{"id":3743,"date":"2013-04-08T10:22:54","date_gmt":"2013-04-08T14:22:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/?p=3743"},"modified":"2019-07-09T09:49:22","modified_gmt":"2019-07-09T13:49:22","slug":"stare-star-dun-soir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/2013\/04\/08\/stare-star-dun-soir\/","title":{"rendered":"Stare – Star d’un Soir"},"content":{"rendered":"

I make no secret of my love for graffiti & street art, and Montreal \u00a0is a fertile breeding ground for this expression of cultural vitality.\u00a0Checking out the April 2013 edition of Cult MTL<\/a> I see that Yves Laroche Gallery is having a show of work by one of Montreal’s best-known “public artists”, Stare.<\/p>\n

…this month the NME crew co-founder mounts his first-ever full-fledged solo exhibition. Entitled “Star d’un Soir”, the show at Yves Laroche is timed to coincide with the launch of a small-run art book of the same name.<\/p>\n

…Unlike many \u00a0outdoor artists who take their work indoors, Stare doesn’t just reproduce his street art aesthetic in the studio and then hang it in a gallery. “Star d’un Soir” is a meta-commentary on street art’s relationship with documenting itself, staged by reproducing several of his own since-buffed murals as paintings of Polaroid photographs.<\/p>\n

Emily Raine “Staring Stare.” Cult MTL<\/em> (April 2013)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This reminds me a bit of the work of Kevin Cyr<\/a> who photographed NYC delivery vans, created tiny scale models, then created prints based on the models – \u00a0or that of Jessica Hess who does oil paintings of urban scenes full of graffiti. Stare really does kick it up a notch conceptually by reproducing his own outdoor work, though.<\/p>\n

I’d love to show you some pictures from the exhibition but oddly Cult MTL doesn’t have an online version of the article, Stare doesn’t appear to have a website, and Yves Laroche gallery hasn’t put any tasters online – but they have put up a video teaser for the show:<\/p>\n