Colette Laliberté

Conundrum
Wynick/Tuck Gallery, Toronto
New Work

September 10 – October 8, 2005

Conundrum is a series of paintings on paper mounted in the Wynick/Tuck South Gallery and a site specific wall painting installation set in the gallery’s Project Room. The paintings are fictitious topographies, capturing the movement and speed Laliberté imagines of information playfully spinning and whizzing through cyberspace. The images are constructed by combining different perspective views and elevations within the picture plane. The flat, coloured swatches not only refer to the use of digital reproduction, but also allude to the history of modern colour field painting. Again two-dimensionality and three-dimensionality compete for space in the picture plane, while Laliberté also contends with the more abstract concept of the fourth dimension, informed largely by the work of Russian Suprematist Kasimir Malevich and of Theo van Doesburgh.

Laliberté has recently exhibited her work in a solo exhibition at the Durham Art Gallery and at the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Sherbrooke. In October 2004, she participated in an international residency in Brooklyn, NY at The Triangle Artist Workshop, was also featured in Mix Magazine, and contributed to TFO Television series “Fou d’Art”.