Wednesday, February 23, 2011

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Publication launch Jean-Jacques Ringuette Figures masquerade or the exciting life of Felicien

Jean-Jacques Ringuette
Figures masquerade or the exciting life of Felicien
Launch of the publication edited by the Centre SAGAMIE


CASE of the gallery Montreal
Saturday, February 26 from 20 am
5277, avenue du Parc, Montreal (QC) H2V 4G9
514.397.0236 under the Montreal All-Nighter 2011


Posted by SAGAMIE, the book documents the entire corpus of works exhibited at the gallery Occurrence. The book will be launched in early evening from 20 pm and the exhibition runs until March 12, 2011. Some of the main contributors to the book which will present the author, curator and art theorist Penny Cousineau-Levine . The artist will also be on hand to present the publication and to share with the audience throughout the evening.
Jean-Jacques Ringuette is from Trois-Rivieres (Quebec). He holds an MA in photography from Concordia University in Montreal (1999) and a BFA degree in photography from the University of Ottawa (1988). His works have been presented in Europe, the United States and Quebec. They are part of private collections and the collections of the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec.
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Jean-Jacques Ringuette


Figures masquerade or the exciting life of Felicien Authors:
Penny Cousineau-Levine, Pierre Ringuette
Full text in French and English
Full text in French and Français 94 pages, 8.25 x 11in.
ISBN 978-2-923612-25-6 2011 Prix / Price: $ 25.00 + Shipping in Canada $ 3.50 + gst + pst 1.43 0.31 = Total: $ 30.24

Tuesday, February 22, 2011

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The Junk , Sarah Waters

The fifth novel by Sarah Waters tells of greatness and English decadence of a home and family there (on) lives. Both fresco family, fantastic story and social novel, a book that devours.

Hundreds Hall is a magnificent and huge house nestled in the English countryside and inhabited for generations by the family Ayres. The narrator of this story, Faraday, recalls the grandeur of this house where his mother was a nanny. The images he cautions are those of the splendid festivities taking place there, creeping, employees and the nobility of its people. But when, became a doctor despite his social origins, he had the opportunity enter them again, years later, he can only observe the decay Hundreds Hall and the rest of the family Ayres. Called because the only domestic worker, the young Betty, complains of stomach pains, he will meet Mrs. Ayres and his two children, Caroline, spinster (despite his young age) without charm but not devoid of humor and Roderick's son, returned from the war wounded. The family fortune and nothing remains of the glory of the past there are only good manners to Ayres, a few dingy dresses, holding that the good old fashioned poor Betty has to shoulder every day and marvel at this house Dr. Faraday always, especially on days of fine weather, but collapses from all sides and that the three remaining family members are no longer able to stand. And then ... and then some strange things begin to occur in this mysterious mansion. Noises, marks on the walls, the feeling of a presence ... One by one, the Ayres family members seem to succumb to the terror generated by this house, to the chagrin of Dr. Faraday, who does not know what to do to make them see reason. The family suffers Ayres does a hereditary disorder that leads inexorably to madness Hundreds Hall or is it haunted? But
beyond the ghost stories, The Junk the novel is mainly of an era: the post-war is an emerging new class of operatives, and sees another death yesterday while Top of social hierarchy and now often ruined and without any power. The "new rich" are buying up old houses, get rid of what made their charm and turn into buildings and modern practices.
Sarah Waters creates a mysterious atmosphere and captivating, sometimes scary and you think, often, to Edgar Allan Poe. The author, once will not hurt, for narrator has chosen a man and we witness, through the eyes of both fascinated and condescending love of Dr. Faraday, day after day, season after season, the collapse of this house, this family and some time. It does not happen much, yet difficult to release 707 pages of this novel as the tension of this family is palpable fresco and terribly endearing characters. And if the end is a little frustrating, it is undeniable The Junk us spellbound.

References:
Sarah Waters, The Junk , translated from English by Alain Defossé, Denoël, 2010, 707 pages.