Education from Concordia
University, Montreal (1978).
David Moore taught art since1970, and at Concordia University since
1972. During his over 30 year career, he did drawings, prints,
sculptures, installations, and used photography and digital
technology. In recent years, he taught his students the art of
Installation. Moore’s work has been shown in well known
institutions in United States, Ireland, Greece, Austria, Italy,
Germany, France and Spain since 1972. In 1994, David Moore created
a public space work at Park René-Lévesque, in Lachine. As part of
the Ministry of Culture and Communication of Quebec project of
integration of art within architecture, Moore created a monumental
sculpture entitled aLomph aBram (1988-1990) in the tower of the
Charles-Baillargé pavilion, at the Quebec National Fine Arts
Museum.
David Moore’s works are in collections of the Montreal Museum of
Contemporary Art, The Quebec National Fine Arts Museum, The Rimouski
Regional Museum, and The Lower St. Laurence Museum, in various
universities as well as corporate and private collections.
In 1970 David Moore received the 2nd prize of the
Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation prize, in 1972 he received the 1st
prize at the National Biennale of Ireland (printmaking), He did many
artists’ residencies in Canada and Europe. In 1995 he was accepted
into the Canadian Royal Academy.
David Moore’s work deals with the universal expression of emotions,
the real and the unreal, using negative space; absence as something
real, sometimes it is about energy, and the interaction of nature
and art. In the current exhibition, a hallowed tree trunk with a
telephone in it will emit the sound of birds in the forest when
lifted.
In his installations he sometimes uses
mirrors or mirror shards reflecting on the walls and the ceiling,
thus manipulating space and encompassing the surrounding area in all
dimensions.
He also believes that an artist should have fun creating. Thus he
appropriated a concept from Marcel Duchamp, as can be see in the
photo “Self Portrait”, to demonstrate that the viewer can, and
should interact with artwork.
The exhibition is curated by Jocelyne Connolly.
Vernissage,
Sunday, 11th November, 2 p.m. - exhibit continues until 6th
January 2008.
Musée d’art contemporain des Laurentides, 101, place du
Curé-Labelle, Saint-Jérôme, 450-432-7171,
www.museelaurentides.ca.
Write
up in the event listing and article about David Moore in the
Laurentian Sun October 2007 edition.
Exhibitions:
Musée d’art contemporain des Laurentides
– St. Jérôme
Write-up in the June 2004
Main Street.
And Write-up in the July 2004 Main Street.
David Moore: installation “Comment attraper un poison”.
À contre-courant:
Through September 5th, 2004,
Laurentian
Museum of contemporary art
185, rue du Palais, St-Jerome.
www.museelaurentides.ca 450-432-7171.
How
surprising it was to see an installation by my teacher
(Concordia University)
David Moore.
For me it was the most impressive art object in this exhibition.
Reflections, shadows, boats installed upside-down, reflecting one
another....broken pieces of mirrors reflecting a magnificent array of
lights on the walls and ceiling. Here there is a sense of
transparency. When one takes to the water, one exposes his hidden
dreams to extricate oneself from the present, the mundane, in search of
a new world. This exhibit also features interesting installations by
other Canadian artists.
